Re: 'on the right' v 'on the rise'. It's a deliberate pun. The video has 'on the right' written on a wall, in the song lyrics he clearly sings 'rise'. I suppose it's a way of commenting on the rise of the Conservative right (though in Britain at the time, the right had risen to its height).
I assume the interesting drug is money and power for the people at the top. The complaint among the British left has always been that the pro-corporate right tread on the rest of the people for their own personal gain.
It's a common Morrissey trick to sing different lines of one song as different characters. Here I think 'Look around... can you blame us?' is satirising the fake innocence of the rich. Despite what they do to other people, they still think they deserve sympathy.
Re: 'on the right' v 'on the rise'. It's a deliberate pun. The video has 'on the right' written on a wall, in the song lyrics he clearly sings 'rise'. I suppose it's a way of commenting on the rise of the Conservative right (though in Britain at the time, the right had risen to its height).
I assume the interesting drug is money and power for the people at the top. The complaint among the British left has always been that the pro-corporate right tread on the rest of the people for their own personal gain.
It's a common Morrissey trick to sing different lines of one song as different characters. Here I think 'Look around... can you blame us?' is satirising the fake innocence of the rich. Despite what they do to other people, they still think they deserve sympathy.