A five hundred dollar bottle of wine A five hundred dollar bottle of wine A five hundred dollar bottle of wine That's all we get for being with him all the time
I give them a five hundred bottle of wine That's all they get most of the time
A five hundred dollar bottle of wine A five hundred dollar bottle of wine
Two days in the desert, what did they get For all of the tears and the grind We've been through desert And blew on our shirts And all the lightning and life We said so much to (just a) crazy and white A half-filled (no) bottle of wine
A five hundred dollar bottle of wine That's all I get man most of the time
We been through the desert Went through their last shirts And all the lightning and crime A half-filled bottle of wine
They're all fat gits and they get on our tits They're all fat gits and they get on our tits
That's all you get most of the time For all the life in crime The five hundred bottle of wine
Drive (been) through the desert (drive for) in thirty-six hours But when we get the ending we took The five hundred dollar bottle of wine A five hundred dollar bottle of wine
And I feel real guilty The babies are squealing Starving and pleading all the time A five hundred dollar bottle of wine
A five hundred dollar bottle of wine You think it's gonna get on my tits
They all bitch, they just whinge And drink my last bottle of wine I feel real guilty I been through my last shirt And I get guilty all the time
Yeah C'mon Five hundred dollars
Get down the fucking liquor store boy
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Sources / Links
The Annotated Fall: “The 500 Dollar Bottle of Wine” [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]
