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| Morrissey – Dear God, Please Help Me Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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While I do think that the lyrics probably are meant to be as much a love song to Rome, I also think that they are quite literally about the redemptive and transformative power of finally being able to shed the guilt about one's sexuality, let someone get that close to you, fulfill the desires that have been locked inside of you, unfulfilled for so long. It's about falling in love and allowing yourself to experience physical pleasure and intimacy without self-loathing, maybe for the first time. So many of you don't want to acknowledge that it's actually about sex at all. Are you uncomfortable because he's obviously talking about a man? I'm so glad he had the strength to write and sing this song as it stands. The vulnerability of human need, craving for closeness, the peace of coming to terms with who you are, so lovely and sweet. I wish he had done it in concert last night. So many people, especially Americans, view sex as something vulgar and base, or are uncomfortable when confronted by it, or find it unworthy as a topic for art, instead of a very basic, deep, sacred part of our lives, essential to our well-being as people to experience that kind of intimacy. |
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| Morrissey – You Have Killed Me Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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You, my darlings, are killing ME. Haven't you listed to "Dear God, Please Help Me?" "He motions to me, with his hand on my knee..." Morrissey has found a boyfriend in Rome, not a woman. Also, the posters above are right about Pasolini, who was tragically killed by a male hustler (and an amazing artist.) Morrissey has been quoted as not wanting to be pigeonholed in his sexuality as "gay" or "straight", which I can respect, but the person I think he's talking about on this album is a man. And I also think it's lovely that he's found love and some measure of happiness. |
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