Hand in Glove is an old term... no gay connotations... it just means 2 people who are inseparable.... it could be used romantically, or for friends, or even workmates.

 

Here's a link which gives some more detail: http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idio...d+in+glove.html

 

Pretty Girls Make Graves is about a confused gay man who refuses the advances of a woman, then is consumed by jealousy when he sees her with another man. A clever song, I think, especially as Morrissey added bits of Hand in Glove into the song as well.

 

Thank you very much for the explanation :)

I don't think that line strongly suggests he's been with women.... I think that's a tender line... a line about the closeness and intimacy of 2 people together regardless of gender.

 

However, far from being Morrissey's heterosexual song... Dear God Please Help Me is probably his most overtly gay....

"Then he motions to me

With his hand on my knee

Dear God, did this kind of thing happen to you?"

 

Morrissey's literary heroes, his uber-homo-erotic artwork and his lyrics make it quite clear what his sexual preference is - he was hardly being vague when he wrote Handsome Devil, was he :P

 

All the streets are crammed with things

Eager to be held

I know what hands are for

And i'd like to help myself

You ask me the time

But i sense something more

And i would like to give

What i think you're asking for

You handsome devil

Oh, you handsome devil

 

Let me get my hands

On your mammary glands

And let me get your head

On the conjugal bed

I say, i say, i say

 

I crack the whip

And you skip

But you deserve it

You deserve it, deserve it, deserve it

 

A boy in the bush

Is worth two in the hand

I think i can help you get through your exams

Oh, you handsome devil

 

Oh, let me get my hands

On your mammary glands

And let me get your head

On the conjugal bed

I say, i say, i say

 

I crack the whip

And you skip

But you deserve it

You deserve it, deserve it, deserve it

 

And when we're in your scholarly room

Who will swallow whom ?

When we're in your scholarly room

Who will swallow whom ?

You handsome devil

 

Oh, let me get my hands

On your mammary glands

And let me get your head

On the conjugal bed

I say, i say, i say

 

There's more to life than books, you know

But not much more

Oh, there's more to life than books, you know

But not much more, not much more

Oh, you handsome devil

Oh, you handsome devil

Ow !

 

Hmm yeah but then where does the Let me get my hands on your mammary glands line come from? still think he's bisexual, I think he's been with both men and women.

not only women have mammary glands :D

 

Handsome Devil is about a man lusting after another man - no double entendres with that one at all.

who will swallow whom :lol:

indeed :o

:lol: haha

I don't know why I had never noticed that. :huh:

 

:lol: hahahahahahahahahahahaha :lol:

I have no doubts now that Morrissey is bisexual