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Scandinavia Lyrics
Crime in Trondheim;
I despise each syllable in "Scandinavia".
Let the people burn,
Let their children cry and die in blind asylum.
But then you came along,
And you held out your hand,
And I fell in love with you and Scandinavia.
I kiss the soil,
I hug the soil,
I would eat the soil,
And I praise the god who made you.
Stab me in your own time in Scandinavia.
Uncomplaining I'd die in Scandinavia.
I despise each syllable in "Scandinavia".
Let the people burn,
Let their children cry and die in blind asylum.
And you held out your hand,
And I fell in love with you and Scandinavia.
I hug the soil,
I would eat the soil,
And I praise the god who made you.
Uncomplaining I'd die in Scandinavia.
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This is one of Morrissey's most profound and poetic songs. Its first stanza is an allusion to political correctness - replace the locations with African locales:
"Crime in Uganda; I despise each syllable in "Africa". Let the people burn, Let their children cry and die in blind asylum."
But Morrissey knows he can't be called racist for maligning Scandinavia.
"And I praise the god who made you. Stab me in your own time in Scandinavia. Uncomplaining I'd die in Scandinavia."
This is a racial acknowledgment. Morrissey is saying "Thank god for Nordic peoples!" Further, he acknowledges their racial superiority over he himself, as an Irish / English Celt, with the line "Stab me in your own time in Scandinavia."
How the Hell did you interpret this song as a neo-Nazi call to eugenics? Serious misinterpretation here...
How the Hell did you interpret this song as a neo-Nazi call to eugenics? Serious misinterpretation here...
Although it is very ambiguous, on first listen I thought it may have had some reference to the pureness of the Scandinavian race. Which is what brought me to here to see what others thought.
Although it is very ambiguous, on first listen I thought it may have had some reference to the pureness of the Scandinavian race. Which is what brought me to here to see what others thought.
I hope the comment above was intended as a joke. Morrissey is not racist. It refers directly to the Swedish national Anthem, wich has the words " I want to live and I want to die in Scandinavia (Norden)"
I hope the comment above was intended as a joke. Morrissey is not racist. It refers directly to the Swedish national Anthem, wich has the words " I want to live and I want to die in Scandinavia (Norden)"
"Pinned to a crime"... someone who is angry of an inujstice to him. Ranting about how he despise the country. Then finds love in this country, and changes his views. I think it also refers to accused Swedish "serial killer" Tomas Quick, who was in fact pinned to a lot of murders in Norway, but was completely innocent. In our mythology,...
"Pinned to a crime"... someone who is angry of an inujstice to him. Ranting about how he despise the country. Then finds love in this country, and changes his views. I think it also refers to accused Swedish "serial killer" Tomas Quick, who was in fact pinned to a lot of murders in Norway, but was completely innocent.
In our mythology, especially Eddan, forgiveness didn't exist, there were raids and burning of villages and children and curses similiar to this all over, that part probably refers to that.
Morrissey's song Scandinavia is about the 2011 attacks in Norway , precisely the summer run camp in the Oslo region on July 22 , 2011 that claimed the lives of 77 people……….
Morrissey's song Scandinavia is about the 2011 attacks in Norway , precisely the summer run camp in the Oslo region on July 22 , 2011 that claimed the lives of 77 people……….
@cinesis do you seriously think Morrissey cares if people call him racist? He's not, but he's spoken out loudly about enough controversial stuff that he obviously doesn't care what people think of him. That comment, in my mind, discredits the rest of your opinion, as it is the only basis for your thoughts.
@cinesis do you seriously think Morrissey cares if people call him racist? He's not, but he's spoken out loudly about enough controversial stuff that he obviously doesn't care what people think of him. That comment, in my mind, discredits the rest of your opinion, as it is the only basis for your thoughts.
While the other theories are rather interesting, but maybe Moz saw the beginning of the mass emigration from Islamic nations to Sweden and Norway and wrote this--the hatred of the culture, the violent imagery, the elements of racism, "pinned to a crime," etc.
I also see some unhinged, unstable behavior in the extreme flights of emotion from cursing a nation to the worship of its very soil through the process of a single person holding out their hand.
To me it's rather a fatalistic love song from a doomed emigrant to a cold country...in some ways it reminds me of "There is a Light" in it's wild passion mixed with death-obsessed doom.
But maybe I'm using hindsight. YMMV.