Morrissey Lyrics

    ------ About the song Dear God, Please Help Me performed by Morrissey

Last year on my B-day I asked for help. My situtation was dire. I have no work and am not rich. I asked for help and I received it. My life has been saved more than once, from either immediate death (war situation) or just society inflicted (economic crisis) circumstances. I do beleive, but I do not go to church.
There is power higher than all this around us. The lives we live are made by those on the top and the rules on taxation and all else we have to pay, regardless of our usage of these public assets, are construct of a human. Someone on the top (not God, but man) is scooping the cream, whilst most are just trying to make ends meet.

So do not give up that thought - there is an existence

    ------ About the song Dear God, Please Help Me performed by Morrissey

Dear God I know that you have always been beside me when I have needed you most.Please forgive me for all my sins . I really need you help. I have had a year full of changes and heartache.From my husband and I splitting up,having to move,losing my precious sweet dog ,losing a close friend of mine and having health members with sever health issues including my own.I pray that you please help me with dealing with all these changes, heart aches and loses in my life.Thank you Amen

    ------ About the song Certain People I Know performed by Morrissey

Basically, if you are' lucky' enough to survive lots and lots of seemingly endless despair, suffering, misfortune, loneliness, and all the rest, you come to a point where nothing really matters or effects you in a human way anymore. You can laugh at things. At it all. And though there is a message here, even that is taken light heartedly in the lyrics that cry but laugh at the same time. If that makes sense. Well it does to me. Oh well.

    ------ About the song The National Front Disco performed by Morrissey

Attention idiots: Morrissey is not glorifying racism, he's satirising it, and reflecting the disturbing nationalistic sentiment that swept the country in the eighties. He's said some pretty contraversial things that might better qualify the view of him as a racist, but this song just attempts to get into the mindset of a disenchanted youth who loses himself to the National Front in the quest for something greater than his own troubled life in Thatcherite Britain. The artist can sympathise with and express everything, and not every song need have a good-old fashione moral to it anyhow, though Morrissey is obviously one of the most anti-nationalistic people alive in Britian today.

    ------ About the song Suedehead performed by Morrissey

the best reviews are from zmanos and anonymous that states that the book- "suedehead" symbolizes the diary etc...

it can be widely interpreted...but definitely makes one feel melancholy, nostalgic for the 80's and pubescence...SAUDADE...sow-dahd-jee

    ------ About the song Suedehead performed by Morrissey

Morrissey's songs indeed can be interpreted in many ways, and since he often writes from the perspective of other people, boys, women, men, etc. they can mean many different things to different people. That being said, my interpretation is made through the lens of my self as the quasi-pubescent American male I was when I first heard the song. Initially, I'd made the distinction between Morrissey (me) singing in the first person, and the other, a teenage girl, who was the object of affection. When I later learned that Suedehead referred to a skinhead, I thought maybe the song might refer to early homosexual interests and explorations.

I think the diction of the lyrics intimate that the protagonist is a young person, and that, as someone mentioned above, the way the lyrics are sung imbues more meaning than the lyrics themselves. I think there is overt sexuality to it: "it makes it HARD for me" and "when you COME." The man has been known to make these over the top kinds of innuendos, although I understand that I come from an american, and perhaps inappropriate perspective. But the statements re childish. It reminds me in middle school of when young people are testing their flirting: "you want to give me a RIDE to the fair'" etc. In short I see the story of the song being one of a questioning young male falling for a young skinhead tough, a tough who clearly knows that the protagonist has a crush on him. The Suedehead plays with this dynamic, perhaps being curious, but also mean spirited and insecure, and flirts with the protagonist using various means (i.e., notes and coming around). The Suedehead has to confirm the fruits of his labour and to see if this kid really does have a crush on him.. and so he reads his diary. Having been found out, and nervous about the affair, not to mention denying what his true feelings may be, the protagonist feels embarrassed and sickened when he is found out.

I think the end lyrics are an afterthought, perhaps thrown in in the studio, but were spicy and thought provoking. He uses the lyrics as sort of a melodic outro, like a Boy with a Thorn in his Side, but perhaps creating the impression of a schoolboy-way to dismiss all that has happened. "Whatever, it was a good lay, or a bootleg" its just a way to trivialize the events. I don't think there has been any actual sex here, it's firmly placed in a mid-school way of speaking and acting.

As for the video, I think it just may be Morrissey paying homage to Dean, but also being slightly embarrassed that he may have written so effusively about him in his diary as a boy, and hence, the connection to the song.

    ------ About the song Suedehead performed by Morrissey

Anybody still confused about the meaning of this song should watch the video. It's on VH1 Classic all the time. And there's nothing ambiguous. These are Morrissey's feelings. And whether it's symbolic or real, whatever existed between the two is history. (What else could posing next to a grave marker imply?)

    ------ About the song Friday Mourning performed by Morrissey

More magic from the Genius "Morrissey". He is the most incredible artist and performer of all time. Only a Genius could write this and then perform it like Morrissey has done. The Queen is Dead, Long live Morrissey.

    ------ About the song Sweetie Pie performed by Morrissey

This is very different for a Morrissey song, but it really grew on me! the lyrics are beautiful and the vocals are unforgettable, especially at the end. Kristeen Young adds vocals on this song and they compliment it perfectly. Give it a second listen if it doesnt grab you at first, you'll be glad you didi. i don't know any other artist that delivers such strong b-sidea consistently!

    ------ About the song Dear God, Please Help Me performed by Morrissey

Great song but what a load of absolute dross has ensued herein.
The song is very sardonic and sarcastic in true Morrissey form. 'Dear God' is a mere metaphor herein expressing hopelessness - of the situation (one of crusing for gay sex/intereaction) and of belief in a deity. Morrisssey is an out-and-out affirmed ATHEIST!! Though like many of us wretched souls he too endure the perpetual religious indoctrination in childhood which leaves so very many such indoctrinees (especially those of Roman Catholic bent, such as I) in a state of guilt-laden confusion.

Realise there is no god(s). Stop frailing and prostrating yourself here and get on with enjoying your life on this wonderful planet. There is no life after death. There is no happy afterlife; you need to make the most of your life here and now and realise that the only true heaven is actually here on Earth; this world is a true paradise which provides all we need, if only we could just learn to accept that we live in symbiosis with this planet and its other lifeforms, rather than pompously asserting we rule the world.