Hand in Glove

Album: The Smiths (1983)
Charted: 124
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  • Lyrics currently unavailable Writer/s: Johnny Marr, Steven Morrissey
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

Comments: 3

  • Ciaran from DublinI agree with Neill from Birmingham
  • Smallalien from Earth “It’s not a shame... no” not “Kiss my shades”
  • Neil from Birmingham, UkInteresting that Johnny Marr thinks it's about their relationship. Not sure how 'And everything depends upon how near you stand to me' fits into that analysis. I always assumed it was about a real or imaginary homoerotic relationship. 'And let the people stare, oh I really don't know and I really don't care' seems to suggest Morrissey and his lover are throwing caution to the wind, speaking, if not shouting, the love that dare not speak it's name. The fact that the last lines of 'Pretty Girls make Graves' - in my opinion indisputably a song about homosexuality - are the opening lines of 'Hand in Glove', ('hand in glove, the sun shines out of our behinds') makes me more certain the two share a theme looked at in different ways; the pressure to conform and get a girlfriend versus ignoring society and damn the consequences.
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