100 favourite songs: #32: "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" - The Smiths

… the Smiths were all about chiming, resonant, timeless guitar-pop, adorned by swooning, over the top lyrical conceits, and “There Is A Light That Never Goes Out” sees them at their grandest and most impressionistic, while as morbid and lovelorn as ever — sing along, sing along on your lonely bed and sneer at the world through the tears. This just may be the most perfectly-crafted love song ever written — it meant so much to me back during my sulky teenage years, but even now I can feel its lonely pull… - 1/04