Why don't you tell me? Next time you ring Why don't you tell me Next time you ring Why don't you tell me? All leave's cancelled again
All leave cancelled!
Why don't you tell me The next time you ring Why don't you tell me The next time you ring And, why can't you ring and tell me? Why can't you just ring and tell me? Disappearing glass DIsappearing in the glass Ba ba ba ba
Why can't you Why can't you ring and tell me? Why can't you ring and tell me? Why can't you ring and tell me?
In the garden? Why don't you tell me The vacuum pack Isn't ready In the holy temple Of the Zweigeist
Welcoming Dismenting Glasses Miniscule
All leave cancelled
Who can't be trusted With a one half bucket of whiskey Without injecting salad All leave's cancelled In eight minutes, fifty seconds It's really nice (All leave's cancelled) Gone, til Five minutes twenty seconds (All leave's cancelled) Title: "All leave X" (Wake up) Going on ten minutes, oh five seconds (And why can't you ring and tell me?) Arrow in green as used by the bandmates (Why can't you ring?) Straight on Resorting back To a seven twenty (Why can't you just ring and tell me) To eight fifty Why can't you wait for nine fifty Is your art so shallow? Do you have to abuse the indigenous Over the borders of M1 With your savage puritan Polishness? Laughing at you As you go upstairs With your African friends To pitch against our goal (I can't!) All leave cancelled (Why?)
Why don't you tell me next time All leave's cancelled again? Why don't you tell me Next time you ring All leave's cancelled All leave's cancelled again? Why don't you tell me Next time you ring? Why don't you tell me Next time you ring?
One day you're gonna be lonely But I don't know when just now Lies
Commentary
< Post in progress >
Footnotes
Sources / Links
The Annotated Fall: “All Leave Cancelled” [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]
