Shortly before this album was released, some guy called Fagin broke into Buckingham palace and actually found his way into her very lowness's bedroom and sat on her bed talking to her for about ten minutes before the alarm was raised (wouldn't you love a transcript?)
I think the sponge and rusty spanner line is mocking the lack of security at the palace...just another sign of the declining importance of the Monarchy in Britain.
The bit about Charles and the wedding veil could be the singer asking Charles is he really as stiff and correct as he appears or does he have crazy fantasies and ideas like the rest of us...is he a human-being! At least Morrissey is polite enough to ask.
Shortly before this album was released, some guy called Fagin broke into Buckingham palace and actually found his way into her very lowness's bedroom and sat on her bed talking to her for about ten minutes before the alarm was raised (wouldn't you love a transcript?)
I think the sponge and rusty spanner line is mocking the lack of security at the palace...just another sign of the declining importance of the Monarchy in Britain. The bit about Charles and the wedding veil could be the singer asking Charles is he really as stiff and correct as he appears or does he have crazy fantasies and ideas like the rest of us...is he a human-being! At least Morrissey is polite enough to ask.
God save the queen! Eh, John?