Lyrics
Glaciers destroyed as gray were born
From water, from depths at sea
And they answered
Gray
The day today
Gray
Gray today
We're born from water
Depths and mouths glacials etcetera
And your replacements
Gray
You'll learn to embrace gray
Their species destroyed as you born from water
[ ] and your replacements
For your species
Gray
[ ]
Gray
And your replicants
His brain goes Babylon
Gray
The day today
Gray
Gray today
Replacements, replicants and your [ ] capacity for [ ]
Gray
I saw his heart
Gray
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Commentary
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The transcript above is a very tentative and unsatisfactory attempt at the lyrics, which need much more attention and are anyway hard to make out. But the theme seems to have something to do with aliens.
Footnotes
Sources / Links
- 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]
- 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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