Love this song and the lyrics. Morrissey does a wonderful job of charicturing a middle-aged man and his life- reading meaningless news, an ineffectual person whose only value to his household is to bring home money, looking after his parents etc. He uses his criticim about the teenage boy living next to him as an outlet for his anger and frustration about his own pointless life, when in fact the boy is actually happier than he is despite his relative poverty and recovery from drug abuse.
Love this song and the lyrics. Morrissey does a wonderful job of charicturing a middle-aged man and his life- reading meaningless news, an ineffectual person whose only value to his household is to bring home money, looking after his parents etc. He uses his criticim about the teenage boy living next to him as an outlet for his anger and frustration about his own pointless life, when in fact the boy is actually happier than he is despite his relative poverty and recovery from drug abuse.