Repetition -
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REPETITION [top of page]
Right noise.
Cos we dig
All you daughters and sons
This is the three R's
Oh mental hospitals
Repetition in the music and we're never going to loose it
President Carter loves repetition
Repetition in China
We dig it, we dig it,
Repetition, repetition, repetition
There is no hesitation
Repetition, repetition, repetition....
BINGO MASTERS BREAKOUT [top of page]
Two swans in front of his eyes
A big shot's voice in his ears
Bingo-Master's Breakout!
All he sees is the back of chairs
Bingo-Master's Breakout!
A glass of lager in his hand
Bingo-Master's Breakout!
Came the time he flipped his lid
Bingo-Master's Breakout
A hall full of cards left unfilled
Bingo-Master's Breakout
PSYCHO MAFIA [top of page]
Spitting on the streets
'Cos we talk about love
No soul in the discos
Going on about love
Psycho-Mafia
Spitting on the streets
Going on about drugs
VARIOUS TIMES [top of page]
Alright we're going to go back
I hate the prisoners
Present :
Everyone I meet's the same now
Future:
Dr. Doom fresh from Salem
IT'S THE NEW THING [top of page]
My boys take what I say
They've got another side
The broken backs of the real bands
Houdini believed his tricks
It's the new leather thing
Yow!
ROWCHE RUMBLE [top of page]
Rowche Rumble
Thousands of wives around the world
Menopause wives are hard to handle
Physician, heal thyself
Our government's built on expense accounts
Now I've tried crazy things
Physician, heal thyself.
Loads of people across the land
I send 70 pounds instead of 70 p to
Rowche Rumble
Note: Rowche is a play on the name of the giant Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche
IN MY AREA [top of page]
The dwarf plays pool to prove his height
I have seen the birth of bad
Understand time till I'm asked about it
I have seen the birth of bad
Former friends suck on the Fall
I have seen the birth of bad
Politic comic fools in full bloom
I have seen the birth of bad
I have seen the burrowmen
DICE MAN [top of page]
I am the dice man
Where you two going?
Do all these musicians
But I am the dice man
They stay with the masses
But I push, push, push, push
Cos I am the dice man
They say music should be fun
But I am the dice man
Note: Dice Man refers to the novel by the same name by Luke Rhinehart
PYSKICK DANCEHALL NO.2 [top of page]
Part of the quest, part of the quest to..
My garden is made of stone
Round the corner
Here they have no records
Clock it! Clock it!
Helen Duncan[1] was accused of being a
fraudulent medium
Never Mind
Note: [1] Helen Duncan: Scottish medium; last person to be charged and found guilty under an old witchcraft statute in 1944; sentenced to nine months imprisonment
SECOND DARK AGE [top of page]
Fat conference women
Second Dark Age. Death of the USA.
And the commune crapheads sit and whine
It's a second dark age.
I could join a pray-peace group
I am Roman Totale XVII
Note: [1] Abba reference
FIERY JACK [top of page]
My face is slack
Cause I am Jack
I just think think think
I sat and drank
I eat hot dogs
And put down left-wing tirades
Cause I am Jack
But I am Jack
Note: The line "I just burn burn burn" likely comes from Ring of Fire
STEPPING OUT [top of page]
I used to believe everything I read (x3)
I used to stay in the house and never go out
I used to stay on my feet all 24 hours
So people get ready, strip down your houses
I used to believe everything I read (x3)
Stepping out (x4)
LAST ORDERS [top of page]
Everybody's telling me to listen up
(Chorus)
Everyone's in prison or in the army
I don't dig their dead-end options
Everybody's telling me to listen up
NOTES [top of page]
The last 2 songs (Stepping Out & Last Orders) were originally released on the 10" album Short Circuit: Live at Electric Circus and were included on the CD reissue of Early Fall 77-79
We're gonna get real speedy
You gotta wear black all the time
You're gonna make it on your own.
Cos we dig
We dig
We dig repetition
We dig repetition
We've repetition in the music
And we're never going to lose it.
who are sick of fancy music
We dig repetition
Repetition on the drums
and we're never going to lose it.
The three R's:
Repetition, Repetition, Repetition
Oh mental hospitals
They put electrodes in your brain
And you're never the same
You don't dig repetition
You don't love repetition
Chairman Mao he dug repetition
Repetition in America
Repetition in West Germany
Simultaneous suicides
we dig it, we dig it
Repetition, repetition, Regal Zonophone
This is your situation
Continue a blank generation
Blank generation
Same old blank generation
Groovy blank generation
Swinging blank generation
Colored balls in front of his eyes
It's number one for his Kelly's eye
Treble-six right over his eye
Worlds of silence in his ears
All the numbers account for years
Checks the cards through eyes of tears
In the mirror, a lack of hairs
A light room, which he fills out
Hear the players all shout
Silver microphone in his hand
Wasting time in numbers and rhyme
One hundred blank faces buy
Came the time he flipped his lid
Holiday in Spain fell through
Players put it down to
Ended his life with wine and pills
There's a grave somewhere only partly filled
A sign in a graveyard on a hill reads
Numb heads and feet
Nowhere to go
Won't let us in the shows
And the Psycho-Mafia
I'm talking 'bout love
And the Psycho-Mafia
No rock in the clubs
Won't let us in the pubs
And the city joys
And the Psycho-Mafia
I'm talking about love
And the Psycho-Mafia
Psycho-Mafia
'cho Mafia
'cho Mafia
Shot heads and teeth
Our eyes are red
Our brains are dead
Psycho-Mafia
I'm talking about love
Psycho-Mafia
to 1940
No money
And I live in Berlin
I think I'll join up
Become a camp guard
No war for me
An old Jew's face dripping red
I hate the officers
They've no fight
I think I'll join,
The red rose,
Leave Belsen
I'll go to Switzerland
A human resistor
Don't think, ask him
I don't like them
said Ian
in his black-out threat
I think I'll drop out
Become a no-man
And live my rules
But I'm the sort that gets
out of the bath with a dirty face
No brains or thought
A good case for the systems we like - we get
Human race
Various times
Don't think, ask him
1980
Black windows
And smokey holes
My head is full of lead
And the beer is so weak
Since they got rid of time around here
And the witch trials
The Lathe of Heaven
Time mistaken
Three places at once
Human race
Don't think, ask him
Ask him
Ask him
Do it the studio way
New equipment all clean
New gear
Clothes mean
I answer and take the calls
No trouble with the law
Turn it up for interviewers
Oh yeah prime movers
I wonder what is next year's thing?
Crash smash crash ring
Pop heroes of the mind
While you suckers queue or work
Money for us and play it up
We have never sold out
Spent hours on a clever act
Phoney advertising quotes that make you buy some raise your hopes
That it's the new leather thing
Crash smash crash ring
A million closed minds
Weep for the old glam
Year of the average man
The Worst died because of you
Along with some others too
Erasing off our rainbows
We are men, we have big toes!
It's the new leather thing
Crash smash crash ring
That is why he died
Oh I'm not coming out
There may be a film on tonight
Or Eliot's Untouchables
As for new hotels
Look like science fiction films or revival gothic pigswill
Watch the skies, what to think
Crash smash crash ring
[Bramah:] Rocket! / Rock it!
Ba ba ba doo.....
New leather thing
Is valium
Valium
Valium
Rowche Rumble
That's rumble
are given them by doctors, who think they're little girls
The doctors need prescriptions
The wives need their pill
So Rowche Rumble
No culture or love, no gambles
The dull manage, especially smashed
on Rowche Rumble
Rowche Rumble
Once in, never out
A step to Rowche
Force feeding
What are the people around you taking?
Rowche Rumble
Abusing my body to a quick end
But I'll never never never never do it again
I said I'll never never never never do it again
Rowche Rumble
Musician, heal thyself.
Hey mister, heal thyself.
Do a prescribed death dance
While condemning speed and grass
They got an addiction like a hole in the ass
Rowche Rumble
Rowche Rumble
pharmaceutical company Rowche AG
The lorry arrived the next day
Swiss gnomes dealing out potions
Kick your liver in
What is it the fear for?
[To decant the beer]
...the full use of your body isn't?
Is valium
That's rumble
People play games when they lose in life
There's no sport, lad, just acid tension stomach flash
A madness in my area
I have seen declining tracks
I have seen the madness in my area
Years cross-check, days become a tick
Can't remember who I've sacked, just stupid faces looking bad
The madness in my area
I have seen declining tracks
I have seen the madness in my area
Genuine white crap article.
Their future cries
of broken pain are idiot victims'.
Just adds to the madness in my area
I have seen declining tracks
I have seen the madness in my area
McCarthy reincarnate soon
See the bones on the two-late faces
The me generation
See the traces of
The madness in my area
I have seen the declining tracks
I have seen the madness in my area
Frozen pain that is so bad
I have seen the madness in my area
Madness in my empire
In the writer
The Berlin fighter
In the mirror
The doppelganger
The new satire [boozed satyr?]
Blood and sand....
And I take a chance, huh
Do you take a chance, huh?
Where you two going?
Is this a branch on the tree of showbusiness?
Have a social conscience?
Well, only in their front rooms
And I take a chance man
Do you take a chance, huh?
Don't take any chances
End up emptying ashtrays
Throw the bones and the poison dice
No time for small moralists
And I take a chance, huh
Do you take a chance, fan?
Like reading a story of love
But I wanna read a horror story
Where are you people going?
Where are you people going?
Is this a branch on the tree of showbusiness?
A balls-on-the-line man
Do you take a chance, baby?
Rocky! Rocky!
It's quester psykick dance-hall
Get aboard for
ESP medium discord
I saw an ape thing on the road
Ricky's hump is made of flesh
He has got a pigeon chest.
Is quester psykick dancehall
Step forward for
ESP medium discord
They know your questions about no words
Just mumble bumble to the waves
Twitching out to the waves
It's quester psykick dance-hall
Get aboard for
ESP medium discord
They burst into a seance over a over in Portsmouth, over a chemists shop
A length of ectoplasm or a suit of cheesecloth
Was grabbed but it got away
The Witchcraft Act 1735 was used to give her 9 month's jail
The vibrations will live on
It's quester psykick dance-hall
Get aboard for
ESP medium discord
Step forward, step forward
Get aboard
Clap return of glass house
And the Arabs have it made
Oil is women in veils, eyes glazed
Return of the family.
The scooter cabbages
While the common near my birthplace is now a police college
No Psalm Sunday or any day.
The city is dead.
Bust. Ghost-dance rite. Tepid
Spy in Norway
Cause groups can change the world
and meet Bjorn and Benny [1]
"Hi I am Benny"
Go where the brave prance
No Czechoslovak food queues are a party, fool
A mediocre anti-Jew
And single people are screwed
in the Second Dark Age
the bastard offspring
of Charles I and the Great God Pan.
And kidneys burn
In the small of my back
Will never learn
Well I'm not going back
To the slow life
Cos every step is a drag
And peace is a kite of materials you never catch
Come up for a snatch
Up from hell
Once in a while
From a burning ring
My face is slack
And I think think think
Too fast to write
Too fast to work
Just burn burn burn
For three decades
I'm 45
Cause I am Jack
From a burning ring
And my face is slack
And I think think think
I just drink drink drink
Too fast to work
Too fast to write
I just burn burn burn
I live on pies
I'm 45
Cause I am Jack
And I think think think
Just think think think
Too fast to write
Too fast to work
Just burn burn burn
and the musical trades
And/or free trade
I say eat this grenade
To defend free trade
I said eat this grenade
Some men from the docks
They are smart
Their brains are half
They never end
Just follow trends
From a burning ring
My face is slack
And I think think think
Just think think think
Too fast to write
Too fast to work
I just burn burn burn
I am Jack
And put down left-wing tirades
and the musical trades
And/or free trade
I said eat this grenade
I said eat this grenade
Andall free trade
I said eat this grenade
But that's all changed and now I'm stepping out
That's all changed and now I'm
Stepping out (x3)
But now I'm stepping out, stepping out
I used to stay in the house and never go out
But now I'm stepping out, stepping out, stepping out
But now I'm stepping out, stepping out
The light'd be on 24 hours
But now I'm stepping out, stepping out, stepping out
Cause I'm stepping out, stepping out
So people get ready, strip down your houses
Cause I'm stepping out, stepping out, stepping out
But that's all changed 'cause now I'm stepping out
That's all changed cause now I'm
stepping out (x3)
They're trying to run my life for me
I'm gonna tell I'll tell 'em
Their term's up
They've just given me their
Last orders (x4)
All sincere, all phoney
Reading all the books, taking in the news
(Chorus)
I'm not hurt by their rejections
I'm no sell-out, and they've found out
(Chorus)
They're trying to write my life story
Joke's on them
It's the end of the rap
(Chorus)