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Albums (and Slates)
Live at the Witch Trials
Dragnet
Grotesque (After the Gramme)
Slates
Hex Enduction Hour
Room to Live
Perverted by Language
The Wonderful and Frightening World of…
This Nation’s Saving Grace
Bend Sinister
The Frenz Experiment
Bremen Nacht Run Out 7″
The Frenz Experiment โ€“ Cassette/CD bonus tracks
I am Kurious Oranj
I am Kurious Oranj – Cassette/CD bonus tracks
Extricate
Extricate – Cassette/CD bonus tracks
Shift-Work
Shift-Work – Cassette/CD bonus tracks
Code: Selfish
The Infotainment Scan
The Infotainment Scan – CD bonus tracks
Middle Class Revolt
Cerebral Caustic
The Light User Syndrome
Levitate
Limited Edition Bonus CD
The Marshall Suite
Limited Edition LP bonus track
The Unutterable
The Unutterable – CD2: Testa Rossa Monitor Mixes
Are You Are Missing Winner
AYAMW 2006 Sanctuary Reissue – bonus tracks
The Real New Fall LP
The Real New Fall LP (Narnack US edition)
Country on the Click (Original Version)
Fall Heads Roll
Reformation! Post TLC
Reformation! Post TLC – Slogan/Sanctuary UK edition
Reformation Post TLC – Narnack US edition
Reformation! Post TLC โ€“ expanded Digipak edition Disc 2
Reformation! Post TLC โ€“ expanded Digipak edition Disc 3: Early Rough Mixes 2006
Imperial Wax Solvent
Imperial Wax Solvent – Britannia Row Recordings
Your Future Our Clutter
Your Future Our Clutter – LP bonus tracks
Ersatz GB
Re-Mit
Sub-Lingual Tablet
New Facts Emerge
Singles and EPs
Bingo-Master’s Break-Out
It’s the New Thing
Rowche Rumble
Fiery Jack
How I Wrote ‘Elastic Man’
Totally Wired
Lie Dream of a Casino Soul
Look, Know
The Man Whose Head Expanded
Kicker Conspiracy / Wings
Marquis Cha-Cha
Oh! Brother
c.r.e.e.p.
Call for Escape Route
Couldn’t Get Ahead / Rollin’ Dany
Cruiser’s Creek
Living Too Late
Mr. Pharmacist
Hey! Luciani
There’s a Ghost in My House
The Peel Sessions EP
Hit the North
Victoria
Jerusalem/Big New Prinz
Cab It Up
Telephone Thing
Popcorn Double Feature
Popcorn Double Feature – Limited Edition
White Lightning
The Dredger EP
High Tension Line
Free Range
Ed’s Babe
Kimble
Why Are People Grudgeful?
Behind the Counter
Behind the Counter, part 1
Behind the Counter, part 2
15 Ways
The Chiselers
Masquerade
Masquerade CD One
Masquerade CD Two
Masquerade 10″
Touch Sensitive
F-‘oldin’ Money
F-‘oldin’ Money – CD #1
F-‘oldin’ Money – CD #2
Rude (All the Time) 7″
The Fall vs. 2003
(We Wish You) A Protein Christmas
Theme from Sparta F.C. #2
Theme from Sparta F.C. #2 – Enhanced CD
2 Librans
Blind Man
Rude (All the Time) EP
I Can Hear the Grass Grow
I Can Hear the Grass Grow – Slogan/Sanctuary 7″
I Can Hear the Grass Grow – Narnack US CD edition
Fall Sound
Reformation! The Single
Slippy Floor
Bury!
Laptop Dog
Night of the Humerons
Sir William Wray
The Remainderer
Wise Ol’ Man
Masquerade (2017 Record Store Day 7″)
O-Mit
Live/Studio Hybrid
Totale’s Turns (It’s Now or Never)
Seminal Live
Seminal Live – Cassette/CD bonus tracks
The Twenty-Seven Points
2G+2
Interim
Live Uurop VIII-XII Places in Sun And Winter, Son

Covers
Instrumentals
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1978-May-30

Mark E. Smith – solo/spoken word
The Post Nearly Man
Pander! Panda! Panzer!
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    Von Sรผdenfed
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          Lyrics


          Peel Session version

          And all humans
          Cavalry or Calvary
          And not a drop of water or paper, or paper
          J.W. said, "walking bass, walking bass"
          Don't forget, don't forget
          You expected Aristotle Onassis
          But instead you got Mr James Fennings from Prestwick, in Cumbria
          Down!
          Do you?
          The flat is evil, full of cavalry and Calvary
          His first appearance was on Moscow Road
          The poster came at first
          At first I thought it was just a poster
          I was talking to Jane Seymour
          Eyes wide open
          The neck was slightly dislocated
          But then I walked up the street
          There was a repellent plastic
          Said poster with a picture, "Do you work?"
          I was on one leg
          At the top of the street there was a poster
          A plastic front
          From Moscow Road it came
          From Deansgate it came
          From Narnack Records it came
          I was on one leg
          I had to be in by 9:30
          I said, walking bass
          Paper times two
          Paper times two
          Paper everywhere and not a drop of water to be seen
          I said, I was by the ocean
          I saw a poster
          I am [ ]
          I am [ ]
          Everywhere I look I see a blind man
          I see a blind man everywhere I look

          I see a ...
          I can't get my eyes checked
          My blue eyes can't get checked
          I'm only on one leg

          I said to poster, "when's the curfew over?"
          I said, "blind man, have mercy on me"
          I said, "blind man, have mercy on me"
          Blind man, have mercy on me
          Oh Great One, I am a mere receptacle
          The egg tester for your sandalwood and other assorted woods
          In dark green
          Blind man, have mercy on me
          I got a metal leg - truth
          Flat is the evil of Calvary and cavalry

          Fall Heads Roll

          The flat is evil
          Welcome living leg-end
          I was walking down the street
          I saw a poster at the top
          I was only on one leg
          The streets were fucked
          And the poster at the top of street said "Do you work hard?"
          I was only on one leg
          The road hadn't been fixed
          I had to be in for half six
          Doo
          I was only on one leg
          My blue eyelids were not [ ]
          There was a curfew at half nine
          Call my kids
          There was a poster at the top of the street encapsulated in plastic
          It had a blind man
          So I said, "blind man, have mercy on me"
          I said, "blind man, have mercy on me"
          The flat is evil and full of cavalry and Calvary
          And Calvary and cavalry
          Do you work hard?
          It said, I am from Hebden Bridge
          Somebody said to me, "I can't understand a word you said"
          Said, "ninety-nine percent of non-smokers die"
          Do you work hard?
          Do you work hard?
          I was walking down the street
          And saw a picture of a blind man
          The flat is evil
          Of [ ] cavalry and Calvary
          Of [ ]
          Blind man, have mercy on me
          Said, blind man, have mercy on me

          I'm on one leg
          My blue eyes can't get fixed
          My kids seem to have [ ]
          My curfew was due half eight
          Now it's half past six
          My curfew is at 9:30
          I said
          Do you?
          Blind man! Have mercy on me
          Blind man! Have mercy on me
          Blind man! Have mercy on me
          I'm on one leg
          My eyes can't get fixed
          And my kids
          Can't blue eyes get fixed
          And my kids [ ]
          Blind man! Have mercy on me
          Blind man! Have mercy on me

          Commentary

          < Post in progress >

          Blind Man (Interim version)

          Footnotes

          Sources / Links

          • The Annotated Fall: โ€œBlindnessโ€ [Archived]
          • Smith, Mark E. (2008). Renegade: The Lives and Tales of Mark  E. Smith. London: Penguin.
          • The Track Record: “Blindness”
          • Wolstencroft, Simon (2014). You Can Drum But You Can’t Hide. London: Strata Books.
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