Morrissey: lyrical genius or just a miserable old fucker?

[hans kraay fan club]

Oh, and GENIUS, obviously.

 

[Trufflehound]

Didn't we have a lovely time the day we went to Bangor
A beautiful day, we had lunch on the way and all for under a pound you know
But on the way back I cuddled with Jack and we opened a bottle of cider
Singing a few of our favourite songs as the wheels went around

 

[hans kraay fan club]

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.

This.

Anyone who is not moved by those lyrics, was probably never a teenager.

 

[Biscuit]

Either both or somewhere inbetween.

 

[Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews]

As A Sparks fan since the 70's and a Smiths fan since the early 80's this ones poifect
Moon Over Kentucky


.

 

[MattBackHome]

Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me. No hope, no harm - just another false alarm.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I like the one about Eastbourne.



Every day is like Sunday
Every day is silent and grey
In the seaside town
That they forgot to close down...

I love the "win yourself a cheap tray" line.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

I love the "win yourself a cheap tray" line.

Stand on the promenade
Etch a post-card
How I really wish, I was not here...

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Stand on the promenade
Etch a post-card
How I really wish, I was not here...

Share some greased tea with me

 

[Lord Bamber]

I am the son
And the heir
Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and heir
Of nothing in particular

You shut your mouth
How can you say
I go about things the wrong way ?
I am Human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does


An absolute genius, as a teenager, every one of his songs help me understand real life.

 

[The Merry Prankster]

This.

Anyone who is not moved by those lyrics, was probably never a teenager.

Or had some friends.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Or had some friends.

..

 

[the slow norris]

Or had some friends.

Do imaginary ones count?

 

[Pavilionaire]

One of my faves (What She Said):

"What she read
All heady books
She'd sit and prophesise
(It took a tattooed boy from
Birkenhead
To really really open her eyes)"

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Or had some friends.

I spent the mid-80s with a long mane listening to hair metal

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

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...

Favourite lines!

 

[Peteinblack]

"Were you and he Lovers ?
And if you were, then say that you were!
On a groundsheet
Under canvas
With your tent-flap
open wide"

Ooooo errrr, missus!

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

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

Seemed to me he never had QUITE enough brilliant words to fill a complete song. Instead relied on repeating one or two semi-killer lines throughout. Oh, and a right royal miser to boot - especially where royalties were at stake.

 

[The Modfather]

Sixteen, clumsy and shy, I went to London and I,
booked myself in at the YWCA,
I said I like it here can I stay,
and do you have a vacancy for a back scrubber

 

[Insel affe]

Poor old man
He had an "accident" with a three bar fire
But that's OK
Because he wasn't very happy anyway
Poor woman
Strangled in her very own bed as she read
But that's OK
Because she was old and she would have died anyway