Lyrics
CD Version
And Pierce Brosnan how dare you prescribe
Sad grief and bed wet pills?
Good grief bed wet
Sad grief bed wet
Pills
Hurly Wurly how can you prescribe
Sad grief and bed wet... pill?
Rayland Wordley how dare you prescribe
Sad grief bad chest
Sad grief bed wet
Pills
Rayland Wordley how dare you prescribe me
Bed wet pill and deep grief?
Connie Cookie how could you subscribe
Bed grief wet pills?
Bed grief, bed wet
Bed wet...pills
Bad luck
Zip up!
Curly
Bed wet good grief
Good grief bed wet
Zip up
Zip up
LP Version
MES: What'd I say to you? For a change, we're put in a good position here. Because... it's actually something good we could work with... ya know, it doesn't mean... ya know...
Other: You're a major player here, Mark. You could change the entire direction in one move. And I think it's not often that we're at this point this early in the procedure....
MES: What about the corporation?
O: Con...Connie and Cookie?...Erm, they subscribed.
MES: Say - we've got to thank them for their full....
O: (laughing) Their full cooperation...
O (with MES dictating in the background): ...with the fall and their associates.
MES: I would say the anti-Fall-ization. I would say the anti-Fall.
O:Anti-Fall? Anti-Fall association. Their full cooperation with the anti-Fall association.
MES (singing): Curly wurly how could you prescribe
Bad grief and bed wet
Connie Cookie how could you subscribe
Bad grief, bad pills
Bad grief
Bed wet... Pills!
Wurly wurly how dare you prescribe
Bed wet, good grief
Good grief, bed wet
Zip up! Zip up!
Commentary
< Post in progress >
Version: “Dedication (Remix)” from Wise Ol’ Man.
Footnotes
Sources / Links
- The Annotated Fall: “Dedication Not Medication” [Archived]
- Smith, Mark E. (2008). Renegade: The Lives and Tales of Mark E. Smith. London: Penguin.
- The Track Record: “Dedication Not Medication”
- Wolstencroft, Simon (2014). You Can Drum But You Can’t Hide. London: Strata Books.
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My attempt to transcribe the slightly more expansive lyrics from the fabulous Electric Brixton performance of 26th Sept 2014.
I entered the scene
I entered the scene
The titles on the government TV was Dedication Not Medication
Only did I find out on my entrance to the great glorified little ? where certain people want to live
A torn up poster with Dedication ?
Then I realised
I had been
I had been unconsciously plagiarised by some arse from the Lloyds Bank
What ?
What could I do?
Take the poster down.
I can’t see ?
????
Dedication Not Medication
Dedication Not Medication
Hurly Wurly how dare you prescribe?
And Doctor Wurly how dare you prescribe?
A ? pills bed wet they are bad pills
Give it up Curly
And Doctor Curly how dare you prescribe?
Bed wet bad grief bad gried bed wet
Pills!
Give it up Curly!