I am the son
And the heir
Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and heir
Of nothing in particular
You shut your mouth
How can you say
I go about things the wrong way?
I am human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does
I am the son
And the heir
Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and heir
Of nothing in particular
You shut your mouth
How can you say
I go about things the wrong way?
I am human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does
There's a club if you'd like to go
You could meet somebody who really loves you
So you go and you stand on your own
And you leave on your own
And you go home and you cry
And you want to die
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
See I've already waited too long
And all my hope is gone
You shut your mouth
How can you say
I go about things the wrong way?
I am human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does
And the heir
Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and heir
Of nothing in particular
You shut your mouth
How can you say
I go about things the wrong way?
I am human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does
I am the son
And the heir
Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and heir
Of nothing in particular
You shut your mouth
How can you say
I go about things the wrong way?
I am human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does
There's a club if you'd like to go
You could meet somebody who really loves you
So you go and you stand on your own
And you leave on your own
And you go home and you cry
And you want to die
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
See I've already waited too long
And all my hope is gone
You shut your mouth
How can you say
I go about things the wrong way?
I am human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does
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"I am the son
and the heir
of a shyness that is criminally vulgar"
I'm a product of my own shyness. What you see now, my behaviour now, is the consequence of years and years of shyness and being scared to deal with people.
"I am the son and the heir
of nothing in particular"
But it's nothing important, really. Just like me.
"You shut your mouth
how can you say
I go about things the wrong way
I am human and I need to be loved
just like everybody else does"
This is towards the people who are always giving me advice about how to get women
and tell me what I'm doing doesn't work, that I need to do such and such.
But then, I want people who love me for who I am, not who I appear to be.
Who are they to tell me my methods are wrong?
"There's a club if you'd like to go
you could meet somebody who really loves you
so you go, and you stand on your own
and you leave on your own
and you go home, and you cry
and you want to die"
This is really self explanatory (and highly biographical for me...)
I go to a club, which is supposedly the dating scene or whatever, but then
nobody really gives a shit about me and I'm too self-conscious to start dancing
because I've tried it before and only made a fool out myself.
So I stand there alone. Then I go home. Cry. Want to die.
"When you say it's gonna happen "now"
well, when exactly do you mean?
see I've already waited too long
and all my hope is gone"
People are always telling me that "oh you'll find someone one of these days"
Yeah, but when? I'm tired of looking and always come up with empty disappointment.
Nobody's interested in me and the girls I get interested in don't really care about me.
So I think I won't get anyone, cause when I really really want it to happen, it never does.
(Here's when I start listening to "Please please please, let me get what I want")
I like your meaning but want to add my thoughts on this sentence:
I am the son refers to nature. I am the heir refers to nurture. Basically they recognize what mother nature has given them and what they were taught (inherited). They are saying both nature and nurture has made them into this person who they are.
I am the son and heir of nothing in particular means they don't stick out because of anything nature or how they were raised sticks out.
I am human and I need to be loved is dismissing everything nature and nurture did and gets to the very basic of what every human needs: Love.
Here's a tip - it's probably the way you think about women that turns them off you. 'Getting women' and 'methods'... women aren't objects for you to 'obtain' by some tried and true pulling method. How about conceptualising them as whole human beings with their own dreams and hopes and insecurities and getting to know them first without an ulterior motive to get in their pants..that might get you somewhere.
It's extremely prejudice of you to assume the singer is the teller and the object of the singer is the opposite gender. Most (if not all) the songs were genderless and inherently ambiguous for ANY listener to relate to. I also feel justified in thinking the author would also validate/agree with my answer to you
The song is hauntingly beautiful.
now it makes me want to cry hearing it.
to me it's about social anxiety or shyness, and the inability to make friends. people always tell you the reason you can't make friends is because you don't go out and try to meet people. but i want someone to love me for the shy person i am, not the person i have to pretend to be to talk to people. everyone always says "it'll happen eventually," and my family wants me to just hurry up and find someone. so oi try to go out, but nothing changes. nothing ever changes. i go home and cry about it, because i know it'll always be that way. everyone acts like i'll magically stop being shy, but i accept the fact that i won't.
this song's very personal to me now that i think about it
ive always not really liked this song, 'cause it's their most popular and i thought it was overrated
but now i really really love it
Of course, art can be interpreted in different ways and I do see the gay side now. I suppose that what I wrote could be true regardless of Morrissey's sexuality.
- You're unconfident, socially awkward (i.e. 'shyness that is criminally vulgar') and aren't from some massively rich background or anything that might otherwise compensate
- You vent your frustration at the fact you're still single and lonely but your friends condescendingly tell you that it's because of your attitude, but even if they might be right, you don't want to hear it because you know you deserve to be loved; to you it's a basic right
- People seem to hook up with other people at bars and clubs etc, so you go there but you feel awkward, intimidated and/or alienated and as you see everyone else making out and enjoying themselves, you go home and feel utter despair (or some variant on that scenario)
- Friends say "oh don't worry, you're bound to find someone" but after all these years still, nothing, and it feels like all hope is lost
Well, when exactly do you mean ?
See I've already waited too long
And all my hope is gone
It really doesnt get any better than those lines right there! This is such an awsome song!
Reporter: Did you hear Tatu's version of How soon is now?
Moz: Yes, it was magnificent. Absolutely. Again. I don't know much about them.
Reporter:. they're the teenage Russian lesbians.
Moz: well aren't we all.