Morrissey: lyrical genius or just a miserable old fucker?

[Carrot Cruncher]

Don't know why but these lyrics always make me chuckle.

Roy's keen oh Roy's keen
Roy's keen oh Roy's keen
We've never seen a
Keener window-cleaner
Back up the ladder
Into each corner
Dunking the chamois
Just think of the goodwill
The ladder's a planet
Roy is a star, and
I am a satellite
(But that's alright)

As El P said, he's both.

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

lyrical genius, obviously.......and a great singer aswell

i always consider him to be awkward and complex rather than miserable.......he definitely doesn't cope with people very well which doesn't help him in interviews, plus he has obvious arrogance which doesn't help

his long bouts of depression would explain the miserable part of his persona

 

[Carrot Cruncher]

Genuinely beautiful song...

Good times for a change
See, the luck I've had
Can make a good man
Turn bad

So please please please
Let me, let me, let me
Let me get what I want
This time


Haven't had a dream in a long time
See, the life I've had
Can make a good man bad


So for once in my life
Let me get what I want
Lord knows, it would be the first time
Lord knows, it would be the first time

 

[Carrot Cruncher]

How can you question the genius of someone who came up with this beaut...?

Spending warm Summer days indoors
Writing frightening verse
To a buck-toothed girl in Luxembourg.

 

[Billy Mays]

So I broke into the palace
With a sponge and a rusty spanner
She said I know you and you cannot sing
I said that's nothing you should hear me play piano

and

Frankly Mr Shankly since you ask
You are a flatulent pain in the arse
I do not mean to be so rude
But still I must speak frankly Mr Shankly

 

[The-Libertine]

Beware!
I bear more grudges
Than lonely High Court judges
When you sleep
I will creep into your thoughts
Like a bad debt that you can't pay
Take the easy way
And give in.
Yeah, and let me in.

 

[We're the Stripes]

From "Still Ill"

"Well, if I were you I really wouldn't bother
For there are brighter sides to life
And I should know, because I've seen them
But not very often"

The way it's delivered always cracks me up for some reason.

 

[sjamesb3466]

Grumpy Old ****. He needs to stop feeling so f***ing sorry for himself and grow the f*** up.

 

[Brighton TID]

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

.

So I checked all the registered historical facts and was shocked and ashamed to discover, how i'm the eighteenth pale descendent of some old queen or other.

He is good actually isn't he?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

He's good, very good, but no genius. And I find his comments a bit dull these days. He seems to be trapped in a character.

 

[Dandyman]

Ludicrous old queen who'll be voting BNP in a couple of years.

 

[Trufflehound]

Oh, in my profession I'll work hard
But I'll never stop
I'll climb this blinkin' ladder
Till I get right to the top
Pyjamas lyin' side by side
Ladies nighties I have spied
I've often seen what goes inside
When I'm cleanin' windows

 

[The Wookiee]

I've come to wish you an unhappy birthday
I've come to wish you an unhappy birthday
'Cause you're evil
And you lie
And if you should die
I may feel slightly sad
(But I won't cry)

Loved and lost
And some may say
When usually it's Nothing
Surely you're happy
It should be this way ?
I say "No, I'm gonna kill my dog"
And : "May the lines sag, may the lines sag heavy and deep tonight"

I've come to wish you an unhappy birthday
I've come to wish you an unhappy birthday
'Cause you're evil
And you lie
And if you should die
I may feel slightly sad
(But I won't cry)

Loved and lost
And some may say
When usually it's Nothing
Surely you're happy
It should be this way ?
I said "No"
And then I shot myself
So, drink, drink, drink
And be ill tonight

 

[Return of the Rev]

Ludicrous old queen who'll be voting BNP in a couple of years.

genius

 

[Return of the Rev]

i cried all night the day you died,i cried all day that night you lied,but the thing i will always remember you for,was the way that you would hide behind any open door! GENIUS

 

[The Orange Seagull]

I remember this song being a particularly miserable one when it was out!!

William it was really nothing......

The rain falls hard on a humdrum town
This town has dragged you down
Oh, the rain falls hard on a humdrum town
This town has dragged you down
Oh, no, and everybody's got to live their life
And God knows I've got to live mine
God knows I've got to live mine
William, William it was really nothing
William, William it was really nothing
It was your life ...

How can you stay with a fat girl who'll say :
"Oh ! Would you like to marry me ?
"And if you like you can buy the ring"
She doesn't care about anything
Would you like to marry me ?
And if you like you can buy the ring
I don't dream about anyone - except myself !
Oh, William, William it was really nothing
William, William

 

[Icy Gull]

He's no Dylan is he?

 

[tricky]

If you must write prose or poems, the words you use should be your own. Don't plagiarize or take 'on loan'.

 

[Simster]

Sweetness, sweetness I was only joking when I said
I'd like to smash every tooth in your head

Sweetness, sweetness I was only joking when I said
by rights you should be bludgeoned in your bed


(genius)

 

[hans kraay fan club]

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...