Taken from The Smiths’ 1986 song “I Know It’s Over,” this line has outlived the band itself — a simple, devastating truth that became a mantra for outsiders, dreamers, and anyone who’s learned that softness is its own kind of power.
In a world that rewards noise and bravado, Morrissey’s lyric still cuts through: empathy as rebellion, tenderness as endurance. Printed clean and understated, this shirt carries the spirit of 1980s melancholy and the defiant beauty of staying kind when it would be easier not to.
