I think this song represents Morrisey's Job-like lamentations about the pain and distress of life. One gets one's hopes up, things seem to get better for a time, and then the crash comes and one finds new "broken fortunes." Morrisey also reflects that even after all his fame and fortune, "I'm the same underneath"--a reference, no doubt, to unhealed childhood traumas that no amount of wealth and fame can heal.
And yet for all his agony and angst, Moz loves life and the Source of life, to which this song is addressed: ("Every second of my life I only live for you.")
Yet like Job, who suffered so much at the hands of God, for no apparent reason, Morrisey questions why he must endure all the pain: "Can you please stop time?/Can you stop the pain?" Like Job, he WILL speak his mind to God, consequences be damned: "And you can shoot me, and you can throw me off a train/I still maintain/Life is a pigsty."
By the song's end he has come full circle, from the opening's distress and broken fortunes; he has not given up on life or on God; though he is angry and hurt, he cannot give up, and even in "the final hour of my life/ I am falling in love again."
I think this song represents Morrisey's Job-like lamentations about the pain and distress of life. One gets one's hopes up, things seem to get better for a time, and then the crash comes and one finds new "broken fortunes." Morrisey also reflects that even after all his fame and fortune, "I'm the same underneath"--a reference, no doubt, to unhealed childhood traumas that no amount of wealth and fame can heal.
And yet for all his agony and angst, Moz loves life and the Source of life, to which this song is addressed: ("Every second of my life I only live for you.")
Yet like Job, who suffered so much at the hands of God, for no apparent reason, Morrisey questions why he must endure all the pain: "Can you please stop time?/Can you stop the pain?" Like Job, he WILL speak his mind to God, consequences be damned: "And you can shoot me, and you can throw me off a train/I still maintain/Life is a pigsty."
By the song's end he has come full circle, from the opening's distress and broken fortunes; he has not given up on life or on God; though he is angry and hurt, he cannot give up, and even in "the final hour of my life/ I am falling in love again."