4th song on the album THE QUEEN IS DEAD:
NEVER HAD NO ONE EVER
This song consists of two verses. In the first verse Morrissey provides a distinct number sequence. In the second verse he is outside someone’s house:
NEVER
HAD NO ONE EVER
When
you walk without ease
on these
the very streets where you were raised
I had a really bad dream
it lasted 20 years, 7 months, and 27 days
Never had no one ever.
Now
I'm outside your house
I'm alone
and I'm outside your house
I'd hate to intrude
I'm alone, I'm alone
I'm alone, I'm alone
I'm alone, I'm alone
and I never, never, had no one ever
The first verse provides a sequence of three numbers in decreasing units of measurement: years, months, days. It parallels the manner in which Bible passages are referred to in similarly decreasing units of measurement: book, chapter, verse. Morrissey’s sequence of 20 years, 7 months, and 27 days would numerically correlate to the 20th book of the bible, and to that book's 7th chapter and to that chapter’s 27th verse, (if it has a 27th verse). Remarkably, using the standard King James Edition of the English Bible, when you turn to the 20th book and to its 7th chapter, you discover that it has exactly 27 verses! And here is what the complete 27th verse says:
“Her
house is the way to Hell,
Going down to the chambers of death”
- Proverbs 7:27
(the 20th book of the bible, chapter 7, verse 27)
The first line of the bible verse - "Her house is the way to Hell" -
sums up Morrissey's stated opinion of the Royal House of Windsor into
which Diana had married:
"The
royal family is an institution which is built entirely on murder and deceit and
fraud and hate."
(MORRISSEY AND MARR: THE SEVERED ALLIANCE by Johny Rogan, Omnibus Press 1992).
At the time Morrissey made the above statement,
Diana was still a central member of the Royal House of Windsor.
The second line of the bible verse -
"Going down to the chambers of death" - is surely the one line in
the bible that comes closest to indicating a fatal descent into an underpass.
For Princess Diana,
Mr. Dodi Fayed, and chauffeur Henri Paul, going down into an underpass literally meant “going down to the chambers of
death”.
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Was Morrissey's sequence of "20...7...27" intended to lead us to book 20, chapter 7, verse 27, of the Bible? Consider the corroborating evidence...
Morrissey says of his bad dream that "it lasted" exactly
"20years, 7 months, and 27 days". "It lasted" means
that it continued up to - and ended with - the number 27.
Correspondingly, in the standard King James Bible: book 20, chapter 7, has
exactly 27 verses. This means it also continued up to - and ended with -
the number 27.
Note that when you turn
the standard King James Bible to
its 20th book, 7th chapter, 27th verse, you
find a verse that starts with mentioning a house:
“Her house is the way to Hell”
Correspondingly, immediately after Morrissey's verse with the number sequence "20 ... 7 ... 27" you find a verse that starts with mentioning a house:
“Now I’m outside your house”
Note that immediately after the bible verse mentions a "house" it then
presents a phrase that could be used to indicate people who are going to visit a
cemetery:
"going down to the chambers of death"
Correspondingly,
after this song's closing verse about a "house", the album's next song
(CEMETRY GATES) is about people who are going to
visit a cemetery:
"A dreaded sunny day
so I meet you at the cemetry gates...
So we go inside and we gravely read the stones
all those people all those lives
where are they now?..."
The structural and thematic precision of the above parallels seems to confirm
that Morrissey’s sequence of "20...7...27" was intended to lead us
to the bible verse:
“Her
house is the way to Hell,
Going down to the chambers of death”
- Proverbs 7:27
(the 20th book of the bible, chapter 7, verse 27)