Lyrics
The first god has in his garden
From the back looked like a household pet
When it twirled round was revealed to be a three-legged black grey hog
See what flows from his mushy pen
Garden
Garden
That person is films on TV five years back at least
He's the young generation dancing troupe
Try'na perform country and western
(Do a dance here)
Never since birth not eaten in a day
Never since courtship stayed up some nights
He had a Kingdom Of Evil book under a German history book
He was contrived like that
See what flows from his slushy pen
Garden
Garden
Small, small location on huge continent
Sodomised by presumption
Crooked traitor past revealed at last
Godzone
Godzone
(Jacob's Ladder)
Godzone
Godzone
... can be erased
This entails explosive charges left to me by a dead sailor from Bury being wired up under every windowsill in close proximity to my ears
When phones ring and are inconvenient to the ears, I just press table lamp light button next to my bed and they blow up
I got the idea from a book
Yours sincerely
Mr Reg Varney
The same thing could have been taken for a spoilt slate with largesse resource
His ferry stopped at the 'Pool port
Wild Bill Hick shaves and charts at last
The second god's sad - he's coming up - he's waiting number four with a [ ] less stylish porch
We have the second god's influence
Wild Bill Hick shaves and charts at last
Shotgun shotgun
Shotgun shotgun
Shotgun shotgun
The best firms advertise the least
The second god lived by fountains that flowed
By the blue shiny lit roads
Had forgot what others still tried to grasp
He knew the evil of the phone
He knew the evil of the phone
The bells stopped on Sunday when he rose
The bells stopped on Sunday when he rose
He's here, he's here at last
I saw him, I swear
He's on the second floor
Up the brown baize lift shaft
He's here, he's here at last
I saw him, I swear
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
He's here, I saw him, I swear
Up the brown baize lift shaft
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
(Jew on a motorbike)
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Footnotes
Sources / Links
- The Annotated Fall: “Garden” [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: “Garden”
- 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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