I'm riding third class on a one class train I'm set at nought like a Wimpey crane 1
I'm a pink prole threat
Get out the pink press threat file and um brrrptzzap the subject
It's de-louse, recluse time
When I get to the safe house Hanging rhyme Hang this crummy blitz trad by its neck Pink press threat I escaped the pink prole effect It's a new prole art threat So it's recluse, safe house time
Then the clan began Give them nail files soon Then the clan began Agenda, item one
Pink press threat Get out the pink press threat file New prole art, the subject It's safe house, safe house time
Everybody hears a hum at three a.m. But in the safe house, it's not around
Pink press threat Get out the wet lib file New prole art, the subject Safe house, safe house tone
That clan has got away with one hundred years of sheer brilliance until now
Commentary
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Grimes, Andrew (1980). “A Manchester Mystery: Have You Heard the Hummadruz?” Manchester Evening News, 25 November, p.14. (Available online via newspapers.com). “Prole Art Threat” made its live debut in December 1980.
Footnotes
“Set at nought” means to be disregarded, ignored, dismissed, treated with contempt. The phrase is also used in the lyrics for “Middle Mass”, also on Slates. “Wimpey” is George Wimpey, a British construction company (see Wikipedia) founded in 1880. It merged with Taylor Woodrow in 2007 to form Taylor Wimpey. ↩︎
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