I actually prefer the instrumental version because I’ve never really got on a handle on the lyrics and I think the sung version needs a bit more breathing space.
Perhaps, to understand the lyric we need to remember which album it is on. The answer of course is some versions of the 2004 album The Cure. Why is that important? One of the ideas they tried on that album was including songs which explicitly referenced back to previous albums. Thus ‘Alt.end’ clearly references back to Seventeen Seconds- the guitar riff at the beginning links back to In Your House and the lines about ‘It’s not a case’ make us think of Play for Today. The song Us or Them links back to the Kiss Me album as it shares some lyrical content with The Kiss.(the bit where he swears). This Morning is clearly the reference back to Pornography. Stylistically, it is reminiscent of that album. The lyrical references about the clean white room suggest a reference back to One Hundred Yesrs. Perhaps, the idea lyrically is that the song doesn’t actually have a meaning. One Hundred Years was written through Stream of Consciousness and doesn’t really have a meaning. The same might be said of this.
I actually prefer the instrumental version because I’ve never really got on a handle on the lyrics and I think the sung version needs a bit more breathing space.
Perhaps, to understand the lyric we need to remember which album it is on. The answer of course is some versions of the 2004 album The Cure. Why is that important? One of the ideas they tried on that album was including songs which explicitly referenced back to previous albums. Thus ‘Alt.end’ clearly references back to Seventeen Seconds- the guitar riff at the beginning links back to In Your House and the lines about ‘It’s not a case’ make us think of Play for Today. The song Us or Them links back to the Kiss Me album as it shares some lyrical content with The Kiss.(the bit where he swears). This Morning is clearly the reference back to Pornography. Stylistically, it is reminiscent of that album. The lyrical references about the clean white room suggest a reference back to One Hundred Yesrs. Perhaps, the idea lyrically is that the song doesn’t actually have a meaning. One Hundred Years was written through Stream of Consciousness and doesn’t really have a meaning. The same might be said of this.
@SkaSong I have changed my mind about the song having no meaning, As I explain in a later comment, I think it's a song about an elderly person dying.
@SkaSong I have changed my mind about the song having no meaning, As I explain in a later comment, I think it's a song about an elderly person dying.