Lyrics
Hey, don't you want to be caught?
Hey, don't you want to be caught?
Unbrainwash today
October gives way to Christmas, January
Calendar
What gets in the way
It was a very good month last week
What gets in the way
Your mirrors are dissolving today 1
The last three weeks were the greatest month of February
Calendar
What gets in the way
Calendar
Commentary
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“Calendar” was co-written by Mark E. Smith and Damon Gough (AKA Badly Drawn Boy). Gough plays guitar on this often overlooked track, which originally appeared as one of the b-sides to 1998’s Masquerade single (CD 2 only).
Footnotes
- Echoed by the line, “My mirror dissolves every day”, from “Mister Rode” off The Remainderer (2013). ↩︎
Sources / Links
- The Annotated Fall: “Calendar” [Archived]
- Ford, Simon (2003). Hip Priest: the story of Mark E Smith and The Fall. London: Quartet Books.
- Hanley, Steve and Piekarski, Olivia (2014). The Big Midweek: Life Inside The Fall. Pontefract: Route.
- 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: “Calendar”
- 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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