mspendl828, I think if you read Vauxhall's last post again it will be clearer. He/she is comparing the broken spine of THPU to the people who "break their necks and can't afford to get them fixed" in CPIK.
For what it's worth, Vauxhall, I agree--it's an example of how Morrissey would have turned a line with more wit back then. That "broken spine" / "sweetie" verse always reeked of "first draft" to me--alarmingly, it has not been changed.
I find signs of lyrical life in I'm Playing Easy to Get that got drastically overlooked. I find the line "do I have to drop anchor like a sailor..." to be very funny in the old Carry On style. The title itself seems like it could have been pulled from the Viva Hate or Bona Drag eras.
Musically, the tune is a little humdrum--the break seems to want more than the rolling guitar figure. I think perhaps that is why it was abandoned--good lyrics, decent tune, but no direction as to how to complete it. I find it to be worlds beyond Noise is the Best Revenge and ardently wished that it had been the Janice Long session song released on a B-side. Considering It's Hard to Walk Tall When You're Small had just been a single B-side a year before, he could have at least tucked I'm Playing Easy to Get on the DVD single. Then again, I suspect he was holding it out for the next album and dropped it when RotT developed its own sound.
Cheers,
Jamie