🎵 The Smiths - I Know It's Over REACTION
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"Oh mother..."
It's not that he's literally talking to his mother, it's like he's calling out in desperation, fear and loneliness, reduced to a child like state of helplessness by the trauma of the situation.
"I can feel the soil falling over my head"
He feels like his life is over, like he is being buried alive, but in a passive, soft, almost indifferent way. The soil falling softly over him, slowly sealing his fate.
"Climb into an empty bed... oh well, enough said."
Obviously lamenting the fact he has no lover, "Enough said" obviously means the image of the empty bed says enough, but it is also a Morrissey style humours quip of mixing high romantic language with mundane, day to day (often northern English) phrases.
"I know it's over, I don't know where else I can go"
He understands that whatever relationship he had is over, but he can't let go emotionally, he doesn't know what to do.
"The sea wants to take me, the knife wants to slit me"
He's contemplating suicide, but he is transferring the agency to the sea and knife. Rather than saying he wants to drowned himself, it's the sea that's calling out for him, same with the knife. Poetry.
"Sad veiled bride.."
Here Morrissey describes the wedding of his lost lover, and in turn describes both bride and groom as both romantic and pathetic figures, a "sad veiled bride" who is also fat "give her room" and marrying out of desperation rather than love, and a "Handsome Groom" who is also a "Loud, loutish lover". Morrissey's equal treatment of them both makes ambiguous if it's the bride or groom who is the object of his love.
"I know it's over, and it never really began..."
This implies he never shared his feelings with the person he loved. He was too shy or afraid. But despite this he felt the love was as real as any.
"You even spoke to me..."
Both funny and tragic (classic Morrissey) it means he hardly even ever spoke to the person, maybe only once, and maybe this didn't even happen.
"If you're so funny… clever... entertaining... good looking."
His ego is taking a massive blow, if he's so clever and funny etc. why is he unable to get the one thing he wants most? Maybe he's not that great after all.
"Your triumphs and your charms, they're in each others arms."
Beautiful line. Says so much. It's his arrogance, his self aggrandisement that is really born out of a deep insecurity that prevents him from opening up emotionally to others.
"It so easy to laugh .. It takes guts to be gentle and kind"
Here the song moves into a more positive light, from his suffering has come insight. He must not let his love turn to hate, that would be weak and cowardly.
"Love is natural and real, but not for you my love"
Maybe the most Morrissey line Morrissey ever wrote. The first part a glorious affirmation of Love, the next twists this glorious affirmation into a cruel, sick joke that although Love is real, it will always elude him and by extension us "such as you and I". Here Morrissey is empathising with those of us who are empathising with him.
“Oh mother, I feel..”
I feel like I’m dying, repeat to fade.
great post!
Thanks 👍
This is the most spot on explanation of these lyrics I have ever heard. That's why I love Morrissey. He is a brilliant lyricist that makes you think instead of making the song so blatenly obvious.
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I always felt that when Morrissey states, "You even spoke to me, and said;" he then tells us what his lost love said to him, "If you're so funny, etc etc. Thus giving us insight that the love was not reciprocal, and that the marriage is the finality bringing what he knew to be true to a close.
More of The Smiths!!! PLEASE! Every song on this album is fabulous and Morrisey's lyrics dripping with sarcasm are a treat.
What’s your fav Smiths album Amy?
@@johnnygreen6205 I LOVE The Queen is Dead, probably my fave. Louder than Bombs and Strangeways, Here We Come are also faves. I remember when Sheila Take A Bow was on 120 Minutes (the old MTV alternative music show) all the time. Loved that song!
They do livestreams where if something gets the most requests And votes - it gets played. Then they edit the streams into separate song reactions and here we are!
In case you or anyone reading didn’t know (you’re the top comment so I hope livestream-unaware people see my comment)
@@NoUA-camName1 I use to always vote for the smiths on their live streams & they almost always never win. I was so happy when they finally were able to do How Soon is Now? The comments on the stream seemed to be anti-the smiths bc I guess they have a large metal/hair bands audience so it’s not their speed. Happy to see we’re progressing though!
"Please please please let me get what I want. Lord knows it would be the first time"
The Smiths - for those who get it, no explanation is needed. For those who dont, no explaining will do.
Very well said.
The Smiths was a 80s band, good ones to check out are 'There Is a Light That Never Goes Out' and 'How Soon Is Now?'
I believe that they already reacted to How Soon is Now
Still Ill, Barbarisim begins at home, The Headmaster Ritual, Nowhere Fast.
This is one of my favorite songs from The Smiths. Morrissey's lyrics are so deliciously cynical and sarcastic. And then there is his voice. I love Morrissey.
Brad & Lex, you'll love their "This Charming Man" !!
For first time listeners I would recommend, There is Light That Never Goes Out, Panic, This Charming Man, Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now, Big Mouth Strikes Again and What Difference Does it Make.
How could you leave out "Still Ill, I don't owe you anything, A Rush, and a Push, William it was really nothing, Rusholme ruffians, Some girls are bigger than others, Half a person, Sheila take a bow, and... well you get the idea! Great band!
Great selection. I would add Girlfriend In A Coma to that too.
@@ronaldmilner8932 I honestly didn’t know how well others received Still III. I love that song. The more you know!
'Well I Wonder' is a banger as well. There was a rumor that Morrissey and Marr said they never played it live because it was too beautiful haha! It was probably because it was too hard to perform but I like the mystique of it being too beautiful.
"That joke isn't funny anymore" it is also a beautiful song.
The best band of all time. They only put music out for 5 years, between 83-87, but it was a perfect run of masterpieces & classics.
And Morrissey is still going strong, just finished his tour in Brighton tonight, 40 years since his first...and he was awesome 👍
@@ChubbyChecker182 morrissey had a couple classic songs as a solo artist, but not a many as with the smiths.
@@marklewen9384 All of M's oevre is great. He's released just as many fantastic solo tracks than with The Smiths, you just haven't been paying attention
@@mozzerianmisanthrope406 No, not as many...and I HAVE Been paying attention since 1983.
@@marklewen9384 clearly not, Mark. Open your ears.
🎶”it takes strength to be gentle and kind”🎶
What a masterpiece.
One of the most interesting bands of all time.
This song is often described as the Smiths bleakest song, it's about a dying man looking back on his sad and lonely life. They are from the 80's
I dont read it that way. I see it as a gay guy who had a thing with a straight man. Or may have had an unrequited crush. Straight man is now getting married to a woman and it feels like a death for the singer. The singers friends tell him how handsome, funny etc he is but the reality is he always goes to bed alone. He believes he will always crush on unavailable men who treat him cruelly.
This is NOT from a dying man point of view. He is just feeling hopeless and all alone. Realising how miserable he is.
I feel his pain because morissey really is like that, and so am i. I can relate on so many levels.
@@rosiebottom3870no it is not. There’s literally an analysis of the lyrics in the comments section. Don’t defile the art.
@@tvscreen8397 you do know that we are allowed to interpret a song anyway we like? Morrissey never explains his lyrics. The interpretation you mention was by a person who didnt write the lyrics - we can all only guess what Morrissey was trying to say.
Yeah I also agree it's not about suicide or death, but the pain of unrequited love, and seeing someone you had such strong feelings for being love with someone else, who is living the perfect happy life you fantasised about in your head with them. I think the references to soil (being buried), knife (self harm) and the sea (drowning) highlights the narrator being unsure how he can continue in life without this person ever being a part of it. "I don't know where else I can go".
“Loud loutish lover treat her kindly…”
The best lyric ever written about loving someone who doesn’t love you.
Morrissey is pouring out his heart for a love he never had, a love he never experienced, he is angry and aggravated for having an idea of what it could have been, and yet, didn’t have the opportunity to embrace it. In the end of the song your hear his singing almost crying, OH MOTHER I CAN FEEL, THE SOIL…….. the love he dreamed about having, and looked forward to, ended before it began. In the song he laments it. When you experience what he sings, it’s a breath of fresh air. He is not in love with his mom, he expresses himself as a helpless child, who is experiencing extreme agony and calls out to his mom for help.
i think it is a hymn to teenage intensity and feels. like he has been loving somebody inside his head but never even spoke to the person and then this person finally talks with him and made him feel inadequate and his whole World falls apart and the drama is intense and lashes out about failed and miserable relationships other people have and self loathing and self harm... at least that was my intepretation when i found the smiths in my 90s teenage years as a very shy person
Yea I think she's off and married with some other guy, thus the bride and groom part. It might have been the girl he loved talking to him, or maybe someone else. I always to took the "you even spoke to me and said" questions as maybe a friend, or his mother literally chiding him for arrogance and boasting. He obviously talked a lot about how great he was to others, but in reality he was a mess. Classic overcompensation. The singer is complaining how despondent and miserable he is, and I think it can work as both a "teenage" first love obsession song, but also as someone even older, and who's personal life didn't turn out how he planned.
Gloriously melancholic Moz at his best.
Glad y’all are listening to more of The Smiths!!
This is one of my all time favourites. Hits me in the feels every time.
The desperation at the end...like my heart being dragged over broken glass. 40 years later and on certain days, I'm ugly crying.
@@MarkSentMeI hear ya man
Melancholic, overly dramatic and sarcastically funny- classic Smiths and I love it!!!
Arguably the most important indie band of them all, The Smiths wrote unique songs with an appeal that refuses to diminish. As a working band, The Smiths existed from just 1982 to 1987, yet their music continues to exert an influence on successive generations of fans.
One of the greatest British groups of all time
One of the greatest groups of all time, period!
Wrong, the greatest british band of all time ;)
Morrissey recorded that vocal in one take. Amazing
Honestly, he gets all the plaudits for his lyrics and frontmanship, but I actually think he's really overlooked as a vocalist. So much talent, and a real ear for haunting melody.
WOW! I didn't know this. Awesome info; thank you!
I LOVE The Smiths. Morrisey's voice... Delectable.
For me, it sounds like a song of rejection, loneliness, regret and longing. Of looking backwards and questioning who you were and the decisions that left you alone.
Sounds like a repressed gay man full of self pity and depression.
@Lauren Lewis He rejected himself. He still has never come out of his self built dark closet.
Perfectly put
Omg ye guys just don't get it and you never will 😢
It is about someone who has never has loved anyone but in his imagination and from observation. And in this loveless life and in his despair, he might as well be dead: 'I know it is over' and 'the soil falling over my head'.
The part about the sad bride is an observation about other people's love life. The part about if him being still alone if he is all that awesome, gives me the impression of an imaginary lover talking to him after their imaginary love life was over.
Still he clings to live, tries to be nice, trying to find love but knows it will not come natural and it ends in despair.
Morrissey said it was about a man nearing the end of his days reminiscing about past chances he threw away .
So im in my 40s and the smiths have been my favourite band since I was 13,,, watching you guys experience these songs for the first time makes me happy and envious at the same time.. also love how you interpret, and try and guess the era etc... LOL
Jonny Marr's "Jangle Pop Guitar Style" influenced the sound of music for the next decade, he's one the greats.
wow, I've never felt more British watching this.
Americans interpret everything too literally. This song has to wash over your soul on so many levels. To find a literal meaning, as if there could only be one meaning, 'soils' the specialness of such an ethereal and beautiful song.
tearing up while listening to this song.....
Morriseys songs are drenched in isolation, fear, angst and loss. The fear is always aloneness - so I interperate "feel soil falling over my head" as a dread of a forever empty life - dying alone, buried alone, always alone.
🖤 Ha ! The 80s melancholy 🖤
I think the song is about losing a guy to a girl. My take is: this guy gave him all of these compliments while they were dating,or maybe just friends, then married a girl for appearances and financial stability, instead of love. I think he’s reflecting on all of the compliments his guy paid him, then saying to himself “then why am I alone tonight?” etc. He’s heartbroken to the point of being suicidal. When he says “It’s so easy to hate” “It takes strength to be gentle and kind.”, he’s giving himself credit/complimenting himself for not hating him.
This charming man is pretty good song you guys should try it
Aaaaaaaw ❤️❤️❤️the most beautiful song ever! You’re probably right about his voice not being perfect but it is perfectly yearning, soulful, mournful etc
7:33 "I'm a little confused about what's going on" - pretty much all your interpretations
A difficult sensibility to come to terms with. Very much the idealistic romantic poet torn by life's harsh treatment. Joy then sadness, love then loss, kindness meets brutality... the poor soul is crushed by the antagonism of life. But, he can at least keep true, set this to poetry and sing it to his dear Mother, as a farewell - cos he's not sticking around for all that BS
Its an 80s group. Their songs are all very angsty and indulge your sadness. I'm sure a lot of 90s groups were inspired by and fans of this group as they were hugely popular.
Morrissey was a clinically depressed, repressed closeted gay man, who wanted to be an old school crooner in a progressive rock band, and his lyrics are full of self pitying and self loathing.
But the songs do sound good.
They were hugely popular in select groups, usually of angtsy college kids away from home for the first time. 90% of regular people never heard of them.
@@nealm6764 I've been a fan of the group since the 80s along with my friends since Jr High and High School - they were far more than a college band. They didn't become a legendary band as a result of only 10% of the population being fans
Oasis is the most famous follow on 90s group to The Smiths.
Lot of emo bands from the 00s are big fans too.
@@peterandjunko The Stone Roses are an important link in that Manchester band continuum. (Smiths were studenty. Oasis were football lads. The 'Roses were the inbetween.)
Lol, it's shocking how little the people in the video understand the meaning of this song.
I used to listen to this to cheer myself up when I was a teenager...
Ask is a good one that people seem to forget in all these lists :)
Ooohh man .. The Smiths ❤️ such a beautiful Band .. it’s ok to not be ok
Smiths are freakin awesome. They are also one of Phil Anselmo, the singer from Pantera, favorite groups. Weird one but true.
I doubt there will ever be another time period + band like the Smiths coupled together. Perfect match of time period and band.
I think the Smiths fit into every time period. I think it hits hardest if you're still a young person. So that's why it probably resonated so well with you (and me) at that age in the eighties.
The Smiths are one of the greatest rock bands in history!! I have waited for a long time for you to do another Smiths reaction! I hope to see a reaction to their song "Barbarism begins at home'!
Oh this one I remember so well the first time I heard it in 85 I was literally paralyzed totally chocked in the record store. With my awkward French accent and trembling voice of a young teen I asked I want this song. The seller watched me with a smile « welcome to our world »
Every day is like Sunday !!@, next please Brad & Lex.
Moz, Marr, Rourke, Joyce - these are The Smiths!~
The Smiths saved my life from suicide, there are bands and there's the Smiths. Morrissey is my savior!!!!!!
Their music is one of the things that helped me through dark times, too. I’m happy you’re still here. 🤙🏽
Keep the Smiths reactions coming, and throw in some solo Moz too!
I think the song is about humiliation and self deception.
Absolutely agree. Coming to the sad teenage realization of self deception in terms of non-reciprocated love
One of the most beautiful songs ever written… Their output in the four years they were together was simply phenomenal!
It is easy to laugh and to hate ,it takes strength to be gentle and kind
So many years since I've heard this and every word and note comes back. I can sing along now like I did so long ago driving with this album blasting in the tape deck. So many good songs.
The Smiths were a fabulous aberration in the 80s really when guitar groups and proper songs weren't really the thing. The name says a lot in a decade of excess they wanted the plainest name possible.
Released in 1986, my sophomore of college.
Since Lex loves guitars, you would be happy to know that Johnny Marr, The Smiths guitarist, has been ranked as one of the greatest guitars of all time. Even guitar masters give him kudos. The Smiths are equal to The Beatles when it comes to influencing bands of today.
The meaning of this record is twofold. The generic meaning is just desperation for love and feeling the depths of loneliness without it.
My meaning was much more personal. There was this one girl in college that I loved, but when we broke up, I felt completely empty, and this song was my go-to for self-healing. I couldn't have her any longer and felt that love just would never come again.
MEAT IS MURDER is a great song. Also, THERE IS A LIGHT THAT NEVER GOES OUT.
About time we got some Morrissey on this channel. Keep going, lots of great songs.
This is song is incredible. Morrissey's voice is the epitome of sexy sadness. Got to watch the sound quality on those lyric videos. This was a rough listen.
Morrissey is a song writing genius..
The Jeff Buckley cover of this song is a must listen
You’re right. It’s magical.
The smith's weren't my favourite band back in the 80s. But god those songs have stuck with me. The most phenomenal act of the 80s
The Smiths are kind of like 80s hair metal you either love it or you absolutely hate it. As for me I love the Smiths
I love. I've always suspected Smiths-haters to be folks who just don't get Moz's humour, and probably think he's simply whining.
What a lovely song from such a lovely band 🥀
I was a student in the the mid 80s in the UK and The Smiths were my favourite cult band who made it huge. React to any song from the The Queen is Dead album and you can't go wrong. Morrissey, the lead singer was known for his somewhat over-dramatic and at the same time ironic lyrics . He also threw in a lot of literary references - a real character. It's worth watching a few of their live performances. Johnny Marr's guitar was brilliant and unique. Brad was right when he said it was hard to place them in time - they had a really timeless sound. My own favourite song is This Charming Man -- their debut hit from 1983. It kind of sums them up musically and lyrically.
Love Morissey's voice....his solo stuff is good as well
Seen the Smiths for the Meat is Murder and the Queen is Dead tours......amazing band live..... as long as you don't have hay fever hahahahaha
Honestly one of the best songs ever
7:24 "does he have s girlfriend or not?" 😂😂 no one knows
This is the greatest Smiths song ever! But also check out :” Shop lifters of the world unite”.
Unit and take over
" My only weakness is a listed crime.
But last night the plans of a future war. Was all I saw on Channel 4"
There’s a reason they call Morresy the Pope of Mope
God, I forgot how great Morrissey's lyrics used to be.
Many still are from his solo stuff.
They still are.
@@mozzerianmisanthrope406 mate have you listened to his 2020 album? it’s possibly the biggest musical downfall i’ve ever seen from an artist
When I've seen "What's the saddest song of all time?" on my feed, I always answer with this song. The Smiths are amazing, super influential on late 80s/90s alternative music (and beyond). The Singer Morrissey has an incredible voice, had really great solo songs/career, but he's become kind of a d*** in the past 10-15 years. He wasn't always super nice, but now...whoa
Hand in Glove and Pretty Girls Make Graves are my favorite Smiths songs. Off their debut album, The Smiths.
In this song he's telling his mother that his relationship with a girlfriend its over, but his mother always told him that he was a very good looking guy, so he's asking sarcastically to himself why he's spending the nights alone.
Nope.
Love old Smiths! This one is circa 1986, by the way. More please! One of my all-time favs from this same album is "There is a light that never goes out", a must try!
They're big in Cali like LA and have ties to the hispanic population there, very interesting band hope you listen to more.
Almost suicidal, I liked them though, because they were unique.. Sort of like the cure I felt... Great poet btw
More Smiths, pleeeease!! And more Pixies!
I think Morrissey wrote songs for other demographics (gay, bi, straight, etc). He claims in interviews he had miserable early experience with heterosexual relationships then decided to be asexual. Any song he wrote may likely not have applied to his own life but to others.
Morrissey never said any of that
@@ravenknight1704 He said it in an interview.
@@ravenknight1704 ua-cam.com/video/pcAJjcOlUG0/v-deo.html Watch the entire 3-part interview. It's in there.
@@mynameispaul0530 I've watched every part of that interview dozens of times, he doesn't once say he's asexual.
@@ravenknight1704 believe what you want to believe I'm not your personal assistant to get you up to speed on Morrissey lol
The Smiths "Girlfriend in a Coma" will be a great follow-up
There is a light that never goes out!
Oh my god. I can only imagine how badly Brad is going Bomb this interpretation.
Definitely more Smiths! One of the greatest, most influential bands of all time. I've heard it said that Radiohead is what happens when Pink Floyd and The Smiths have a baby.
Also, please react to Death Grips - Guillotine.
There's a whole world in this song from mind-numbing self pity to fears of never being capable of intimate relationships to crippling fear that life is over before it has even begun and death will come before it does actually begin to a tender appreciation of how vulnerable his mother felt as a newly wed to his understanding that he wants to overcome his tendency to put up barriers to other people by using the defences of sarcasm - he wants instead to do the harder and braver thing of being gentle, kind and vulnerable. It's pretty close to being a brave self portrait - thanks Morrissey for the therapy session !
My 80s childhood.
This Charming Man, Back to the Old House, I Want the One I Can’t Have!
"A double bed and a stalwart lover for sure. These are the riches of the poor".
Brad, you might want to sit down for this, but : some Ambrosia salad has both Cream Cheese AND Sour Cream along with the whipped cream. Now wrap your taste buds around that.
Please react to Morrissey - Suedehead 🙏 He's the lead singer of The Smiths and has an excellent solo discography
🇬🇧Proudly made in Manchester🇬🇧
….in 1980’s
I remember one day I was thinking “ that would be cool to have this awkward voice as a singer 🤔 why has nobody ever really don’t something like that .. It would be so great “ then I realized I was listening to The Smiths a few day earlier 😂 his voice is so awkward yet so beautiful and artistic.. no wonder so many people Obsess over the Smiths at certain points of their life
I think he had a great voice, but it's like he was too cool or detached to let it soar too much. There are few songs where he really belts it out, but he was definitely capable of it.
There Is A Light That Never Goes out |
T H E S M I T H S
Love The Smiths! "How Soon Is Now?" is probably their most iconic song. If you want to check it out, I recommend trying to find the original that's 6+ minutes long.
They reacted to this already
@@Hasta-la-pasta OK. I'll have to look it up. Thanks. 👍
The description you are looking for is a “Torch Song”
I am old enough to remember the song when. It came out ON vinyl. It’s been my favorite song since I think 1986.
This rabbit hole is phenomenal…
They are ‘80s and Old school..
Guitarist Johnny Marr is a genius… so influential
Love it.
If I was to recommend other Smiths songs, let it be "Heaven knows I'm miserable now", "What difference does it make", "This night has opened my eyes" and "Stop me if youthink you've heard this one before" oh and of course "Ask", which includes the all-time favourite line "If it's not love, then it's the bomb that will bring us together" :)
Manchester, so much to answer for
The Smiths have a lot of songs about failed relationships. Morrisey (the singer and lyricist) has had an uneven history with long-term relationships. He's had long periods of celibacy as well as relationships with both men and women. So the theme of "why can everyone do this except me?" seems to be common in Smiths songs.
Morrisey actually wrote the song from a depressed and alienated state, a feeling that there was nothing left in life to live for. (it's also a talk with his alter ego, hence the line "you even spoke to me and said.."...)...the middle refrain warns people who have it all not to take advantage of it, cherish it because it could all disappear..
The Smiths are known for their dark lyrics and themes while contrasting with some more upbeat music, but this song seems to be more on the same page than their songs usually are. The lyrics are often sardonic, Morrissey can be a bit of an Oscar Wilde type. I believe this song is from the mid-1980s. With all that said, it always helps to look back at their songs through the lens of a singer/songwriter who was in the closet, much like Wilde unable to be open about his sexuality, their works often are a blend of what they must have been feeling on a personal level as well as larger more existential themes. Most of Morrissey’s catalog was recorded while he was closeted as the best we get to a coming out occurs in the late ‘00s, (when he was in his early-to-mid 50s.)
LOVE the Smiths! This song is hypnotic and mysterious, not only in its lyrics but in the music itself. Please review "Big Mouth"!
Poodle skirts and the pixies MOZ would LOVE that! Great reaction and great video… the Smith’s rule!
Smiths lyrics are hilarious. Definitely worth digging more into them.