The Parental Voice in Pop

" We gave her most of our lives.... never a thought for ourselves... " " We only wanted to be loved " (always taken it to be meant as a clinging motherly or grandmotherly voice, a mixture of sponge and limpet... although others bits of the lyric suggests it's more about the mutual braindeath of matrimony: Rotten's last stand of cynicism before hitching up with Nora, for life) " Nigel's whole…