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What she said :
"How come someone hasn't noticed
That I'm dead
And decided to bury me?
God knows, I'm ready!"
La-la-la...
What she said was sad
But then, all the rejection she's had
To pretend to be happy
Could only be idiocy
La-la-la...
What she said was not for the job or
Lover that she never had
Oh...
No no no...
What she read
All heady books
She'd sit and prophesise
(It took a tattooed boy from
Birkenhead
To really really open her eyes)
What she read
All heady books
She'd sit and prophesise
(It took a tattooed boy from
Birkenhead
To really really open her eyes)
What she said :
"I smoke 'cause I'm hoping for an
Early death
And I need to cling to something!"
What she said :
"I smoke 'cause I'm hoping for an
Early death
And I need to cling to something!"
No no no no...
"How come someone hasn't noticed
That I'm dead
And decided to bury me?
God knows, I'm ready!"
La-la-la...
What she said was sad
But then, all the rejection she's had
To pretend to be happy
Could only be idiocy
La-la-la...
What she said was not for the job or
Lover that she never had
Oh...
No no no...
What she read
All heady books
She'd sit and prophesise
(It took a tattooed boy from
Birkenhead
To really really open her eyes)
What she read
All heady books
She'd sit and prophesise
(It took a tattooed boy from
Birkenhead
To really really open her eyes)
What she said :
"I smoke 'cause I'm hoping for an
Early death
And I need to cling to something!"
What she said :
"I smoke 'cause I'm hoping for an
Early death
And I need to cling to something!"
No no no no...
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I think that looking at the morrissey and marr relationship in line with the song is maybe reading too much into it but it is a nice interpretation.
I think that it is a great description of the post modern stance that values experience ahead of theory and science. "a tattooed boy from birkenhead" taught the protagonist more about love than the classic romantics, the scientists of love, ever could.
Possibly, this is also a reflection of how morrissey felt after music and stardom afforded him the confidence and opportunities to be swept away by experience, rather than take a considerably lesser pleasure from reading about the experiences of others.
Also: I totally agree with SAMO, the above statement practically is Morrissey's story.
XD
Morrissey describes a depressed and lonely person, taking words from Elizabeth Smart's prose, as he would have thought she could describe his feelings better than he ever could. He describes never having a job or a lover, and sitting at home reading great literature, but finally being rescued by the "tattooed boy"; Marr, a working class Manchester lad.
In case you don't know what I'm referring to, Morrissey spent the majority of his teenage life alone in his bedroom, reading books such as By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept. He was very lonely and suffered greatly from depression, until he was eventually rescued one day by Johnny Marr who knocked on his door out of the blue and asked him to join a band, which later became The Smiths.
I think the song may be based on this.
"...I wonder why no one has noticed that I am dead and taken the trouble to bury me"
-By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept, by Elizabeth Smart