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The Smiths - Stretch Out and Wait [alternate vocal]

This version of “Stretch Out and Wait” recently made the rounds in my circle of Smiths-appreciating friends. It’s not a drastically different version: just some slight lyrical changes and some melodic variations. It’s quite lovely how the song rocks back and forth like a kind of angsty lullaby—stretch out and sleep! I’m not sure if Morrissey is talking about getting it on (“ignore all the codes of the day / let your juvenile impulses sway”) or not getting it on (“stretch out and wait”) or some other forces of nature pushing us around. But it doesn’t matter; for me it’s all about that swaying, oscillating carelessly between meanings and images, this way and that way, this way and that way.

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   The Smiths - Stretch Out and Wait [alternate vocal] what i do know, is that we’re here and it’s now.

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    to be a Smiths day.

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