Perhaps the ultimate number for an absurdly cold, cloudy British Easter Sunday, also this year falling on April Fool's Day, therefore ironically and self-destructively bleak it's almost uplifting. From Morrissey's first solo album after the Smiths, Viva Hate (1988), co-written with Stephen Street, who also produced Strangeways Here We Come, and later worked with Blur, The Cranberries and several other bands, this song summons up images of being trapped living in the quintessentially British cultural location – the miserable seaside town, but is also inspired by Nevil Shute's novel On the Beach about a group of people waiting for nuclear devastation in Melbourne. Morrissey's public persona is of course a mess of controversy, but his lyric writing reputation remains intact as being and the very apex of the absurd and acerbic, from "come Armageddon" to "win yourself a cheap tray".
[Verse 1]
Trudging slowly over wet sand
Back to the bench where your clothes were stolen
This is the coastal town
That they forgot to close down
Armageddon - come Armageddon!
Come, Armageddon! Come!
[Chorus 1]
Everyday is like Sunday
Everyday is silent and grey
[Verse 2]
Hide on the promenade
Etch a postcard :
"How I Dearly Wish I Was Not Here"
In the seaside town
That they forgot to bomb
Come, come, come, nuclear bomb
[Chorus 1]
Everyday is like Sunday
Everyday is silent and grey
[Verse 3]
Trudging back over pebbles and sand
And a strange dust lands on your hands
And on your face...
On your face...
On your face...
On your face...
[Chorus 2]
Everyday is like Sunday
"Win yourself a cheap tray"
Share some greased tea with me
Everyday is silent and grey.
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