Driving Your Girlfriend Home

I think the girl in the song is regretting being with her beau and has feelings for Morrissey. She tells him of her relationship woes, hoping he will show her some empathy and maybe it will lead to something more. Morrissey, however, is either not interested or is being very respectful to his friend and declining the girl's feelings.

I LOVE MORRISSEY AND EVERYTHING ABOUT HIM HE IS SO AWESOME. I DONT KNOW WHERE I WOULD BE WITHOUT HIM, THIS SONG ROCK BY THE WAY.

This one probably reads more like a poem than any of his others - It's brilliant though cos it's all very ambiguous - Whose girlfriend is she? Why is she telling him about her boyfriends imperfections? What does she expect him to do? The last bit about shaking hands just makes me smile!!!

The point of view of this song is of someone standing on the outside looking at someone else having an intimate relationship (something that I can really relate to) and not knowing anything about such things..."And I can't answer" - "and I can't tell her". He's observes this thing called relationship from the outside and probaby finds it strange and complicated and nothing that he will ever want to be involved in. He sees how it makes people miserable...how it screws with their heads..."How did I end up so involved with the very existence I planned on avoiding?" The politely shaking hands goodnight shows the distance he is keeping to it all.

I think the girl in the song is regretting being with her beau and has feelings for Morrissey. She tells him of her relationship woes, hoping he will show her some empathy and maybe it will lead to something more. Morrissey, however, is either not interested or is being very respectful to his friend and declining the girl's feelings.

don't know whether jimn's take is correct (for all Morrissey's supposed brutal candor in interviews, he rarely talks about his personal life), but I can relate to it.

when I was in college and had been "out" for only a year or two, often my closest relationships were friendships with women. when we were together they'd spend a lot of time crying on my shoulder about how their men treated them.

gay men are not necessarily "outsiders to relationship drama," though some of us are slower to get started than others. many friends told me they felt it wasn't until their twenties that they started doing the kinds of things--dating, falling in love etc.--that a lot of people start during adolescence.

others were more experienced, but they did have to be discreet about it. I grew up in the '80s in a small town; nobody came out in high school (you'd get killed). in college, hearing the Smiths was one of a wide range of things which broadened my horizons. i still had a lot of (mostly) straight friends from my high school days, many of whom were vicariously fascinated by this stuff...maybe part of the reason the Smiths made such an impact, way beyond what could have been just a tiny cult audience but wasn't.

i'm very solitary but it's not typical. most people (straight or gay) are more extroverted than I am.

the songwriting is among the best of Morrissey's solo work. nice little slice-of-life drama.

i've never heard this actual song but reading the lyrics--wow. i'm not going praise morrissey and say "OhMGZ! HE'S SO GREAT!" but he proves yet again that he's an wonderful writer in this song.

Cool song.

This song gives me the chilllsss

I agree with the points made, he leaves this one very open to interpretation. Its like a story but you're only given a snippet of it and you need to guess the rest. Its cleverly done, the use of the driving language (turn left, drive on etc) sets the scene. While its about this woman's unhappy relationship, it also, intentionally, says a lot about the narrator and his life, which singmylife talked about. Anyway its a great song from an album that often gets criticised. But I think Kill Uncle's brilliant, I love that album