You don't need to be a musician to appreciate writing. Just not my taste, hiding debauchery behind metaphors doesn't constitute good poetry imo. We
get it, he's sad and lonely and the big bad world is to blame for everything.
His early stuff with The Smiths was absolutely brilliant, equal credit going to Johnny Marr's amazing guitar work. Still enjoy some of his more recent
stuff, it's not got the same humor though.