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01. ‘There Is A Light That Never Goes Out’ (1986)
‘Because I want to see people and I want to see life.’ It’s the moment in THE SMITHS‘ discography when all elements perfectly come together. There Is A Light… is a melody-loving pope tune with a dark and melancholic undertone. But it still got slices of hope within this desperate setting. And over the top of it Morrissey sings about his dreams of escape via the one he loves. He’s driving through the night with that person but he’s unable to tell. It’s beautiful but it’s doomed. And that’s the stuff great pop songs are made of.
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