Lyrics
Midnight in Aspen
The fog sticks around as if he were on
So it goes higher and higher
Till the last
Even chain on jeep is bored
Hyphen
Aspen
Utah
Ice melting over Jehovah
Freedom of self-doubt
Six p.m.
Rising
He aims the highest bestest powered rifle at the stars
Orion
It bounces off the satellite
He was lucky this week
Midnight
Aspen Reprise
At the constellation of Orion
It bounces back over imitating
But wait till next week
Hard tough believers, all
Form pure lights spiritual
But as soft they ascend and hit the mark
Those old frog eighteenth century revolters never said anything about this
It bounces back over imitating sub-animal jackals
And the grey-red churned-up roots
It misses him tonight
But wait till this time next week, next midnight
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Footnotes
Sources / Links
- The Annotated Fall: “Midnight in Aspen/Aspen Reprise” [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: “Midnight in Aspen”
- 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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