I Started Something I Couldn't Finish

The Smiths · The Smiths Complete [2011]

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!