The simple and sweet lyrics with the innocent sounding melody is hiding something dark, there's a story being told here, but he's leaving it to the listener to work it out. It definitely takes many listens to pick it up but the "innocent" and "pious" declarations of the "protagonist in this song are all an act. "See how words as old as sin fit me like a glove"

This song is possibly more complex than it seems, it takes a turn that is a little suspect ... "I once had a child, and it saved my life And I never even asked his name I just looked into his wondrous eyes And said : "never never never again"... And all too soon I did return Just like a moth to a flame So rattle my bones all over the stones I'm only a beggar-man whom nobody owns Oh, see how words as old as sin Fit me like a glove I'm here and here I'll stay Together we lie, together we pray "Climb upon my knee sonny boy although you're only three ... And your mother she just never knew" as Morrissey often does he leaves little clues, I don't know if these words hint at pedophilia but the theme of child abuse and the church have popped up in other lyrics. I feel this one is open to interpretation.

it will grow on you. Lyrically one of their most interesting and musically one of their most hypnotic. Beautifully dark song I love it.

Discovered The Smiths in 1986 at The Record Rack in Houston. This is my least favorite song of theirs. Never got into it. But LOVE The Smiths. If you want a laugh, search Morrissey visits Record Rack to see Texas in the 89s.

pretty sure i requested this one before but Duran Duran - Save A Prayer

Most people are moved by The Smiths but you really understand them

Like suffer little children i think the lyrics address his childhood fears of the moors murders near his home in Manchester.

Here's a link to another great song, That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore" kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q7yFn7Rq0J_Tkas.html

Yes! I’m hyped to see this review. Also please react to Oasis - Wonderwall They were a band from Manchester UK en basically dominated the mid 90’s and it’s nice to know the backstory of the two brothers.

The meaning of the song is not difficult to work out at all. It's obvious. It's about someone that wants to tell his estranged son, that he would be there, at his bedside to comfort him from his nightmares. The imagery, 'A piano plays in an empty room, there'll be blood on the cleaver tonight', conjures up the visions of nightmares. 'Please don't cry, for the ghost, and the storm outside, will not invade your sacred mind...' (probably got some of the lyrics wrong), says the same thing. 'Ceiling shadows shimmy by, and when the wardrobe towers like a beat of prey, I'll still be by your side', are also the things that occupy the frightened imaginations of children in bed. The singer being in the first person, is musing what he wishes he could do, but is not present to do so, so it's a father that, for whatever reason, is not able to be physically there for his child. 'So rattle my bones all over the stones, I'm only a beggar man that nobody owns'; perhaps he was a drunk, the reason for his absence from fatherhood, and drifts from place to place, drinking more to fight the pain: 'See how words as old as sin, fit me like a glove...'.

Hi there, i just subbed, could you react to - It's Not Living (If It's Not With You) by The 1975. Interested to see how you break it down. Thanks.

Dont take these songs too literally. They're not Autobiographical.

If you lack emotional intelligence...skip this track. This song is ALL about the lyrics. Not to say the basic little guitar riff isn't glorious but there's really no outstanding catchy chorus line like you'd get in a regular formatted song..BUTT. For you uber intellectuals, like I strive to be... This is pure Shakespeare but written in our own good cook language. It's just sheer poetry dude.

Funny how americans pays so much attention to lyrics - who cares, its the song