I Want The One I Can't Have

The Smiths · The Smiths Complete [2011]

On the day that your mentality

Decides to try

To catch up with your biology

Come 'round



'Cause I want the one I can't have

And it's driving me mad

It's all over, all over, all over my face



On the day that your mentality

Catches up with your biology

I want the one I can't have

And it's driving me mad

It's all over, all over, all over my face



A double bed

And a stalwart lover for sure

These are the richest of the poor

A double bed

And a stalwart lover for sure

These are the richest of the poor



And I want the one I can't have

And it's driving me mad

It's all over, all over my face



A tough kid who sometimes swallows nails

Raised on Prisoner's Aid

He killed a policeman when he was thirteen

And somehow that really impressed me

And it's written all over my face



Oh, these are the richest of the poor

These are the richest of the poor



I want the one I can't have

And it's driving me mad

It's written all over my face



On the day that your mentality

Catches up with your biology

And if you ever need self-validation

Just meet me in the alley by the railway station

It's all over my face