What Difference Does It Make? – The Smiths
What Difference Does It Make? by The Smiths from their self-titled debut album opens with one of my all-time favorite guitar riffs, played by one of the absolutely coolest guitarists of all time, Johnny Marr.
Written by Marr and Morrissey, the lyrics can be quite haunting, but Morrissey himself said of them “I just wanted to have a very easy attitude, and that’s what the lyrics imply. People get so neurotic about themselves—their lives, their hair, their teeth. What difference does anything make, really?”
There’s also quite a bit of speculation that Morrissey wrote the song about his own sexuality and the possible rejection he faced from friends because of it.
All men have secrets and here is mine
So let it be known
For we have been through hell and high tide
I think I can rely on you
And yet you start to recoil
Heavy words are so lightly thrown
But still I’d leap in front of a flying bullet for you
Oh, the devil will find work for idle hands to do
I stole, and then I lied
Just because you asked me to
But now you know the truth about me
You won’t see me anymore
Well, I’m still fond of you, oh-ho-oh
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