Lyrics
I'm hunting and I'm try'na find
A belt in the early morn
When your home is a trash mount
Look all over but you're right out
In need of black strap
In need of black strap
In need of black strap
No belts in this flat
No belts in this flat
The former tenant was anti- corporal-punish
Meant well, but it came to nothing
A light has just gone out
A bulb has just gone out
No belts in this flat
No bulbs in this flat
In need of white lamp
In need of white lamp
At the end of my tether, I destroyed years of hippy craft
Cut up a mad ship
Of a string woollen chandelier or something
No belts in this flat
In need of black strap
In need of black strap
No belts in this flat
A bulb has just gone out, and the only light I have found
Is the original with a set-square neck
Laying out cool dwellings for the next Britain in the evening
The apartments he has made
He is genius in allocation of space
In need of white lamp
In need of white lamp
In need of white lamp
No lights in this dump
Not like this place, you need light here even in the morning
Compared to this, Saint Petersburg was nothing
In need of white lamp
In need of white lamp
In need of white lamp
No belts in this flat
In need of black strap
In need of black strap
In need of black strap
No belts in this flat
I'm hunting and I'm try'na find
A belt in the early morn
When your home is a trash mount
Look all over but you're right out
In need of black strap
In need of white lamp
No belts in this flat
No lights in this dump
They say damp records the past, if that's so I've got the biggest library yet
The biggest library yet
The biggest library yet
The biggest library yet
The biggest library yet
The biggest library yet
The biggest library yet
The biggest library yet
The biggest library yet
The biggest library yet
The biggest library yet
The biggest library yet
The biggest library yet
The biggest library yet
The biggest library yet
The biggest library yet
The biggest library yet
The biggest library yet
The biggest library yet
The biggest library yet
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Footnotes
Sources / Links
- The Annotated Fall: “No Bulbs” [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: “No Bulbs”
- 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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