Something Is Squeezing My Skull

Album: Years of Refusal (2009)
Charted: 46
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Songfacts®:

  • This song appears to be about the depression Morrissey has battled since his teenage years.
  • This is one of five songs on Years of Refusal, which was co-written by Morrissey's former guitarist Alain Whyte. However Whyte did not participate in the recording of the album for the first time since 1992's Your Arsenal.

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