Lyrics
And who can ever forget this one?
Six times parking
Six, four
Form bar and six
Form a box-line
The aphid
The aphid
Bend down
Scratch around the carpet for insect
Get hook clamp
Stand up
Gel frame
Put insect in a jar
The aphid
Walk back two, three and four
Stop for a rest
Go back to scratch
The aphid
Hook clamp
Go back down
Scratch around the floor
Take hook clamp and put in jar
The aphid
Cover up with gel frame
Take two times four O O O one
UV gun back
Go back to the floor
Scratch around
Five, six supplied
The aphid
Bend right back
Form a box-line, sidecar
The aphid
Twenty times steps back
Fresno
Get hook clamp
Turn to barn door
Retrieve kill frame
(Absolutely wonderful)
"Take six bottles of the six back, stand up straight, then bend down and scratch the carpet for insects and, if you find any, put the insects into the jar, then check the clamp on the jar and take six steps back"
"Ensure the hook clamp is on the jar and that's the aphid"
Commentary
< Post in progress >
Lou Reed had “The Ostrich”, M.E.S. has “The Aphid”.
Footnotes
Sources / Links
- The Annotated Fall: “The Aphid” [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: “The Aphid”
- 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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