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How Soon Is Now?

Song · 1984 · The Smiths. Album: Hatful of Hollow

For the ones who went out and came home alone 🌫️

Who it's for

Morrissey sings about crippling shyness, going out hoping to connect and going home alone.

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What it is

"How Soon Is Now?" is a song by The Smiths, first released in 1984 as a B-side on the 12-inch of "William, It Was Really Nothing," included on the compilation Hatful of Hollow (November 1984), and issued as a UK A-side in January 1985. The song is about a man who cannot overcome his severe shyness to find a partner. Its title comes from Marjorie Rosen's book Popcorn Venus.

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Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone.Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “Solitude”

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