Tag: Album tracks

  • Insult Song (LP version)

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    Lyrics White Line FeverI got it off the children of Captain BeefheartThey’d been locked in the forest for many yearsThey could not help itThey were retards from the Los Angeles district There was TimThere was Tim TwoThere was RobThere was Dave the EagleAnd the mad Greek woman, the HydraIt was White Line FeverOver and over…

  • Outro [RPTLC]

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  • Systematic Abuse

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    Lyrics So many people, it is the sameThe valleys open up, it is the sameGet a potato out, it is the sameWhen I open the mail, it’s the same gameLyrics on TV sound like this to meWhen I get a potato out, it is the sameWhen I open the mail, it is the sameNothing you…

  • The Bad Stuff

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    Lyrics < Instrumental / Recorded voices; untranscribable > Commentary < Post in progress > Footnotes Sources / Links

  • Scenario

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    Lyrics The pals of my childhood daysPal of my childhood daysYou taught me in worldly waysI was a baby, meEverything for meI stole the gold from your hairWho put the shaven threads there?I don’t know any way to repayMy pal of my childhoodOr find my pals of my childhood daysIt doesn’t get me highIt only…

  • The Wright Stuff

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    Lyrics Doo doo doo dooDoo doo doo dooDoo doo doo dooDoo doo doo dooThat boy certainly transferred himself from the footballer beforeYou’d hardly recognise himAs a child, everywhere he went probably people would sayDoo doo doo dooDoo doo doo dooDoo doo doo dooDoo doo doo dooIt was symbolic to a pointBut nowadays, eccentric lad who…

  • The Usher

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    Lyrics The promiseThey portioned to promiseThey portioned to promiseTale of “The Usher”A, No violenceB, Ultimate sorrynessC, A mutual respect for all in the businessThe reformation is comingIt is coming fastlyAndE, An even cash flow – this, this cannot be under-ratedE, Cut down on rhythm machines and have more guitars and minidisks, etcF, Treat PR, security…

  • Coach and Horses

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    Lyrics I looked through the 1860s window paneI see coaches and horses moving around in the slashing rainNo funCoaches and horses movin’ aroundCoaches and horses movin’ aroundI go down and swear in every innI need the enter no service for youI swearThe coaches and horses move aroundI followed it into the lake for deliveryCoaches and…

  • My Door is Never

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    Lyrics My door is always openMy door is always openMy door is always open to youMy door is always openMy door is always openMy door is always open to youThe night to self with the shoulder touchAroma for the duvet you slept in No, not never, no dayWill I prove my nerve to youOr impress…

  • Insult Song

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    Lyrics White Line FeverI got it off the children of Captain BeefheartThey’d been locked in the forest for many yearsThey could not help itThey were retards from the Los Angeles district There was TimThere was Tim TwoThere was RobThere was Dave the EagleAnd the mad Greek woman, the HydraIt was White Line FeverOver and over…

  • White Line Fever

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    Lyrics Merle Haggard White line feverA sickness born down deep within my soulWhite line feverThe years keep flying by like the highline polesThe wrinkles in my forehead show the miles I’ve put behind meThey continue to remind how fast I’m growing oldGuess I’ll die with this fever in my soulI wonder just what makes a…

  • Fall Sound

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    Lyrics DrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrDrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrWoken up to Fall sound And you’ve just split up with your long-legged rap chickOn Fall sound, this is itCos your daddy had a stroke in the tubTook the funds out of your bank balanceFall sound!I’ve seen POW’s less hysterical than youOnly water passes my lipsOnly beer passes my throat, hit it!The guitars need…

  • Reformation!

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    Lyrics Black RiverFall MotelCheese State TLC Back eighty-oneRepeatUnderneathBlack RiverBlack RiverFall MotelCheese StateReformationO six seven hoursO six seven hoursBlack RiverFall MotelTilesGoldfish bowl Blimp T F TraitorPostArseReformation post- TLCLoveDeafen mitte unsArbeit mitte uns Arbeit mitte unsReformationEx eighty-oneReformationEx 2007Reformation post- TLCReformationBlack RiverFall MotelDrum rollLook rightGoReformationArbeit mitte unsArbeit mitte unsThis is what it’ll sound likeThis is what it sound…

  • Over! Over!

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    Lyrics Ha ha ha ha ha ha!I think it’s over now, I think it’s endingI think it’s over now, I think it’s beginning(I don’t love you and I never did)A seven year cycle seems to happen every day (I don’t love you and I never did)I walk up the hill and then descend in every…

  • Trust in Me

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    Lyrics [Kenny Cummings:]Verdant is your superlative The storyYou can talk to me in all confidentialityTrust in me, I am Doctor Me[Phil Schuster:]After you’ve left the surgery, don’t you worry I will come around to your house for tea[Ding:]Trust in me, Doctor Me[Billy Pavone:]Messengers enjoy being given gifts every three months[Kenny Cummings:]If you need an x-ray…

  • Breaking the Rules

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    Lyrics I was trying to break the rulesLife is a dream, so it seemsFlash your picture in a magazineLook who’s passing in a limousineLook who’s a falling starAn ancient story, an innocent fool He broke his mind trying to break the rulesI waste my time trying to b b b b break the rulesBuild up…

  • Early Days of Channel Führer

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    Lyrics The snow is all around, is all aroundLike my hands, like my handsThe snow is all around, like my handsIt is also …And the white brushes against meIn his roomAnd the man who brushes against me in the un- Vienna midweek is shaking(Where’s all the choccies gone? Where’s all the choccies gone?)No coffee for…

  • Clasp Hands

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    Lyrics Peel Session version We’re going down to SkagaströndN.Y.C.And God put it hereClasp handsWell, I went out the night before lastI saw a queue outsideClasp handsAnd they didI was empoweredAnd the empowerment made me gentle in my baldnessI was so gladIt was part of the job club Fulfilled, I wasOver the death march of the…

  • Youwanner

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    Lyrics There’s always work in progressYou’re always in work in progressI coulda had a lifeCoulda had a wife, he saidBut there’s always someone round meNot herYou wannerAlways someone around meNot herAlways someone around meBut it’s not herAnd you say, “I’ve never felt like this With anyone else”So you moan all dayYou’re a moanerYou wannerYou wannerYou…

  • Bo Demmick

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    Lyrics Bo Doodak (I Can Hear the Grass Grow) Moderninity, what is it?A CD you hold in your handModerninity, what is it?A CD you hold in your hand is made by a left-sided brainModerninity, what is it?Wrong cityWrong cityWrong cityWrong cityAnd CD you hold in your hand was made by a left-sided mindWrong cityWrong cityWrong…

  • I Can Hear the Grass Grow

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    Lyrics The Move (Roy Wood) See the people all in lineWhat’s makin’ them look at meCan’t imagine that their mindsAre thinkin’ the same as meI can hear the grass grow I can hear the grass growI see rainbows in the eveningMy head’s attracted toA magnetic wave of soundWith the streams of coloured circlesMakin’ their way…

  • Blindness

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    Lyrics Peel Session version And all humansCavalry or CalvaryAnd not a drop of water or paper, or paperJ.W. said, “walking bass, walking bass” Don’t forget, don’t forgetYou expected Aristotle OnassisBut instead you got Mr James Fennings from Prestwick, in Cumbria Down!Do you? The flat is evil, full of cavalry and CalvaryHis first appearance was on…

  • Assume

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    Lyrics YesYeahShall we have a little go at one [ ] It’s a weird new language innit?It’s it’s the hunesIt’s the huneThe hoons that took over from the hunesSeven productions, they assumedSeventh of them were Hume’s Three placesOr I digestIf you are a HumeYou assume They move through the nightAt the skyNo destinationThey are HumesIf…

  • Winter 2

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    Lyrics Winter (Hostel-Maxi)Entrances uncoveredStreet signs you never sawAll entrances deliveredCourtesy winterEntrances uncoveredStreet signs you never sawAll entrances deliveredCourtesy winterEntrances uncoveredStreet signs you never sawYou got Mani in the libraryWorking off his hangover 3:30You get the spleen at 3:15But it’s 3:13The mad kid walked left side south side towards meHe was about sevenHis mother was a…

  • Winter (Hostel-Maxi)

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    Lyrics Winter (Hostel-Maxi)Entrances uncoveredStreet signs you never sawAll entrances deliveredCourtesy winterEntrances uncoveredStreet signs you never sawAll entrances deliveredCourtesy winterEntrances uncoveredStreet signs you never sawYou got Mani in the libraryWorking off his hangover 3:30You get the spleen at 3:15But it’s 3:13The mad kid walked left side south side towards meHe was about sevenHis mother was a…

  • Aspen Reprise

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    Lyrics Midnight in Aspen The fog sticks around as if he were onSo it goes higher and higherTill the lastEven chain on jeep is boredHyphenAspenUtah Ice melting over JehovahFreedom of self-doubtSix p.m.RisingHe aims the highest bestest powered rifle at the stars Orion It bounces off the satelliteHe was lucky this weekMidnight Aspen Reprise At the…

  • Midnight in Aspen

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    Lyrics Midnight in Aspen The fog sticks around as if he were onSo it goes higher and higherTill the lastEven chain on jeep is boredHyphenAspenUtah Ice melting over JehovahFreedom of self-doubtSix p.m.RisingHe aims the highest bestest powered rifle at the stars Orion It bounces off the satelliteHe was lucky this weekMidnight Aspen Reprise At the…

  • What About Us?

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    Lyrics Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba baWell, leg-end livingWe are living leg-endsThe living leg-endI am a rabbit from East Germany I was very happyAnd I could get anything I wantI was so oh happyThen I moved to North BritainI became an immigrantI could frolic around all night, in the green grassI…

  • Pacifying Joint

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    Lyrics I’m only nineteen, I hit the streetI was looking for a pacifying jointPacifying joint we carelessly madePacifying jointOr a place where nice people should meetPacifying jointThe picture is of the widow of Windsor Or any of their sons and daughtersPacifying jointPacifying jointPacifying jointPacifying jointPacifying joint with carrots and meatPacifying jointOr a place where nice…

  • Ride Away

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    Lyrics As we travel through hill and valleyRidin’ away, don’t know what you do when you accuse meYou’re talking about yourselfYou think you’re a giantYou think you’re a nothing, hey hey(You drive them away)(You drive them away)You spread lies and discontent I wish you could see yourselfYou drive them awayThrough hill and valleyRidin’, ridin’, ridin’,…

  • Mad Mock Goth

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    Lyrics Mod Mock Goth (Interim) XXXX (We Are) Mod Mock Goth Take Viagra, go to Camber Sands Our shirts are well out of our pantsMod mock gothAll week we work for daytime TVWhen we laugh we say, “tee hee hee”We are mod mock rock gothsWe’re twenty-nine, going on forty-nineWe get groups up before half nineIn…

  • Recovery Kit 2#

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    Lyrics Country on the Click How can you leave your house and your landHow can you leave your new gilded landOh, father (Oh, father)How can you curve your hands for a kissHow can you leave your moneyed soul?How can you leave your new minted land?Oh, father (oh, father)How can you curve your hands for a…

  • Portugal

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    Lyrics For the recordI have only had two conversations with youFor the recordHe would be paid more than he had, in fact, asked forFor the recordNo real arrangements were madeFor the recordVery standard industry procedureFor the recordYou were abusiveFor the recordWay beyond what anybody should have to reasonably deal withFirstly, may I take this opportunity…

  • Xralothep

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    Lyrics LocusBeware characters connected with car adverts Real, assumed or imaginaryThe vocal testament of M.E.S.Coming from the little town of Speck Marsden One – Cash – the eternal fork outTo keep everything normal is well beyond the capacityAll monies will try and escape theeBeware of thy lazy right handThis is the focal of M.E.S. locus…

  • Sparta 2#

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    Lyrics US album version XXXX UK album version Come on I will show you how I will changeWhen you give me something to slaughterShepherd boy, heyHey!Everybody sing, heyHey!Better act quick, heyHey!Be my toyCome on have a betWe live on bloodWe are Sparta F.C.I don’t have a jackknife it went up the hillI don’t know if…

  • Mountain

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    Lyrics Mr Blairstowe and Mr Partridge, they said to me”To get a mortgage, you need an income lid”I thought it was freeDolly Parton and Lord ByronThey said patriotism is the last refuge But now it’s meAnd water’s flowing down the mountainBut a tree is blocking the water flowingSo I went fishingA note from a fish…

  • Green Eyed

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    Lyrics Iodeo (demo version) I was doing the (deed)All the toughs, hip, the (wait)I felt good in my hoodIt was a night of the howling matesNight of the housematesI felt good in my red hoodI felt so deep within my red hoodA tin bottomed (sea bottom) came outSerpentine in a marble (sepulchre)Chasing me up the…

  • 41 Loop

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    Lyrics < Instrumental > Commentary On The Real New Fall LP, “Loop 41” (“41 Loop” on the US version of the album) is paired with “Houston” as a single track, but it acts as a half-minute prelude. It was occasionally played on tape at gigs, but never performed live as far as we know. It…

  • Ho(E)uston

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    Lyrics Lee Hazlewood Well, it’s lonesome in this big townEverybody puts me downI’m a face without a nameI’m just walking in the rainI’m going back to Houston, Houston, HoustonI got holes in both of my shoesAnd I’m a walking case of the bluesI saw a dollar yesterdayBut the wind blew it awayI’m going back to…

  • Protein Protection

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    Lyrics No protein protection in self-enforced exileDoes everybody talk about the same things all the time?All the timeDoppel-thingy The chimney is the chief can kick and jump out of the mess Out of the massesAny timeAny timeAny time There is something to believe inNo Hubbard or husbandry or freedom or the holy terror AbstractionYou know…

  • Boxoctosis

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    Lyrics Land of bountyOpen the box, open the box Open the goddam box!Open the box, open the boxOpen the goddam box!I opened the box of imperial stuffAnd to my surprise I found twenty-five warriorsWarriors, with shields Open the box, open the boxOpen the goddam box!Open the box, open the boxOpen the goddam box!I opened the…

  • Recovery Kit

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    Lyrics Country on the Click How can you leave your house and your landHow can you leave your new gilded landOh, father (Oh, father)How can you curve your hands for a kissHow can you leave your moneyed soul?How can you leave your new minted land?Oh, father (oh, father)How can you curve your hands for a…

  • Proteinprotection

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    Lyrics No protein protection in self-enforced exileDoes everybody talk about the same things all the time?All the timeDoppel-thingy The chimney is the chief can kick and jump out of the mess Out of the massesAny timeAny timeAny time There is something to believe inNo Hubbard or husbandry or freedom or the holy terror AbstractionYou know…

  • Mike’s Love Xexagon

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    Lyrics Studio was a hexagon Old men were sat on one side Opposite three bored triplets I stood in the middleFumbling with two tin packetsListen while I tell this tale of woeThe worm in the bacon of B.B. His name was LoveBut how were they to knowMike’s gift was only poisonWhen I died, love was…

  • Houston

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    Lyrics Lee Hazlewood Well, it’s lonesome in this big townEverybody puts me downI’m a face without a nameI’m just walking in the rainI’m going back to Houston, Houston, HoustonI got holes in both of my shoesAnd I’m a walking case of the bluesI saw a dollar yesterdayBut the wind blew it awayI’m going back to…

  • Loop 41

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    Lyrics < Instrumental > Commentary On The Real New Fall LP, “Loop 41” (“41 Loop” on the US version of the album) is paired with “Houston” as a single track, but it acts as a half-minute prelude. It was occasionally played on tape at gigs, but never performed live as far as we know. It…

  • The Past #2

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    Lyrics What you put in mouth, a lot of things that weren’t therePre-assumptions don’t bring a harvestBut I love the justice and [ ] melancholyDon’t speak, just thinkLook down, shut upDon’t frown, you fucked upThe truth, the lie The feeling that makes you intelligent speciesTruth, the invention of a layerCaptivated in ha-ha juice injusticeThe lie…

  • The Past

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    Lyrics What you put in mouth, a lot of things that weren’t therePre-assumptions don’t bring a harvestBut I love the justice and [ ] melancholyDon’t speak, just thinkLook down, shut upDon’t frown, you fucked upThe truth, the lie The feeling that makes you intelligent speciesTruth, the invention of a layerCaptivated in ha-ha juice injusticeThe lie…

  • Open The Boxoctosis #2

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    Lyrics Land of bountyOpen the box, open the box Open the goddam box!Open the box, open the boxOpen the goddam box!I opened the box of imperial stuffAnd to my surprise I found twenty-five warriorsWarriors, with shields Open the box, open the boxOpen the goddam box!Open the box, open the boxOpen the goddam box!I opened the…

  • Open The Boxoctosis

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    Lyrics Land of bountyOpen the box, open the box Open the goddam box!Open the box, open the boxOpen the goddam box!I opened the box of imperial stuffAnd to my surprise I found twenty-five warriorsWarriors, with shields Open the box, open the boxOpen the goddam box!Open the box, open the boxOpen the goddam box!I opened the…