Accept Yourself

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THE SMITHS song
Name Accept Yourself
Album/single This Charming Man
Hatful Of Hollow
Length 3:45
Writer/composer Morrissey / Johnny Marr
Producer John Porter
Release October 1983
Recorded September 1983

Information

First recorded by Troy Tate (July/August 1983).
Then recorded for David Jensen (BBC Radio/August 1983).
Then definitively by John Porter (Matrix Studios/September 1983).

The song appears to be lyrically influenced, in part, by Magazine's 1980 song: "A Song From Under The Floorboards":

"I am angry, I am ill, and I'm ugly as sin"

Compared to:

"I am sick and I am dull and I am plain."

Morrissey would cover A Song From Under The Floorboards in later solo concerts.

Lyrics

Everyday you must say:
 "So how do I feel about my life?"
Anything is hard to find
When you will not open your eyes
When will you accept yourself?

"I am sick and I am dull and I am plain
 How dearly I'd love to get carried away
 Oh, but dreams have a knack of just not coming true
 And time is against me now
 Oh, who and what to blame?"

Oh, anything is hard to find
When you will not open your eyes
When will you accept yourself?
For Heaven's sake

Anything is hard to find
When you will not open your eyes
Everyday you must say:
 "Oh, how do I feel about the past?"
  Others conquered love but I ran
  I sat in my room and I drew up a plan
  Oh, but plans can fall through and so often they do
  And time is against me now
  And there's no one left to blame"

Oh, tell me when will you
When will you accept your life
The one you hate?

For anything is hard to find
When you will not open your eyes
Everyday you must say:
 "Oh, how do I feel about my shoes
  They make me awkward and plain
  How dearly I would love to kick with the fray
  But I once had a dream and it never came true
  And time is against me now
  Time is against me now"
And there's no one but yourself to blame

Oh, anything is hard to find
When you will not open your eyes
Anything is hard to find
For Heaven's sake

Anything is hard to find
When you WILL NOT open your eyes
When will you accept yourself?

When?
When?
When?
When?

Live History

Play count (The Smiths concert): 18

The Smiths live history:

... further results

Play count (Morrissey concert): 0


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