Locus Beware characters connected with car adverts Real, assumed or imaginary The vocal testament of M.E.S. Coming from the little town of Speck Marsden One - Cash - the eternal fork out To keep everything normal is well beyond the capacity All monies will try and escape thee Beware of thy lazy right hand This is the focal of M.E.S. locus and Xyralothep Avoid respectable television and respectable newspapers They have neither the talent of art nor the instinctive snout of the media Two - Deploreth thy real god He mutters incomprehensibly Still on job one With alloys The calibrator In a cave not yet invented or constructed This is your vessel M.E.S. From he to you This one M.E.S. procured Mountain's waters blocked by dormant tree See later on this LP Six - Avoid fat aggressive men and handsome aggressive men In conflict they disappear overnight with bad backs Seven - cod science, cod psychology is to be avoided But do not make your enig-noise public As it will bring the wrath of the drude quarters
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Sources / Links
The Annotated Fall: “Last Commands Of Xyralothep Via MES” [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]
