Friday Sessions #107: ‘Oh, please, don’t drop me home’ – ‘There is a light that never goes out’ The Smiths

Somehow the poignant sound of the The Smiths seems to remain relevant through every decade, and this weeks Friday Session is aptly titled: There is a light that never goes out.

Todays lyric: ‘Oh, please, don’t drop me home’

So many words have an array of different meanings and the word ‘drop’ is no exception. One quick look in the dictionary and you’ll see it can be used to refer to; a drop of water, a drop in price (reduction,) to drop a project (abandon,) and ‘a drop’ also relates to espionage. But our lyric this week simply talks about ‘taking’ someone to a place, ie. ‘please don’t ‘take’ me home.’

Check the examples used in the same context:

Can you drop me ….home/at the airport/ at the office….. later?

Can you drop me off ….at home/at the airport/ at the office….. later?

Can you give me a lift ….home/to the airport/ to the office….. later?

Don’t get the bus, let me drop you home.

Where shall I drop you? You can drop me here. (Typical in a taxi.)

Lyrics:

Take me out tonight
Where there’s music and there’s people
And they’re young and alive
Driving in your car
I never, never want to go home
Because I haven’t got one anymore

Take me out tonight
Because I want to see people
And I want to see life
Driving in your car
Oh, please, don’t drop me home
Because it’s not my home, it’s their home
And I’m welcome no more

And if a double-decker bus crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten ton truck kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well, the pleasure, the privilege is mine

Take me out tonight
Take me anywhere, I don’t care, I don’t care, I don’t care
And in the darkened underpass
I thought, oh God, my chance has come at last
But then a strange fear gripped me
And I just couldn’t ask

Take me out tonight
Oh, take me anywhere, I don’t care, I don’t care, I don’t care
Driving in your car
I never, never want to go home
Because I haven’t got one, la-di-dum
Oh, I haven’t got one
Oh, oh

And if a double-decker bus crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten ton truck kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well, the pleasure, the privilege is mine

Oh, there is a light and it never goes out
There is a light and it never goes out
There is a light and it never goes out
There is a light and it never goes out
There is a light and it never goes out
There is a light and it never goes out
There is a light and it never goes out
There is a light and it never goes out