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posted by Lang'uid Squal'or, a student of the transexual art on April 3, 2002

EAT Y'SELF FITTER

I'm in the furniture trade

Got a new job today

But stick the cretin

On the number-three lathe

Went down the town

To a HM club

The sign had a cross

Through a couple well-dressed

They looked at my coat

They looked at my hair

An Easy Rider coot

Grabbed the edge of my coat

Said: 'You're too smart for here'

I said: 'I'll see the manager'

He was the manager

Eat y'self fitter

Up the stairs mister

Eat y'self fitter

Analytics have got

My type worked out

Analytics on me

The poison render

I grope about

And when I go out

My mind splits

My eyes doth hurt

The musical chairs

Have been swallowed up

By a cuddly group

Who land and rub off

Hoping that

Whatever it is

Will land and drop off

I met a hero of mine

I shook his hand

Got trapped in the door

Felt a fool, I tell ya

Charmed to meet ya

Eat y'self fitter

Up the stairs mister

Eat y'self fitter

Became a recluse

And bought a computer

Set it up in the home

Elusive big one

On the screen

Saw the Holy Ghost, I swear

On the screen

Where's the cursor?

Where's the eraser?

Where's the cursor?

Where's the eraser?

G-O-H-O-H-O-9-O

G-O-H-O-H-O-9-O

G-O-H-O-H-O-9-O

H-O-9-O-G-O-H-O

What's a computer?

Eat y'self fitter

What's a computer?

Eat y'self fitter

The Kevin Ayers scene

South of France

Plush velvet

Aback! Aback!

Aback! Aback!

Levis Fridays

Greek holidays

Barratt heritance X 3

Mit-Dem! X3

Don't wanna be a mit-dem! X4

Pick the fleas mister

Eat y'self fitter

Eat y'self fitter?

Eat y'self fitter

Who tells you what

To tape on your vid. chip

How do you know the progs you miss

Are worse than those you single out?

And what'll you do when the rental's up?

And your bottom rack is full of vids

Of programs you will nay look at

The way they act is, oh, sheer delight

Cardboard copyright

Make it right

Panic in Sudan

Panic in Wardour

Panic in Granadaland

Panic all over

By the wretched timesheeters

Of my delight

One starry night

The powers that be will have to meet

And have no choice but to...

Eat each other

Eat y'self fitter

Eat each other?

Eat y'self fitter

(Eat y'self fitter)

Portly and with good grace

The secret straight-back ogre entered

His brain aflame

With all the dreams

It had conjured X4

Mit-dem

Don't wanna be a mid-dem X4

The centimeter square

Eat y'self fitter

Said it purged fear

Eat y'self fitter

(Eat y'self fitter)

Comments

Say what now?!

Posted by: the whole world at April 3, 2002 05:03 PM

Say what now?!

Posted by: everybody on earth at April 3, 2002 05:03 PM

I bought "Live at the Witch Trials" when it came out because I thought the cover was cool. I knew nothing about the Fall. It was something of an eye opener.

Posted by: mccreath at April 3, 2002 05:33 PM

always one of my fave fall songs

Posted by: ttk at April 3, 2002 07:44 PM

Boy, you sure know how to charm me. Soon as I get the chance, I'm gonna dig out and watch the video of that song. It's really dorky with funky close-ups of plastic bugs, and Brix Smith doing an embarassingly bad dance.

Thanks for typing that, you put a big smile on my face.

Posted by: davel at April 3, 2002 09:28 PM

freezi, i remember when you bought LatWT, and I remember us both liking it but being fairly bewildered by it.."is it punk rock..what IS it?!"

Eat Yrself Fitter used to drive me nuts, i hated it, but loved the rest of that record. Now I love it too, but, then as now, I have no idear what he's talkin about. but the song rocks.

Smith just needs to write an annotated fall lyrics compendium for the rest of us- i'm sure he'd sell a shitload of em

Posted by: lang at April 4, 2002 08:58 AM

I too, didn't get LatWT for years. That song annoyed the hell out of me - it wasn't punk. I was such a jerk - I had a lot to learn. Now of course I love that album and every tune on it.

Craig brought home their new album (import only) the other day. It's pretty good - just MES fronting 3 blokes whom he probably met in the pub. But it still sounds like the Fall just cuz' of Mr. Smith.

Posted by: kong at April 4, 2002 12:48 PM

https://www.visi.com/fall/albums_other.html

the early years record on step forward was the first i bought. under the wise counsel of ronnie bond, i never thought anyone wasn't punk enough. he had me listening to pete hammil and van der graaf generator, jefferson airplane, lemon kittens, throbbing gristle, the fall, the art bears, fred frith, and so forth in addition to all my punk records.

i owe that man.

Posted by: ttk at April 4, 2002 06:27 PM

I had a similar man to your "Ronnie Bond," name of Kelley, who turned me on to the Fall when I was 17. I knew from nothing but Black Flag and the Suicidal Tendencies. To this day I turn to Mark Smith in times of despair...the very fact that he's alive and kickin and with such a shitty attitude all the way through is a beacon (I kind of think of Kelley the same way).

What the fuck is a "mit-dem?"

Seriously, if anyone knows, I left my e-mail.

Posted by: captain enemy at December 7, 2002 01:36 PM

I diet and I diet but I'll never be as thin as Mark.

Posted by: sheridan at February 15, 2003 03:22 PM

totally wired...

Posted by: davel at February 17, 2003 02:22 PM

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