Susan had an accident Reverted back to age sixteen Went down to the youth club In a mirror looked and started to scream
And a similar thing happened to me When I was of the age thirteen Reflection held a picture of a man Of two hundred and three
And it was all in all safe and warm Safe and warm
Reading book I had no teeth to talk about on that day Badly Boy Drawn had confiscated them And put them in a mouldy old acoustic case Safe and warm for a Saturday
And it was all in all safe and warm Safe and warm
The reflection held I held [ ] looked a whole lot better Distinguished Picking crumbs off the floor Sophisticated
Susan had an accident Reverted back to age sixteen Went down to the youth club In a mirror looked and started to scream
And it was all in all safe and warm Safe and warm And it was all in all safe and warm Safe and warm And it was all in all safe and warm
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Footnotes
Sources / Links
The Annotated Fall: “Susan vs. Youthclub” [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]
