submissions
| The Smiths – I Know It's Over Lyrics
| 21 years ago
|
|
It's about an imagined relationship. The protagonist never really had a real relationship with the bride. But it hurts that she is marrying someone else just the same because he cannot live in hope anymore. |
submissions
| The Smiths – How Soon Is Now? Lyrics
| 21 years ago
|
I agree this is a universal song and not specific to gay life. Straight people find relationships difficult as well, else why would there be so many single people in the world?
I think the lines:
I am the son
And the heir
Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and heir
Of nothing in particular
are also to do with how your upbringing affects you in later life. Working class people tend to be brought up with less confidence because they get less opportunities in life. So you can inherit shyness which people with more priviledges can look down on. |
submissions
| The Smiths – Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others Lyrics
| 21 years ago
|
I think just the way Morrissey sings this song on the record is so tender. He makes the lyrics mean so much more than they seem to at first glance. It's almost like a love song to women as a whole.
Some stupid people think the lyrics are too silly to go with Marr's music. These people have no soul. |
submissions
| The Smiths – Still Ill Lyrics
| 21 years ago
|
|
I read somewhere that this song was about his thoughts on the punk era and how it was hard to hold onto those values. |
submissions
| The Smiths – Half a Person Lyrics
| 21 years ago
|
I think it's him realising that no matter how famous and rich he is going to get it's not actually going to change his life. He'll always be 16, clumsy and shy.
In fact, his success has managed to alienate him from people who might have liked him in the past. It's increased his isolation when he thought it would make his life better. |
submissions
| The Smiths – Death of a Disco Dancer Lyrics
| 21 years ago
|
I think it's just being critical of the sort of "hippie" mentality in a lot of music in the sixties and seventies that like to pretend they were all about peace and love but when it came down to it everyone just looked after themselves.
I think he is just criticising the sentimentality of some pop songs like "Imagine" for example. |
submissions
| The Smiths – Girlfriend in a Coma Lyrics
| 21 years ago
|
I think its meant to be a boyfriend who is fed up with his girlfriend and is secretly relieved that she is in a Coma because it means he might be rid of her without having to ditch her. At the same time he has to pretend to care.
Very black humour. |
submissions
| Morrissey – The Last Of The Famous International Playboys Lyrics
| 21 years ago
|
|
Some people read this song as glamorising the Krays. I think it does the opposite. He is criticising the media's glamorisation of such figures that encourages naive kids to try and be "hard" like them and end up ruining their lives because of it. |
submissions
| Morrissey – The Boy Racer Lyrics
| 21 years ago
|
It reminds me of the flash kids you knew at school who were only interested in their cars and girlfriends.
I can imagine Morrissey hating them and being jealous of them at the same time because he was too poor and shy to be like them and he thought they were beneath him because they were unintelligent. |
submissions
| Morrissey – Piccadilly Palare Lyrics
| 21 years ago
|
I think in some ways this is a metaphor for the Smiths. They were a "gang" who had their own language.
I especially think the line "Oh, I secretly knew
That I hadn't a clue" refers to him starting out in the music business. The song is comparing his situation with naive young kids who come down to London and end up selling their bodies. |
submissions
| Morrissey – At Amber Lyrics
| 21 years ago
|
|
Seeing himself as disabled. Some disabilities aren't as obvious as others. Social disabilites (like shyness) can stop you getting the most out of life just as much as physical disabilities. |
submissions
| Morrissey – Irish Blood, English Heart Lyrics
| 21 years ago
|
|
I think he is basically saying the rulers of this country, whether they be Oliver Cromwell, the Royals, Labour or Tories, are all part of the same system. They are the ruling class and their main purpose is to keep the "people" in their place. That's why he says that the Royals still salute Cromwell because they are carrying on his legacy (especially in Ireland). |
submissions
| Morrissey – We'll Let You Know Lyrics
| 21 years ago
|
It's a critique of the mentality of the football hooligan.
He's being very sarcastic in this song. Repeating the excuses football hooligans always give in the media. A lot of football hooligans have connections to the right wing and sing anti Irish songs. Hence the line "And the songs we sing
They're not supposed to mean a thing". Just by the way he sings it Morrissey is making it clear that these songs aren't just a bit of fun. Being Irish himself, he'd be more sensitive to the type of hate conveyed in some football songs. |
* This information can be up to 15 minutes delayed.
