Morrissey: lyrical genius or just a miserable old fucker?

[Brighton TID]

Has written some brilliant songs with some great musicians but f*** me he can come across as a right royal misery

 

[Beach Hut]

Belligerent ghouls run Manchester schools.........

 

[Sausage]

you can pin and mount me like a butterfly.

 

[clapham_gull]

Now I know how Joan of Arc felt, as the flames rose to her Roman nose and her hearing aid started to melt.

(genius)

 

[vegster]

overblown longwinded lyrics with odd if any punctuation

 

[El Presidente]

Over the moor, take me to the moor
Dig a shallow grave
And I'll lay me down

 

[El Presidente]

overblown longwinded lyrics with odd if any punctuation

Is punctuation important for songs?

Back to the original question, he's both!

 

[clapham_gull]

overblown longwinded lyrics with odd if any punctuation

Which album was that on ?

 

[vegster]

Which album was that on ?

most of them

 

[Ringmer Seagull]

Both statements are true but I can forgive him almost anything given the brilliant work he has produced (hes not strange he just wants to live his life this way).

All the streets are crammed with things eager to be held.

 

[Brighton TID]

On a more uplifting note:

And if a double decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten tonne truck...

 

[The Modfather]

a right royal misery

Not the best choice of words considering his anti-monarchy views.

But in answer to your question.

Both, of course.

 

[Stew83]

With 'Girlfriend in a Coma' it has to be both.

 

[Twinkle Toes]

From the ice-age to the dole-age
There is but one concern
I have just discovered :

Some girls are bigger than others
Some girls are bigger than others
Some girl's mothers are bigger than
Other girl's mothers...

 

[Brighton TID]

And the pain was enough to make a shy bald buddist reflect and plan a mass murder

 

[the slow norris]

there's a club if you'd like to go
you could meet somebody who really loves you
so you go and you stand on your own
and you leave on your own
and you go home and you cry and you want to die

genius and misery wrapped up in one.

 

[Art Vs Science]

Genius! There's a naked man standing laughing in your dreams, you know who it is, but you don't like what it means

 

[The Orange Seagull]

Morrisseys alright,he's just a boy with a thorn in his side and behind the hateship there lies a murderous desire for love.

 

[The Modfather]

'This night has opened my eyes' is a cheerful little ditty.

In a river the colour of lead
emerse the baby's head
wrap her up in the News Of The World
dump her on a doorstep
this night has opened my eyes

 

[The Modfather]

You are your Mother's only Son,
and you are a desperate one.