Idiot groups with no shape or form Out of their heads on a quid of blow The shapeless kecks flapping up a storm Look at what they are, a pack of worms
Idiot Joy Showland Idiot Joy Showland Idiot Joy Showland Idiot Joy Showland
The nylon leaves are falling From the twisted shell of your cranium Your mystic jump-suits cannot hide Your competitive plagiarism
In Idiot Joy Showland Idiot Joy Showland Idiot Joy Showland Idiot Joy Showland
Freddie and the Dreamers, come on up Hey you imitators, come on up Hey little singer, come on up Show us your house and show us your cock The working class has been shafted So what the fuck you sneering at? Your prerogative in life it seems Is living out an adman's dream
Idiot Joy Showland Idiot Joy Showland Idiot Joy Showland Idiot Joy Showland
California has Disneyland And Blackpool has a Funland And Flanders had no-man's-land This place idiot show bands
Idiot Joy Showland Idiot Joy Showland Idiot Joy Showland Idiot Joy Showland
And now microcosms come and go And it's amazing what they show Your sportsmen's tears are laudanum Idiot Joy Showland Idiot Joy Showland Idiot Joy Showland Idiot Joy Showland
The locusts are all queuing in For Idiot Joy Showland For Idiot Joy Showland For Idiot Joy Showland Idiot Joy
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Sources / Links
The Annotated Fall: “Idiot Joy Showland” [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]
