Lyrics
I'm just trying to uncover the truth
Where's the Captain?
It's over, Cap'n
Consider the helm, the helm
The Captain is in his bunk berth, asleep as he should be
Just trying to uncover the truth
It's over for you except scream
"Aaaahhh!"
Ah ah, ah ah
We're just trying to uncover the truth
Oleana
Where's the Captain?
Captain asleep in his bunk
Continue
Ensconced in snow
The hell of ...
This was the hell of Oleana HMS
Ensconced in snow
Ensconced
And still she is ensconced in snow
Commentary
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Italiano
“Italiano” begins with a bit of dialogue:
Here’s thirty thousand pounds, take it quick before they arrest me, it’s hot.
It’s from the Sidney Gilliat-directed 1957 film Fortune is a Woman (released in the US as She Played With Fire), starring Jack Hawkins and Arlene Dahl.
Footnotes
Sources / Links
- The Annotated Fall: “Oleano” [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: “Oleano”
- 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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