I see this as a song about a person who has been sectioned (put into a psychiatric institute) even though there's nothing actually wrong with them. Think "One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest". I think that he's "doing well" because he's trying to cure himself the way that people tell him to. The "something" squeezing his skull is in fact the effect of the drugs and the "therapy". For example "will you peel it back and bite me" refers to an injection. When he goes on about HRT (Hormone Replacement Treatment) and ECT (Electroconvulsive Therapy) alongside the drugs, these are supposed to be the "treatments" offered by the doctors (who are symbolic of society, knowing Morrissey) which actually do make him psychotic/abnormal. By the end the person truly has turned and is now abnormally paranoiac and anxious which shows the irony of how people can really do more damage to you when they think they're helping you.
I see this as a song about a person who has been sectioned (put into a psychiatric institute) even though there's nothing actually wrong with them. Think "One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest". I think that he's "doing well" because he's trying to cure himself the way that people tell him to. The "something" squeezing his skull is in fact the effect of the drugs and the "therapy". For example "will you peel it back and bite me" refers to an injection. When he goes on about HRT (Hormone Replacement Treatment) and ECT (Electroconvulsive Therapy) alongside the drugs, these are supposed to be the "treatments" offered by the doctors (who are symbolic of society, knowing Morrissey) which actually do make him psychotic/abnormal. By the end the person truly has turned and is now abnormally paranoiac and anxious which shows the irony of how people can really do more damage to you when they think they're helping you.