Lyrics

Past trees the fairies are flying 
Past trees with rose bushes in
Child was spoilt Victoria
Child was spoilt Victoria

Spoilt Victorian child
Spoilt Victorian child
Spoilt Victorian child

Sugar and cakes appear mean, sitting at the table
Tigers pop-up from books

Spoilt Victorian child
Spoilt Victorian child
Spoilt Victorian child

Let's take it ten years on 
You're looking back from then
Under rough grey blankets
Thread loose stained grey blanket

Spoilt Victorian child
Spoilt Victorian child

Spoilt Victorian child
Spoilt Victorian child
Spoilt Victorian child
Spoilt Victorian child

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Musical chairs, rouge cheeks, he remembers
Through the aqueduct of five years
S.V.C shall avoid reflection 
Child was spoilt Victorian
Child was spoilt Victorian
Child was spoilt Victorian

Spoilt Victorian child
Spoilt Victorian child

Mirrors can't hide the toxic of disfigured poxes

Spoilt Victorian child
Spoilt Victorian child
Spoilt Victorian child
Spoilt Victorian child

Past trees the fairies are flying
Trees with rose bushes in
The butter shrugs to fly in
Sugar and iced cakes appear mean

The child was spoilt Victorian
Child was spoilt Victorian

Spoilt Victorian child
Spoilt Victorian child

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I know that the servants keep their order knowledge
And as you walk on in the footsteps of steed babe
Into the encrusted green unwild
You know that you are a spoilt Victorian child

Footnotes

Sources / Links

• The Annotated Fall: “Spoilt Victorian Child” [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: “Spoilt Victorian Child”
• Wolstencroft, Simon (2014). You Can Drum But You Can’t Hide: a memoir. Trowbridge: Strata Books. (2nd edition published by Route Publishing, 2017).