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Band: The Smiths
Song: This Charming Man
Album: Hatful of Hollow
Thom Mills dustbin_man@hotmail.com
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Derek Lead Player |
#1 by Derek O'Kanos at Feb 28, 1970 at 4:13 PM EST |
| One of the great Smith's songs. I'm always singing it..especially the first couple lines of the song. | |
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The Angel of De Lead Player |
#2 by The Angel of Death at Oct 20, 1974 at 5:02 PM EST |
| I was going to post this for one of The Smiths other songs but was thinking that while a lot of the lyrics are very deep and meaningful, doesn't anyone think some of them are in there becuase they rhyme and sound really good together? I'm not taking anything away from Moz because he is my favourite lyricist but really, not every single sentence and line has to have some deeper meaning to it. That's the great thing about songs, they don't have to tell a story in a linear way, they can be anything you want them to be. All my favourite songs have lines in them that don't make much sense but they work perfectly and that's what makes them great. | |
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gabby Professional |
#3 by gabby at Apr 3, 1982 at 3:11 PM EST |
| i've never properly understood this song, but i still love it. and i know this is a lyrics sight, but the guitar riff at the beginning is wonderful... | |
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mike Average |
#4 by mike duncan at Aug 11, 1983 at 10:35 PM EST |
| i never fully understood this song. i believe that it is about a charming man telling him to end an engagement and the narrator is listening to him because "he knows so much about these things." however i could be wrong. death cab for cutie did a swell cover of this song. the funny thing is...if you listen to the cover the lead singer screws up the words. *tips her hat* | |
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Tim Rhythm Player |
#5 by Tim Hanson at Feb 2, 1988 at 5:15 PM EST |
| "not every single sentence and line has to have some deeper meaning to it" Yes it does. This is Moz we're talking about. | |
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david Average |
#6 by david maynard at May 18, 1991 at 9:25 AM EST |
| braid does the best cover of this song i've ever heard in my LIFE. | |
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The Mexican Who Average |
#7 by The Mexican Who's Living Under Satan's Wing at Jan 1, 1995 at 2:01 AM EST |
| Here are some interpretations of lines from this song that I came with while listening to it regularly for 8 years. Punctured bicycle on the...: The broken bicycle represents the vehicle that the protagonist has been using to move through life. When in this charming car..: When the protagonist latches on to someone else (ie. the charming man) he can coast through life. He’s in a car rather than a punctured bicycle. Why pamper life’s...: Why should he complicate life when it’s much more comfortable to be a passenger in someone else’s life? I would go out...:The protagonist feels ugly and gets an ego boost from the charming man. A jumped up...:I still have no idea what a jumped up pantry boy is. He said return the rings: The protagonist feels it’s time to divorce himself from the charming man. He’s knows so much...: This line is meant ironically. The protagonist knows nothing and without the charming man he will sink back to his old “punctured bicycle” life. Sometimes I feel that the protagonist is the charming man. It’s an act he uses to escape his own life. Anyone who has tried to be someone else knows that eventually you can’t handle living a lie. So, in the end, the protagonist terminates this charade. | |
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♥WeEzY Average |
#8 by ♥WeEzY♥ at Apr 13, 1999 at 11:04 AM EST |
| I always walk around my house singing this song. Its clever, funny, and just a great song. | |
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mat Wanna Be |
#9 by mat bar at Jun 11, 2001 at 7:54 AM EST |
| Impressionable young man. Need I say more... I think the lyrics are really speaking for themselves... But besides that... its a beautiful song. | |
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klown Rhythm Player |
#10 by klown at Feb 24, 2002 at 7:32 PM EST |
| Great song. About the whole gay issue. He's just a bit confused, and this guys advising him. | |
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Manu Professional Badass |
#11 by Manu at Jul 7, 2004 at 6:54 PM EST |
| I agree with a lot of things said here. But no one talked about the homossexualism. Dont u notice the obvious homossexual mentions? Ive heard even that the BIcycle refers to homossexualism... but you can interpret it more literally and less metaphorically... To me it goes like that: a cyclist gets it wheel punctured. having no way to go home - because he's on a desolated hillside - he accepts a lift from a charming man. why complicate life thinking about a way to go home and carry his bike if the passenger seat of the charming man's car is free and it is smooth? ok, then he tells the man he would go out at that night, but he didnt have any cloth there and needed to go home, but the man says it doesnt matter cause he doesnt care, theyd go out together. He still praises the cyclist saying he's handsome: obviously a homossexual one, who wants to bring the cyclist to the same way. now theres kind of a confusion in who's moz talking about: the jumped up pantry boy is the cyclist who never knew his place, the homossexual one, that the charming man has just shown him. I dont know where u guys found so much about marriage, but maybe this return the rings has sth to do with it. but, in that case, the marriage would be between the charming man and the cyclist, not a real wedding but an affair. and, finally, moz says that he agree with the charming man and goes with him, when he says "he knows so much about this things". So, i think moz is telling about a homossexual experience or initiation. I hope u guys like this interpretation, and let me know what did u think about it answering. I wont mind if you disagree, mainly because my english isnt very good and thats why maybe i dont understand the lyrics well. oh, by the way, i love it. | |
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