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Throughout this song, Morrissey keeps returning to themes of death and parting, almost as if he had seen the breakup coming, and dishes out bitter indictments. The title is taken from published diaries of Joe Orton, which, at the time, Morrissey had just finished reading. The quote is from December ‘66, when Orton returned home the night before his mother’s funeral: “As the corpse is downstairs in the main living room. It means going out or watching television with death at one’s elbow.“