“Hi, my name is Gato and I’m really happy to play this song. It’s actually very simple, but there’s a secret: in life, the simple things are the most beautiful.” ☺️
That’s how I introduced this beautiful song by The Smiths last night, a song I’d been really excited to perform live. It reminds me of the distant summer of 2006 when I saw Morrissey live at FIB 🎵.
Ironically, I remember he didn’t play this song during that concert, but I listened to it millions of times, wishing he would 🙈
That’s exactly what this song is about: wishes.
Morrissey is pleading to be allowed to get what he wants. It’s a cry of desperation, of frustration. He’s tired of things not turning out the way he’d like, and he no longer knows what to do. It’s as if there’s a great director preventing him from getting it, and he’s begging him to change the script.
The interesting part (or maybe the beautiful part, depending on how you look at it) is that he never actually says what it is he wants so badly.
So anyone who sings or listens to it can literally make that plea (and the song) their own.
Or maybe, deep down, he doesn’t really know what he wants, and that’s why he doesn’t say it.
After all, who hasn’t felt something like that at some point in life? That blurred-out longing. That sense of constant searching. That desire to know what to desire.
I think we can spend our whole lives wishing and dreaming and it sucks.
That’s why this song hits me so hard, because it makes me clearly see that it doesn’t matter how many times you beg for something, or how deeply you want it.
What really matters is to just do it, no matter what that “director” has written in the script.
A thousand wishes change nothing, but one decision changes everything. ❤️