To me this seems like a very hostile song towards Morrissey and everything he's done, artistically and as a person.
Morrissey's spikey insults towards his former friend, Bowie. His presumably emotional lyrics that contain dark accusations, scorn, arrogance, subtle hostile references to family, friends and fellow artists: all left behind as 'slips of paper' throughout his songs.
Morrissey made enemies everywhere, hence the loneliness, which is a big theme in his work.
David seems to me as if he's through with him. He's ready to say farewell, and wishes Morrissey a fitting lonely death. The silent gun being this song, followed by suicide out of misery, loneliness and being forgotten.
The song contains the outro of Rock 'n Roll Suicide. Morrissey used that outro in I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday, which Bowie covered. Quite a 'slip of paper left in the park' aswell. He uses Morrissey's technique (stolen from Oscar Wilde) to threaten and accuse him like he did throughout his whole carreer. The Soviet spy setting is mainly the cover up story. A metaphor for how artists hide secret messages for eachother like spies.
To me this seems like a very hostile song towards Morrissey and everything he's done, artistically and as a person. Morrissey's spikey insults towards his former friend, Bowie. His presumably emotional lyrics that contain dark accusations, scorn, arrogance, subtle hostile references to family, friends and fellow artists: all left behind as 'slips of paper' throughout his songs.
Morrissey made enemies everywhere, hence the loneliness, which is a big theme in his work. David seems to me as if he's through with him. He's ready to say farewell, and wishes Morrissey a fitting lonely death. The silent gun being this song, followed by suicide out of misery, loneliness and being forgotten.
The song contains the outro of Rock 'n Roll Suicide. Morrissey used that outro in I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday, which Bowie covered. Quite a 'slip of paper left in the park' aswell. He uses Morrissey's technique (stolen from Oscar Wilde) to threaten and accuse him like he did throughout his whole carreer. The Soviet spy setting is mainly the cover up story. A metaphor for how artists hide secret messages for eachother like spies.
To me, it sounds like the end of Five Years. Which was a pretty dark song as well. End of the world stuff.
To me, it sounds like the end of Five Years. Which was a pretty dark song as well. End of the world stuff.