Lyrics
The Leicester YOP TEP instructor emerged from corridor
His state subsidised cannabis haze
Moved reptilian in its all levelling routine
I said to him, it's about time you started thinking about the black dog on your back
I said, it's about time you started thinking about the re-run which is your life
Moveable backdrop
The Leicester YOP instructor emerged from corridor
His state subsidised cannabis haze moved reptilian
Moveable backdrop
The backdrop shifted and changed, shifted and changed
The Manchester regiment of the Stuarts would not tread on your patch
Got nearly down to Derby, you know
Was stopped by Stinking Billy
And rode a racing horse which I had liberated from a Tyneside morgue
I said to the men, it's about time you started thinking about the black dog on your back
It's about time you started thinking about the void in your life
A military prison or worse, or worse
Moveable backdrop
The backdrop shifted and changed
The semite man's home was full of sperm
And pulled down
His mezuzah was kicked around
As I did it I said to them
It's about time you started thinking about the black dog on your back
It's about time you started thinking about the void which is your life
But the backdrop shifted and changed
So did not even know what song was, what it was
The backdrop shifted and changed
Moveable backdrop, moveable backdrop
The backdrop shifted and drifted
Who put the yellow pills in the Gordon's gin?
The backdrop shifted and changed
Until did not even know when the lot come up
Bomb hole in our sched, bomb hole in our schedule
Schedule, schedule, schedule, name, Mr Bomb Hole
Who put the yellow pills in the Gordon's gin?
Who put the yellow pills in the Gordon's gin?
Who put the yellow pills in the Gordon's gin?
The backdrop shifted and changed
Till the reptilian TEP instructor merged with Stinking Billy's morass of flesh
And the Yorkies drifted
1902 Metropole
The Yorkies, Ripley, Yorks, shifted and drifted
I said to them, it's about time you started thinking about the black dog on your back
I said, it's about time you started thinking about the void in your life
Moveable backdrop, moveable backdrop
The backdrop shifted, the backdrop shifted and changed
And this was The Fall
Goodnight
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Footnotes
Sources / Links
- The Annotated Fall: “Backdrop” [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]
- Smith Start, Brix (2016). The Rise, The Fall, and The Rise. London: Faber & Faber. [Text available online in archive.org]
- The Track Record: “Backdrop”
- Wolstencroft, Simon (2014). You Can Drum But You Can’t Hide: a memoir. Trowbridge: Strata Books. (2nd edition published by Route Publishing, 2017).
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