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The Smiths – Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others Lyrics	15 years ago
ha ha i'm usually wrong about most things. i never get tired of johnny marr's guitar work, i don't think it's better on any other smiths track. i also wondered if Morrissey wrote the song as a witty riposte to those who say his lyrics are melodramatic and overly emotive. what could be more to the point than 'i have just discovered, some girls are bigger than others'?

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The Smiths – Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others Lyrics	15 years ago
some support for my reading above, on the PETA website Morrissey talks about why he wrote Meat Is Murder and says about 80's pop music: 'There was no sort of harsh romanticism to pop language; it was very, very dull and soppy, so Meat Is Murder really stood out.' The phrase 'harsh romanticism' seems to sum up Morrissey's work.

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The Smiths – Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others Lyrics

15 years ago

i think it could be an ironic comment on romanticism. it seems to contrast the reality of sex and relationships in the contemporary, adult world, to morrissey's wistful romanticism, recalled particulalry in the final lines: 'send me your pillow, the one the you dream on'. The fact that these lines come from a 60's song reinforces the ironic juxtaposition of morrissey's nostalgic romanticism with the crudeness of the chorus, suggesting that morrissey is a fish out of water - a romantic in an unromantic world, his romanticism reduced to irony to get the metaphor across. perhaps this sums up the smiths' work as a whole. For me it is also about the shattering of illusions: 'as anthony said to cleopatra, as he opened a crate of ale'. This great romantic story is sardonically cut to down to size. Morrissey has 'just discovered' that the world is not the romantic place he 'dreams on'. It is reminiscent of later Morrissey tracks such as 'Used To Be a Sweet Boy' on Vauxhall and I. That is not to say that it is a melancholy or defeatest song. Wit and irony is a means of defeating the bland and the crude and asserting Morrissey's own brand of romanticism.

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The Smiths – Suffer Little Children Lyrics

16 years ago

i think the song is ultimately about the effects of the moors murders on manchester society as a hole. with the first lines 'take me to the moor, dig a shallow grave and i'll lie me down' morrissey seems to put himself in the place of the murdered children, suggesting that everyone in manchester felt an very personal pain, that there was a sort of collective empathy, resulting from the moors murders. 'we will by your side, till the day you die' suggests the profound social effect of the murders, a crime the likes of which was truly shocking and unheard of in its day. 'manchester, so much to answer for' suggests a sense collective guilt that such a terrible thing could happen in manchester society

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The Smiths – Shoplifters of the World Unite Lyrics	16 years ago
regardless of whether it is about homosexuality, the shoplifters are obviously some sort of outsiders to society. like many smiths songs, it is about alienation and the protagonists inability to fit in, and so anyone who is somehow apart from the social mainstream can relate to it

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