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STandard tuning: e,b,g,d,a,e
This is not a smiths song its my own but my last name is smith so ... hope u like it. its really
good!!!!!!!!
(let ring at end)..23
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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tom Average |
#1 by tom jenkins at Nov 2, 1970 at 12:17 AM EST |
| I agree it is one of the first in a long line of Morrissey songs about critics versus the artist. | |
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Ben Wanna Be |
#2 by Ben Koss at Oct 20, 1977 at 9:39 AM EST |
| marquicerise, that made me really, really sad when i read that. :( | |
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austin Rhythm Player |
#3 by austin ballard at May 26, 1982 at 6:46 AM EST |
| I once read an explanation that suggested Morrisey is "The boy with the thorn...". The thorn being cynical critics who accused him of hollow, whiney melodrama and, in the case of songs like Suffer Little Children and Panic, a sensationalist. In the second verse, he includes his fellow artists. I like that idea, but on a personal note, it seems to get at how much we hurt the ones we love with our "murderous desire"...making it a perfect follow-up to "Bigmouth Strikes Again." | |
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Jake Wanna Be |
#4 by Jake Stewart at Dec 17, 1982 at 3:03 PM EST |
| I think the thorn is all the critism that morrissey took as a musician, and he is saying he's that boy. | |
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jimmy Wanna Be |
#5 by jimmy rodrigues at Sep 29, 2002 at 6:57 PM EST |
| Could also be Damien Thorn from The Omen, which was released in 1976. | |
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Average |
#6 by Riqu - at Sep 29, 2004 at 12:42 PM EST |
| This is the first Smiths song I ever heard. It always reminds me of the girl I was seeing who played it for me. I kind of always thought it was about Jesus. At one point when he was on the cross, there was a spear that was thrust into his side. Hence the boy with the thorn in his side. And of course we all know that he had a crown of thorns too, so I thought it might of been some wordplay going on. The rest of the song seems to fit to that theory too. Jesus's love was met with cynycism throughout his ministry | |
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bob Average |
#7 by bob fred at Jan 14, 2005 at 12:28 PM EST |
| I agree with the posters who say it is about homophobia - the majority of Morrissey's songs have homoerotic imagery. however, the Jesus connection is also valid, as Morrissey is a Catholic, and always relates in interviews how Catholicism will always be a part of him. A third alternate, is that I've read this song may also be about James Dean, one of Morrissey's idols (and a male hustler in the effort to become an actor) | |
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Chris Rhythm Player |
#8 by Chris Pray at Jun 28, 2005 at 10:30 PM EST |
| this songs title has since been taken and used for a title of a book by Pete Wentz, a bassist for the band Fall Out Boy. | |
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THE RONANATOR ( Average |
#9 by THE RONANATOR (aka.Ronan) downer at Jul 29, 2007 at 12:30 PM EST |
| I have this DVD where Morrissey walks around and chats with Margie Clarke and she asks him if this song was inpsired by Oscar Wilde and he says no, the thorn is the music industry, the radio stations that never payed their records and never believed in them - so if after all this time they still don't believe, what else can a poor boy do. Intresting - I thought it was about something completely different.... | |
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Austin Rhythm Player |
#10 by Austin at Aug 17, 2007 at 9:41 PM EST |
| I definitely understand this as a gay rights song against homphobia. | |
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