Get Off The Stage
Words by Morrissey, Music by Andy Rourke

Oh, you silly old man!
You silly old man!
You're making a fool of yourself
so get off the stage
You silly old man
in your misguided trousers
with your mascara
and your Fender guitar
and you think you can rouse us

But the song that you just sang
it sounds exactly like the last one
and the next one
I bet you it will sound
like this one

Downstage and offstage
don't you feel all run in?
and do you wonder when they
will take it away?
this is your final fling
but then applause ran high
but for the patience of the ones behind you
as a verse drags on
like a month drags on
it's very short but it seems very long

And the song that you just sang
it sounds exactly like the last one
and the next one
I'll bet you it will sound
like this one

So get off the stage
oh, get off the stage
and when you get down off of the stage
please stay off the stage old age
get off the stage
oh, get off the stage
and when we've had our money back
then I'd like your back in plaster

Oh, I know that you say
how age has no meaning
but here is your audience now
and they're screaming:
"Get off the stage!
Oh, get off the stage!
'Cause I've give you enough of my time
and the money that wasn't even mine"
Get off the stage
Oh, get off the stage

For whom the bell tolls...

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