As merry as the days were long Back at the old grey school But you've got everything now No, I've never had a job I've seen you smile So who is rich and who is poor? You are your mother's only son But I don't want a lover A friendship sadly lost? But did I ever tell you, by the way? But you've got everything now No, I've never had a job I've seen you smile So who is rich and who is poor? Oh... But I don't want a lover Songwriters: JOHNNY MARR, STEVEN MORRISSEY
As merry as the days were long Back at the old grey school But you've got everything now No, I've never had a job I've seen you smile So who is rich and who is poor
? You are your mother's only son But I don't want a lover A friendship sadly lost ? But did I ever tell you, by the way ? But you've got everything now No, I've never had a job I've seen you smile So who is rich and who is poor ? Oh ... But I don't want a lover Writer(s): Johnny Marr, Steven Morrissey As merry as the days were long Back at the old grey school But you've got everything now No, I've never had a job I've seen you smile So who is rich and who is poor ?
You are your mother's only son But I don't want a lover A friendship sadly lost ? But did I ever tell you, by the way ? But you've got everything now No, I've never had a job I've seen you smile So who is rich and who is poor ? Oh ... But I don't want a lover Starting off with a Shelagh Delaney line, this angry tune speaks of a failed life, while all around, the protagonist's grey schoolmates speed to success. This song is Morrissey rather viciously lashing out at his former schoolmates, who were so successful then, whereas now, he's the one with the hit records and they're languishing in the "terrible mess they've made of their lives". This is made all the more interesting by projecting it from their viewpoint ... this song is a prime example of Morrissey ambiguity : "a friendship sadly lost ... well this is true, and yet it's false". Of course there's a strong vein of sardonicity here, as Morrissey's "everything" is revealed as nothing but the run-of-the-mill sexual fantasies ("I just want to be seen in the back of your car"). Here Morrissey seems to be highlighting the contrast between success of the self and success as seen by others. By all accounts, he is very successful, and certainly so in their eyes, but Morrissey sees it differently, lamenting "Who is rich and who is poor ?", a motif later returned to in I Want The One I Can't Have, and, obliquely, in We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful. One of Marr's less accomplished tunes on The Smiths is saved by the addition of Paul Carrack on a roaring organ part. Dean Wrigley says of this song : The lines from this song have, I believe, a double meaning. Never having a job and never wanting one may cause you to be poor, and having no sense of humour may also, in a sense, be poor. But the double meaning in these lines hangs on the word 'rich' which has another meaning in English, e.g. "That's rich, coming from him!" Never having a job and never wanting one and rejoicing in the fact is certainly 'rich' used in this context. 
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