uh morrissey is a good songwriter and all, but he was hardly the first person to use the phrase "thorn in his side" which is a common figure-of-speech. odd how people will seize upon a single word in a song and extrapolate endlessly, ignoring everything else. if it were "the boy with a chip on his shoulder" we'd get dissertations on whether he was writing about barkdust or chocolate chip cookies.
uh morrissey is a good songwriter and all, but he was hardly the first person to use the phrase "thorn in his side" which is a common figure-of-speech. odd how people will seize upon a single word in a song and extrapolate endlessly, ignoring everything else. if it were "the boy with a chip on his shoulder" we'd get dissertations on whether he was writing about barkdust or chocolate chip cookies.