Pretty Girls Make Graves

Album: The Smiths (1984)
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  • Lyrics currently unavailable Writer/s: Johnny Marr, Steven Morrissey
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

Comments: 3

  • Uri from BrazilI always understood that the other man who took her hand was the narrator himself; he gives it up to lust, but does not recognize himself while doing it, so he speaks of his act as one of another man's; since he betrayed both his idealized self and his idealized romance with a woman, and cannot understand his true (gay) self, he loses his faith in womanhood
  • Misougenous from ItalyIs evident that the songs talk about a celibate, just like Morrisey, who loses his promiscuous friend because she forget him to another stupid boy.
  • Neil from Birmingham, UkI don't buy it. This song is about the danger pretty girls that fancied you posed if you were gay. You have a difficult line to walk; you can't say no because she's pretty but you would rather do anything else. 'I'm not the man you think I am' and 'I could have been wild and I could have been free, but nature played it's trick on me.' That trick is surely the subverting of his sexual desires to men instead of women.
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