Heaven Knows I’m miserable now

Release date: 1984, May

UK Chart:  10

Cover star: The ‘cover star’ is 1961 152.000 Pounds Pools winner Viv Nicholson who wrote a book call Spend Spend Spend after she went bankruptcy. The picture shows Nicholson standing outside her childhood home just after her husband had died.

Etchings on the single’s matrix:
7″· A- SMITHS INDEED / B- ILL FOREVER.
12″· A- SMITHS PRESUMABLY / B- FOREVER ILL

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Heaven knows I

Heaven knows I’m miserable now

I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour
But heaven knows I’m miserable now

I was looking for a job, and then I found a job
And heaven knows I’m miserable now

In my life
Why do I give valuable time
To people who don’t care if I live or die ?

Two lovers entwined pass me by
And heaven knows I’m miserable now

I was looking for a job, and then I found a job
And heaven knows I’m miserable now

In my life
Oh, why do I give valuable time
To people who don’t care if I live or die ?

What she asked of me at the end of the day
Caligula would have blushed

“You’ve been in the house too long” she said
And I (naturally) fled

In my life
Why do I smile
At people who I’d much rather kick in the eye?

I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour
But heaven knows I’m miserable now

“You’ve been in the house too long” she said
And I (naturally) fled

In my life
Why do I give valuable time
To people who don’t care if I live or die?