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Sep 26, Nerak. The meaning of this sentence is: - I am shocked because you, handsome boy, think that is important. Also: parvenu, who has suddenly climbed up the social ladder or risen in importance.
For the servants working in an aristocratic house, being a pantry boy was the lowest rank, and becoming a bulter was the highest rank in service. So figuratively, a pantry boy is someone who is very low class, at the very bottom of the social scale. The expression "a jumped up pantry boy" means a person who is very low class but behaves as if he were someone important. If someone "doesn't know his place" in society , that's a terrible and embarrassing thing. The line "A jumped-up pantry boy who never knew his place" is taken out of the movie Sleuth, as you can see here: A jumped up pantry boy.
In this song, a male protagonist, who has punctured his bicycle tire on a desolate hillside, is approached by a "charming man" in a "charming car. The protagonist rejects the man's offer, because he hasn't "got a stitch to wear.
Consequently I never had any clothes whatsoever. The charming man knows about these things as he has seen it before or is speaking from experience. There was an error. This is the only comment worth reading on this entire page.
Just because he calls a man charming doesn't mean its about homosexuality. I wish some people would stop trying to make everything about homosexuality. It could still be that the charming man is a homosexual.
I think that's what makes this song so fantastic. It's a story with an open end. Is the charming man telling him to return the ring because he is jealous that the boy has fallen in love with a girl? Totally agree that waxinglyrical's comment is the best on this page though.
BadBanshee on October 17, I agree that there's nothing explicitly homosexual but anyone that's 'been there' will read between the lines. It does describe a pretty typical sugar daddy interaction. I don't think at any point the charming man confronts the protagonist.
When he describes himself as a 'jumped up pantry boy' I think it expresses his own self doubt and insecurity. As for "return the ring" well I don't think it means 'give the ring I gave you back' I think the ring here is a phone call people from the UK would spot this easier than Americans.
Michael Caine, who plays a hairdresser. The line that makes me wonder the most is "I haven't a stitch to wear". Sure, stitch means clothing but it also is what you close wounds with. So this makes me think of a few possibilities - either he can't go out and can't engage with this person at all because he is still wounded from a past trauma, or that this man or someone else in his life is physically abusive and he can't go out because he is embarassed by the bruise. Obviously the emotional wound is more generally human and it is the one I believe is alluded to here.
But there is that line referencing his physical beauty and "why should someone so handsome care? So this alludes to a literal scar of some kind as well. Doesn't make it so, but its there to be interpreted. FWIW I believe that even though songwriters, poets and authors have an overt reason for their words, they also have some meanings hidden or intended to have a double meaning, and sometimes even the author isn't aware of every meaning possible but is releasing it from his mind without even knowing - at least at first..
As we see in these comments, some people didn't understand "return the ring" to mean "call me back", its a turn of a phrase. Which brings me to my final point and how you can see greatness at work. The writer has to fit this into a song. Its not free prose or poetry, it generally has to have a symmetry to the music accomopanying it.
So some phrases get truncated, or idioms are employed that are regional and not universal 'return the ring' or 'give me a ring' is uniquely British, Americans generally use the word "call" not "ring" but that's also what makes these interpretations so fun. It conjures up meaning to some audiences more than others.
Return the ring also, to me anyway, has an almost Tolkien feel to it. Was that intended? Maybe, maybe not. But even it it wasn't intended doesn't mean that it isn't there to be read into. Shampoo on March 19, General Comment Handsome and sexually confused young cyclist crashes and punctures one of the wheels, leaving him stranded, until he's picked up by a strangely obliging gent who convinces him that getting married would be a mistake and a fiasco, and presumably seduces him on the smooth leather of the passenger seat.
Gotta love it. Chloe le Fay on July 11, Link. Chloe le Fay. Wrong Chloe. He's not confused, he's trapped in a car with a creepy gay man who is dispensing creepy pearls of wisdom based on his sexual preferences, and the song is actually about him wishing he'd stayed on his bike..
You must live in a scary world. Still the best song meaning interpretation ever. Love it. Still make me smile a little knowing smile. Sophocles65 on August 31, General Comment Been a Smiths fan for years. The line "will Nature make a man of me yet? The juxtaposition of him using his own legs to get through life versus riding shotgun on someone else's ticket is great.
And his own method symbolized by the bike is useless, since his bicycle is broken he has no career skills, etc However, this lifestyle has a price and here's the twist that I offer - "Return the ring" means that he is calling the man, but the man is not taking or answering his calls.
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