So What About It? -
SO WHAT ABOUT IT? [top of page]
Fall advice!
The Year Number 1
Shaking my bones down the M14
It happens
The works down the drain
Fall advice!
IDIOT JOY SHOWLAND [top of page]
Idiot groups with no shape or form
Idiot Joy Showland
The nylon leaves are falling
Idiot Joy Showland
Freddie and the Dreamers, come on up
Idiot Joy Showland
California has Disneyland
Idiot Joy Showland
And now microcosms come and go
The locusts are all queuing in
Note: [1] Northern English slang for trousers
EDINBURGH MAN [top of page]
It's springtime but I still miss the streets at dawn
I don't mind being by myself
You can leave me on the shelf
It's summertime but I still miss your skies so clear
Don't give a toss about private wealth
They say you project yourself
It's wintertime and i still see the cobble stones
I'm OK just by myself
I was always in good health
Note: [1] Most UK pubs, and all English pubs, used to sell spirits in fifths of a gill, an old-fashioned imperial measurement (4 gills to the pint). In Scotland a select few pubs sell 1/4 gill measures. (Thanks to Simon Fluendy for this info)
PITTSVILLE DIREKT [top of page]
No current is waned
I can't deal with Pittsville Direkt
Stood off the train platform
I can't deal with Pittsville Direkt
And meanwhile
I don't wanna go to Pittsville Direckt
By planeride
I wanna exit Pittsville Direkt
Ride out to where the planets roam
Boarding now from Pittsville Direkt
Note: [1] Skegness is a notoriously downmarket seaside town in Lincolnshire on the
east coast of England; New York is a notoriously downmarket town on the east coast of the US
THE BOOK OF LIES [top of page]
Keep reading me the Book of Lies
And you keep giving me
I don't like what I'm doing to you
You don't listen to anything I say
You don't listen to anything I say
You keep reading me The Book of Lies
HIGH TENSION LINE [top of page]
High tension line, step down
Jeanette Fletcher is strange but not in a horrible way
High tension line, step down
Buying houses and doing them up far far away
High tension line, step down
At my feet CDTI breakdown
High tension line, step down
Life is nothing more than a disposable
High tension line, step down
THE WAR AGAINST INTELLIGENCE [top of page]
The war against Intelligence
War versus Intelligence
Hey pseud!
Hey dude!
Hey dude!
SHIFT-WORK [top of page]
She's ten to five
Shiftwork
I thought shiftwork would work
Lights flash over me
Shiftwork
Shiftwork
And they will shake you by the hands
Shiftwork
Shiftwork
Shiftwork
Shiftwork, you let me down
Shiftwork
Shiftwork
Raise your wages per year one grand
Shiftwork
I don't give her a chance
Shiftwork
She was ten to five
Shiftwork
Shiftwork
Now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now
Where are you going?
YOU HAVEN'T FOUND IT YET [top of page]
You haven't found it yet,
Look at the glass, turn your head
Impulses crowd your head
It seemed so clear in bed
You're dying but still warm
I dictate
The grist that curtails the mill
THE MIXER [top of page]
The Mixer is close to me
The mixer
The mixer of Jamaican origin
The DLVDS is over-easy on the compress
[First eqipment line]
The mixer is close to me
[spoken] 'It possessed the sort of bright sound microphone with audio pickup pattern.
Mixer sweats
Notes:
WHITE LIGHTNING [top of page]
In North Carolina way back in the hills
Mighty mighty pleasin'
G-men, T-men, Revenue too
I asked my pappy why he called the brew
A city slicker came and he said "I'm mighty tough,
Shout!
A LOT OF WIND [top of page]
Desperate for entertainment
Then they have the weatherman on
Then they have Carl Lewis on
I turn the tragic lantern on
I'm real sick and in distress
You see them selling carpets
Oh the boredom in my bones
I gotta forget about the wind
There's a roly-poly, roly-poly man
ROSE [top of page]
The scarecrow's down
There's a letter marked 'urgent'
I hear you are in Hampstead
Hear that wah-wah going?
It is now all the rage
I've got a good woman
Fall advice!
Fall advice!
Fall advice!
Has gone and turned
Into Year of Bomb
TV wars 24 hours
But it happens
Fall advice!
Passenger seat gripped tight
And seriously
I cannot sleep
But I'm happy
I cannot eat
So what about it?
It happens
It happens
Fall advice!
And interest never wanes
So what about it?
Yak! Yak! Yak!
Some are born to life
Some are born depressed
About it
Fall advice!
To parties underground
You're driving around in lake districts
You're stepping around
It doesn't matter to me
Cause it happens
It's magic
So what about it?
Out of their heads on a quid of blow
The shapeless kecks [1] flapping up a storm
Look at what they are: a pack of worms
From the twisted shell of your cranium
Your mystic jump suits cannot hide
Your competitive plagiarism
Hey you imitators, come on up
Hey little singer, come on up
Show us your house and
Show us your cock
The working class has been shafted
So what the fuck you sneering at?
Your prerogative in life it seems
Is living out an ad man's dream
And Blackpool has a Funland
And Flanders had no man's land
This place idiot show bands
And it's amazing what they show
Your sportsmen's tears are laudanum
Idiot Joy Showland
For Idiot Joy Showland
Idiot Joy
And in the morning walking your bridges home
As I sit and stare at all of England's souls
I tell you something
I wish I was in Edinburgh
Don't wanta be anywhere else
Just wanna be in Edinburgh
I wish I was an Edinburgh man
I'm an Edinburgh man myself
I will always give you help
Sitting and staring on a beach somewhere
I'll tell you something
I wish I was in Edinburgh
And history just repeats itself
Keep me away from the Festival
And just give me a warm quarter-gill [1]
But I'm an Edinburgh man myself
Clacking over your streets at dawn
I was really poor since I left Edinburgh
Cause our miserable king won't protect us from ourselves
How I wish I was in Edinburgh
How I wish I was in Edinburgh
I'm an Edinburgh man myself
I will always give you help
I'm an Edinburgh man myself
Where it wants to go
Some are only happy
In the throes
Of bitter arguments
Ready and packed
To ride there by train ride
By plane ride
By walking
Or from the insides
I don't wanna go to Pittsville Direkt
No no no Pittsville Direkt
Yes yes yes Pittsville Direkt
Crushed cig in cup
FDA regulation state
Boarded at gate
Plane rides
I don't wanna trip to Pittsville Direkt
No love lost in Pittsville Direkt
From New York to Skegness [1]
They don't ask your telephone silk
No no no no Pittsville Direkt
Please don't please Pittsville Direkt
Many a jest in Pittsville Direkt
By trainride
What are they doing to Bournemouth City Park West?
Why have they got those masks on?
I'm correct about Pittsville Direkt
The citizens of Pittsville Direkt
Will be out scaring ghosts
Around midnight
Drive carefully! Mother-to-be on board
Keep reading me the Book of Lies
And you keep reading me
The Book of Lies
The Book of Lies
You keep telling me the Book of Lies
Book of Lies
You don't like what you're doing to me
Don't make me cry
The Book of Lies
The Book of Lies
Or do anything you promised to do
So why should I?
The Book of Lies
Or do anything you promised to say
Listen to
Subject to
The Book of Lies
And Michelle Spencer is this tight
Come and hear her today
And see 40-year olds in multicoloured shirts
It never used to concern me
But now it's making me say
Got at my shoulder CDTI and behind me TDK
You have to go far for the simple and unadorned
And please excuse my words, wandering
And I pick up the phone, no-one
And am far too far fast for sampling
Just spend my time avoiding
Facial tissue in a brass bin and spawn
Take it out, I notice face imprint
And please excuse my words, I'm wandering
War versus Intelligence
Notebooks out plagiarists
War Against Intelligence
They got a lot of debris yesterday
They stuck out its golden horns
And volunteered its essence
War Against Intelligence
Why did you defect to the other side?
Hey dude!
Give the info a rest and use your mind
Dancing with your Dada mates [Dad and mates] in the corner
You're such a bloody fool
You think your haircut is distinguished
When it's a blot on the English landscape
Get your mental bones right outta here!
You!
It's beyond your capability
Hey git!
In the league of mental short-arse
And you will never recompense
For your war versus intelligence
War versus Intelligence
War Against Intelligence
But I'm shiftwork
And my woman alive
Shiftwork
But it's good as broken us apart
Twenty-four hour bulb
I'm just home for tea
But she's in work mode
For shiftwork
But being abandoned by your woman
Is the price for shiftwork
Gave me a hard heart
You just cracked my mind
You split us apart
Shiftwork
By shiftwork
But I can see me go, go, going from this land
Because of shiftwork
She gets the the morning rant
Gets in at eleven
Doing overtime
I'm going out at the time
Just to hang out with a woman who was my...
But I'm shiftwork
And that woman that once was mine
It's just shiftwork
Shiftwork
Now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now
Shiftwork
Now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now
Shiftwork
Now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now
Shiftwork
Now, now, now, now
This work has not yet reached
Cessation.
Haven't found it yet.
You haven't found it yet.
Moving down the lane inside
It's flashy Camden Town
It's that London lyric again
You haven't found it yet.
Too much to be absorbed
You're into the top shackle
Mental saw-down of your head [1]
Which bemoans a simple fact.
You haven't found it yet.
It's dark but your legs, they are dead
Your pen is encombed in mattress
You're not going to get it yet
You haven't found it yet
Put this writing on your tomb
Spit out with dying breath
You haven't found it yet.
Transcribe
Relations
Dear Cousin
It's destiny.
shall make us strong
Note: [1] MES explained this lyric in a Q magazine article: He was referring
to a scientific diagram of the head and its component parts
He turns his head and smiles at me.
And I am blessed
Beyond my salary
In Espanol restaurants
The people and staff they clap
The mixer sweats
In comic type letters the voices are saying
Clap, clap
The mixer
sweats
The mixer sweats
Born, raised in the US [1]
observes the Victorian [press/prayer]
Clap, clap, clap
Clap, clap
And the mixer sweats.
[Second equipment line]
He turns his head and smiles at me [2]
It can produce broad responses, hi-fidelity quality, no feedback and no
howling etc. We can express good sound of your voice, an excellent
melody orchestra, a self-contained filter control, explosive breath
sounds, controlled explosive breath sounds ...... wind noises, in
different locations....'
[1] In the Peel session version, US is replaced by South Yorkshire
[2] In the Peel session version this line is: His face is looking over at the Insect Posse
Lived my pappy and he had him a still
He brewed white lightning 'til the sun go down
Then he'd get out a jug and pass it around
Poppa kept a-squeezin' and called it
White Lightning
Searching for the place where he made his brew
They were lookin' tryna book him
But my pappy kept a-cookin' it
White Lightning
White Lightning's full of morning dew
Took one sip then I knew
When my eyes bulged out and my face turned blue
I wanna get a taste of the powerful stuff"
Took one slug and drank it right down
And I heard him moaning as he hit the ground
So I turn the TV on
There's people jumping up and down
Then they have the panel on
And they talk a lot of wind
They talk a lot of wind
He used to teach all our friends
He talked a lot of wind
He talks a lot about wind
He's got a ponytail and he's a vegan
He talks a lot of wind
He talks a lot about wind
It's a program 'Good Morning' [1]
It's a lot of wind
They talk a lot about wind
I got octagonals in my eyelids
From watching all that wind
I get horrible horrible horrible dreams
So I ring the TV line and get a lot of wind
They talk a lot of wind
You see them in the shops
You see them on the kids programs
And they talk a lot of wind
From belching a lot of wind
They talk a lot about wind
They talk a lot about wind
Has a lot of nerve
To talk a lot about wind
He's got a yak haircut (dick, dick, dick)
They talk a lot about wind
Note: [1] Refers to the UK mid-morning TV show "This Morning", which MES refers to
again in North West Fashion Show (Cerebral Caustic track): "Richard and Judy's [the presenters] bastard offspring!"
I hope you are alright
I am alright
I have not yet read it
Rose
Rose
I hope you can get married
Rose
Rose
Remember you started it
Freckles
Rose
With the younger set
Your replacement
He is a good man Rose?
Rose
Sometimes
Rose
Rose
Rose