Johnny Marr (born John Martin Maher; 31 October 1963) is an English musician and songwriter. Marr rose to fame in the 1980s as the guitarist in The Smiths, with whom he formed a prolific songwriting partnership with Morrissey. Marr has been a member of Electronic, The The, and Modest Mouse. In 2008, he joined The Cribs after touring with them on 2008's NME Awards Tour, a group in which he would remain until 2011.
Marr's jangly Rickenbacker guitar-playing in The Smiths proved to be popular among other musicians and has influenced many guitarists that followed particularly in the Britpop era.
Marr was voted the fourth best guitarist of the last 30 years in a poll conducted by the BBC in 2010.
Marr was born in Ardwick, Manchester, the son of Irish immigrants. His parents came from Athy in County Kildare. In 1975 he attended the Roman Catholic St Augustine's Grammar School, which in 1977 merged with other schools to form a comprehensive school, St John Plessington High School. Marr had aspirations to be a professional football player, and was approached by Nottingham Forest and had trials with Manchester City (which he supports). In an interview with FourFourTwo magazine, Marr said "I was good enough for City, but they didn't follow up because I was probably the only player out there wearing eyeliner."[citation needed] He currently resides in Manchester with his wife Angie and their children, daughter Sonny and son Nile. Johnny is an honorary board member of Rock For Kids. He is also teetotal and vegan, and runs regularly.
(Verse)
Look out, everyone,
I've been pushed hard for surround.
Take back they loved,
It's a lockdown.
Touch out if we want,
Home is the city, it's gone, I be lose it
And we took back what I want,
Another lockdown.
Freeze out if we want
Love is the city, a war and imma lose it
Can I get back what I want
In a lost town?
(Chorus)
I know I was born just be near these streets and entry speecing
Someone's situation there's nobody's hope
An education that I still don't know.
(Verse)
Coast line and beyond it's the look out to what's gone
Right now there's no better in this town.
Coast out tonight, help me put out of life
In this town's define me in this town.
(Chorus)
I know I was born just be near these streets and entry speecing
Someone's situation there's nobody's hope
An education that I still don't know.
(Verse)
Look out, everyone,
Freezed out and we was
Give back, come on, lockdown.
Touch out, everyone,
Be fast, cause we're gone
Come back, it's on, I never lock down,
(Verse)
I hear it snap, hurry up, see,
Let's get rich and get the feeling to have it all.
A face that fits you, it really fits you,
It's a snip, bruised as a hobbit now.
(Pre-Chorus)
A reason to have it all.
Here it is, the pillow kids, have it all.
(Chorus)
Take in a car on run, I've got an ambition,
Broke as fits as mine,
We got a television.
(Pre-Chorus)
A reason to have it all.
Here it is, the pillow kids, have it all.
(Chorus)
Take in a car on run, I've got an ambition,
Broke as fits as mine,
(Verse)
Love fights love invading my zero gravity
The crowd grows and grows illusions
Down on quantity street.
High speed under approach,
Wait till smog, shall on innocence.
Dark fin, heaven eyes,
I believe it all but I don't feel it.
(Pre-Chorus)
My head's in the South now, individual citizen, hear it.
I hassen up now, individual citizen
(Chorus)
Here is the start, just gotta lit,
On the right seem right, we gonna right it.
Hear me, the wonder of it,
On the right seem right, I'm on the right thing.
(Verse)
Every words, yeah, I mean it,
Loses me and now I'm so loud, I can't resist.
I'm what you're asking,
Seem to be your voice, so now I can be reached.
I'm with, I'm with, I'm with, I'm with, I'm with,
Individual citizen.
(Chorus)
Here is the start, just gotta lit,
On the right seem right, we gonna right it.
Hear me, the wonder of it,
On the right seem right, I'm on the right thing.
(Bridge)
Love finds love, is following.
And what left us to be a voice so far it can't be reached.
I'm with, I'm with, I'm with, I'm with, I'm with,
Individual citizens.
(Chorus)
Here is the start, just gotta lit,
On the right seem right, I'm on the right thing.
Take it, life just gotta hit,
On the right seem right, I'm on the right thing.
Hear it, the sight just won't quit,
On the right seem right, I'm on the right thing.
Hear me, the wonder of it,
(Verse)
We were crawling out of step ground till we walked
Secret for a while,
The blood's okay so we fall,
Still my car is so on sell cause you can say to me
Let me get you, they get what they want.
(Chorus)
But you're in for love, you're in for love
And you will find love.
You're in for love, you'll still find love
But you're in for love and you will find love.
(Verse)
You're forced, drunk, and your memory's stuck,
You're forced, drunk, and your memory's stuck,
Crashing into, to go back home you forgot
Feel no good, they're not there, lost and you're lost,
Take down into where she opens your heart.
(Chorus)
But you're in for love, you're in for love
And you will find love.
You're in for love, you'll still find love
But you're in for love and you will find love.
(Verse)
I placed by and I wonder why,
Calculate, calculate, calculate.
I divide and I multiply,
Calculate, calculate, calculate.
(Pre-Chorus)
Sensations versus thinking,
An equation all good for nothing
Same old song, what's going on?
Calculate, calculate, calculate.
(Chorus)
I come by and all is fly,
Generate, generate, generate.
You got no how, I got to know now,
Calculate, calculate, calculate.
Sensations versus thinking,
Oh, no, no, no, it's beginning.
(Verse)
Get her CD, haven't sworn,
Generate, generate, generate.
(Chorus)
That's the way that go,
Cascade and unknown,
Accelerate and I go,
That's the way that I go, too.
(Pre-Chorus)
Sensations judged thinking,
Equation no good for nothing.
Fast crash fear us some theme,
Fast track feel us some theme.
(Verse)
I can't get behind a war track mind,
Calculate, calculate, calculate.
Rising suns put you on the re-run,
Generate, generate, generate.
(Pre-Chorus)
Sensations got me thinking,
An equation all good for nothing
God keeps an upper thumb,
Generate, generate, generate.
(Chorus)
That's the way that go,
Cascade and unknown,
Accelerate and I go,
Close it and I go, too.
Sensations judge my thinking
Oh, no, no, no good for nothing.
Fast crash fearless and theme,
Flashtrack fear us a theme.
Cascade and I go,
Accelerate and I go,
Sensations judge my thinking,
Oh, no, no, no, it's beginning.
Fast crash fearless and fear
(Verse)
Now there is no turning back,
Once gone, it traces impact.
Watch out, there's no changing,
A white light, right crawl out
Watch out the sun-covered track.
(Pre-Chorus)
Way before we seen it short come
The where that is a bad life,
And losing an empty station
We can be safe from this
(Chorus)
Free, free, free
I was outside, now still got a place to go.
(Verse)
Way before we've seen it short come,
Nowhere, but it's a bad life,
You're losing an empty station
Again, we get a pass back,
And if she want, always wanna come back.
(Chorus)
Free, free, free
I was outside, now still got a place to go.
(Verse)
Way before we've seen the short come,
Nowhere, but it's a bad life,
You're losing an empty station.
We can be safe and look
(Chorus)
Free, free, free
Left home a mystery, leave school for poetry
I say goodbye to them and me, mission velocity
It made me just run faster now, I'm gonna take it off driving round
Make up my mind, leave the windows down
I'm in something alright, I know
I got to live it up, oh-oh, oh
I can't resist, make for zero, oh, no
It turned out like I said it would, can I get the world right here?
Step up to symphonies, they play on for you and me
When we face that July dawn, the uniforms one on one
No run, we chased that summer down
I'm in something alright, I know
I got to live it up, oh-oh, oh
I can't resist, make for zero, oh, no
It turned out like I said it would, can I get the world right here?
I can't resist, make for zero, oh, no
It turned out like I said it would, can I get the world right here?
Hello, you mystery, mission velocity
(Verse)
Dogs at the footsteps transform the more routine
Glamour on the make-up, disguise the money.
Lifeless and the life, the face will never be the same.
Who could ask for more? Who would ask for more?
(Pre-Chorus)
Come and see how it's done in an ever mistake,
Your eyes are dynamite, disguise and dominate.
The girl can never get lost, how she gonna be found?
She can find herself,
She's gone and drunk tell her that,
I won't follow, she's out of here.
(Chorus)
Her smile amounds a metaphor,
Don't crack up, it gonna light up.
You know you turn, you turn and you can walk,
So take off, tic-tac.
Who's gonna fix your walk?
And you walk when you're broken up
Take up, face up, tic-tac, full stop.
(Verse)
Don't you wanna get lost, you know it devastates
Glamour on the monkey, disguise and dominate.
The girl can never get lost, how she gonna be found?
Could she find herself?
I won't follow, she's out of here.
(Chorus)
Her smile amounds a metaphor,
Don't crack up, it gonna light up.
You know you turn, you turn and you can walk,
So take off, tic-tac.
Who's gonna fix your walk?
And you walk when you're broken up
Take up, face up, tic-tac, full stop.
(Chorus)
Her smile amounds a metaphor,
Don't crack up, it gonna light up.
You know you turn, you turn and you can walk,
So take off, tic-tac.
Who's gonna fix your walk?
And you walk when you're broken up
(Verse)
Days of no reason are up on us
Caught the ways to rage on us,
All the things that the new are promised
Has made things that are not for us.
Make me wonder was it refer
Makes me wonder was it worth it?
The star stays, smash some mirrors.
(Chorus)
Words strike on fast
Words strike on fast
World start as a crack,
We'll start an attack.
(Verse)
Communication was on it,
I don't want to get to
All the things that the new are promised
Has made things that are not for us
The star stays, smash some mirrors.
(Bridge)
And I get out of this
And I get out of this
And I get out of this
And I get out.
And I get out of this,
And I get out of this.
And I get out of this,
And I get out of this,
And I get out of this,
And I get out of this,
And I get out of this,
To see it in something,
Life you want it takes long
To see him so happy, you find you talking if you want.
Don't wanna be a messenger
To see it in something,
Your eyes are opened and you're on
I'm here and I'm ready,
My time's for taking if you want.
Who wants to be a messenger?
Who wants to be a messenger?
We could get going
Who wants to be a messenger?
Who wants to be the messenger?
We could get going
Who wants to be a messenger?
(Verse)
Coats come back to the lottery
And wipe some off, now she's on me,
Fast machine transmits her wave to way back to the team.
You'll come back technology, quit strike connect heartbeats to me,
Thin line reveals transmits heart rate to her maxim upbeat.
(Chorus)
I want the heartbeat, I want the heartbeat,
I want the heartbeat, I want the heartbeat.
(Verse)
Coats connect that kick for me,
All night I got your frequency,
Fast machine transmits your wave back to way back to the team.
(Bridge)
Get me your whole machine, technology, technology.
Get me my whole machine, then switch it on again,
I be on precede.
(Chorus)
I want the heartbeat, I want the heartbeat.
Get me your whole machine, technology, technology,
Get me my own machine and fix her up again.
Put me up the scene.
(Chorus)
I want the heartbeat, I want the heartbeat,
Oooh, I feel it coming round
I hear it, sounds like the good life
I know
Oooh, I see this running down
Defiance comes, oooh
The underground is overground
The overground will pull you down
It's how it goes in these times
How we know it's in their eyes
Upstarts now are on their way
Upstarts now have to pay
Oooh, I hear us coming round
Denial comes, oooh
The underground is overground
The overground will pull you down
It's how it goes in these times
How we know it's in our eyes
Upstarts now are on their way
Upstarts now have to pay
And hear, they tell it now so fast
Oooh, I hear us coming round
Oooh, I feel it