This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
And as I climb into an empty bed
Oh well. Enough said.
I know it's over - still I cling
I don't know where else I can go
Oh...
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
See, the sea wants to take me
The knife wants to slit me
Do you think you can help me?
Sad veiled bride, please be happy
Handsome groom, give her room
Loud, loutish lover, treat her kindly
(Though she needs you
More than she loves you)
And I know it's over - still I cling
I don't know where else I can go
Over and over and over and over
Over and over, la...
I know it's over
And it never really began
But in my heart it was so real
And you even spoke to me, and said :
"If you're so funny
Then why are you on your own tonight ?
And if you're so clever
Then why are you on your own tonight ?
If you're so very entertaining
Then why are you on your own tonight ?
If you're so very good-looking
Why do you sleep alone tonight ?
I know...
'Cause tonight is just like any other night
That's why you're on your own tonight
With your triumphs and your charms
While they're in each other's arms..."
It's so easy to laugh
It's so easy to hate
It takes strength to be gentle and kind
Over, over, over, over
It's so easy to laugh
It's so easy to hate
It takes guts to be gentle and kind
Over, over
Love is natural and real
But not for you, my love
Not tonight, my love
Love is natural and real
But not for such as you and I, my love
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my ...
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
Oh Mother, I can even feel the soil falling over my head
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my...
And as I climb into an empty bed
Oh well. Enough said.
I know it's over - still I cling
I don't know where else I can go
Oh...
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
See, the sea wants to take me
The knife wants to slit me
Do you think you can help me?
Sad veiled bride, please be happy
Handsome groom, give her room
Loud, loutish lover, treat her kindly
(Though she needs you
More than she loves you)
And I know it's over - still I cling
I don't know where else I can go
Over and over and over and over
Over and over, la...
I know it's over
And it never really began
But in my heart it was so real
And you even spoke to me, and said :
"If you're so funny
Then why are you on your own tonight ?
And if you're so clever
Then why are you on your own tonight ?
If you're so very entertaining
Then why are you on your own tonight ?
If you're so very good-looking
Why do you sleep alone tonight ?
I know...
'Cause tonight is just like any other night
That's why you're on your own tonight
With your triumphs and your charms
While they're in each other's arms..."
It's so easy to laugh
It's so easy to hate
It takes strength to be gentle and kind
Over, over, over, over
It's so easy to laugh
It's so easy to hate
It takes guts to be gentle and kind
Over, over
Love is natural and real
But not for you, my love
Not tonight, my love
Love is natural and real
But not for such as you and I, my love
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my ...
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
Oh Mother, I can even feel the soil falling over my head
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my...
Lyrics submitted by weezerific:cutlery
I Know It's Over Lyrics as written by Johnny Marr Steven Morrissey
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Royalty Network, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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None of the stuff in this song actually happens. There is no bride, no heartbreak, no hateful chides. Morrissey, as we all know, would never put himself into such a position. He is above such experiences. The very idea of Morrissey running to his mother, with the world crashing around his ears, because of a relationship, is patently ridiculous. He has issued himself against such pain. He had expressed this clearly in other songs. 'Enough said'.
He is not talking about his heartbreak, he is talking about ours. Relationships (he specifically describes a male-female relationship) are not for Morrissey because they are doomed to failure. The man, the groom, is a 'loud loutish lover'. For him, love is about sex. The woman is somehow sad, even on her wedding day. For her, love is about need and security. Their perspectives don't appear to mesh at all. Concessions will have to be made. Room will have to be given. Kindness will have to be remembered.
Morrissey dips his toe in. He imagines what the end of a short encounter might be like. It never really began because he cannot invest, emotionally. At the end, he is told, essentially, "you are are alone now and you always will be. There is nothing special about you". He describes the pain as being buried, invisible, forgotten. He wants to crystallize this pain, to own it, to ,be it, but he will never experience it. The very existence of this pain is the reason why he can never be loved. He is an artist, a reporter, and a reporter cannot get too involved in his story.
Morrissey is celebrating in his position - being removed from the realities of love and despair just enough to see them from above. From up there he can see the truth of the situation. Pain is beautiful. There is no art without pain.
Just want to say, that is 'insured', not 'issued', in the first paragraph. I have of course missed out the most pivotal line for my interpretation. "Love is natural and real, but not for such as you and I, my love". Who is 'you and I'? Reader and author. Both students of love, but not active participants (if we are following Morrissey's philosophy).
@radioahead <br /> The song is very much about his desire for Wham's George Michael