BookishBoy
Well-Known Member
Today's song is this Morrissey/Whyte composition, from the Years of Refusal album.
What do we think?
you dont get it? it's very simple!I really like this one. I like his voice and the music, lots of energy. The words are kind of strange and I don't quite get it but that's okay. It's pretty dramatic with the drums and sort of mariachi vibe of the horns and guitars and then the whistling "lead," and all leading into the
"Black earth upon the casket fell
She had faded to
Something I always knew
To the rescue
Nobody ever comes"
I don't really have to know what it all means, it's like watching a telenovela when your Spanish isn't great but you get the feeling. I think this is another one that I'd really only expect Morrissey to come up with. 8/10
you dont get it? it's very simple!
she killed herself. she had reached out to him, that is, the singer of the song, but he couldnt help her, because the truth is that even in your darkest hour a person, especially if that person is morrissey, cant pretend to be more than they are. when he says "to the rescue nobody ever comes" he's including himself in that, he never comes to anybody's rescue. and he's accepting of that, of the inadequacy of others to help a person, if it means having to distort the truth.
shit, it's not dostoevsky, darling.
So much for nuance.you dont get it? it's very simple!
she killed herself. she had reached out to him, that is, the singer of the song, but he couldnt help her, because the truth is that even in your darkest hour a person, especially if that person is morrissey, cant pretend to be more than they are. when he says "to the rescue nobody ever comes" he's including himself in that, he never comes to anybody's rescue. and he's accepting of that, of the inadequacy of others to help a person, if it means having to distort the truth.
shit, it's not dostoevsky, darling.