I love this song and although Mr Disco's interpretation seen through the viewpoint of the greedy politicians wanting more and more power like a drug is interesting, I think it's more straight forward.
Much like "Irish Blood English Heart" Morrisey is deriding the 'ruling classes' in Britain who are content to keep the working class down and 'in their place'. I love the way the song is so upbeat and jovial. It sounds like a happy song which is very ironic because it is Morrissey at his miserable best!
On a government scheme
Designed to kill your dream
Oh mum, oh dad
Once poor, always poor
I think tinfoil really hit it on the head with the suggestion that the Interesting Drug is a play on the idea of an anti-depressant, to combat the actual economic depression in the 1980s. It sounds like Britain was a miserable place to live in at the time (I was too young to know) and the only way to escape the poverty and depression was with an Interesting Drug of some sort.
Morrissey is obviously of the opinion that Thatcher was doing a shabby job of running the country. Morrissey came from a working class Irish immigrant family and he always managed to paint a dreary, mundane and depressing picture of 1980s Britain. He doesn't blame working class people (or himself) for turning to drugs or medication to escape their surroundings, he blames the people in power for messing everything up. Sounds like a pretty familiar theme these days...
You wonder why we're only half-ashamed?
"Because ENOUGH is TOO MUCH!
...and look around ...
...can you blame us ? CAN you blame us
I love this song and although Mr Disco's interpretation seen through the viewpoint of the greedy politicians wanting more and more power like a drug is interesting, I think it's more straight forward.
Much like "Irish Blood English Heart" Morrisey is deriding the 'ruling classes' in Britain who are content to keep the working class down and 'in their place'. I love the way the song is so upbeat and jovial. It sounds like a happy song which is very ironic because it is Morrissey at his miserable best!
On a government scheme Designed to kill your dream Oh mum, oh dad Once poor, always poor
I think tinfoil really hit it on the head with the suggestion that the Interesting Drug is a play on the idea of an anti-depressant, to combat the actual economic depression in the 1980s. It sounds like Britain was a miserable place to live in at the time (I was too young to know) and the only way to escape the poverty and depression was with an Interesting Drug of some sort.
Morrissey is obviously of the opinion that Thatcher was doing a shabby job of running the country. Morrissey came from a working class Irish immigrant family and he always managed to paint a dreary, mundane and depressing picture of 1980s Britain. He doesn't blame working class people (or himself) for turning to drugs or medication to escape their surroundings, he blames the people in power for messing everything up. Sounds like a pretty familiar theme these days...
You wonder why we're only half-ashamed? "Because ENOUGH is TOO MUCH! ...and look around ... ...can you blame us ? CAN you blame us