I started something I couldn’t finish

Release date: 1987, November

UK Chart: 23

Cover Star: Avril Angers, from the movie The Family Way, a 1966 movie directed by Roy Boulting.

Etchings on the single’s matrix: A- “MURDER AT THE WOOL HALL” (X) STARRING SHERIDAN WHITESIDE / B- YOU ARE BELIEVING, YOU DO NOT WANT TO SLEEP

UK 7″ and 12″: “MURDER AT THE WOOL HALL”(X)STARRING SHERIDAN WHITESIDE / YOU ARE BELIEVING, YOU DO NOT WANT TO SLEEP
* The Wool Hall was the recording studio in Bath where The Smiths had recorded their latest album Strangeways, Here We Come. Sheridan Whiteside was one of Morrissey’s pseudonyms. .

Listen to the song here

Poster Available Here

I started something I couldn’t finish – The Smiths,1987, nov

I’ve started something I couldn’t Finish

The lanes were silent
There was nothing, no one, nothing around for miles
I doused our friendly venture
With a hard-faced
Three-word gesture

I started something
I forced you to a zone
And you were clearly
Never meant to go
Hair brushed and parted
Typical me, typical me
Typical me
I started something
…And now I’m not too sure

I grabbed you by the guilded beams
Uh, that’s what tradition means
And I doused another venture
With a gesture
That was … absolutely vile

I started something
I forced you to a zone
And you were clearly
Never meant to go
Hair brushed and parted
Typical me, typical me
Typical me
I started something
…And now I’m not too sure

I grabbed you by the guilded beams
Uh, that’s what tradition means
And now eighteen months’ hard labour
Seems … fair enough

I started something
And I forced you to a zone
And you were clearly
Never meant to go
Hair brushed and parted
Typical me, typical me
Typical me
I started something
And now I’m not too sure

I started something
I started something
Typical me, typical me
Typical me, typical me
Typical me, typical me
Typical me
I started something
And now I’m not too sure

OK Stephen ? …Do that again ?