Today's the paperback release date for I Know It's Over so I can't resist embedding this heartbreaking live clip of The Smiths classic (a song which I feel pretty much clings to every page of the book).
Nobody can break your heart like Morrissey. Maybe I should put up a malaise warning to go along with the clip. Between the dismal weather dripping outside my window and Morrissey's thick aura of despair I can feel myself sinking...sinking as I listen.
Nobody can break your heart like Morrissey. Maybe I should put up a malaise warning to go along with the clip. Between the dismal weather dripping outside my window and Morrissey's thick aura of despair I can feel myself sinking...sinking as I listen.
“I know it's over - still I cling
I don't know where else I can go”
I don't know where else I can go”
And my favourite part of the song is the one that always makes my heart twinge the worst:
“It's so easy to laugh
It's so easy to hate
It takes guts to be gentle and kind”
It's so easy to hate
It takes guts to be gentle and kind”
Such amazing lessons Morrissey offers us and given the cynical, hard-edged time we live in this is even more true now than when he first sang it. These are the kind of guts I want to have in every one of my books.
