I worked for future salary The night-shift in Spalding Street The respect is worth it One a.m. at the front gate It had just been Sunday night Stood this man, tall and twisted back He spoke loud and said, "come out of there" The grill on the wall contains a crowd And the twisted shape you call the laundry post reminds me of my origin Your criss-crossed fences are avenues Paid for by the NHS, you need it more than the patients for mortgage fees and medical pranks But you won't fix my quartz chip or repair my broken kind Kindness borne of mousey brain Twisted with kin of bitter world Vicious dreams of EC1 and Lapland girls and green purse with tall and chaste inductments
The porter went to move the man And we got back to practice time But his hands went through the man He was made up of liquid pitch His legs two propeller sticks Criss-crossed fence posts were his eyes His mouth red like a twisted reich His mouth like a twisted knife He reeked of bleach and hospitals He reeked of bleach and hospitals The porter swears this is true He reeked of bleach and hospitals The porter swears this is true And drinks too much in his brown and white hut But the thing clings to the acceptance gate The thing clings to the acceptance gate The thing clings to the acceptance gate The thing clings to the medical acceptance gate And nobody says he's seen it It only bounces young MDs But we are dedicated to fight disease To fight disease Disease Disease
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Sources / Links
The Annotated Fall: “Medical Acceptance Gate” [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]