Compelling Couplets

A mere over-exaggerated metaphor...

You told me all the things that people cannot stand about me
I just wished you'd stayed around and help me put them right
 
I'm, Slipping below the water line
Reach for my hand, And, And the race is won
 
Show me a barrel and watch me scrape it
Faced with the music, as always I'll face it
 
I have forgiven you Jesus

For all the desire you placed in me when there's nothing I can do with this desire


I have forgiven you Jesus

For all of the love you placed in me when there's no one I can turn to with this love
 
Sick down to my heart
That’s just the way it goes.
 
But sometimes I feel more fulfilled
Making Christmas cards with the mentally ill
 
And you can shoot me
And you can throw me off a train
I still maintain
I still maintain
Life, life is a pigsty
 
A job half done
Isn't done
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Gandlord, there's a clock on the wall
Making fun of us all
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At one time the future it stretched out before me
But now it stretches behind
 
Always looking for attention
Always needs to be mentioned

While I totally love this song (LSGD), I've often wondered what motivated Morrissey to write such a song. It truly is genius but why choose this as subject matter?

A quick check offers possibilities:

 
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Always looking for attention
Always needs to be mentioned

While I totally love this song (LGSGD), I've often wondered what motivated Morrissey to write such a song. It truly is genius but why choose this as subject matter?
Maybe he sees misogyny in motion as females flirt with people they don't see the danger of.
 
Always looking for attention
Always needs to be mentioned

While I totally love this song (LSGD), I've often wondered what motivated Morrissey to write such a song. It truly is genius but why choose this as subject matter?

A quick check offers possibilities:


I thought it was a metaphor for fame - he's the girl trying to get attention, the lifeguard is the business not paying attention, so she drowns - feeling half aggrieved that the lifeguard was lousy at his job & half like a prat for being in the water.
 
I thought it was a metaphor for fame - he's the girl trying to get attention, the lifeguard is the business not paying attention, so she drowns - feeling half aggrieved that the lifeguard was lousy at his job & half like a prat for being in the water.
Maybe read link I provided. Interesting. Why are things shrouded in mystery & never clear cut? I hate ambiguity. I like facts, certainty, & black & white decisiveness.
 
Maybe read link I provided. Interesting. Why are things shrouded in mystery & never clear cut? I hate ambiguity. I like facts, certainty, & black & white decisiveness.
You had to sneak into my room
'just' to read my diary
 
Maybe read link I provided. Interesting. Why are things shrouded in mystery & never clear cut? I hate ambiguity. I like facts, & black & white decisiveness.

I read the link - I can't see it being Jo Slee, it's too self-contained.

Probably was inspired by Not Waving, But Drowning, the Stevie Smith poem, where the drowning is a metaphor for no one noticing you're not coping with life.

He was more explicit & cheerful about it on the Lifeguard, save me from life song (can't remember the title!).

It's art! It's meant to be mysterious. 😁
 
This is Not Waving, But Drowning by Stevie Smith 👇

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