You Are the Quarry es un álbum de Morrissey, publicado en 2004 por Attack Records. El disco incluye 12 canciones, entre ellas «America Is Not the World», «Irish Blood, English Heart», «I Have Forgiven Jesus» y «Come Back to Camden».
Sobre el álbum
El regreso triunfal tras siete años de silencio se materializó en 2004 con "You Are the Quarry", un disco fundamental en la discografía de Morrissey. Este álbum no solo supuso su vuelta a la primera línea, sino que lo hizo con una energía, una confianza y un éxito comercial arrolladores. Es la obra que lo presentó a una nueva generación de fans y reafirmó su estatus de icono.
El sonido del disco es potente y directo, un rock alternativo con guitarras afiladas y una producción impecable. Morrissey suena revitalizado y su pluma más afilada que nunca, abordando temas políticos y sociales con una contundencia renovada. El sencillo "Irish Blood, English Heart" es un ejemplo perfecto, una declaración de identidad nacional compleja que se convirtió en un himno.
El álbum contiene algunos de los mayores éxitos de su carrera en solitario, como la irresistible "First of the Gang to Die" o la melancólica "Let Me Kiss You". Indudablemente, "You Are the Quarry" es un disco de una consistencia asombrosa, la obra de un artista que vuelve a la palestra para reclamar su trono con una colección de canciones impecables.
Listado de Canciones
- America Is Not the World4:03
Letra
America Your head's too big Because America Your belly's too big And I love you I just wish you'd stay where you is In America The land of the free, they said And of opportunity In a just and a truthful way But where the president Is never black, female or gay And until that day You've got nothing to say to me To help me believe In America It brought you the hamburger Well America You know where You can shove your hamburger And don't you wonder Why in estonia they say "Hey you, big fat pig You fat pig, you fat pig"? Steely blue eyes With no love in them Scan the world And a humourless smile With no warmth within Greets the world And I, I have got nothing To offer you No-no-no-no-no Just this heart deep and true Which you say you don't need See with your eyes Touch with your hands Please Hear through your ears Know in your soul Please For haven't you me with you now? And I love you I love you I love you - Irish Blood, English Heart2:37
Letra
Irish blood, English heart This I'm made of There is no-one on earth I'm afraid of And no regime can buy or sell me I've been dreaming of a time when To be English is not to be baneful To be standing by the flag Not feeling shameful, racist or partial Irish blood, English heart This I'm made of There is no-one on earth I'm afraid of And I will die with both my hands untied I've been dreaming of a time when The English are sick to death Of Labour and Tories And spit upon the name of Oliver Cromwell And denounce this royal line That still salute him And will salute him forever - I Have Forgiven Jesus3:41
Letra
I was a good kid I wouldn't do you no harm I was a nice kid With a nice paper round Forgive me any pain I may have brung to you With God's help I know I'll always be near to you But Jesus hurt me When he deserted me, but I have forgiven you Jesus For all the desire He placed in me When there's nothing I can do With this desire I was a good kid Through hail and snow I'd go just to moon you I carried my heart in my hand Do you understand? Do you understand? But Jesus hurt me When he deserted me, but I have forgiven you Jesus For all of the love He placed in me When there's no one I can turn to With this love Monday, humiliation Tuesday, suffocation Wednesday, condescension Thursday is pathetic By Friday life has killed me By Friday life has killed me (Oh pretty one) (Oh pretty one) Why did you give me so much desire? When there is nowhere I can go To offload this desire? And why did you give me so much love In a loveless world When there is no one I can turn to To unlock all this love? And why did you stick in Self deprecating bones and skin? Jesus do you hate me? Why did you stick in Self deprecating bones and skin? Do you hate me? Do you hate me? Do you hate me? Do you hate me? Do you hate me? - Come Back to Camden4:14
Letra
There is something I wanted to tell you It's so funny you'll kill yourself laughing But then I, I look around, And I remember that I am alone Alone For evermore The tile yard all along the railings Up a discoloured dark brown staircase Here you'll find Despair and I Calling to you with what's left of my heart My heart For evermore Drinking tea with the taste of the Thames Sullenly on a chair on the pavement Here you'll find My thoughts and I And here is the very last plea from my heart My heart For evermore Where taxi drivers never stop talking Under slate grey Victorian sky Here you will find Despair and I And here I am every last inch of me is yours Yours For evermore Your leg came to rest against mine Then you lounged with knees up and apart And me and my heart, we knew We just knew For evermore Where taxi drivers never stop talking Under slate grey Victorian sky Here you'll find My heart and I And still we say "Come back Come back to Camden And I'll be good I'll be good I'll be good" - I'm Not Sorry4:41
- The World Is Full of Crashing Bores3:51
Letra
You must be wondering how The boy next door turned out Have a care But don't stare Because he's still there Lamenting Policewomen, policemen, silly women, taxmen Uniformed whores They who wish to hurt you Work within the law This world is full So full of crashing bores And I must be one Cos no one ever turns to me to say Take me in your arms Take me in your arms And love me You must be wondering how The boy next door turned out Have a care And say a prayer Because he's still there Lamenting Policewomen, policemen, silly women, taxmen Uniformed whores Educated criminals Work within the law This world is full So full of crashing bores And I must be one Cos no one ever turns to me to say Take me in your arms Take me in your arms And love me And love me What really lies Beyond the constraints of my mind Could it be the sea With fate mooning back at me? No, it's just more lock jawed pop stars Thicker than pig shit Nothing to convey They're so scared to show intelligence It might smear their lovely career This world I am afraid Is designed for crashing bores I am not one I am not one You don't understand You don't understand And yet you can Take me in your arms and love me Love me And love me Take me in your arms and love me Love me, love me Take me in your arms and love me Take me in your arms and love me Would you do Would you do What you should do - How Can Anybody Possibly Know How I Feel?3:25
- First of the Gang to Die3:38
Letra
(Los Angeles, you are too hot) You have never been in love Until you've seen the stars Reflect in the reservoirs And you have never been in love Until you have seen the dawn rise Behind the Home for the Blind We are the Pretty Petty Thieves And you're standing on our streets Where Hector was the First of the gang with a gun in his hand And the first to do time The first of the gang to die Oh my Hector was the first of the gang With a gun in his hand And the first to do time The first of the gang to die Oh my You have never been in love Until you've seen the sunlight thrown Over smashed human bone We are the Pretty Petty Thieves And you're standing on our streets Where Hector was the First of the gang with a gun in his hand And the first to do time The first of the gang to die Such a silly boy Hector was the first of the gang With a gun in his hand And the bullet in his gullet The first Lost Lad to go Under the sod And he stole from the rich and the poor And not very rich and the very poor And he stole our hearts away He stole our hearts away He stole our hearts away He stole our hearts away - Let Me Kiss You3:30
Letra
There's a place in the sun For anyone who has The will to chase one And I think I've found mine Yes, I do believe I have found mine So Close your eyes And think of someone You physically admire And let me kiss you Let me kiss you I've zig-zagged all over America And I cannot find a safety haven Say would you let me cry on your shoulder I've heard that you'll try anything twice Close your eyes And think of someone You physically admire And let me kiss you Let me kiss you But then you open your eyes And you see someone That you physically despise But my heart is open My heart is open to you - All the Lazy Dykes3:31
Letra
All the lazy dykes Cross armed at the palms Then legs astride their bikes Indigo burns on their arms One sweet day An emotional whirl You will be good to yourself And you'll come and join the girls All the lazy dykes They pity how you live Just "somebody's wife" You give, and you give And you give, and you give And one sweet day An emotional whirl You will be good to yourself And you'll come and join the girls Touch me Squeeze me Hold me too tightly And when you look at me you actually see me And I've never felt so alive In the whole of my life In the whole of my life Free yourself Be yourself Come to the palms and see yourself And at last your life begins At last your life begins At last your life begins - I Like You4:11
Letra
Something in you caused me to Take a new tact with you You were going through something I had just about scraped through Why do you think I let you get away With the things you say to me? Could it be I like you It's so shameful of me I like you No one I ever knew Or have spoken to resembles you This is good or bad All depending on my general mood Why do you think I let you get away With all the things you say to me? Could it be I like you It's so shameful of me I like you Magistrates who spend their lives Hiding their mistakes They look at you and I, and Envy makes them cry Envy makes them cry Forces of containment They shove their fat faces into mine You and I just smile Because we're thinking the same lines Why do you think I let you get away With all the things you say to me? Could it be I like you It's so shameful of me I like you You're not right in the head And nor am I And this why You're not right in the head And nor am I And this why This is why I like you I like you I like you This is why I like you I like you I like you - You Know I Couldn't Last5:51