Lyrics
Hosanna
Hosanna
First impressions [ ]
Hosanna
Papal did visit, human trash, waste
Prostrate, yellow white umbrellas
Roam around
Roam around
Roam around
Universal love for them [ ] for the [ ] for the
Papal visit
Human trash roam the town
Woke up by hosanna
Woke up by hosanna
Helicopters strip the land
Helicopters strip the land
First impressions will be the last
Woke up at two
The man from iron
The man from iron
What happened to the man from iron
Mediator one
Mediator one
One
Human trash
Come for the visit
Eating lay bread
From what they come to call it
Sound like a yokel
For the first time
First impression will be the last [ ]
Peace resounds
Lay bread is in the nose and the mouth
For the first time
In the assassin line
Papal visit
In the town
For the first time
Understood the assassin line
For the first time
Understood the assassin line
Is all around
Is all around
Is all around
Commentary
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“Papal Visit” owes a significant and obvious debt to Can’s “Blue Bag (Inside Paper)” (originally released on the 1974 unreleased-tapes compilation LP Limited Edition (so called because it was restricted to 15,000 copies), and re-released on the expanded double LP Unlimited Edition, 1976):
Footnotes
Sources / Links
- The Annotated Fall: “Papal Visit” [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: “Papal Visit”
- 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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