Shift-Work

The Fall Shift-Work Lyrics
1.A Lot Of Wind

Desperate for entertainment
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

Then they have the weatherman on
He used to teach all our friends
He talked a lot of wind
He talks a lot about wind

Then they have carl lewis on
He's got a ponytail and he's a vegan
He talks a lot of wind
He talks a lot about wind

I turn the tragic lantern on
It's a program 'good morning'*
It's a lot of wind
They talk a lot about wind

I'm real sick and in distress
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 selling carpets
You see them in the shops
You see them on the kids programs
And they talk a lot of wind

Oh the boredom in my bones
From belching a lot of wind
They talk a lot about wind
They talk a lot about wind

I gotta forget about the wind
Has a lot of nerve
To talk a lot about wind

There's a roly-poly, roly-poly man
He's got a yak haircut (dick, dick, dick)
They talk a lot about wind


2.Edinburgh Man

It's springtime but i still miss the streets at dawn
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

I don't mind being by myself
Don't wanta be anywhere else
Just wanna be in edinburgh
I wish i was an edinburgh man

You can leave me on the shelf
I'm an edinburgh man myself
I will always give you help

It's summertime but i still miss your skies so clear
Sitting and staring on a beach somewhere
I'll tell you something
I wish i was in edinburgh

Don't give a toss about private wealth
And history just repeats itself
Keep me away from the festival
And just give me a warm quarter-gill*

They say you project yourself
But i'm an edinburgh man myself

It's wintertime and i still see the cobble stones
Clacking over your streets at dawn
I was really poor since i left edinburgh

I'm ok just by myself
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 was always in good health
I'm an edinburgh man myself
I will always give you help
I'm an edinburgh man myself


3.High Tension Line

High tension line, step down

Jeanette fletcher is strange but not in a horrible way
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

High tension line, step down

Buying houses and doing them up far far away
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

High tension line, step down

At my feet cdti breakdown
And i pick up the phone, no-one
And am far too far fast for sampling
Just spend my time avoiding

High tension line, step down

Life is nothing more than a disposable
Facial tissue in a brass bin and spawn
Take it out, i notice face imprint
And please excuse my words, i'm wandering

High tension line, step down


4.Idiot Joy Showland

Idiot groups with no shape or form
Out of their heads on a quid of blow
The shapeless kecks* flapping up a storm
Look at what they are:a pack of worms

Idiot joy showland

The nylon leaves are falling
From the twisted shell of your cranium
Your mystic jump suits cannot hide
Your competitive plagiarism

Idiot joy showland

Freddie and the dreamers, come on up
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

Idiot joy showland

California has disneyland
And blackpool has a funland
And flanders had no man's land
This place idiot show bands

Idiot joy showland

And now microcosms come and go
And it's amazing what they show
Your sportsmen's tears are laudanum
Idiot joy showland

The locusts are all queuing in
For idiot joy showland
Idiot joy


5.Pittsville Direkt

No current is waned
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 can't deal with pittsville direkt
I don't wanna go to pittsville direkt
No no no pittsville direkt
Yes yes yes pittsville direkt

Stood off the train platform
Crushed cig in cup
Fda regulation state
Boarded at gate
Plane rides

I can't deal with pittsville direkt
I don't wanna trip to pittsville direkt
No love lost in pittsville direkt

And meanwhile
From new york to skegness*
They don't ask your telephone silk

I don't wanna go to pittsville direckt
No no no no pittsville direkt
Please don't please pittsville direkt
Many a jest in pittsville direkt

By planeride
By trainride
What are they doing to bournemouth city park west?
Why have they got those masks on?

I wanna exit pittsville direkt
I'm correct about pittsville direkt
The citizens of pittsville direkt
Will be out scaring ghosts
Around midnight

Ride out to where the planets roam
Drive carefully! mother-to-be on board

Boarding now from pittsville direkt


6.Rose

The scarecrow's down
I hope you are alright
I am alright

There's a letter marked 'urgent'
I have not yet read it
Rose
Rose

I hear you are in hampstead
I hope you can get married
Rose
Rose

Hear that wah-wah going?
Remember you started it
Freckles
Rose

It is now all the rage
With the younger set
Your replacement
He is a good man rose?
Rose

I've got a good woman
Sometimes
Rose
Rose
Rose


7.Shiftwork

She's ten to five
But i'm shiftwork
And my woman alive
Shiftwork

Shiftwork

I thought shiftwork would work
But it's good as broken us apart

Lights flash over me
Twenty-four hour bulb
I'm just home for tea
But she's in work mode

Shiftwork

Shiftwork

And they will shake you by the hands
For shiftwork
But being abandoned by your woman
Is the price for shiftwork

Shiftwork

Shiftwork

Shiftwork

Shiftwork, you let me down
Gave me a hard heart
You just cracked my mind
You split us apart
Shiftwork

Shiftwork

Shiftwork

Raise your wages per year one grand
By shiftwork
But i can see me go, go, going from this land
Because of shiftwork

Shiftwork

I don't give her a chance
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...

Shiftwork

She was ten to five
But i'm shiftwork
And that woman that once was mine
It's just shiftwork

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, now, now, now, now, now, now
Shiftwork
Now, now, now, now

Where are you going?
This work has not yet reached
Cessation.


8.So What About It?

Fall advice!
Fall advice!
Fall advice!
Fall advice!

The year number 1
Has gone and turned
Into year of bomb
Tv wars 24 hours
But it happens
Fall advice!

Shaking my bones down the m14
Passenger seat gripped tight
And seriously
I cannot sleep
But i'm happy
I cannot eat
So what about it?

It happens
It happens
It happens
Fall advice!

The works down the drain
And interest never wanes
So what about it?

Fall advice!
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?


9.The Book Of Lies

Keep reading me the book of lies
Keep reading me the book of lies

And you keep giving me
And you keep reading me
The book of lies
The book of lies
You keep telling me the book of lies
Book of lies

I don't like what i'm doing to you
You don't like what you're doing to me
Don't make me cry
The book of lies
The book of lies

You don't listen to anything i say
Or do anything you promised to do
So why should i?
The book of lies

You don't listen to anything i say
Or do anything you promised to say
Listen to
Subject to
The book of lies

You keep reading me the book of lies


10.The Mixer

The mixer is close to me
He turns his head and smiles at me.
And i'm am glad
He earns my salary.

The mixer
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

The mixer of jamaican origin
Born, raised in the us*
Clap, clap, clap
Clap, clap

And the mixer sweats.


The mixer is close to me
He turns his head
And smiles at me**

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Mixer sweats


11.The War Against Intelligence

The war against intelligence
War versus intelligence
Notebooks out plagiarists
War against intelligence

War versus intelligence
They got a lot of debris yesterday
They stuck out its golden horns
And volunteered its essence
War against intelligence

Hey pseud!
Why did you defect to the other side?
Hey dude!
Give the info a rest and use your mind
You're such a bloody fool
You think your haircut is distinguished
When it's a blot on the english landscape

Hey dude!
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

Hey dude!


12.White Lightning

In north carolina way back in the hills
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

Mighty mighty pleasin'
Poppa kept a-squeezin' and called it
White lightning

G-men, t-men, revenue too
Searching for the place where he made his brew
They were lookin' tryna book him
But my pappy kept a-cookin' it
White lightning

I asked my pappy why he called the brew
White lightning's full of morning dew
Took one sip then i knew
When my eyes bulged out and my face turned blue

A city slicker came and said 'i'm mighty tough,
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

Shout!


13.You Haven't Found It Yet

You haven't found it yet,
Haven't found it yet.

Look at the glass, turn your head
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.

Impulses crowd your head
Too much to be absorbed
You're into the top shackle
Mental saw-down of your head.*
Which bemoans a simple fact.
You haven't found it yet.

It seemed so clear in bed
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

You're dying but still warm
Put this writing on your tomb
Spit out with dying breath
You haven't found it yet.

I dictate
Transcribe
Relations
Dear cousin
It's destiny.

The grist that curtails the mill
Shall make us strong