Lyrics
Come to me
Come unto me
All ye that labour
You that are heavy laden
Cos everything hurts
And everything hurts
I've been pursuing the fuel too long
Got a big fat pain in my chest bone
Got an empty pocketbook
Got a big fat no no in my chequebook
And everything hurts
And everything hurts
I got the disease tinnitus
I'm speakin' like I've got Tourette's
And everything hurts
And everything hurts
And everything hurts
I'm born
I'm born
I'm dressed like a road beacon on my way to Valhalla breakfast
And everything hurts
Can't you see the witches by my side
Followin' me through all my life
And everything hurts
I was born
I was born
I was born
Come to me all ye that labour and are heavy laden
My head dip dip dip dipping, man
And all my limbs are disconnected
And everything hurts
And everything hurts
And everything hurts
I've been pursuing the fuel too long
Got a big fat pain in my chest bone
And everything hurts
And everything hurts
Everything hurts
Cos everything hurts
[ ]
I got a big fat foot on my knee bone
And the back of my [ ] is in my septum
And everything hurts
And everything hurts
Commentary
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If anything whatever has to be admitted against being sick, being weak, it is that in these conditions the actual curative instinct, that is to say the defensive and offensive instinct in man becomes soft. One does not know how to get free of anything, one does not know how to have done with anything, one does not know how to thrust back – everything hurts.
Friedrich Nietsche, Ecce Homo, p.15.
Footnotes
Sources / Links
- The Annotated Fall: “Everything Hurtz” [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.
- Nietzsche, Friedrich (1908). Ecce Homo. Trans. R.J. Hollingdale, 1979 London: Penguin.
- 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: “Everything Hurtz”
- 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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