I'm telling you now and I'm telling you this Life can be a onward, downward Chip-chit chip-chit chip
I'm not saying they're really thick But all the groups who've hit it big Make the Kane Gang look like an Einstein chip Chip N.Y.C. Chip A place to live Chip This is the Thule group This is a cool group I'm telling you now and I'm telling you this
Shawn and Petula Macabre, here are your wedding pictures They are black Stick it in the mud Stick it in the gut Stick it in the gut Stick it in the mud Boffins bray Boffins brag Stick it in the mud Stick it in the gut Stick it in the mud Stick it in the gut Stick it in the mud
They take from the medium poor to give to the needy poor Via the government poor Give it to the poor poor They're knocking on my door Entrance Entranced
Stick it in the mud Stick it in the gut Stick it in the mud Stick it in the gut Stick it in the mud Stick it in the gut Stick it in the mud Stick it in the gut Stick it in the mud Stick it in the gut
Cheap fog Cheap fog Cheap rotting scout belt Mud Stick it in the gut Gut mud
Who are the riff makers? Who are they really? How old are the stars, really? Halfwit philanthropist, cosy charity gig If God could see this he'd stick it They stick it in the gut Cheap fog Rotting scout belt
Stick it in the gut Stay in the mud They take it from the medium poor To give it to the medium poor Via the government poor And give it to the poor poor Stick it in the gut Red composite Wealthy philanthropist You son of a bitch
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Stick it in the mud Stick it in the gut Stick it in the mud
I'm telling you now and I'm telling you this Life can be a downward chip
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Footnotes
Sources / Links
The Annotated Fall: “Gut of the Quantifier” [Archived]
Ford, Simon (2003). Hip Priest: the story of Mark E Smith and The Fall. London: Quartet Books.
Mackay, Tommy (2018). 40 Odd Years of The Fall. Place of publication unknown: Greg Moodie.
Pringle, Steve (2022). You Must Get Them All: The Fall on Record. [paperback edition]. Pontefract: Route Publishing Ltd. [Online store]
Smith, Mark E. (1985). The Fall Lyrik & Texte Von Mark E. Smith. In Deutsch & Englisch. With Drawings by Brix. Berlin: The Lough Press. [AKA The Orange Book. Available online in The Internet Archive]
Smith, Mark E. (2008). vII. The Lough Press & AMarquisManipulationProductions. [AKA the Blue Lyrics Book]
