Lyrics
Waiting
Human dung
To start playing
Homeric fol de rol
She glides, she slides 1
In kitchens Homeric
Giant Homeric
Fol de rol
Fol de rol
Homogeneous
Check waistband, laughing
With helper in high-vis yellow coat
With nothing
Heigh ho metal!
Hiding
Homeric metal
Fol de rol
Generic
Dreamer
We're gibbering infants
She strides
Horrible facts
You block hotel area
With metal wedge potato
Dreaming
Fol de rol
Fol de rol
Christian
With, with green and yellow
So-called wheels
Cogs
There he stands
Homunculous bone and head
Fol de
Heigh ho
Fol de
Fol de
Rol
Rol
Fol de rol
de rol
Rol
Yeah
Ho
Meric
Homeric cogs of steel
Imaginary
Excite plastic wheels
Cogs of steel
Homeric
You block
You block
The glides
He rides
Homosapien
Electric
Fermenting
Imaginary dung 2
Electric
Electric wheels out
We can't efface it
We can't efface it
Cogs of steel Homeric!
Cogs of steel Homeric!
Commentary
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The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines “folderol” as “A showy but useless item, a trifle; nonsense, trivial display.” It says of the origin of the word: “from a meaningless refrain in songs.”
Footnotes
Sources / Links
- The Annotated Fall: “Fol de Rol” [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: “Fol De Rol”
- 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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