Lyrics

When will the good Scotch return in all its scarred splendour?
When will the price of Scotch come down?
Here's him in nearly eighty-five
Hanging around with pop scum
It's not the business I despise
On this train, extended ride
It's the Scotch end of the market now
And steel glasses
And bad music corpses
Cannot hide the new rock scum
Spitting on what's good and gone
Spitting on what's good and gone
When will the price of Scotch come down?
Arrangement before job done
Alignment before job done
Assignment before song sung
Alignment before job done
All that is fantastic leagues against me
The fantastic is in league against me
Tin can rattle on the path
The bestial greed is on the attack
The cat black runs round the tree
The Siamese reached the shore
The Siamese reached the shore

Not ever, no never no more
will I trust the elves of Dunsimore
Not ever, no never no more
Will I trust the elves of Dunsimore
Not ever, no never no more
Will I trust the elves of Dunsimore
Not ever, no never no more
Will I trust the elves of Dunsimore
Not ever, no never no more
Will I trust the elves of Dunsimore
Not ever, no never no more
Will I trust the elves of Dunsimore
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When will the price of Scotch come down?
When will the price of Scotch come down?

Not ever, no never no more
Will I trust the elves of Dunsimore
Not ever, no never no more
Will I trust the elves of Dunsimore
Not ever, no never no more
Will I trust the elves of Dunsimore

Commentary

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Footnotes

Sources / Links

• The Annotated Fall: “Elves” [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: “Elves”
• Wolstencroft, Simon (2014). You Can Drum But You Can’t Hide: a memoir. Trowbridge: Strata Books. (2nd edition published by Route Publishing, 2017).