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Artist/Band: The Smiths
Lyrics for Song: The Hand That Rocks The Cradle
Lyrics for Album: The Smiths Complete [2011]



Please don't cry

For the ghost and the storm outside

Will not invade this sacred shrine

Nor infiltrate your mind

My life down I shall lie

If the bogey-man should try

To play tricks on your sacred mind

To tease, torment, and tantalize

Wavering shadows loom

A piano plays in an empty room

There'll be blood on the cleaver tonight

And when darkness lifts and the room is bright

I'll still be by your side

For you are all that matters

And I'll love you to till the day I die

There never need be longing in your eyes

As long as the hand that rocks the cradle is mine

Ceiling shadows shimmy by

And when the wardrobe towers like a beast of prey

There's sadness in your beautiful eyes

Oh, your untouched, unsoiled, wondrous eyes

My life down I shall lie

Should restless spirits try

To play tricks on your sacred mind

I once had a child, and it saved my life

And I never even asked his name

I just looked into his wondrous eyes

And said : "never never never again"

And all too soon I did return

Just like a moth to a flame

So rattle my bones all over the stones

I'm only a beggar-man whom nobody owns

Oh, see how words as old as sin

Fit me like a glove

I'm here and here I'll stay

Together we lie, together we pray

There never need be longing in your eyes

As long as the hand that rocks the cradle is mine

As long as the hand that rocks the cradle is mine

Mine

Climb up on my knee, sonny boy

Although you're only three, sonny boy

You're - you're mine

And your mother she just never knew

Oh, your mother ...

As long ... as long ... as long

I did my best for her

I did my best for her

As long ... as long ... as long as ... as long

I did my best for her

I did my best for her

Oh ...


Album Lyrics: The Smiths Complete [2011]


The Smiths
"The Smiths Complete [2011]"


1. Girlfriend In A Coma
2. William, It Was Really Nothing
3. How Soon Is Now?
4. Hand In Glove
5. Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
6. Girl Afraid
7. Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
8. Is It Really So Strange?
9. Sheila Take A Bow
10. Shoplifters Of The World Unite
11. Sweet And Tender Hooligan
12. Half A Person
13. London
14. Panic
15. Shakespeare's Sister
16. You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby
17. Ask
18. Golden Lights
19. Oscillate Wildly
20. These Things Take Time
21. Rubber Ring
22. Back To The Old House
23. Stretch Out And Wait
24. Unloveable
25. Asleep
26. The Headmaster Ritual
27. Rusholme Ruffians
28. I Want The One I Can't Have
29. What She Said
30. That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
31. Nowhere Fast
32. Well I Wonder
33. Barbarism Begins At Home
34. Meat Is Murder
35. The Queen Is Dead [Live/Rank]
36. Panic [Live/Rank]
37. Vicar In A Tutu [Live/Rank]
38. Ask [Live/Rank]
39. Rusholme Ruffians [Live/Rank]
40. The Boy With The Thorn In His Side [Live/Rank]
41. What She Said [Live/Rank]
42. Is It Really So Strange? [Live/Rank]
43. Cemetry Gates [Live/Rank]
44. London [Live/Rank]
45. I Know It's Over [Live/Rank]
46. The Draize Train [Live/Rank]
47. Still Ill [Live/Rank]
48. Bigmouth Strikes Again [Live/Rank]
49. This Charming Man
50. What Difference Does It Make?
51. The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
52. Bigmouth Strikes Again
53. I Started Something I Couldn't Finish
54. Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
55. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
56. A Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours
57. Death Of A Disco Dancer
58. Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
59. Unhappy Birthday
60. Paint A Vulgar Picture
61. Death At One's Elbow
62. I Won't Share You
63. Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
64. Still Ill
65. Reel Around The Fountain
66. The Queen Is Dead
67. Frankly, Mr. Shankly
68. I Know It's Over
69. Never Had No One Ever
70. Cemetry Gates
71. Vicar In A Tutu
72. You've Got Everything Now
73. Miserable Lie
74. Pretty Girls Make Graves
75. The Hand That Rocks The Cradle
76. I Don't Owe You Anything
77. Suffer Little Children
78. Handsome Devil
79. Accept Yourself
80. Money Changes Everything
81. This Night Has Opened My Eyes