Relevant in your later snap stairs Jet lag At his come down Composite set year The green jelly Green jelly envy
No, nevermore Gargoyle legs Are droopy C quality Next, they jet Upwardly B.T. rancid Laughter
His grin is elf Makes ten copies To his mother spouse She tortures him in big house Don't forget that Birthday Look at me, kids Is irrelevant to your latent sex and shock your lizard
(Heigh ho, heigh ho)
And your lookalikey tears is relevant in your His grin is elf Makes ten copies His blonde mother spouse Tortures him in his big house
Get rid, you need more sackings Order up his toast His grin is elf Advertising And makes ten copies His blonde mother spouse Tortures him, in big house Says we need more seconds (Eagles of Death Metal) His grin is elf Aids joke CD Antipodean, upside down Percussionist rests Grin is elf Percussionist retched She yells, at every morn (message:) Get a job!
Dreaming The dream: gargoyles and drummers, awkwardly descend to great terror Get a job
Waiting
He walks down in every town He's a nice man to have around He implodes on shelf, with someone else He's elf But just watch him He is He's raised elf on shelf
Compulsive on the side Like the 15 marrows The ja volks With Gene Kelly Say through the clotted breath How the clouds of synthetic And overpriced Herr Burgoman
Couples vs. must stay jobless King of couples and closures Must stay jobless King of closures Couples vs. jobless
Couple 30-ish vs. jobless
Commentary
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Footnotes
Sources / Links
The Annotated Fall: “Couples Vs Jobless Mid 30’s” [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]
I’ve been listening very closely to this song! Very difficult to be absolutely sure about the lyrics in some places…. but I have a few suggestions that I think are reasonably clear.
Where it has “Look at me, kids Is irrelevant to your latent sex”
I think it’s actually “lookalikey tears is relevant in your latent sex”
“Says we need more seconds” should be “says we need more sackings”
After “gargoyles and drummers” I’m sure it should be “upwardly descend” rather than “awkwardly descend”
“He’s raised elf on shelf” should be “His grin is elf on shelf”
There’s definitely some other bits where I’m not sure/not convinced but unless I can come up with alternative suggestions I’ll leave them alone!
Pretty sure it’s ‘upwardly B.T. prices’
I’ve been listening very closely to this song! Very difficult to be absolutely sure about the lyrics in some places…. but I have a few suggestions that I think are reasonably clear.
Where it has “Look at me, kids Is irrelevant to your latent sex”
I think it’s actually “lookalikey tears is relevant in your latent sex”
“Says we need more seconds” should be “says we need more sackings”
After “gargoyles and drummers” I’m sure it should be “upwardly descend” rather than “awkwardly descend”
“He’s raised elf on shelf” should be “His grin is elf on shelf”
There’s definitely some other bits where I’m not sure/not convinced but unless I can come up with alternative suggestions I’ll leave them alone!