as I said before, I've never believed it was about Johnny Marr, and it seems even less probable now after reading this information from Simon Goddard's "Songs That Saved Your Life":
"For a start, there's a clue in the first verse where Morrissey stipulates gender ('the note I wrote as she read') which could of course be a red herring. Until, that is, one considers a rarely seen sleeve note which Morrissey wrote in the winter of 1985 for a retrospective of Linder Sterling's band Ludus. The album, scheduled for release on the Belgian Crepuscule label, was cancelled. The complimentary text was, therefore, never made public. But viewed in the contexr of 'I Won't Share You' penned eighteen months later, its last sentence - a veritable carbon copy of the song' departing cry - now seems quite a revelation.
'Oh Linder. Oh Linder. I will see you sometime, somewhere.' "
as I said before, I've never believed it was about Johnny Marr, and it seems even less probable now after reading this information from Simon Goddard's "Songs That Saved Your Life":
"For a start, there's a clue in the first verse where Morrissey stipulates gender ('the note I wrote as she read') which could of course be a red herring. Until, that is, one considers a rarely seen sleeve note which Morrissey wrote in the winter of 1985 for a retrospective of Linder Sterling's band Ludus. The album, scheduled for release on the Belgian Crepuscule label, was cancelled. The complimentary text was, therefore, never made public. But viewed in the contexr of 'I Won't Share You' penned eighteen months later, its last sentence - a veritable carbon copy of the song' departing cry - now seems quite a revelation.
'Oh Linder. Oh Linder. I will see you sometime, somewhere.' "