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what do these lines refer to and mean?

from: A Swallow On My Neck

I have been smashed again
with the men from the old
Valhallah Road crematorium

Then I was wrecked again
with the men full of bluff
and ardour from a well-known
funeral parlour
 
> what do these lines refer to and mean?

> from: A Swallow On My Neck

> I have been smashed again
> with the men from the old
> Valhallah Road crematorium

> Then I was wrecked again
> with the men full of bluff
> and ardour from a well-known
> funeral parlour

I always assumed it meant "out getting drunk."
 
> I always assumed it meant "out getting drunk."

It's the 'bluff and ardour' that always stumped me.
bluff is slang for cocaine?
 
> It's the 'bluff and ardour' that always stumped me.
> bluff is slang for cocaine?

Is it? I have no idea.

Anyway, I'm American and I realize that there are many British slang words and references in his songs that are lost on me. Luckilly we have the fabulous "It May All End Tomorrow" website to set us straight on many of them.
 
I think you're looking for meanings that just aren't there.
Bluff = lies, trickery and Ardour = passion, fervour. It isn't English slang. I'm sure Morrissey enjoyed working the word "ardour" into a song - Kenneth Williams would be proud. What rhymes with ardour? Parlour?

> Is it? I have no idea.

> Anyway, I'm American and I realize that there are many British slang words
> and references in his songs that are lost on me. Luckilly we have the
> fabulous "It May All End Tomorrow" website to set us straight on
> many of them.
 
The ardour I harbour

kind of like the zeal I feel. Works well in love letters and bomb threats.

Feel free to plagarize.
 
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