It is interesting to hear the way Sunday is used metaphorically in this Morrissey song. There are those for whom Sunday is very different than for the practicing Christian - mere silence and loneliness, silent and grey, "a costal town that they forgot to close down."
There is a lot that could be said about the simple fact that this metaphor works for people -- a lot about the empty shell of Christendom that is the quasi-secular West, the true Christian calendar and "Christian time," even the Church's mission in the world.
[The video I had here was taken down at YouTube. Here's a link to a live version.]
(click here for lyrics)
(Or here for 10,000 Maniacs' version)
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