Results for “Morrissey”

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Morrissey

A song about the paralysis of chronic loneliness, built around a narrator who insists on his ordinary human need for love while…

loneliness social anxiety inherited shame

The Smiths

A funeral dirge for a heartbreak that treats emotional death as literal burial. Morrissey's narrator addresses his mother from…

romantic despair self-burial/death imagery loneliness and self-loathing

The Smiths

A miniature comic-tragic monologue in which a narrator processes the possible death of a partner while confessing, almost…

guilt and ambivalence in intimate relationships mortality treated with dark comedy emotional repression and denial