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Favourite song on 'World Peace.....' 1 year on?
Favourite song on 'World Peace.....' 1 year on?
Smiler With Knife, though I like all of them. The only two I feel are slightly repetitive are Forgive Someone and Julie In The Weeds.
It seems like a pretty straighforward song about fraternity and the sacrificial bond that develops between brothers in arms during combat situations. Very similar to "The Soldiering Life" by The Decemberists, actually. It doesn't need to be about a real person. As for why Morrissey wrote it, he's always used his music to tell stories. For every supposedly autobiographical song, we also got "November Spawned a Monster," "Picadilly Palare," "Jack the Ripper" etc.Can i ask, what or whom is one of your own about? I don't get that song. I know its about sacrifice and suicide but why did he write it
Thank you for your response. Also i was thinking this morning about something similar that you said about morrissey telling stories with his songs. I often wondered why people and sometimes even myself always assume that morrissey songs are all autobiographical. Morrissey often inventes people and situations to explain emotions he and others have felt. Like the song sunny and there's a light that never goes out.It seems like a pretty straighforward song about fraternity and the sacrificial bond that develops between brothers in arms during combat situations. Very similar to "The Soldiering Life" by The Decemberists, actually. It doesn't need to be about a real person. As for why Morrissey wrote it, he's always used his music to tell stories. For every supposedly autobiographical song, we also got "November Spawned a Monster," "Picadilly Palare," "Jack the Ripper" etc.
As for my favorite song on WPINOYB, probably "Drag the River". I don't understand the lack of love for that song on here. It has a beautiful, plaintive melody and is certainly one of the strongest songs of the bunch lyrically. I get chills every time I listen.
Thank you for your response. Also i was thinking this morning about something similar that you said about morrissey telling stories with his songs. I often wondered why people and sometimes even myself always assume that morrissey songs are all autobiographical. Morrissey often inventes people and situations to explain emotions he and others have felt. Like the song sunny and there's a light that never goes out.
Except There Is A Light That Never Goes Out is definitely autobiographical, and in my opinion so is Sunny.
Except There Is A Light That Never Goes Out is definitely autobiographical, and in my opinion so is Sunny.
Except There Is A Light That Never Goes Out is definitely autobiographical, and in my opinion so is Sunny.
I don't want to start a thing, but I don't think so. There's a light that never goes out is definitely not about Johnny as many believe. Here is quotes from songs that saved your life page 151
" there's a light that never goes out is commonly and contentiously discussed, many taking the idealistic romantic view that its words amount to wholly autobiographical confession of morrissey's feelings towards his songwriting partner. Asked in 2005 the singer stated ' it wasn't and it isn't.'
Here is johnnys quote. "Marr coyly insists he 'never spends much time thinking about that stuff', noting for the record that in literal lyrical reading he wasn't 'the only person to drive morrissey around in a car, put it that way"
On curious note, what or who do you think sunny and there's a light that never goes out is about
I don't want to start a thing, but I don't think so. There's a light that never goes out is definitely not about Johnny as many believe. Here is quotes from songs that saved your life page 151
" there's a light that never goes out is commonly and contentiously discussed, many taking the idealistic romantic view that its words amount to wholly autobiographical confession of morrissey's feelings towards his songwriting partner. Asked in 2005 the singer stated ' it wasn't and it isn't.'
Here is johnnys quote. "Marr coyly insists he 'never spends much time thinking about that stuff', noting for the record that in literal lyrical reading he wasn't 'the only person to drive morrissey around in a car, put it that way"
On curious note, what or who do you think sunny and there's a light that never goes out is about