What's *the most* Morrissey lyric, in your view?

[JM🇬🇧]

I still don't belong
To anyone, I am mine
I am falling
With no one to catch me

I just don't belong
To anywhere
I just don't belong

 

[everydayslikesunday]

And when I'm lying in my bed
I think about life
And I think about death
And neither one particularly appeals to me

 

[21punksalute]

I am a poor freezingly cold soul...so far from where I intended to go

 

[William Fisher]

There is another world
There is a better world
Well, there must be
Well, there must be
Well, there must be
Well, there must be
Bye
Bye
Bye
Bye, hmm

 

[SuedeMoz]

A tough kid who sometimes swallows nails
Raised on Prisoner's Aid
He killed a policeman when he was 13
And somehow that really impressed me
And it's written all over my face

These are the riches of the poor

 

[William Fisher]

Or:

Can you please stop time?
Can you stop the pain?
I feel too cold
And now I feel too warm again
Can you stop this pain?
Can you stop this pain?
Even now in the final hour
Of my life
I'm falling in love again
Again
Again

 

[gashonthenail]

we tried and we failed
we tried and we failed
we tried and we failed
we tried and we failed

 

[Tea with the taste]

Or:

Can you please stop time?
Can you stop the pain?
I feel too cold
And now I feel too warm again
Can you stop this pain?
Can you stop this pain?
Even now in the final hour
Of my life
I'm falling in love again
Again
Again

This is the one I thought of straight away too. Then instead of posting it I just started listening to the song over and over again ……. simply stunning track.

 

[Mimi Ramone]

Oh, yes you can kick me
And you can punch me
And you can break my face
But you won't change the way I feel

 

[Tea with the taste]

Also:

Oh, please fulfill me
Otherwise kill me
Show me a barrel and watch me scrape it
Faced with the music as always I’ll face it
In the half-light
So English, frowning
Then at midnight I
Can’t get you out of my head
A disenchanted taste
Still running ‘round
A disenchanted taste
Still running ‘round

 

[Dusty Miller's Hornpipe]

And when I'm lying in my bed
I think about life
And I think about death
And neither one particularly appeals to me

That's the one I was going to post

 

[On his way out]

There's more to life than books you know
But not much more

 

[Light Housework]

I've been stabbed in the back
So many, many times
I don't have any skin

 

[ZOOM FROM GLOOM]

Every day I play a sad game called
In the future when all's well
Living longer than I had intended
Something must have gone...right!

I thank you
I thank you with all of my heart
I thank you
I thank you with all of my heart

Lee, please stand up and defend me
In the future when all's well
Confront what you are afraid of
In the future when all's well

 

[The Wild Turkey]

Dolphins swim to rescue you
Schools of fish will keep your throat afloat
Owls bow their learned brow
So slide me into your pocket now

 

[JerryCan]

You must be wondering how
The boy next door turned out
Have a care, but don't stare
Because he's still there

 

[Jamie]

Sixteen, clumsy and shy,
I went to London and I,
I booked myself in at the Y...WCA.
I said: "I like it here, can I stay?
I like it here, can I stay?
Do you have a vacancy for a back-scrubber?"

 

[karenina]

Ouija board, Ouija board, Ouija board
Would you work for me?
I have got to get through
To a good friend
Well, she has now gone
From this unhappy planet
With all the carnivores
And the destructors of it

 

[Dickie Davis]

I’m with you @BookishBoy. That’s the one. Maladjusted was the first Morrissey album I heard more than 20 years ago and that line hit me like a bolt of lightning. That line alone made me a fan, almost. And it sums up both him as a person (as much as I, a mere fan, could know him as a person) and as an artist/lyricist. It has that dichotomy. There’s nowhere he can turn, not to himself and not to the outside world.

I’d also like to nominate the following:
“I tried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bored before I even began.”

“ people see no worth in you , I do “
One of his earliest lyrics , should his world view .
So much power in that lyric

Also “
Gasping but somehow still alive
This is the fierce last stand of all I am”

 

[William Fisher]

Oh, I don't mind what time you come round
If it's the daytime then I might be in bed