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| The Smiths – Nowhere Fast Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I agree it sounds like a song protesting against inequality and the apathy of poorer people who strive only to own more things, instead of fighting the ruling classes.
The line "I'd like to drop my trousers to the Queen, every sensible child will know what this means" makes me think, maybe Morrissey or the character believes that an awareness that such inequality is wrong is natural and innate, children are born with it but most have it drowned out by consumerism and dull conversation by the time they become adults. |
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| The Smiths – I Started Something I Couldn't Finish Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I do go on about Brighton Rock a lot but the "uuh, that's what tradition means" reminds me of Pinky's disgust with the "ritual" of sex after having been exposed to his parents' Saturday night tradition in their one-roomed house, every Saturday night throughout his childhood. Pinky eventually forces himself to have sex because he feels he must because he is now married. So I think the character in this song is maybe forcing themself to have sex because they think it is the required thing to do. |
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| The Smiths – Sweet and Tender Hooligan Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Re: RedDwarf's comment: I noticed that, I wonder if Morrissey deliberately sings it wrong to either annoy people or laugh at people who think it is pronounced like that, a lot of people spell it "ect". I wondered the same thing about his pronunciation of "plagiarise" in Cemetry Gates, I have heard that the song title was deliberately spelled wrong... |
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| The Smiths – Rubber Ring Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Morrissey uses the word "mother" a lot doesn't he? Oh mother, I can feel... Some girls' mothers... I'm sure there are more. I think maybe it means a person feeling really desperate and suicidal, wanting to die, but wanting their mother to help them to die so it's a gentle, caring event? Just a thought... |
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| The Smiths – These Things Take Time Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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"Wonderkind" in German means prodigy, so that works with the idea of the partner being very au fait with sex, and Morrissey being left behind... |
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| The Smiths – Pretty Girls Make Graves Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I love the setting of this song, on the beach, it reminds me of Brighton Rock. I can't think of any other Smiths songs with a setting?
Give up to lust oh, heaven knows we'll soon be dust... It's beautiful, it sounds existential or humanist to me, definitely atheist, I think it's about only having one life and the different things people do to make that life worth it... |
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