A few years ago I was watching Craig Kilborn's Late Late Show when I saw Morrissey perform for the first time. He was doing this song about a gangster that I really liked. So the next day I went looking for the album. I found some Morrissey but I couldn't find anything matching those lyrics.

It turns out the reason I couldn't was because, although he must have been singing the song years ago, he didn't put it on an album until this year. The damned thing only came out in May. Today I bought "You are the Quarry" and I got to track 8 and there it was, that freckin song, "The First of the Gang to Die". It's like finally finding a spot that needed scratching for a couple of years.

Although I like "First of the Gang to Die" the best of anything on the album so far, some of the lyrics from other songs are just amazing. Here's an excerpt from "Let Me Kiss You":

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

Good stuff.