Lyrics
I'm in the furniture trade
Got a new job today
Couldn't stick the cretin on the number three lathe
Went down the town to a HM club
The sign had a cross through a couple well-dressed
They looked at my coat
They looked at my hair
An Easy Rider coot grabbed the edge of my coat
Said, "You're too smart for here"
I said, "I'll see the manager"
He was the manager
Eat y'self fitter
Up the stairs mister
Eat y'self fitter
Analytics have got my type worked out
Analytics on me
Their poison render
I grope about
And when I go out my mind splits
My eyes doth hurt
The musical chairs have been swallowed up
By a cuddly group who land and rub off
Hoping that whatever it is will land and drop off
I met a hero of mine, I shook his hand
Got trapped in the door
Felt a fool, I tell ya
Charmed to meet ya
Eat y'self fitter
Up the stairs mister
Eat y'self fitter
Became a recluse and bought a computer
Set it up in the home
Elusive fig. one on the screen
Saw the Holy Ghost, I swear, on the screen
Where's the cursor?
Where's the eraser?
Where's the cursor?
Where's the eraser?
G-O-H-O-H-O-9-O
G-O-H-O-H-O-9-O
G-O-H-O-H-O-9-O
H-O-9-O-G-O-H-O
What's a computer?
Eat y'self fitter
What's a computer?
Eat y'self fitter
The Kevin Ayers scene
South of France
Crushed velvet
Are back! Are back!
Are back! Are back!
Levi's Fridays
Greek holidays
Barratt heritance
Barratt heritance
Barratt heritance
Barratt heritance
Mit-dem!
Mit-dem!
Mit-dem
Don't wanna be a mit-dem!
Don't wanna be a mit-dem!
Don't wanna be a mit-dem!
Don't wanna be a mit-dem!
Pick the fleas mister
Eat y'self fitter
Eat y'self fitter?
Eat y'self fitter
Who tells you what to tape on your vid chip
How do you know the progs you miss are worse than those you single out?
And what'll you do when the rental's up
And your bottom rack is full of vids of programmes you will nae look at
The way they act is, oh, sheer delight
Cardboard copyright, make it right
Panic in Sudan
Panic in Wardour
Panic in Granadaland 1
Panic all over
By the wretched timesheeters of my delight
One starry night
The powers that be will have to meet
And have no choice but to eat each other
Eat y'self fitter
Eat each other?
Eat y'self fitter
(Eat y'self fitter)
Portly and with good grace
The secret straight back ogre entered
His brain aflame with all the dreams
It had conjured
It had conjured
It had conjured
It had conjured
Mit-dem!
Mit-dem!
Mit-dem
Don't wanna be a mit-dem!
Don't wanna be a mit-dem!
Don't wanna be a mit-dem!
Don't wanna be a mit-dem!
The centimetre square
Eat y'self fitter
Said it purged fear
Eat y'self fitter
Commentary
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Footnotes
- Psychogeographically, “Granadaland” refers broadly to the region of the north-west of England formerly covered by the Granada TV independent television franchise. See the “He’s the King of Granadaland” section of the entry for “A Lot of Wind” for further discussion. ↩︎
Sources / Links
- The Annotated Fall: “Eat Y’Self Fitter” [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: “Eat Y’self Fitter”
- 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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say, is this the old ‘fall annotated’ site back in a new guise? well, thank goodness.
are you going to be able to port all the old comments across or start again?
but thank goodness.
world needs this.
There’s an explanation on the front page: https:/
bzfgt’s annotatedfall.doomby.com is dead, although a copy of the site is available in the internet archive.
I am creating a new Fall annotated site. It has a wider remit than bzfgt’s site and I am making some different decisions. It will include a great deal of the same material, of course, not least because I did a lot of the research for the old site. But it is not going to be a duplication of the old site, and I don’t intend to reproduce the old comments, even if doing so were possible.
It’s effectively a new start on a similar but different basis.