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| Magazine – Permafrost Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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"I will drug you..."
Ultimate pick-up line, conversation starter and way to charm the pants off a girl. |
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| Kirsty MacColl – You Just Haven't Earned It Yet Baby Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I disagree, FilibusterMan. This is a cover of a The Smiths song, and as far as I can remember, "You Just haven't earned it yet, baby" was bespoken by one of Morrissey's superiors to him. Morrissey doesn't have great deal of respect for his superiors.
"You just havent earned it yet" is a type of excuse given to you when you try hard, and fail, as a sort of logical explanation for your failure; akin to "well you must be doing something wrong".
This song is also sung in retrospective from the perspective of a successful artist (today i am rembering the time), to show how wrong their bosses were in telling them that they didn't deserve success. |
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| Blur – Charmless Man Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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It's quite obviously about Brett... if you listen to the song sung live, Damon sings: "and HE goes: nanananana...", which is a perfect imitation of how Brett Andersen usually sings. |
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| The Smiths – Paint a Vulgar Picture Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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What I love most about this song is how it takes a sad theme, a sad situation, and makes a beautiful and uplifting song. You see the same in There Is A Light. This meta-song illustrates how music lifts you up, how you "dance your legs down to the knees", even as "me and my true love wil never meet again". |
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| Morrissey – You're The One For Me, Fatty Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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also, i really don't think this has anything to do with "some girls are bigger than others". "Some girls" is about girls with big knockers, which is much more plausible for Morrissey to just have discovered.
Also, from a live performance of "Some girls":
on the shop floor, there's a calendar
as obvious as snow
as if we didn't know
which hints at porno magazines, which contains girls with... you guessed it. |
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| Morrissey – You're The One For Me, Fatty Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I don't really understand it. Is he making fun of fat people? He has before (William, it was really nothing, Dagenam Dave), and characterised troubled people in his songs as being "skinny" (Shakespeare's sister), and self-absorbent people as being fat (How can you stay with a fat girl who says... I don't dream about anyone, except myself). I'm sorry I can't think of more examples, but there are many of them. So it seems like in this song he is sort of giving up his search for the perfect person, and chosing the "fat girl" from William it was really nothing. |
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| The Smiths – Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I really don't think this is about obesity anymore, but about breast size. During live performances he often sings:
on the shop floor, there's a calendar
as obvious as snow
as if we didn't know
Girls with big knockers in calendars? |
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| Morrissey – Sweetie Pie Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I don't know quite what to say.. it seems like he is going in a new direction, which isn't altogether bad. Ballad-direction. Although this is only one song. Reminds me of "I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday". Which was just one song too. |
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| Morrissey – Alsatian Cousin Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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this is about teacher romance. I mean, leather elbows, Friday in the forcourt (when the students go home), desk... and it's funny, because you don't usually think about two teachers at a school as a very romantic setting, but Morrissey makes it so, especially through his (voyeuristic) jealousy/amusement. |
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| Morrissey – Mexico Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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It's a rather trite topic, but I suppose that isn't his fault. However, he does pen it quite eloquently. |
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| The Smiths – Suffer Little Children Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This is from The Decay of Lying, Morrissey's favourite Wilde story:
"One of the greatest tragedies of my life is the death of Lucien de Rubempré. It is a grief from which I have never been able completely to rid myself. It haunts me in my moments of pleasure. I remember it when I laugh. " |
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| Morrissey – Michael's Bones Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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this song seems to be about suicide, and all the taboos surrounding it. "you are too brave" is the glorification of suicide, while "oh look what he's done" is the very opposite. Don't understand the policeman bit. Seems like Michael, unkissed and luckless, drowns himself |
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| The Smiths – Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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People say that this song is obvious and self-explanatory. So I thought, some girls are fatter than others. But the idea that it's about breast-size makes more sense, with "there is but one concern". So, what is the "obvious" answer? |
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| Fool's Garden – Lemon Tree Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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And of course, the lemon tree is symbolic for bitter reality. Sort of reminiscent of "when life gives you lemons, make lemonade" |
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| Morrissey – At Amber Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This could be compared with November Spawned a Monster. Except here the invalid person has a more active role - where Morrissey distances himself from the invalid in NSaM and shows us one view, here the invalid confronts Morrissey... heavy irony. |
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| The Smiths – I Won't Share You Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I haven't bothered reading the whole part about Marr and his wife.
To me, it speaks about someone you can't have, and the sad and ironic "I won't share you", as if you actually had a say... Life tends to come and go means two things to me. 1: I may not love you forever, and 2: you may love me someday. I'll see you somewhere, I'll see you sometime, seems so appropriate |
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| The Smiths – Vicar in a Tutu Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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The funny thing is, some vicars (at least in the old days) wear a tutu-looking like thing around their necks. Except it's small and white. So the irony is a bit truthful too :p |
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| Morrissey – Our Frank Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I have to agree that he's talking to himself. I think that I can see why Kill Uncle was so badly received, but coincidentially, this is the song I am most able to recognize myself in. From the chorus of the end, it's obvious (to me) that he's feeling despair at NEVER BEING ABLE TO STOP THINKING about "deep and meaningful" things, that don't help him, and don't seem to mean anything either... |
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