So, the poll winner is 'I Know It's Over', so the Beeb choose a completely different song to talk about?
It could EASILY be about the breakup of his family via divorce. It doesn't take much imagination to see that. He starts out hating the memories and ends up wishing he could be back in time when his family life was safe and warm but he knows that can never happen.
I love Asleep and particularly this clip because it is obviously so hard for him to sing it
If we are talking about truly tragic songs, 'People Are the Same Everywhere' always brings me to tears.
Oh, most of these comments as per are beyond YAWN. Anybody from a broken home struggles with breakups. That is why we seek long lasting love, the secure couldn't give a hoot. I fell in love with a Spaceman. It's sent me huts.
No. I am a child of divorce. The song spoke to me deeply. Not everything in this world requires literal translation. No kids..no grndr you a**. Why must you try to ruin all that is beautiful? How sad.
It could EASILY be about the breakup of his family via divorce. It doesn't take much imagination to see that. He starts out hating the memories and ends up wishing he could be back in time when his family life was safe and warm but he knows that can never happen.
Shaped by different life experiences, someone could hear it differently. The voice says much more than the words ever could. And the voice tells a different story to different listeners. If one is open and doesn't take the songs words literally... then one will hear whats really being said to them.
It was exactly this for me. Nothing is more difficult as a child to have your parents split up. His music has helped me recognize and deal with my most inner feelings through his remarkable ability to express his own. What a gift he has given us. We small few who get it. We lucky few.
Well, someone once sang something like "it only hurts because it's true." Nice use of reductive, though.
My literal translation shouldn't affect your attachments to the song, and I was making a joke. I read your post as an analysis of the lyrics. My parents divorced, too. I don't have kids or a grindr account, either. But my joke was that the guy that was riding by on the bicycle might have been as huma as Morrissey, and that it would be ironic if Morrissey is still thinking about him and could have done something about it. I didn't intend to be mean. I don't think I'm responsible for ruining anything though. If you had written, "to me it means" or but you wrote as if you were analyzing the song and not about how one part of the song reminds you of your childhood. Maybe you should switch to "Our House" and cheer up.
Nobody knows what the songs are about except Morrissey, we just interpret them as we see fit. One of my favourite songs (by another artist) is Ever Fallen In love, with someone you should't have. I love the song because in my mind it describes my falling in love with another women whilst married to someone else. However I have met the writer several times and its nothing to do with anything like that, although he is impressed how the song works with the timeline to my life and feels good that it works for people in a way that he never expected.
Bit like The Bunnymen with Nothing Lasts Forever - doubt he expected it to be a big request at funerals, when he wrote it!
Nothing is more difficult as a child to have your parents split up.
ugh. And there's some people who had better things happen to them as kids.
I don't know any that ever married. You suprise me.Ironically, most children from broken homes end up divorced as adults.
"Child" of divorce? LMAO - was't he 17 when his parents split up? Moz attempting to tug on the heartstrings with a crock o shite, as usual.
I love Asleep and particularly this clip because it is obviously so hard for him to sing it