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The Smiths – Shoplifters of the World Unite Lyrics 6 years ago
@[cmrock456:30744] That's true. By the way, every master was oneday an apprentice. And mainly in music, I believe, copying and inspiration are very commonplace. In pop music it's even more.
Yeah, I had never thought about this song through this perspective, but it makes sense

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The Smiths – How Soon Is Now? Lyrics 6 years ago
It's clearly a personal lyrics. I don't think there's much to say.
It's his shyness which doesn't let the character to have a social bond with someone he perhaps like a lot.
But the character doesn't want to go out. He aspire something more intimal. That makes him even more loneliness (It's so recurrent in Morrissey's lyrics). He complains for being so shy, what doesn't take him anywhere, or allows him to love someone. Still he wanna be loved because all the humans need, no matter if he/she doesn't really feel the need
How soon is now and See I've already waited too long
And all my hope is gone incicates us that he's in love with someone who doesn't understand his need for a intimal relationship, while the other person, maybe, is more insterested in going out.

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