Now My Heart Is Full

Like all great and ambiguous songs, the meaning might change for you a number of times throughout life. Right now for me, it's a message to all those you love who are too concerned with their own selfish minutia to notice how desperate and over-taxed you are by their life drama and/or demands. It's what you say right before you split the whole program and leave them to fend for themselves with a parting word of advice and a deft but vague excuse...

As we all can see, Moz name a few fiction characters here, some of them belong to Brighton Rock as I read a few comments ago. He also talks about bad communication with people he love "in the house" (family, probably). So it seems to me that hes talking about loneliness, and feeling good about it. He prefers to be alone, the books are his friends and he doesn't even want to try and explain that to a society that points a finger to every anti-social person that exists.

Dallow, Spicer, Pinkie, Cubitt -characters in Brighton Rock by Grahame Greene (later made into Morrissey's favourite film)

It's about when the person you love goes and gets married to someone else behind your back.

since high school i wondered who dallow, spicer, pinkie & cubitt were...they are characters from brighton rock which i recently saw. i always thought that the song was about someone contemplating suicide at a dysfunctional family get together, but with the reference to brighton rock, it's probably more to do with that. i thought maybe it was from rose's point of view, but then again she wasnt really friends with pinkie's friends as far as i know.

It's about suicide, isn't it? It took me a year to figure that out...

It's about suicide? I don't get it blush.

It is a hunch but I think the "Bunny" in the song makes reference to a tragic character from Donna Tarts "The Secret History". The book was released only a year or two before Vauxhall & I came out, a brilliant book by the way. The inclusion of Bunny when taken in context with the rest of the song also seems to make sense to me. There are parallels with the clique in Brighton Rock and the Secret History; both turn muderous and attempt to oust those that most threaten them. Bunny ultimately bears the brunt of these tensions and is killed by the rest of the gang. It is a character for some reason I think Morrissey would associate with.

I never really thought about this song being about suicide. Although I do agree that it seems to be about the characters in Brighton Rock don't you ever find yourself falling in love and being swept away by a book or a movie or even a song? In my opinion this song is about that experience. In fact when I listen to this song, it happens to me...

It's not sad. It's great.