Well I know everyone has their own interpretation on songs but I thought I'd present you mine. I'll try to make it short and interesting to read!
-"Does the body rule the mind or does the mind rule the body, I dunno"
I really think of this particular part as a struggle inside the mind, linked with homosexuality, or some other sexual preference. Can I just make it up in my mind that I am straight, not gay?(Does the mind rule the body) Or is it just something purely physical, I can't help it but to feel pleasure from these things through my body?(Does the body rule the mind)
Then, let's move on..
-"Under the Iron Bridge we kissed, and although I ended up with sore lips, it just wasn't like the old days anymore"
This, to me, sounds like a scenario of the same person, unsure about their sexuality, in fact kissing under the Iron Bridge with somebody who isn't really the gender they prefer.. The person kisses their lips sore, but still it doesn't give them the same pleasure as it did when they kissed another person sometime ago, who was the sex that they "enjoyed" more.
Then it continues:
-"No it wasn't like those days am I Still Ill?"
Seems like a cry from the storyteller. Are they Still Ill (I think the illness is supposed to describe homosexuality, since it was classified as illness some decades ago)? Are they still gay?
Hope this wasn't a complete mess, and you understood what I was trying to get through. Yes, I know, yet another interpretation including homosexuality but since you kind of know that Morrissey has this undefinable sexual preference, which I actually relate to, in my case, you sort of start to look at The Smiths songs and his own songs through a rainbow-colored lens, if you know what I mean.
I don't think it's about homosexuality because he says that kissing that person doesn't feel like it did before.
I don't think it's about homosexuality because he says that kissing that person doesn't feel like it did before.
If it's the same person, then do you propose that the singer used to be hetero and is now gay? That doesn't really match up with the lyric "Am I still ill?". "Have I become ill?" would be more appropriate but that's not the lyric.
If it's the same person, then do you propose that the singer used to be hetero and is now gay? That doesn't really match up with the lyric "Am I still ill?". "Have I become ill?" would be more appropriate but that's not the lyric.
If you propose he is saying that it doesn't feel like before, as in with some previous guy he kissed - why would he used to have lived life as a homosexual and now he is trying to be hetero? If he's stuck in the closet then he wouldn't have had a homosexual past...
I think it's about an old relationship growing tired.
Well I know everyone has their own interpretation on songs but I thought I'd present you mine. I'll try to make it short and interesting to read! -"Does the body rule the mind or does the mind rule the body, I dunno" I really think of this particular part as a struggle inside the mind, linked with homosexuality, or some other sexual preference. Can I just make it up in my mind that I am straight, not gay?(Does the mind rule the body) Or is it just something purely physical, I can't help it but to feel pleasure from these things through my body?(Does the body rule the mind) Then, let's move on.. -"Under the Iron Bridge we kissed, and although I ended up with sore lips, it just wasn't like the old days anymore" This, to me, sounds like a scenario of the same person, unsure about their sexuality, in fact kissing under the Iron Bridge with somebody who isn't really the gender they prefer.. The person kisses their lips sore, but still it doesn't give them the same pleasure as it did when they kissed another person sometime ago, who was the sex that they "enjoyed" more. Then it continues: -"No it wasn't like those days am I Still Ill?" Seems like a cry from the storyteller. Are they Still Ill (I think the illness is supposed to describe homosexuality, since it was classified as illness some decades ago)? Are they still gay?
Hope this wasn't a complete mess, and you understood what I was trying to get through. Yes, I know, yet another interpretation including homosexuality but since you kind of know that Morrissey has this undefinable sexual preference, which I actually relate to, in my case, you sort of start to look at The Smiths songs and his own songs through a rainbow-colored lens, if you know what I mean.
I don't think it's about homosexuality because he says that kissing that person doesn't feel like it did before.
I don't think it's about homosexuality because he says that kissing that person doesn't feel like it did before.
If it's the same person, then do you propose that the singer used to be hetero and is now gay? That doesn't really match up with the lyric "Am I still ill?". "Have I become ill?" would be more appropriate but that's not the lyric.
If it's the same person, then do you propose that the singer used to be hetero and is now gay? That doesn't really match up with the lyric "Am I still ill?". "Have I become ill?" would be more appropriate but that's not the lyric.
If you propose he is saying that it doesn't feel like before, as in with some previous guy he kissed - why would he used to have lived life as a homosexual and now he is trying to be hetero? If he's stuck in the closet then he wouldn't have had a homosexual past...
I think it's about an old relationship growing tired.