Morrissey is simply talking about the tacky, run down seaside towns of Britain where the beaches are littered with concrete or wooden groynes, where the promenade has an arcade or an ice cream stall, but it just makes it seem so depressing. Where old people go to retire and people steal your clothes off of the bench;)
I think he is expressing the idea that British beaches, especially in England can be very dull places just like those rainy Sundays you had as a child with absolutely nothing to do as every Brit has probably experienced. This is an opinion that I had before I even heard the song.
@Waterfall123 this is absolutely the correct interpretation. Anyone who's been to a small coastal town in northern England knows exactly what this song is about. The speaker is comparing the greyness of everything to the typical weather in these places (which is also very overcast and grey). He's saying it infects everything including people living there. That's what the strange dust is.
@Waterfall123 this is absolutely the correct interpretation. Anyone who's been to a small coastal town in northern England knows exactly what this song is about. The speaker is comparing the greyness of everything to the typical weather in these places (which is also very overcast and grey). He's saying it infects everything including people living there. That's what the strange dust is.
He's saying everything is slow, no one is going anywhere. The greatest prospect in this place is to "win yourself a cheap tray," from a from an unimpressive fish and chips with greasy food and bad tea. He calls it grease tea.
Some lyrics are a lot less metaphorical than many commenters here realize. The speaker truly hates the town and wishes it would get bombed into oblivion.
A love how people "look into the meaning behind the words" and in the process, lose the meaning OF the words. Some of the interpretations here are just way off.
Morrissey is simply talking about the tacky, run down seaside towns of Britain where the beaches are littered with concrete or wooden groynes, where the promenade has an arcade or an ice cream stall, but it just makes it seem so depressing. Where old people go to retire and people steal your clothes off of the bench;) I think he is expressing the idea that British beaches, especially in England can be very dull places just like those rainy Sundays you had as a child with absolutely nothing to do as every Brit has probably experienced. This is an opinion that I had before I even heard the song.
@Waterfall123 this is absolutely the correct interpretation. Anyone who's been to a small coastal town in northern England knows exactly what this song is about. The speaker is comparing the greyness of everything to the typical weather in these places (which is also very overcast and grey). He's saying it infects everything including people living there. That's what the strange dust is.
@Waterfall123 this is absolutely the correct interpretation. Anyone who's been to a small coastal town in northern England knows exactly what this song is about. The speaker is comparing the greyness of everything to the typical weather in these places (which is also very overcast and grey). He's saying it infects everything including people living there. That's what the strange dust is.
He's saying everything is slow, no one is going anywhere. The greatest prospect in this place is to "win yourself a cheap tray," from a from an unimpressive fish and chips with greasy food and bad tea. He calls it grease tea.
Some lyrics are a lot less metaphorical than many commenters here realize. The speaker truly hates the town and wishes it would get bombed into oblivion.
A love how people "look into the meaning behind the words" and in the process, lose the meaning OF the words. Some of the interpretations here are just way off.