The day the dream went right back to base There was blood on the ground Blood on the sand Blood all around Tracks of the ride of the white Matterhorn The day the dream debased and went home And the people did mill to those adrenaline rails And everything stopped The nurses climbed up Our faces paled
And there was no doubt at all No two ways about it Was the day Disney's dream debased
Saw a mouse, who flapped at my wife And she told him what And she told him what had gone down Who then did not know the extent of the show That evil had gave in the mouth of that ride (Disney) And Minnie and Mickey, Brer and Pluto secretly prayed
And there was no doubt at all No two ways about it Was the day Disney's dream debased
(Disney) Dark glasses on, Western Union man the gates The dream, an innocent meets her fate Far away from Appalachia and the city hate
The day The day The day The day when there was no doubt at all No maybe about it It was the day the dream debased
(Disney) I remember it from the back of my mind The tune that I wrote in fond dreams Anthem to creator of all that had stopped
So there was no doubt at all No two ways about it It was the day the dream debased
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Footnotes
Sources / Links
The Annotated Fall: “Disney’s Dream Debased” [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]
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