Lyrics
Mod Mock Goth (Interim)
We take Viagra, and go to Camber Sands
Our shirts are well out of our pants
We are mod mock goth
Mod mock goth
All week we work in
All week we work for daytime TV
When we laugh we say "tee hee hee"
We are mod mock goths
Round the world
Look out, baby!
We are mod mock goth
Around the world
We're resistable
We are mod mock goth
Mod mock goth
We get the groups off at half-nine, or before half-past-eight
In [ ], Manchester and Camber Sands
We are mod mock goth
[ ]
When we have the time
We go home
Then we are stress less
[ ]
We are mod mock goth
And we are stress less
And my portaphone is lost deep inside
My land is built of silver
My trousers got a tick on the side
(We Are) Mod Mock Goth (single version)
Take Viagra, go to Camber Sands
Our shirts are well out of our pants
Mod mock goth
All week we work for daytime TV
When we laugh we say, "tee hee hee"
We are mod mock rock goths
We're twenty-nine, going on forty-nine
We get groups up before half nine
In Camden, Manchester and the Oxford ley-lines
We are mod mock goth
When we have the time
We stress less
We are the mod mock goth
Mod mock goth
Mod mock goth
Round the world
I'm irresistible
I got a lot of land
My land is built of silver
My portaphone is lost
Mod mock goth
Mod mock goths!
And my trousers got a tick on the side
My portaphone is lost somewhere deep inside
We are mod mock goth
Mod mock goth
Little beards as in the Bible, on the end of the chin
Silver portaphone in hand
Shirt is out of the pants
Mod mock goth
Mod mock goth
Commentary
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AKA “Mad Mock Goth” on the US version of The Real New Fall LP. The Interim version of the lyrics is difficult to transcribe due to overlapping/multitracked vocals. I keep giving up in confusion towards the end. Sorry.
Footnotes
Sources / Links
- The Annotated Fall: “(We Are) Mod Mock Goth” [Archived]
- Smith, Mark E. (2008). Renegade: The Lives and Tales of Mark E. Smith. London: Penguin.
- The Track Record: “We Are Mod-Mock Goth”
- Wolstencroft, Simon (2014). You Can Drum But You Can’t Hide. London: Strata Books.
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