It's Not Your Birthday Anymore Lyrics

Lyric discussion by ramshotel 

Cover art for It's Not Your Birthday Anymore lyrics by Morrissey

duffo, could be about a rape within a marriage type thing. nice interpretation, hadnt considered that before.

exactly, it's obviously about abuse within a family (whether wife or daughter is the victim). It feels to me like ; "now that the guests are gone, lets get back to business" and sex on the floor is more brutal love than sweet love... nothing "awww" about that (referring to Batsygirl) and morrissey has never really been the "awww"-kinda guy :)

I suspect this is not between consenting adults. That's based on the line "Cannot be given" meaning "ignore all the codes of the day".

That last quoted verse is from "Stretch Out And Wait", another beautiful song (from the Smiths) about the same topic - child molestation.

Note: I suspect these refer to ugly experiences in his youth.

But then, who knows? I love this man.