| The Smiths – A Rush and a Push and the Land Is Ours Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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i do think it's about a string of failed relationships and how they just always go wrong and he keeps trying to justify & explain to himself why (being stressed, becoming a bit of a recluse, denial, etc). always thought the "and people who are uglier than you and I they take what they need, and leave" and "and people who are weaker than you and I they take what they want from life" was like... almost a line, if you see, i mean like saying - everyone else is doing it, even people who aren't as good as us, so why isn't it working for us? i hate to link Morrissey songs to gayness as well, but i do think this is one of the more obvious ones. that said, it could be about anyone unhappy in love. i think the whole Irish independence thing is both Morrissey's way of making the story autobiographical and one of his cunning smoke-and-mirrors tricks which he revels in playing on us. legendary song, i love the pained growl just before the chorus |
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| David Bowie – Somebody Up There Likes Me Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| bowie's best song, hands down, followed by jump they say & bring me the disco king. THAT - SAX. it melts my very soul. | |
| The Smiths – Girlfriend in a Coma Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| i can no longer listen to the "would you please let me see her?" bit without thinking he's off to finish what he started, since i heard it suggested on here. bleak. | |
| Shudder to Think – Hot One Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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it's not slade, first off, and curt wild has nothing to do with oscar wilde - in the film it's jack fairy who finds his pin (but there's no implication that he's his descendant)... anyway, i love this song. i do think the line "this wooing is one of mourning" is painfully beautiful. also, it is very nice to wail tunelessly along to in an exaggeratedly camp fashion, waving lipstick and boas about (but in slow motion, obviously, like a sad clown) |
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| The Smiths – Suffer Little Children Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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i don't think morrissey is ignoring brady's influence, clearly that's what he's referring to in the lines : 'Hindley wakes, Hindley wakes, Hindley wakes, and says : "Oh, whatever he has done, I have done"' it's like carol ann duffy's poem The Devil's Wife about Hindley - she had more of an impact, people were more shcoked by her part in it - but really she was just following brady. may i just also tangentially state that i am massively in love with morrissey and everything he has ever produced, so maybe i am not being wholly objective. but it's a great song, makes my bones ache. |
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| The Smiths – Girlfriend in a Coma Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"When i hear the song i always picture Morrissey in his younger days pacing the corridoors of a hospital looking for ppl to talk to and trying to be mature about the situation in his arrogant manner." that made me laugh like a raccoon, that's exactly how i picture it. i do think it's about a real coma, tbh, morrissey is deep but this is too good to be a metaphor - it's just very, very dark. i adore it beyond reason or belief |
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