For someone who loves The Smiths, British Prime Minister David Cameron sure has a hard time getting their lyrics right.
During Wednesday's Parliamentary sitting, Labour's Kerry McCarthy brought up the song "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out," saying it's her party's favorite track. Cameron responded by telling her the song "actually involves a double suicide," adding, "I think the lyrics are, 'If a double decker bus crashes into us, there's no finer way than by your side.' I think." Actually, as anyone who was a mopey teenager in 1986 could tell him, the lyrics are, "And if a double decker bus crashes into us, to die by your side is such a heavenly way to die."
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