Lyrics
Winter (Hostel-Maxi)
Entrances uncovered
Street signs you never saw
All entrances delivered
Courtesy winter
Entrances uncovered
Street signs you never saw
All entrances delivered
Courtesy winter
Entrances uncovered
Street signs you never saw
You got Mani in the library
Working off his hangover 3:30
You get the spleen at 3:15
But it's 3:13
The mad kid walked left side south side towards me
He was about seven
His mother was a cleaning lady
She had a large black dog
And the mad kid said, "Gimme the lead, gimme the lead, gimme the lead"
I'd just walked past the alcoholics' dry-out house
The lawn was littered with cans of Barbican
There was a feminist's Austin Maxi parked outside
With anti-nicotine anti-nuclear stickers on the side.. on the inside
And they didn't even smoke...
Anyway two weeks before the mad kid had said to me
"I'll take both of you on, I'll take both of you on"
Then he seemed a young one
He had a parka on and a black cardboard Archbishop's hat
With a green fuzz skull and crossbones
He'd just got back from the backward kids' party
Anyway, then he seemed young one
But now he looked like the victim of a pogrom
Entrances uncovered
Street signs you never saw
All entrances delivered
Courtesy winter
Courtesy winter
Entrances uncovered
All enquiries too
All entrances delivered
Courtesy winter
Winter 2
On the first floor of the dry-out house was a replica dartboard
And the man on the floor sorta went out of window, over the lawn
And round to the mad kid
Please take this medallion
Please wear this medallion
It's no sign of authority
Wear the gold and put it on
Courtesy winter
(Winter)
So around the mad kid
Man on the first floor said, "I just looked round"
"I just looked round"
"I just looked round"
"And my youth, it was sold"
"I just looked round"
"I just looked round"
"And my youth, it was sold"
Two white doves cross the sky
Look like krakens
And sometimes, that little ...
Makes me tremble
Courtesy winter
Courtesy winter
The mad kid had four lights, the average is two point five lights
The mediocre has two lights, the sign of genius is three lights
There's one light left, that's the one light, that's the science law
Courtesy winter
Courtesy winter
Commentary
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Footnotes
Sources / Links
- The Annotated Fall: “Winter (Hostel-Maxi)” [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]
- Smith Start, Brix (2016). The Rise, The Fall, and The Rise. London: Faber & Faber. [Text available online in archive.org]
- The Track Record: “Winter”
- 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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