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I Have Forgiven Jesus

January 01, 1970

"I Have Forgiven Jesus" is an alternative rock song from English singer Morrissey's 2004 album You Are the Quarry. It was co-written by Morrissey and his band member Alain Whyte, and produced by Jerry Finn. The track reflects the singer's upbringing in an Irish Catholic community and his status as a lapsed Catholic. The song is a ballad that tells the story of a child who becomes disillusioned with religion because of his inability to deal with his own desires. The title refers to the character's blame and subsequent forgiveness of Jesus Christ for creating him as a lovely creature that has no chance to express its love. Described as both confessional and humorous, the song has been interpreted as a blasphemous critique of organized religion and an ambivalent way for Morrissey to describe his own religiosity.

"I Have Forgiven Jesus"
Single by Morrissey
from the album You Are the Quarry
B-side
  • "No One Can Hold a Candle to You"
  • "The Slum Mums"
  • "The Public Image"
Released13 December 2004
RecordedLos Angeles, 2004[1]
GenreAlternative rock
Length3:41
LabelAttack, Sanctuary
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Jerry Finn
Morrissey singles chronology
"Let Me Kiss You"
(2004) 		"I Have Forgiven Jesus"
(2004) 		"Redondo Beach"
(2005)

The song was released in December 2004 as the fourth single from You Are the Quarry; its release was preceded in November 2004 by that of a music video in which Morrissey performs the role of a priest. This performance increased the controversy around the track, which received polarized reviews; some critics described it as a "woeful" release and others classified it among the best songs of both the album and of the singer's career. Despite not being playlisted by BBC Radio 1, one of the United Kingdom's most popular radio stations, the single reached number 10 on the UK Singles Chart and topped the UK Independent Singles Chart. It made the track his fourth top-ten hit of the year, something he had never achieved before. The song remained significant in Morrissey's career, being included on his 2004, 2006 and 2014 tours.

Background and release edit

Morrissey was raised in a Catholic family and that inspired "I Have Forgiven Jesus".[2] He disliked his upbringing, having described himself in 1989 as "a seriously lapsed Catholic … after being forced to go to church and never understanding why and never enjoying it, seeing so many negative things, and realising it somehow wasn't for [him]".[3] In late 2004, prior to the release of the song, he appeared at a Halloween concert and on television dressed as a priest.[2][4] He would later use the same costume on the music video.[2][4]

"I Have Forgiven Jesus" first appeared as a track on the album You Are the Quarry, which was produced by Jerry Finn and released in May 2004, seven years after his last solo album Maladjusted.[5][6] It was later released as the fourth and final single from the album by Sanctuary Records' imprint Attack Records on 13 December 2004 in a 7-inch vinyl format that was backed with "No One Can Hold a Candle to You", a cover of a song originally recorded by his friend James Maker's band Raymonde, as a B-side.[7][8][9][10] Attack also released two CD versions on the same date;[9] the first, a mini CD, contained the same tracks,[8][11] while the second, a maxi CD, contained two different B-sides; "The Slum Mums" and "The Public Image".[8][12] The former song was co-composed by Boz Boorer and then bassist Gary Day.[13] Attack and Sanctuary re-released the first CD edition on 22 February 2005.[14] A remastered version of "I Have Forgiven" was later included on Morrissey's compilation album Greatest Hits (2008).[15][16]

Composition and lyrics edit

"I Have Forgiven Jesus", which was co-written by Morrissey and his band member Alain Whyte, is an alternative rock[17] ballad[5] with R&B and pop rock undertones.[17] It is composed in the key A minor and Morrissey's vocal ranges from the note A3 to G5.[17] Morrissey also sings in the falsetto register[18] and his voice is accompanied by an electric piano.[19] The song describes a person who blames Jesus Christ for creating a human full of love and desires but who is unable to transmit it, although forgives the divine figure for doing so.[20][21] It features confessional lyrics[18][22][23] mixed with a "darkly comedic" tone[5] and elements of black humour[24] that discuss frustrated sexual desire[25] and Catholic guilt.[26] The song was described as representing Morrissey's "angst",[27] especially for "being born mortal",[28] in the form of a "self-pity",[29] "self-loathing",[30] and "anguish-filled lament".[21] An "archetypal self-flagellating Morrissey lyric", in the words of Fiona Shepherd of The Scotsman,[31] it shows how the singer "embraces hopelessness".[19] Kitty Empire of The Observer said it expresses his agony and "that, poignant in his younger self, seems more troubling in a man in his forties".[30] Telegram & Gazette's Craig Semon said it is a lament on "his sorrowful existence and how his life has been plagued with nothing but heartache".[18] Nicholas P. Greco of Providence College wrote that despite attributing to Jesus the blame for making him the way he is, the song deals mainly with one's inability to convey one's own desires.[32] Although it could be interpreted merely as Morrissey's "narcissism" to think he is in a superior position to forgive Christ, Greco found it to be a "serious lament" that people can relate to.[33] This latter perception was echoed by Spin's Annie Zaleski and Jason Anderson, who described it as a lament "about the curse of having so much love to express 'in a loveless world'",[21] and Lisa de Jong of Utrecht University, who characterised it as a song aimed at comforting the "misfits".[34] Adrian May of P. N. Review described it as "about what to do with the abandonment of desire, how to forgive and transcend to a greater truth or good"; this truth, said May, is the search for a new identity.[35]

 
El Greco's 1580 painting of Christ on his way to Calvary
 
Pompeo Batoni's 1767 painting of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Both of these religious elements were said to have been featured throughout "I Have Forgiven Jesus" lyrics

The song starts by establishing the title character as "a good kid" who "would do no harm", while a middle-height vocal is accompanied by a "1960s-sounding, almost Beatle-esque keyboard", in the words of academic Isabella van Elferen.[36] As the drama rises[37] and the child starts to doubt the values taught to him, the andante tempo that expressed the "safety provided by uncontested religious truths" changes to high-pitched vocals that symbolise "naiveté [being] replaced by [the] despair ... of being deserted by those same truths".[36] Gavin Hopps, author of the biography Morrissey: The Pageant of His Bleeding Heart,[38] wrote that the song uses a humorous tone to describe this loss of faith when Morrissey uses "the dozy-schoolboy nonstandard 'brung'" in the verse "Forgive me any pain I may have brung to you" and when he "ironically repeat[s] back to Christ the promises he feels have been broken or seem meaningless ('I'll always be near to you')".[39] Biographer David Bret commented that Morrissey described how "as a Dutiful catholic boy he withstood humiliation and condescension to attend church" in the verse "Through hail and snow, I'd go just to moon you".[37] In the sequence, Morrissey sings "I carried my heart in my hand", which, Hopps suggested, could be an allusion to the Sacred Heart.[40]

The third verse, in low-pitched sequences, describes a suffering routine from Monday to Friday.[41] Both Hopps and de Jong interpreted it as emulating the pain Christ is said to have suffered on his way to Calvary.[34][40] Morrissey concludes this part with "By Friday life has killed me", which Hopps said could be an allusion to Good Friday.[40] The death in this part, argued May, is a symbolic one that indicates a self-exile from previous beliefs and the search for a new identity.[35] The Guardian's Ben Hewitt described it as a secular experience of a week of "joyless, sexless activity".[20] This sequence was meant to express "the dull drone of emptied-out daily life without love, or God", wrote van Elferen.[41] In this part, the character is still haunted by the recent abandonment of his beliefs.[41] The song then transitions to "a melancholy cello melody" as the calm tone becomes agitated and the singer asks why he has been given "so much love in a loveless world".[41] The singer's tone gradually thickens until it reaches a point of a "stubborn repetition of a despairing call to Jesus ('Do you hate me?')" underlined by a strong on-beat drum with subtle, syncopated keyboard motifs.[41] After this "urgent existential complaint" in which, wrote Hopps, "feeling that God must have hated him in creating him, he suffers so much from being himself",[39] the beat stops abruptly as the song ends.[41]

Relation to religion edit

The song's main character, according to Zaleski and Anderson, can be that "Irish Catholic boy in Manchester" who, according to the song, is "a nice kid" who does not know how to handle his desires.[21] Brontë Schiltz of Manchester Metropolitan University said this inability is correlated to Morrissey's discomfort with his queer identity during his Catholic upbringing.[3] Because of this link between desire and religion, some journalists, including Rolling Stone's James Hunter and The Advocate's David White, understood the song as a critique of organized religion.[42][43] Mikel Jollett, on the program All Things Considered, described it as a "confessional accusation of Christianity".[44] Jim Abbott, writing for the Orlando Sentinel, said Morrissey blames faith for his feelings.[19] Hua Hsu of Slate, however, stated that it "finds Morrissey at peace with his spiritual non-relationships rather than flailing helplessly against the torture of religious upbringing".[45] Van Elferen said the song depicts a more "ambiguous relation" of Morrissey to his religious background.[41]

Because of the way the song inverts the divine-human relations, both academics and journalists have described it as "blasphemy" and "blasphemous".[46][47] According to Hopps, beyond the "appearance of blasphemy",[48] it featured elements reminiscent of the lamentations and accusations in the Old Testament of God being unjust, especially those found in the Book of Job.[49] Hopps said, however, that at the same time it "seems to be making fun of religious teaching in a way the psalmists and Job do not".[39] The author concluded that Catholic faith is "the light that never goes out" on Morrissey's life[38] because the song mixes an "apparently blasphemous bitterness" with "what seems to be an unironic sense of dereliction ('but Jesus hurt me / when He deserted me'), which implies a prior and latent state of relation".[48] An anonymous author of the Centre for Christian Apologetics, Scholarship and Education of the New College, University of New South Wales also described the song as being both "blasphemous, and offensive to Christian sensibilities" and "a meditation on desire".[50] Although the writer ultimately condemned it, he said it could be positively interpreted as "a prayer of complaint, directed to Jesus" similar to the Psalmists' appeal to God.[50]

Scholar Anti Nylén wrote that Morrissey's songs usually feature "Christian imagery" but from an "incredulous" position,[51] considering that "I Have Forgiven Jesus" is an exception to this.[52] He stated that "'prayer' and 'blasphemy' are present in the song at the same time" and that it is "a song about reconciliation ... by a Christian who has faith but who still has enormous difficulties in submitting to [it]".[52] The entwinement of prayer and blasphemy is characteristic of the anti-modern tradition of Catholic Romanticism, into which Nylén puts Morrissey.[52] Van Elferen interpreted Morrissey's position regarding Catholicism as akin to that of Gothic fiction, which, like Romanticism, sought "to reconstruct the divine mysteries that reason had begun to dismantle".[41] Both Gothic literature and the song, van Elferen wrote, ponder "what remains when the comfort of religious truth disappears in its shadow, returning like the uncanny of the Freudian repressed, haunting one with relentless questionings".[41]

Relation to Morrissey discography edit

Scholars and critics have debated the connections of "I Have Forgiven Jesus" to Morrissey's general œuvre. Macquarie University's Jean-Philippe Deranty traced back its themes of "painful sexual failure" that issues "a traumatic confusion about sexual preferences and sexual abilities" to The Smiths's song "I Want the One I Can't Have" from the 1985 album Meat Is Murder.[53] Scholar Daniel Manco argued that "I Have Forgiven Jesus" is thematically related to Morrissey's 1990 song "November Spawned a Monster", both of which feature disabled people and dialogues with Jesus.[54] Manco also commented that it echoes "November Spawned a Monster" in its discussion of "blameless youth, dysfunctional corporeality, social and sexual abjection, and divine culpability".[25] De Jong compared it with You Are the Quarry's "Let Me Kiss You" (2004); she wrote that both songs approach love in a "grim way" and highlight themes of "physical uncertainties".[55] Because of its references to Morrissey's Anglo-Irish upbringing and the way the song cast doubts on the values he learnt, van Elferen called it the "religious counterpart" of "Irish Blood, English Heart" (2004).[41] Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen of Paste went further, writing that it "summed up ... the raison d'etre of his entire career".[56]

Critical reception edit

Upon its release, "I Have Forgiven Jesus" was described as a controversial track[57][58] and has polarized critics. Josh Tyrangiel of Time called it "woeful",[59] Alexis Petridis of The Guardian criticized it for its "cheap synthesised strings",[60] and Andrew Stevens of 3:AM Magazine said it is "flat and go[es] nowhere".[61] Ben Rayner of Toronto Star called it "ridiculously overwrought, even by Morrissey's theatrical standards".[62] People staff dubbed it "bloody brilliant"[6] and The Scotsman labelled it a "touching song about repressed desire".[63] Telegram & Gazette's Semon wrote, "In the age of 'The Passion of the Christ' and the religious right seemingly having more influence on the political might, writing a song such as 'I've Forgiven Jesus' is a bold move to say the least"; he also praised "Morrissey's emotionally stirring falsetto" who "send shivers down one's spine".[18]

It was considered to be one of the best tracks on You Are the Quarry along with "Irish Blood, English Heart" by Rolling Stone's Jonathan Ringen,[64] by SFGate's Aidin Vaziri,[65] and by Jordan Kessler of PopMatters, who paired it with "First of the Gang to Die".[66] By the start of 2005, BBC Manchester's Terry Christian included the song at number 25 among the 40 best songs of 2004.[67] In retrospective analyses, "I Have Forgiven Jesus" has been featured as one of Morrissey's best songs by Chile's Radio Cooperativa in 2013,[68] The Guardian's Hewitt in 2014,[20] and Spin's Zaleski and Anderson in 2017.[21] While Hewitt described it as a "swirling, grandiose pop",[20] Zaleski and Anderson remarked on its "poignancy".[21]

Chart performance edit

Although BBC Radio 1 refused to playlist "I Have Forgiven",[69] the song debuted at number 10 on the UK Singles Chart issue dated 25 December 2004.[70][71] This marked Morrissey's fourth straight-to-the-top-10 single of the year, following "Irish Blood, English Heart", "First of the Gang to Die" and "Let Me Kiss You".[57][72] These four top 10 hits were achieved within seven months – a record in his career. It spent five consecutive weeks on the chart between 13 December 2004 and 22 January 2005, declining each week before leaving the Top 100.[70] It topped the UK Independent Singles Chart (UK Indie) on its debut and spent seven consecutive weeks on the chart.[73][74] In spite of reaching the top 10 in UK, Morrissey had not the chance to appear on the BBC program Top of the Pops.[75] On the Irish Singles Chart, it only spent a week in the top 50, peaking at number 45.[76] Its only chart performance outside its domestic market was in Sweden, where it entered the national chart at number 33 and spent six consecutive weeks on the chart.[77]

Music video edit

The music video for "I Have Forgiven Jesus", which was directed by Bucky Fukumoto[4][78] via The Directors Bureau,[79] was released online in November 2004.[79][80] Its images were later used on the covers of the song's single release.[1] The video was later released as bonus material on Morrissey's 2005 live DVD Who Put the M in Manchester?.[79][81] In the video, Morrissey is dressed as a Roman Catholic priest in a white clerical collar[79] and black blazer and pants,[82] while carrying rosaries[78] and wearing a crucifix.[40] It opens with a close-up of Morrissey, which is followed by a shot of the grey sky and a long shot of him walking towards the camera.[78] The sepia-toned image[78] shows the singer walking down the grey, deserted streets in a broken-down Los Angeles park.[4][79] First alone, Morrissey is joined by the band members,[78] who wear Jobriath's T-shirts during the walk.[83]

Morrissey's decision to take the role of a priest in the music video was controversial.[36] It was interpreted by James G. Crossley of the Department of Biblical Studies of the University of Sheffield as a desire to express "personal angst" and to have an "ironical and humorous take" on it.[84] Hewitt said the singer's clothing in the video and the December release as a Christmas single were clear evidence that Morrissey planned it as a "jocular provocation".[20] Van Elferen said the video expresses his ambivalent relationship with Catholicism as he "presents himself as his own spectre" through the depiction of someone tormented by "his own flesh and bone, [and] painfully aware of the contradictions between prescribed Catholic dealings with issues of sexuality and his own feelings".[85] Nylén said the choice of the band members' T-shirts may be an argument because Jobriath was an openly gay rock star while Catholicism usually condemns homosexuality.[83]

Live performances edit

Morrissey performed "I Have Forgiven Jesus" live as part of his 2004 tour of the UK and the US;[5][86] some parts of this tour are featured on his album Live at Earls Court (2004) and DVD Who Put the M in Manchester? (2005), both of which include "I Have Forgiven Jesus".[64][87] In July 2004, he performed it live on The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn and this performance would later be included on a deluxe re-release of You Are the Quarry in December 2004.[88][89] It was also included on the 2006 tour for his following album Ringleader of the Tormentors,[46] and on the 2014 tour for the album World Peace Is None of Your Business.[90][91]

Formats and track listings edit

Credits and personnel edit

Credits are adapted from the liner notes of "I Have Forgiven Jesus" single.[1]

Charts edit

Weekly chart performance for "I Have Forgiven Jesus"
Chart (2004–2005) Peak
position
Ireland (IRMA)[76] 45
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[77] 33
UK Singles (OCC)[70] 10
UK Indie (OCC)[73] 1

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January 01, 1970
have, forgiven, jesus, alternative, rock, song, from, english, singer, morrissey, 2004, album, quarry, written, morrissey, band, member, alain, whyte, produced, jerry, finn, track, reflects, singer, upbringing, irish, catholic, community, status, lapsed, catho. I Have Forgiven Jesus is an alternative rock song from English singer Morrissey s 2004 album You Are the Quarry It was co written by Morrissey and his band member Alain Whyte and produced by Jerry Finn The track reflects the singer s upbringing in an Irish Catholic community and his status as a lapsed Catholic The song is a ballad that tells the story of a child who becomes disillusioned with religion because of his inability to deal with his own desires The title refers to the character s blame and subsequent forgiveness of Jesus Christ for creating him as a lovely creature that has no chance to express its love Described as both confessional and humorous the song has been interpreted as a blasphemous critique of organized religion and an ambivalent way for Morrissey to describe his own religiosity I Have Forgiven Jesus Single by Morrisseyfrom the album You Are the QuarryB side No One Can Hold a Candle to You The Slum Mums The Public Image Released13 December 2004RecordedLos Angeles 2004 1 GenreAlternative rockLength3 41LabelAttack SanctuarySongwriter s MorrisseyAlain WhyteProducer s Jerry FinnMorrissey singles chronology Let Me Kiss You 2004 I Have Forgiven Jesus 2004 Redondo Beach 2005 The song was released in December 2004 as the fourth single from You Are the Quarry its release was preceded in November 2004 by that of a music video in which Morrissey performs the role of a priest This performance increased the controversy around the track which received polarized reviews some critics described it as a woeful release and others classified it among the best songs of both the album and of the singer s career Despite not being playlisted by BBC Radio 1 one of the United Kingdom s most popular radio stations the single reached number 10 on the UK Singles Chart and topped the UK Independent Singles Chart It made the track his fourth top ten hit of the year something he had never achieved before The song remained significant in Morrissey s career being included on his 2004 2006 and 2014 tours Contents 1 Background and release 2 Composition and lyrics 2 1 Relation to religion 2 2 Relation to Morrissey discography 3 Critical reception 4 Chart performance 5 Music video 6 Live performances 7 Formats and track listings 8 Credits and personnel 9 Charts 10 References 10 1 BibliographyBackground and release editMorrissey was raised in a Catholic family and that inspired I Have Forgiven Jesus 2 He disliked his upbringing having described himself in 1989 as a seriously lapsed Catholic after being forced to go to church and never understanding why and never enjoying it seeing so many negative things and realising it somehow wasn t for him 3 In late 2004 prior to the release of the song he appeared at a Halloween concert and on television dressed as a priest 2 4 He would later use the same costume on the music video 2 4 I Have Forgiven Jesus first appeared as a track on the album You Are the Quarry which was produced by Jerry Finn and released in May 2004 seven years after his last solo album Maladjusted 5 6 It was later released as the fourth and final single from the album by Sanctuary Records imprint Attack Records on 13 December 2004 in a 7 inch vinyl format that was backed with No One Can Hold a Candle to You a cover of a song originally recorded by his friend James Maker s band Raymonde as a B side 7 8 9 10 Attack also released two CD versions on the same date 9 the first a mini CD contained the same tracks 8 11 while the second a maxi CD contained two different B sides The Slum Mums and The Public Image 8 12 The former song was co composed by Boz Boorer and then bassist Gary Day 13 Attack and Sanctuary re released the first CD edition on 22 February 2005 14 A remastered version of I Have Forgiven was later included on Morrissey s compilation album Greatest Hits 2008 15 16 Composition and lyrics edit I Have Forgiven Jesus which was co written by Morrissey and his band member Alain Whyte is an alternative rock 17 ballad 5 with R amp B and pop rock undertones 17 It is composed in the key A minor and Morrissey s vocal ranges from the note A3 to G5 17 Morrissey also sings in the falsetto register 18 and his voice is accompanied by an electric piano 19 The song describes a person who blames Jesus Christ for creating a human full of love and desires but who is unable to transmit it although forgives the divine figure for doing so 20 21 It features confessional lyrics 18 22 23 mixed with a darkly comedic tone 5 and elements of black humour 24 that discuss frustrated sexual desire 25 and Catholic guilt 26 The song was described as representing Morrissey s angst 27 especially for being born mortal 28 in the form of a self pity 29 self loathing 30 and anguish filled lament 21 An archetypal self flagellating Morrissey lyric in the words of Fiona Shepherd of The Scotsman 31 it shows how the singer embraces hopelessness 19 Kitty Empire of The Observer said it expresses his agony and that poignant in his younger self seems more troubling in a man in his forties 30 Telegram amp Gazette s Craig Semon said it is a lament on his sorrowful existence and how his life has been plagued with nothing but heartache 18 Nicholas P Greco of Providence College wrote that despite attributing to Jesus the blame for making him the way he is the song deals mainly with one s inability to convey one s own desires 32 Although it could be interpreted merely as Morrissey s narcissism to think he is in a superior position to forgive Christ Greco found it to be a serious lament that people can relate to 33 This latter perception was echoed by Spin s Annie Zaleski and Jason Anderson who described it as a lament about the curse of having so much love to express in a loveless world 21 and Lisa de Jong of Utrecht University who characterised it as a song aimed at comforting the misfits 34 Adrian May of P N Review described it as about what to do with the abandonment of desire how to forgive and transcend to a greater truth or good this truth said May is the search for a new identity 35 nbsp El Greco s 1580 painting of Christ on his way to Calvary nbsp Pompeo Batoni s 1767 painting of the Sacred Heart of JesusBoth of these religious elements were said to have been featured throughout I Have Forgiven Jesus lyrics The song starts by establishing the title character as a good kid who would do no harm while a middle height vocal is accompanied by a 1960s sounding almost Beatle esque keyboard in the words of academic Isabella van Elferen 36 As the drama rises 37 and the child starts to doubt the values taught to him the andante tempo that expressed the safety provided by uncontested religious truths changes to high pitched vocals that symbolise naivete being replaced by the despair of being deserted by those same truths 36 Gavin Hopps author of the biography Morrissey The Pageant of His Bleeding Heart 38 wrote that the song uses a humorous tone to describe this loss of faith when Morrissey uses the dozy schoolboy nonstandard brung in the verse Forgive me any pain I may have brung to you and when he ironically repeat s back to Christ the promises he feels have been broken or seem meaningless I ll always be near to you 39 Biographer David Bret commented that Morrissey described how as a Dutiful catholic boy he withstood humiliation and condescension to attend church in the verse Through hail and snow I d go just to moon you 37 In the sequence Morrissey sings I carried my heart in my hand which Hopps suggested could be an allusion to the Sacred Heart 40 The third verse in low pitched sequences describes a suffering routine from Monday to Friday 41 Both Hopps and de Jong interpreted it as emulating the pain Christ is said to have suffered on his way to Calvary 34 40 Morrissey concludes this part with By Friday life has killed me which Hopps said could be an allusion to Good Friday 40 The death in this part argued May is a symbolic one that indicates a self exile from previous beliefs and the search for a new identity 35 The Guardian s Ben Hewitt described it as a secular experience of a week of joyless sexless activity 20 This sequence was meant to express the dull drone of emptied out daily life without love or God wrote van Elferen 41 In this part the character is still haunted by the recent abandonment of his beliefs 41 The song then transitions to a melancholy cello melody as the calm tone becomes agitated and the singer asks why he has been given so much love in a loveless world 41 The singer s tone gradually thickens until it reaches a point of a stubborn repetition of a despairing call to Jesus Do you hate me underlined by a strong on beat drum with subtle syncopated keyboard motifs 41 After this urgent existential complaint in which wrote Hopps feeling that God must have hated him in creating him he suffers so much from being himself 39 the beat stops abruptly as the song ends 41 Relation to religion edit The song s main character according to Zaleski and Anderson can be that Irish Catholic boy in Manchester who according to the song is a nice kid who does not know how to handle his desires 21 Bronte Schiltz of Manchester Metropolitan University said this inability is correlated to Morrissey s discomfort with his queer identity during his Catholic upbringing 3 Because of this link between desire and religion some journalists including Rolling Stone s James Hunter and The Advocate s David White understood the song as a critique of organized religion 42 43 Mikel Jollett on the program All Things Considered described it as a confessional accusation of Christianity 44 Jim Abbott writing for the Orlando Sentinel said Morrissey blames faith for his feelings 19 Hua Hsu of Slate however stated that it finds Morrissey at peace with his spiritual non relationships rather than flailing helplessly against the torture of religious upbringing 45 Van Elferen said the song depicts a more ambiguous relation of Morrissey to his religious background 41 Because of the way the song inverts the divine human relations both academics and journalists have described it as blasphemy and blasphemous 46 47 According to Hopps beyond the appearance of blasphemy 48 it featured elements reminiscent of the lamentations and accusations in the Old Testament of God being unjust especially those found in the Book of Job 49 Hopps said however that at the same time it seems to be making fun of religious teaching in a way the psalmists and Job do not 39 The author concluded that Catholic faith is the light that never goes out on Morrissey s life 38 because the song mixes an apparently blasphemous bitterness with what seems to be an unironic sense of dereliction but Jesus hurt me when He deserted me which implies a prior and latent state of relation 48 An anonymous author of the Centre for Christian Apologetics Scholarship and Education of the New College University of New South Wales also described the song as being both blasphemous and offensive to Christian sensibilities and a meditation on desire 50 Although the writer ultimately condemned it he said it could be positively interpreted as a prayer of complaint directed to Jesus similar to the Psalmists appeal to God 50 Scholar Anti Nylen wrote that Morrissey s songs usually feature Christian imagery but from an incredulous position 51 considering that I Have Forgiven Jesus is an exception to this 52 He stated that prayer and blasphemy are present in the song at the same time and that it is a song about reconciliation by a Christian who has faith but who still has enormous difficulties in submitting to it 52 The entwinement of prayer and blasphemy is characteristic of the anti modern tradition of Catholic Romanticism into which Nylen puts Morrissey 52 Van Elferen interpreted Morrissey s position regarding Catholicism as akin to that of Gothic fiction which like Romanticism sought to reconstruct the divine mysteries that reason had begun to dismantle 41 Both Gothic literature and the song van Elferen wrote ponder what remains when the comfort of religious truth disappears in its shadow returning like the uncanny of the Freudian repressed haunting one with relentless questionings 41 Relation to Morrissey discography edit Scholars and critics have debated the connections of I Have Forgiven Jesus to Morrissey s general œuvre Macquarie University s Jean Philippe Deranty traced back its themes of painful sexual failure that issues a traumatic confusion about sexual preferences and sexual abilities to The Smiths s song I Want the One I Can t Have from the 1985 album Meat Is Murder 53 Scholar Daniel Manco argued that I Have Forgiven Jesus is thematically related to Morrissey s 1990 song November Spawned a Monster both of which feature disabled people and dialogues with Jesus 54 Manco also commented that it echoes November Spawned a Monster in its discussion of blameless youth dysfunctional corporeality social and sexual abjection and divine culpability 25 De Jong compared it with You Are the Quarry s Let Me Kiss You 2004 she wrote that both songs approach love in a grim way and highlight themes of physical uncertainties 55 Because of its references to Morrissey s Anglo Irish upbringing and the way the song cast doubts on the values he learnt van Elferen called it the religious counterpart of Irish Blood English Heart 2004 41 Eric Schumacher Rasmussen of Paste went further writing that it summed up the raison d etre of his entire career 56 Critical reception editUpon its release I Have Forgiven Jesus was described as a controversial track 57 58 and has polarized critics Josh Tyrangiel of Time called it woeful 59 Alexis Petridis of The Guardian criticized it for its cheap synthesised strings 60 and Andrew Stevens of 3 AM Magazine said it is flat and go es nowhere 61 Ben Rayner of Toronto Star called it ridiculously overwrought even by Morrissey s theatrical standards 62 People staff dubbed it bloody brilliant 6 and The Scotsman labelled it a touching song about repressed desire 63 Telegram amp Gazette s Semon wrote In the age of The Passion of the Christ and the religious right seemingly having more influence on the political might writing a song such as I ve Forgiven Jesus is a bold move to say the least he also praised Morrissey s emotionally stirring falsetto who send shivers down one s spine 18 It was considered to be one of the best tracks on You Are the Quarry along with Irish Blood English Heart by Rolling Stone s Jonathan Ringen 64 by SFGate s Aidin Vaziri 65 and by Jordan Kessler of PopMatters who paired it with First of the Gang to Die 66 By the start of 2005 BBC Manchester s Terry Christian included the song at number 25 among the 40 best songs of 2004 67 In retrospective analyses I Have Forgiven Jesus has been featured as one of Morrissey s best songs by Chile s Radio Cooperativa in 2013 68 The Guardian s Hewitt in 2014 20 and Spin s Zaleski and Anderson in 2017 21 While Hewitt described it as a swirling grandiose pop 20 Zaleski and Anderson remarked on its poignancy 21 Chart performance editAlthough BBC Radio 1 refused to playlist I Have Forgiven 69 the song debuted at number 10 on the UK Singles Chart issue dated 25 December 2004 70 71 This marked Morrissey s fourth straight to the top 10 single of the year following Irish Blood English Heart First of the Gang to Die and Let Me Kiss You 57 72 These four top 10 hits were achieved within seven months a record in his career It spent five consecutive weeks on the chart between 13 December 2004 and 22 January 2005 declining each week before leaving the Top 100 70 It topped the UK Independent Singles Chart UK Indie on its debut and spent seven consecutive weeks on the chart 73 74 In spite of reaching the top 10 in UK Morrissey had not the chance to appear on the BBC program Top of the Pops 75 On the Irish Singles Chart it only spent a week in the top 50 peaking at number 45 76 Its only chart performance outside its domestic market was in Sweden where it entered the national chart at number 33 and spent six consecutive weeks on the chart 77 Music video editThe music video for I Have Forgiven Jesus which was directed by Bucky Fukumoto 4 78 via The Directors Bureau 79 was released online in November 2004 79 80 Its images were later used on the covers of the song s single release 1 The video was later released as bonus material on Morrissey s 2005 live DVD Who Put the M in Manchester 79 81 In the video Morrissey is dressed as a Roman Catholic priest in a white clerical collar 79 and black blazer and pants 82 while carrying rosaries 78 and wearing a crucifix 40 It opens with a close up of Morrissey which is followed by a shot of the grey sky and a long shot of him walking towards the camera 78 The sepia toned image 78 shows the singer walking down the grey deserted streets in a broken down Los Angeles park 4 79 First alone Morrissey is joined by the band members 78 who wear Jobriath s T shirts during the walk 83 Morrissey s decision to take the role of a priest in the music video was controversial 36 It was interpreted by James G Crossley of the Department of Biblical Studies of the University of Sheffield as a desire to express personal angst and to have an ironical and humorous take on it 84 Hewitt said the singer s clothing in the video and the December release as a Christmas single were clear evidence that Morrissey planned it as a jocular provocation 20 Van Elferen said the video expresses his ambivalent relationship with Catholicism as he presents himself as his own spectre through the depiction of someone tormented by his own flesh and bone and painfully aware of the contradictions between prescribed Catholic dealings with issues of sexuality and his own feelings 85 Nylen said the choice of the band members T shirts may be an argument because Jobriath was an openly gay rock star while Catholicism usually condemns homosexuality 83 Live performances editMorrissey performed I Have Forgiven Jesus live as part of his 2004 tour of the UK and the US 5 86 some parts of this tour are featured on his album Live at Earls Court 2004 and DVD Who Put the M in Manchester 2005 both of which include I Have Forgiven Jesus 64 87 In July 2004 he performed it live on The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn and this performance would later be included on a deluxe re release of You Are the Quarry in December 2004 88 89 It was also included on the 2006 tour for his following album Ringleader of the Tormentors 46 and on the 2014 tour for the album World Peace Is None of Your Business 90 91 Formats and track listings edit7 inch vinyl and CD 1 8 11 I Have Forgiven Jesus No One Can Hold a Candle to You CD 2 12 I Have Forgiven Jesus The Slum Mums The Public Image Credits and personnel editCredits are adapted from the liner notes of I Have Forgiven Jesus single 1 Morrissey songwriting Alain Whyte songwriting guitar Jerry Finn production Joe McGrath engineering Boz Boorer guitar Gary Day bass Dean Butterworth drums Roger Manning 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