I see the song title as more of a snub,(think of it in terms of "you said it, sister" not directed at one's own sister!) the narrator is telling society at large how superior he is, when in fact he is the lonely poet that roams the town and encounters all those who think he is truly an idiot, a nobody to them. But he still walks around feeling, knowing, that he is superior, passing the prison gates, dreaming of the romance of crime, poetic head in the clouds. The part about evil being something you are or something you do, being directed at himself. I always found it important that in the song itself the word "poet" is never mentioned, as if a dirty word in this lads town. If you know an ounce of Morrissey backround you would be lead to believe that this, as well as almost all other Morrissey material, is autobiographical.
I see the song title as more of a snub,(think of it in terms of "you said it, sister" not directed at one's own sister!) the narrator is telling society at large how superior he is, when in fact he is the lonely poet that roams the town and encounters all those who think he is truly an idiot, a nobody to them. But he still walks around feeling, knowing, that he is superior, passing the prison gates, dreaming of the romance of crime, poetic head in the clouds. The part about evil being something you are or something you do, being directed at himself. I always found it important that in the song itself the word "poet" is never mentioned, as if a dirty word in this lads town. If you know an ounce of Morrissey backround you would be lead to believe that this, as well as almost all other Morrissey material, is autobiographical.