Morrissey - I Am Not a Dog on a Chain

Once I Saw the River Clean

Once I saw the river clean
Distant future, wait for me
I grow pleasing to the eye
And the cue will cue for me
Once I saw the river clean
Soon the clock will strike for me
Childish mind anticipates
Grown-up mind consummates

I walked with my grandmother
Down a windblown Chester Road
With her fifty-two new pence
For her twenty number-tens
And my forty-five pence too
Demand metal guru
Once with hearts securely stacked
Then we walked all the way back

I walked with my grandmother
Along the groan of Talbot Road
In the gardens by the graves
I can just about behave
Arrogant and paranoid
All around, see fathead youth
Look into their brutal eyes
But only if you want the truth

Once I saw the river clean
Scratching up the latest scheme
Time will come but it hasn't yet
Someone's out to get me
I walked with my grandmother
Cornbrook Street, where incomplete
She would never be again
A Dublin dancer, free and young



Credits
Writer(s): Steven Patrick Morrissey, Michael Daly, Jesse Alejandro Tobias
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Other Album Tracks

  1. Jim Jim Falls
  2. Love Is on Its Way Out
  3. Bobby, Don't You Think They Know?
  4. I Am Not a Dog on a Chain
  5. What Kind of People Live in These Houses?
  6. Knockabout World
  7. Darling, I Hug a Pillow
  8. Once I Saw the River Clean
  9. The Truth About Ruth
  10. The Secret of Music

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Altri album

  1. Rebels Without Applause - Single
  2. I Am Not a Dog on a Chain
  3. Knockabout World
  4. Brow of My Beloved
  5. California Son
  6. I Thought You Were Dead
  7. Wedding Bell Blues
  8. It's Over
  9. Back on the Chain Gang (Edit)
  10. Back on the Chain Gang

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