Domenica 1 Apr 2007, 17:02

Ah… what The Smiths have achieved in this song is capture adolescence. They've perfectly nailed down that feeling - not the feeling you laugh at a few years down the road, but… the other one. A feeling of such intensity as you may never experience again. Huge and overly dramatic and maddening, yes, but… rightly so. Genuinely so. And it stays with you, and it makes you who you are.

I don't at all regret the way my life as turned out, but this songs fills me with longing for things that haven't been, for chances missed, for things that used to be. And it does so in a way that makes me love it even more.