Suffer Little Children

Suffer Little Children is a song by English band The Smiths, released as the final track from their eponymous debut album 'The Smiths', and as the B-side to the May 1984 single of 'Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now'. The track is considered to be one of their bleakest songs, gaining minor controversy at the time of the album's release of its misinterpreted lyrics about the Moors murders.

Background
This song was one of the first that lead vocalist Morrissey and lead guitarist Johnny Marr wrote together.

The song was written about the Moors murders, carried out by Ian Duncan Stewart and Myra Hindley - the latter of which was said to be represented by the 'Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now's sleeve cover featuring Viv Nicholson - between 1963 and 1965 on Saddleworth Moor, overlooking Manchester, with five young victims - one of which has still yet to be found. Morrissey, only a few years older than most of the victims, wrote the song after reading a sensationalist, fictionalised account of the murders, Beyond Belief: A Chronicle of Murder and its Detection - in 'Autobiography', he writes "A swarm of misery grips mid-60s Manchester as Hindley and Brady raise their faces to the camera and become known to us all... Everyone appears to know someone who knew Myra Hindley, and we are forced to accept a new truth; that a woman can be just as cruel and dehumanised as a man, and that all safety is an illusion."

Music and lyrics
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