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Morrissey
“You Have Killed Me”

[2006]
If You Are the Quarry was a mid-career album so vibrant and fresh as to be literally incredible-- i.e. difficult to believe-- it's even more of a wonder that Morrissey's managed to sustain his relevance with nothing more than the same few aces he's always concealed in his immaculately tailored sleeve. No surprise, then, that Moz, practically a genre unto himself, has returned with yet another pitch-perfect Morrissey song. "You Have Killed Me" bears all the hallmarks-- the morose charisma; the stairway-to-pathos rock crunch throwing big-budget haymakers; the brawny vibrato with tears running down its prodigious muscles; the signature commingling of tragedy and romance, resistance and surrender. "I entered nothing and nothing entered me/ 'Til you came with the key, and you did your best/ But as I live and breathe, you have killed me." Sound familiar? It almost makes you angry to still fall for it. "There's no point in saying this again," Morrissey sings, seeming to accidentally indict himself, "but I forgive you." When that huge chorus swoops down, you'll do the same.
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