The Smiths - The Hand That Rocks The Cradle (Troy Tate Alternative Mix/Lyrics)
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Can you buy a record of the Tate recordings? Anyone know?
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great poet
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@humanson143 Morrissey wrote all the Smith's lyrics.
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I know the "original" from the album and it's been one of my all-time Smiths faves. Then ... I hear this. And the other Troy Tate's. So, if if the TT versions hit the record shops as The Smiths first album back in '83, what would have been the response? Until I heard the TT versions (though I know the "'Jeanne" B-side from long ago), I could never decide if the Smiths were more Morrisssey or more Marr. I love Marr's guitar. but I think Morrissey's lyrics hold it all together. So there ...
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Did Morrissey write this? I believe these lyrics to be the best of any Smiths song.
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@adorelesun right, I see what youre talking about now. my mistake.
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@enduboh No they arent. The lyrics are pretty similar but there are some differences. For example: In the Troy Tate version Morrissey sings "And I never even gave his name" in the other version he sings "And I never even asked his name".
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@adorelesun the lyrics are the same
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I like the lyrics of the Troy Tate Version a lot more than the lyrics of the other version. Because the other version seems like it is about child abuse. This version just seems to be more about a father who loves his son a lot.
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i don't know, I think the other one was a little better because it sounded like a lullaby.
muertefacil90 2 years ago 7
I've never heard this version. It's cool. I still like the album version better, but this is nice. Good post. And as to all the controversy about this song: to me, it's clearly about a loving parent, maybe an overprotective one, but certainly nothing lurid or evil. The mention of the mother at the end: she's no longer around, maybe she left or died. That's why he's "the hand that rocks the cradle." And what she "never knew": that he loved his boy more than her.
MckyMseNTarotCrds 1 year ago 5