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| Morrissey – The National Front Disco Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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The National Front Disco. Do you think that The National Front- no forigners, no gays, etc., and taking itself quite seriously, takes kindly being compared to a disco? |
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| Morrissey – Bengali In Platforms Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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The porpose of any true artist/artistic work is to confront people with uncomfortable truths. This is, at its most base level, simply a song about being an outsider. Yes Morrissey uses the allegory of a Bengali trying to visually/physically fit into English society, and yes some rather unthinking people can misinterpert and pounce upon this as un-PC and therefore racist. Given the artist and his promotion of individuality and outsiderness the racist theory loses it punch. Also, the line "life is hard enough when you belong here" to me is so very sympathetic. The narrator has felt that same sting from society that the Bengali is now to feel, ignorance and cruelty know no race, no nationality. Unashamedly one of my favorite Morrissey songs, because it true, life IS hard enough when you belong here. |
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| Morrissey – (I'm) The End Of The Family Line Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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One gets the feeling that there is a shread of desire to continue the family line but that he knows he will not be able to do so. Implying that there is actually no "choice" at all. Of coures it touches on notions of sexuality, so assuming that the narriator's sexuality is the deciding factor, than it would seem that the declaration "the decision is mine" is really just a vain attempt at making oneself feel better, as this is all out of this individual's hands. The nuanced vocal itself lays down this feeling strongly for me. Brilliant- defiance used as a defence mechanism. Classic Morrissey. |
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| Morrissey – November Spawned A Monster Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I think it is rather obvious given Morrissey's famous self loathing streak that this song, and many others, are autobiographical, though making extensive use of metaphore. Clearly he is not a wheelchair confined young girl. This person wonders why they are, for lack of a better term, defective, and dreams of being loved, though they know it will never happen because others view them as having a defect, but more importantly the person in question views themself in this way. I am not physically, or otherwise, disabled. But have always felt exactly this way on the inside. Morrissey taps into that beautifully, as only someone who has personally felt this way could. |
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| Morrissey – Sister I'm A Poet Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I see the song title as more of a snub,(think of it in terms of "you said it, sister" not directed at one's own sister!) the narrator is telling society at large how superior he is, when in fact he is the lonely poet that roams the town and encounters all those who think he is truly an idiot, a nobody to them. But he still walks around feeling, knowing, that he is superior, passing the prison gates, dreaming of the romance of crime, poetic head in the clouds. The part about evil being something you are or something you do, being directed at himself. I always found it important that in the song itself the word "poet" is never mentioned, as if a dirty word in this lads town. If you know an ounce of Morrissey backround you would be lead to believe that this, as well as almost all other Morrissey material, is autobiographical. |
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