Morrissey is like the Steve Martin of rock and roll. Not every record is great, but he is remarkably consistent, and he can veer into territory where others dare not tread.
As in below:
Always be careful when you abuse the one you loveHmmm. Morrissey's writing about death, again. Nobody else writes songs about death like this.
The hour or the day no one can tell
But one day "goodbye" will be "farewell"
And you will never see the one you love again
I think it's because heterosexual people in the developed world don't have the same experience of death that gay men who came of age in the 80s did. And secular straight people don't have a ritual or devotional context for dealing with or thinking about death, outside of movies. And, perhaps, Morrissey.
And in the back, his drummer, pounding out a furious, improbable beat, as if to underscore the speed of life's passing.
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