A lot of the songs on The Smiths seem to be about the same narcissist; a female (Morrissey sang that he lost his faith in womanhood on "Pretty Girls Make Graves.") She may have had two unwanted pregnancies. One with a "grown man of 25" (as portrayed in this song) and one with Morrissey himself (he sang that he "once had a child" in "The Hand that Rocks the Cradle.") In this song, she babtized the baby in the river and dumped her on a relative's doorstep. Thus, we know that a later song, "Pregnant for the Last Time," is not about her because that person wanted the babies and prepared by having the necessary "tiny striped socks for the last time." That song was probably about his sister, who birthed two sons. His friend, Linder, also had a child, but the "for the last time" refrain implies that it's not a "first and last time" situation, but rather an act repeated.
A lot of the songs on The Smiths seem to be about the same narcissist; a female (Morrissey sang that he lost his faith in womanhood on "Pretty Girls Make Graves.") She may have had two unwanted pregnancies. One with a "grown man of 25" (as portrayed in this song) and one with Morrissey himself (he sang that he "once had a child" in "The Hand that Rocks the Cradle.") In this song, she babtized the baby in the river and dumped her on a relative's doorstep. Thus, we know that a later song, "Pregnant for the Last Time," is not about her because that person wanted the babies and prepared by having the necessary "tiny striped socks for the last time." That song was probably about his sister, who birthed two sons. His friend, Linder, also had a child, but the "for the last time" refrain implies that it's not a "first and last time" situation, but rather an act repeated.