Lyrics
He saunters into town
There stands the door
Within, a man
He shoots it all down
It's his first one today
It's his first one today
Enters bar café
Orders New Coke latté
Behold the man
Shoots the waitress and pays
It's his first girl today
It's his first girl today
If only he'd brought his firm's camera today
'Cos today is the day of a great centenary
His social media psyche
Well those were the days
His wank fills dawn over
We were armed every day
They were armed every day
There lies the door
There lies the floor
Commentary
< Post in progress >
Originally titled “Bam”, or “Bam (Student Village)” on setlists prior to the release of Sub-Lingual Tablet (2015). BAM are a construction company.
Footnotes
Sources / Links
- The Annotated Fall: “First One Today” [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: “First One Today”
- 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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