Lyric discussion by Kvaak kvaak 

Cover art for William, It Was Really Nothing lyrics by Smiths, The

This could be about how William is a bi/gay man who Morrissey finds attractive and is jealous to the fat girl William is with. Or it could be an anti-marriage song also. Anyway it seems to me that Morrissey is telling to William to live his life and not to marry the girl unless he really wants it. It could be also that "it WAS really nothing" and "it WAS your life" mean that now William is dead and he never really lived. ...ord maybe the chorus has double meaning: maybe Morrissey (or the narrator of the song, which probably isn't Morrissey) and William had a homosexual act or something like that and now Morrissey is telling to William: "That was nothing, forget that!" But then Morrissey also says: "That was your life", meaning that that was really an important and William should really live his life the way he wants to...

precisely,and he also try to explain to his friend he might have embraced such a boring relationship because their town is somewhat depressive and he just wanted someone to be with: "The rain falls hard on a humdrum town this town has dragged you down" at the same he says he doesn't want to sound as if he's butting in his friends' live: "And everybody's got to live their life and God knows I've got to live mine"

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