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I don't understand the whole verse about Earls Court, anyone know?
I don't understand the whole verse about Earls Court, anyone know?
I tried thinking about it, and immediately realised I haven't the faintest idea either. It's kind of the sort of verse you don't need to understand in context for it to make sense and have significance (It may all end tomorrow/or it could go on forever/in which case I'm doomed is surely a line anyone can relate to, in some way or other).
And anyway, the whole point with the lyrics to Picadilly Palare is that it is the musicality of words taken to perfection.
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I used to hear "Love me, can't you love me, liar". Makes no difference really.
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Johnny Marr used to live in Earls Court.
Are you suggesting that Marr went prowling for late night sex? Just curious. After all, the song is referenced to speakers of Polari and their where-abouts.
**Just finished a 10,000 research project on Polari so I'm fairly knowledgeable about it.
I used to hear "Love me, can't you love me, liar". Makes no difference really.
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Earls Court is where male rent boys hung out, In your quote above, do you mean "With your lovely eek and lovely riah". Eek is a term for face and riah is hair backwards. Kinda slang...
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Earls Court is where male rent boys hung out, In your quote above, do you mean "With your lovely eek and lovely riah". Eek is a term for face and riah is hair backwards. Kinda slang...
Very sad, you're the only one who didn't get the joke.
Awww yeah. What a shame, eh?
Obviously one reading is that this is the Piccadilly of London and the song is about rent boys.The other reading is Morrissey is using male prostitution as a metaphor for the music industry and that the Piccadilly in question is in fact the one in Manchester...
The lyric works as an extended metaphor for his time in The Smiths. The "ancient trade" is making music. His records are "on the rack" and "a reasonably good buy". "The boys in my gang" are The Smiths who shared their own "silly slang" and so on. Earls Court is where Marr had his flat then, of course.
The solo Morrissey is romanticising his time in the band and clearly pining for old gang ethos he used to have back then. Typically pessimistic, Morrissey suggests if his career goes on forever then he's "doomed".
I didnt get the "joke" either.Im still looking for it
Which picture are you referring to?tells you that Morrissey's patterned shirt in the sex act picture with Jake might mean that he has a preference for frottage, or mutual masturbation or striptease in front of mirrors.