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| Morrissey – Hairdresser On Fire Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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I've seen a few people elude to this, and I agree with it, so I'm going to lay it out:
I believe this song is about the ways that vanity and attraction intermingle. Someone compared it to a woman marrying her plastic surgeon. That is what it's about. It's about people who are so ...in love, frankly, with their egos that they become attracted to the people who make them proud of themselves/their looks. You could argue that there's an element of this in every relationship. Having a partner who thinks you're beautiful usually makes you feel better about yourself. Some people are addicted to that validation, and need it for the survival of their self esteem.
It's about people who are so addicted to that validation that they literally fall for anyone who makes them look good |
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| Morrissey – Trouble Loves Me Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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@[Electric:41492]-blue* are you good? your interpretation makes me a little worried for u. I don\'t mean this cruelly or sarcastically. I mean it genuinely. Wherever you are, I hope you\'re doing well right now. |
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| Morrissey – Let Me Kiss You Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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i think the speaker is hopelessly in love with someone. They are disillusioned and are aware that their love is most likely unrequited and that this whole thing is ill-fated, yet they retain a tiny amount of hope, if only to kiss this person. They no longer hope that they have any kind of future with this person, but still just want to kiss them if nothing else, yet they realize that even for such a kiss to occur, the person they love would probably have to \n\n\'close their eyes and picture someone they physically admire\ |
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| Morrissey – Driving Your Girlfriend Home Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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I interpret it as the speaker (lets just say its moz) is reflecting on a (platonic) interaction that he had with the girlfriend of someone he knows in which she lamented her relationship woes and he seems to be sort of taking her side and subtly warning her boyfriend, who he is speaking to, that she is not actually very interested in that man anymore.\n\nit could be that the speaker has a thing for her boyfriend and is saying "hey she doesnt like you anyway"\n\nor it could be kind of like Girl Afraid where it\'s just him viewing a fraught hetero relationship from the outside and observing |
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| Morrissey – You Have Killed Me Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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I\'m sure someone has written this already but on the references:\npasolini is a italian politician, poet, director, and a whole bunch of other things with a so-called \'controversial\' legacy (idk much ab him, so i cant weigh in on how controversial he really is). It makes sense that moz, whose big mouth strikes again and again, would relate to this person\n\naccatone was one of pasolini\'s films, incidentally one about a pimp, which...idk. Do with that information what you will.\n\nPiazza Cavour is a place in italy\n\nVisconti is another italian director\n\nI assume that Magnani refers to early film star Anna Magnani, who appeared in a film of Visconti\'s as the role of \'Maddalena\', a desperate mother |
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| Morrissey – The Lazy Sunbathers Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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the \'lazy sunbathers\' in question are sheltered people who choose to isolate themselves from tragedies they don\'t have to deal with, and recklessly consume in a way that possibly exacerbates those tragedies for the rest of the world (\'sun burning to the earth\'s core, but its not enough they want more\').\n\nYes this could be about ww2 specifically but I think it could really apply to any issue/crisis at any time in history. \n\n1700s-French Revolution: the French elite and \'let them eat cake\' types are the lazy sunbathers here\n\n1860s-American Civil War: those of the privileged white americans who were not abolitionists and did not take any concern in the war or who had slaves are the lazy sunbathers here\n\n1940s-ww2: the Hitler sympathizers (who conveniently werent of any of the groups Hitler targeted) were gaining extraneous wealth from chumming around with nazis while of course millions were dying and they had their hands in it indirectly--they were the lazy sunbathers \n\n1970s/80s--AIDS Epidemic: the heterosexuals who pinned aids as a \'gay people problem/white people who pinned it as a \'black people problem\' leading to more fervent and violent discrimination against those groups were the lazy sunbathers\n\n2022-Russia vs. Ukraine: the Russian elite are the lazy sunbathers |
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| Morrissey – The Lazy Sunbathers Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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the \'lazy sunbathers\' in question are sheltered people who choose to isolate themselves from tragedies they don\'t have to deal with, and recklessly consume in a way that possibly exacerbates those tragedies for the rest of the world (\'sun burning to the earth\'s core, but its not enough they want more\').\n\nYes this could be about ww2 specifically but I think it could really apply to any issue/crisis at any time in history. \n\n1700s-French Revolution: the French elite and \'let them eat cake\' types are the lazy sunbathers here\n\n1860s-American Civil War: those of the privileged white americans who were not abolitionists and did not take any concern in the war or who had slaves are the lazy sunbathers here\n\n1940s-ww2: the Hitler sympathizers (who conveniently werent of any of the groups Hitler targeted) were gaining extraneous wealth from chumming around with nazis while of course millions were dying and they had their hands in it indirectly--they were the lazy sunbathers \n\n1970s/80s--AIDS Epidemic: the heterosexuals who pinned aids as a \'gay people problem/white people who pinned it as a \'black people problem\' leading to more fervent and violent discrimination against those groups were the lazy sunbathers\n\n2022-Russia vs. Ukraine: the Russian elite are the lazy sunbathers |
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| The Smiths – Hand in Glove Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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I wish people would stop making it a tug of war between ‘is this song gay or not’. The beauty of Morrissey´s lyrics is they can be many things at once!\r\n\r\nI repeat: THIS SONG CAN BE ABOUT ANY COUPLE, YES, PEOPLE SAYING IT S A GAY SONG DO HAVE A POINT AND IT CAN BE ABOUT OTHER COUPLES AT THE SAME TIME\r\n\r\neverybody chill |
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| The Smiths – Hand in Glove Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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I think this is one of a few smiths songs that could be about any relationship, but also especially hits home for what a gay relationship wouldve been like in the 80s when the songs were written:\n\n“no its not like any other love\nthis ones different because its us”\n\ncould be about any couple, feeling that their particular situation is different from all others, but yes it also very much makes sense as referring to a gay couple in the time of intense homophobia.\n\n“and if the people stare then the people stare\ni really dont know and i really dont care”\n\ncould be in response to a heterosexual partner´s worries about other people´s reactions to their relationship, but especially makes sense as in response to a homosexual partner´s worries about discrimination from others due to their being a couple\n\nyeah |
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| The Smiths – Miserable Lie Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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Interpretation:\nfirst of all, what is whalley range?\nIt is a seemingly somewhat rough area of Manchester, England\n\nThe person it\'s from the perspective of (person A) is finally standing up ("so goodbye, stay with your own kind") to a nasty person (person B) they have a complicated history with (the rest of the song) they then recall memories of having an affair with person b at a tragically young age ("you have corrupted my flower like life/innocent mind") that they were somewhat tricked into. person b was cruel and used them for their body under the guise of a fake "i love you" ("and love is just a miserable lie")--using "love" as a way to pressure someone into something they don\'t want to do is way too common from what I\'ve heard.-- Person a had genuine feelings for person b which person b pretended to return in order to molest them. Person a feels that this is a pattern in their life ("nobody ever looks at me twice" which I interpret as \'nobody ever pays more attention to me than sex").\nFor what it\'s worth, someone else on this page said that Morrissey (writer and singer of this song) had said he lost his virginity at 13. |
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| The Futureheads – Hounds Of Love Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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Maybe this is kinda obvious, but I think it\'s about being afraid of love yet giving into it behind your own back. \'the hounds of love are hunting, help me someone help me please\' depicts love as a monster which Kate is running from, but then at the end she admits to \'needing love\', so... |
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| Girl in Red – Midnight Love Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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Girl In Red (Marie Ulven) actually said that this was written from the perspective of her ex-girlfriend (so that girl is actually the protagonist) but in any event the protagonist feels \'second best\' and is being taken advantage of. They want to break it off but can\'t bring themselves to |
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| Girl in Red – I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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The protagonist of this song (for simplicity\'s sake let\'s just assume it\'s Girl In Red/Marie Ulven) has romantic feelings for her friend, who is also a girl. She doesn\'t know if the friend returns the feelings or not, and it\'s complicated by the fact that it\'s gay and she doesn\'t know if the friend is queer or not. So then there\'s kind of a lot of blind desperation for this friend, and then at the end, the protagonist\'s dreams finally come true,\n\nbut either they didn\'t really come true and the protagonist knows it\'s all in her head or they did but she doubts it anyway |
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