I get the feeling that last line is much darker than most people interpret it. I don't think he's insinuating that he's found someone to fall in love with again, contrasting the stark reality of death, as most people would seem to conclude. I think he's saying that in his final hour, he's accepted the fact he's going to die and he's fallen in love with that reality.
This whole album seems preoccupied with the realities of getting older and dying. Morrissey has always written about pain and sadness, but this album in particular has an extremely dark subject matter, concerned specifically with a kind of finality and an focus specifically on getting on in life and death.
This is easily one of Moz's most beautiful songs. It has an almost kind of "dumb" honesty to it, where some of the lines, if written by anyone else would be considered bland, passe, flip, or potentially even just bad writing, but Morrissey has an amazing sense of juxtaposition and the whole is greater the sum of its parts, and the whole is one of the most blisteringly devastating songs ever written.
I get the feeling that last line is much darker than most people interpret it. I don't think he's insinuating that he's found someone to fall in love with again, contrasting the stark reality of death, as most people would seem to conclude. I think he's saying that in his final hour, he's accepted the fact he's going to die and he's fallen in love with that reality.
This whole album seems preoccupied with the realities of getting older and dying. Morrissey has always written about pain and sadness, but this album in particular has an extremely dark subject matter, concerned specifically with a kind of finality and an focus specifically on getting on in life and death.
This is easily one of Moz's most beautiful songs. It has an almost kind of "dumb" honesty to it, where some of the lines, if written by anyone else would be considered bland, passe, flip, or potentially even just bad writing, but Morrissey has an amazing sense of juxtaposition and the whole is greater the sum of its parts, and the whole is one of the most blisteringly devastating songs ever written.
@mortsubite well said
@mortsubite well said