Mama Lay Softly on the Riverbed Lyrics

Lyric discussion by PlunderingDesire 

Cover art for Mama Lay Softly on the Riverbed lyrics by Morrissey

This is one of my favourites from the new album. It's passion, anger and revenge with a meandering and thundering musical backdrop.

It's also interesting to note the title- the writer Virginia Woolf commited suidide by jumping into a river with stones in her pockets, and suffered from mental illness throughout her life. This could have been Morrissey's inspiration for the title and for placing it after 'Something Is Squeezing My Skull'. I wouldn't read too much into this, though- it's just an observation which I noticed had also been made by Simon Goddard in 'Mozipedia'.

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