Lyrics
The singer thinks, "One day I'll be recognised for the great cool prophet that I am"
The band think one day they'll be seen as the geniuses they am
One day they'll get complacence and they'll have to take a chance
Go back to the family and become their old man
And, and leave the press and stick to equipment
Leave the press and stick to equipment
Leave the press and stick to equipment
And leave the press and always stick to equipment
And leave it all, leave it all, leave it all, leave it all
Leave it out while the chorus [ ]
Become a session musician
A session musician
A session musician
A session musician
A session musician
The band are all wino scum and live well while they can
One day they'll turn around and say they've been screwed by the wolverines
And then they'll become a session musician
A session musician
A session musician
Become a session musician
A session musician
He'll vent his anger on the wolverines
Say they never gave him a chance
Oh no, he played every night
The people want what they know
The people want what they know
The people want what they know
But it's not much different now
It's not that much different now
The new groups pretend to think
But still into equipment
And then one day they'll turn around
And wish they hadn't ripped off The Velvet Underground
Go back to their former path
And er get a cabaret job
And be a session musician
A session musician
A session musician
Their hope would be for them a trip to Abu Dhabi
Pop music for Arab geeks
Pop music for Arab geeks
Pop music for Arab geeks
Pop music for Arab geeks
[ ] in their leisure time
And [ ]
The session musician
Session musician
A session musician
A session musician
[ ]
Jingles, cabaret, Merseybeat, Doobie
Jingles, cabaret, Merseybeat, Doobie
All they'll talk about is equipment
All they'll talk about is equipment
Jingles, cabaret, Merseybeat, and Doobie
Jingles, cabaret, Merseybeat, Doobie
Jingles, cabaret, Merseybeat, Doobie
Jingles, cabaret, Merseybeat and Doobie
Jingles, cabaret, Merseybeat and Doobie
One time they played for anybody
But now all they'll talk about is equipment
All they'll talk about is equip
All they'll talk about is equipment
Jingles, cabaret, Merseybeat, Doobie
Synth, cabaret, Merseybeat, Doobie
Synth-rock, cabaret, jingles, cabaret
Cabaret, Merseybeat
Merseybeat, cabaret, jingles, Doobie
Merseybeat, cabaret, jingles, Doobie
Commentary
< Post in progress >
I’m treating the Alter Banhof version as canonical for the purposes of transcription, on the arbitrary grounds that’s it’s the version on the Box Set.
Footnotes
Sources / Links
- The Annotated Fall: “Session Musician” [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: “Session Musician”
- 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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