Why "Suffer Little Children" Is The Smiths' Darkest Song

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  @AndyFenstermaker · 1 year ago · pinned

  Next, let&apos;s dig into the history of &quot;Bigmouth Strikes Again&quot; 👉 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RTDWQ0jM7o">https://youtu.be/_RTDWQ0jM7o</a>

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  @wutzblack · 1 year ago

  &quot;You might sleep, but you will never dream&quot;<br> this quote always gets me because it`s so poetic and sad.<br> No wonder this is my absolute favorite from The Smiths...

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  @ronaldmilner8932 · 11 months ago

  Suffer Little Children by The Smiths is a heartbreaking song. The band only played it once live.

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  @swandaley · 1 year ago

  &quot;Suffer Little Children&quot; isn&apos;t an easy listen, but it honestly lifts my spirits when I&apos;m down. I think it&apos;s because of Morrissey&apos;s empathy. Maybe I&apos;m weird. I don&apos;t know.

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  @ashleyohohoh · 1 year ago

  Their debut album is still, and always will be, a masterpiece. That and Meat is Murder are my favorites.<br>Suffer Little Children is such a haunting song -- Literally. Its almost as though you can feel and the souls of the children within the song.

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  @johnboy065 · 1 year ago

  And along those line&apos;s it was a shame that bonfire of teenagers was never released, a very haunting track..

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  @CurtRowlett · 1 year ago

  Nice job on this. Being a huge Smiths fan means that I have read most of the books written about the band, and as a result, I was aware of the controversies that sprung up around &quot;Suffer Little Children.&quot; I think that Morrissey and the rest of The Smiths actually handled all of the backlash quite well. In my humble opinion, the song, though quite haunting, is actually a vital tribute to a horrible tragedy. For what it is worth: I do a bit of writing and I wrote a short Gothic horror story that was directly inspired by &quot;Suffer Little Children.&quot; Thank you.

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  @bonesf200 · 1 year ago

  I drive over Saddleworth quite a lot and the sadness of the place just never goes - even a generation later. We&apos;ve had Harold Shipman and The Yorkshire Ripper too but neither of those have left such a profound effect. I&apos;ve noticed that no matter how full my car is, not a single person ever utters a word as we pass over Saddleworth. I think it&apos;s because we know Keith Bennett is still there somewhere and in an odd way, the wound is still open.

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  @joemaldonado9231 · 9 months ago

  Out of all the Smiths songs, this is the one that haunts me the most and I can only hear it alone. It’s sacred to me. The laughter at the end that turns to sobbing always gets me. Then, after the sobbing, a DEEP sigh. What an amazing performance by one of maybe 3 women that sang on a Smiths track. The Wikipedia entry on the murders reads like a movie that fascinated me and depressed me.

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  @edwardianspice1 · 11 months ago

  It’s one of the finest songs they have ever written

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  @abbie28k03 · 1 year ago

  one of my favourite smith songs ever,so hauntingly beautiful

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  @jodagold5481 · 1 year ago

  I&apos;ll tell you being a 70s kid , and who&apos;s Aunty was lesley Anne&apos;s freind attending that fairground that day when she was snatched - Particularly the tough working class women of ancoats / miles plattin and Gorton , there was no fear or paranoia but the zeitgeist of the town was pure hate for the moors murderers, and i do mean truly despised without fear- and i have no doubt that if Myra Hindley or Brady were to somehow walk those streets at the time , they would have been torn limb from limb and battered to death literally - they were utterly hated with real pure anger , and the slightest conversation of them two sparked immediate seething venom from they words of those working class communities - there was no lofty boogeyman / woman status with these two no marks , there was a death wish for those two and were regarded as simply as sex cases - But Hindly was greatly despised - being the first woman who crossed the perceived rubicon that all women were safe and you could leave your front door open and let your kids play on the streets , Morrissey and Marr caught some of that working class mirroring of how that particular crime resonated in Manchester and as a fan , i and my peers got it straight away.

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