Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
I was a good kid,
I wouldn't do you no harm,
I was a nice kid, With a nice paper round
Forgive me any pain,
I may have brung to you,
With God's help I know,
I'll always be near to you
But Jesus hurt me,
When he deserted me, but, I have forgiven you Jesus
For all the desire,
You placed in me when there's nothing I can do with this desire
I was a good kid,
Through hail and snow,
I'd go just to moon you,
I carried my heart in my hand
Do you understand, Do you understand
But Jesus hurt me,
When he deserted me, but, I have forgiven you Jesus
For all of the love,
You placed in me when there's no one I can turn to with this love
Monday - humiliation,
Tuesday - suffocation,
Wednesday - condescension,
Thursday - is pathetic
By Friday life has killed me,
By Friday life has killed me,
Oh pretty one, Oh pretty one
Why did you give me so much desire,
When there is nowhere I can go to offload this desire?
And why did you give me so much love in a loveless world,
When there is no one I can turn to
To unlock all this love?
And why did you stick in self deprecating bones and skin?,
Jesus do you hate me?
Why did you stick in self deprecating bones and skin?
Do you hate me?, Do you hate me?, Do you hate me?, Do you hate me?, Do you hate me?
I wouldn't do you no harm,
I was a nice kid, With a nice paper round
Forgive me any pain,
I may have brung to you,
With God's help I know,
I'll always be near to you
But Jesus hurt me,
When he deserted me, but, I have forgiven you Jesus
For all the desire,
You placed in me when there's nothing I can do with this desire
I was a good kid,
Through hail and snow,
I'd go just to moon you,
I carried my heart in my hand
Do you understand, Do you understand
But Jesus hurt me,
When he deserted me, but, I have forgiven you Jesus
For all of the love,
You placed in me when there's no one I can turn to with this love
Monday - humiliation,
Tuesday - suffocation,
Wednesday - condescension,
Thursday - is pathetic
By Friday life has killed me,
By Friday life has killed me,
Oh pretty one, Oh pretty one
Why did you give me so much desire,
When there is nowhere I can go to offload this desire?
And why did you give me so much love in a loveless world,
When there is no one I can turn to
To unlock all this love?
And why did you stick in self deprecating bones and skin?,
Jesus do you hate me?
Why did you stick in self deprecating bones and skin?
Do you hate me?, Do you hate me?, Do you hate me?, Do you hate me?, Do you hate me?
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I don't think it's necessarily about sex. It's about wanting to start the day with some love and affection. Maybe a warm cuddle. I'm not alone in interpreting it that way! For example:
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It's a weak platform, but the video clears up the tone of the lyrics. He's dressed as an adherent of faith while those menacingly trailing him are dressed otherwise. In this contrast is exposed the difference between them: Morrissey is the one that speaks of those things that Jesus has shown him while the others stand in for the loveless world he must suffer.
On an initial read-through, this part: "I was a good kid through hail and snow I'd go just to moon you I carried my heart in my hand"
...made me consider, 1) what person is going out in inclement weather to show off his bare arse, and 2) where is one's hand when they moon someone....that's right...ON THEIR CROTCH...that's the "heart" in his hand. Intentional? Cheeky?
The use of specific terms and phrases are almost always rather stark for a purpose in songs which is to focus on a particular concept and then a shade of that. Try not to extract too much that isn't initially hammered out in the lyrics. This song is merely about wanting love in a culture that has stamped it out...look, he even said that there in the middle. Start with the stated specifics and then branch out...not the other way around. There's a shade concerning decay and the ever-present boundary of death that lilikoi stated with which I agree. One step further in that direction would bring issue with the lover being able to forgive "Jesus" for both in giving life he insured death whereas the others aren't able to "forgive" these circumstances and so can't move past them to begin loving. "Morrissey" knows what's coming and so wants to live/love with the pain rather than numb himself by living a flatline... a long full walk off a sloping pier into the sea of oblivion. The last number of iterations of "do you hate me?" aren't a question "Morrissey" is asking as positing for the sake of the manner of the issue's presentation; it's that Jesus loves him and so gave him this gift of knowing love and the ability to recognize this vast chasm between those that do love and those that don't love. I suppose it is a well chosen question...thinking about it now... it's really quite tragic.
The whole last phrase beginning with "oh pretty one" could be the focus of his brand of love in that it is not so much tied up in the physical material part of things that perhaps he's alluding to that others are wrapped up in but it's the, for lack of a better word, "spiritual" beauty felt in the mind/body which is what connects and draws people/things together. It's this sense of the "internal" infrastructure of "pretty" that he is racked with...driven by the "spiritual", the desire, the emotions as opposed to the solid/material/physical. He's an aesthete.