The Smiths: 20 Best Songs

4. Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiqOsKngc-c Lasting just under 2 minutes, featuring just Morrissey's voice and Johnny's acoustic guitar and mandolin, this is the soundtrack of many a lost love and catalogues the hope that love can inspire. Sometimes The Smiths song titles were so good you often wondered what more the lyrics could add to them, but this is a Morrissey tour de force - succinct, heart breaking and humble. "Good times for a change, see, the luck I've had could make a good man turn bad.' The song feels like The Smiths take on The Beatles 'In My Life' and they knock them out of the park.
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