With close memories of the distant winter of 1997/1998, Now I Am A Was, coupled with This Is Not Your Country felt, as 1998 turned to 99 and onto 2000 and beyond, as if it was a faint farewell swansong – was Morrissey now ‘a was’? The song seemed to imply, like the wonderful closer to You Are The Quarry, You Know I Couldn’t Last, that Morrissey may be shuffling off the musical mortal coil, to never return. In such, my fondness and connection for this lightweight song grew over the years - it started near the bottom and worked its way up….