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THE SMITHS song
Name	Half A Person
Album/single	The World Won't Listen Shoplifters Of The World Unite (single)
Length	3:25 3:30 (Peel Session Version)
Writer/composer	Morrissey/Marr
Producer	Morrissey/Johnny Marr Stephen Street (Sound Engineer)
Release	January 1987
Recorded	Circa late 1986

Information

John Porter produced a version for the John Peel Session: December 17, 1986

Lyrics

Call me morbid, call me pale I've spent six years on your trail Six long years on your trail
Call me morbid, call me pale I've spent six years on your trail Six full years of my life on your trail
And if you have five seconds to spare Then I'll tell you the story of my life: Sixteen, clumsy and shy I went to London and I I booked myself in at the Y.W.C.A
I said: "I like it here - can I stay? I like it here - can I stay? Do you have a vacancy for a back-scrubber?"
She was left behind and sour And she wrote to me equally dour She said: "In the days when you were hopelessly poor I just liked you more..."
And if you have five seconds to spare Then I'll tell you the story of my life: Sixteen, clumsy and shy I went to London and I I booked myself in at the Y.W.C.A
I said: "I like it here - can I stay? I like it here - can I stay? And do you have a vacancy for a back-scrubber?"
Call me morbid call me pale I've spent too long on your trail Far too long chasing your tail
And if you have five seconds to spare Then I'll tell you the story of my life: - Sixteen, clumsy and shy - That's the story of my life
- Sixteen, clumsy and shy - The story of my life That's the story of my life That's the story of my life That's the story of my life The story of my life
That's the story of my life That's the story of my life That's the story of my life

Live History

Play count (The Smiths concert): 0

Play count (Morrissey concert): 102

Morrissey live history:

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Appears On

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Cover Versions

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