The Post Nearly Man

The Fall The Post Nearly Man Lyrics
1.The Horror In Clay

Mes:the most merciful thing in the world is man's inability to
correlate all of his mind's contents.
but the sciences one day, some say it is already upon us,
will eventually open up such terri
Vistas of reality that we will either go mad from the revelation
or flee into blissful sleep, peace and safety of another new
dark age.

I'm mark edward smith, these words are hp lovecraft's. we give
you the horror in clay.

techno bit ,footsteps

Voice 1: yes just working on this head at the moment. need to
put some scales on the body as well.tend to flow a bit more with
the body get a few more curves in

Voice 2 see voice 7 later:: the garden girdled babylon that lies
next to and above it'ssss cornwall.

Voice 2 & mes: it's slight accent into (cc sheffield cornwall).

Mes: the professor knows the youth is completely ignorant of
pagan, (cryptioch) or biblical law. he ponders and reflects over
the sculpture. professor phones sculptor who says:

Voice 3: as i said, it was a dream of dark dripping stone, of a
fractured voice whose vowels were impenetrable i was not stoned
professor, honestly, m
Nt has run out. but the only two vowels or sounds frequently
repeated that i could make out were

Voice 4, in music initially very hard to hear: ???? he brings
out the key given to him by his uncle's executor. contents are a
clay bas relief with bits of (fevered jotting and) strewn around
in
The packing. the bas relief is - rectangle, six inches by five
inches, one inch thick (with hieroglyphics) neither ancient nor
modern, sort of cornwall-slash-modern art. on top is a creature
as
St made - description - a cross between octopus, human, dragon,
------, tentacled head, scaly body, (half are wings) ??????
behind this is a small two by four vista, ionic columns,
attached is a
E sheet of paper with large felt pen writing saying cthulhu,
kith-uh-loo, cthulhu cult. ---- --- the two columns one dream
and dream work of ha wilcox no relation of toyah. seven hubert a
- ur -
Street penzance

Mes: the professor phones the sculptor who says

Voice 5: as i said, it was a dream of dark dripping stone, of a
fractured voice whose vowels were impenetrable

Voice 6, newspaper headline?: mental illness group folly, see
inside.

Mes: (better get) penzance bay gazette heading dated 1969.
comfortable leafy suburb, green,
lilac german type houses, a lot of dark green, ominous, pale
thin youth (pretentious),
walks up to hes
Ngly to the front of a house with a package. he looks like a
cross between so and so and the singer out of orb.
he is nervous and affected. a balding (mike hill) type opens the
door he is the pr
Or, martin's great uncle mes records on the move> (his uncle
recognises him as the son of
Ected family noted and he'd been in sculpture college) youth
hands prof package. it is clay bas relief, but not before saying

Voice 7: i made this last night in a dream of cities new and
old,
dreams older than the gaelic sea or the old atlantic or
the garden girdled babylon that lies next to and above it'ssss
cornwall.

Voice 7 & mes: it's slight accent into cc sheffield cornwall

Mes: the professor knows the youth is completely ignorant of
pagan, (cryptioch) or biblical law. he ponders and reflects over
the sculpture. professor phones sculptor who says:

Voice 8: as i said, it was a dream of dark dripping stone, of a
fractured voice whose vowels were impenetrable i was not stone
Fessor, honestly, my grant has run out. but the only two vowels
or sounds frequently repeated that i could make out were cthulhu

Voice 9, singing muffled at start: penzance bay gazette heading
dated

1-9-6-9-1-9-6-9-1-9-6-9-1-9-6-9

Mes: god damn this ol' gang


2.The Caterer

And dad will keep you warm
And mam will keep her warm
And in the swarm
Stick with me, stick with me
I am the caterer

Stick with me stick with me
I am the caterer


With me stick with me
I am the caterer
And mam will keep you warm
And offer chicken bone


I fertilise them
(with wild goat money)
(the goats are getting wild)
Feeding on the finest grain solution
Nothing does any good
They stand on their heads
I used to grow things
But it's faces and brains
But those slitty eyed birds
Throw bad (apples short)
I am not your mother
(you over limbed oaf)
Oryour father who left
In the last council coach
Keep in the black and stay out of the red
Stick with me, stick with me
I am your caterer
I am your caterer
I am your caterer

And dad will keep you warm
But he has left home
And your mother went out
Cos it was too warm
Stick with me stick with me
Chicken and chips off the bone
I am the caterer
I am the caterer

I serve chips to the left of (erector)
Green is the double or treble to get
And turn the card on your pack of cigarettes
Stick with me stick with me
I am your caterer


3.I'm Bobby Pt 1

Mes:what i want to know is why don't real bands with real
singers that don't go round explaining themselves. that's right
go ahead, get ahead with your puerile slurred word rigmarole and
put it
On the lids it's down congealed both the rest of your post
nearly half realised birdlike thoughts clogging the solo
seventies or new intellectual skinhead morass a shad mock
whistle honestly pro
R competing with it observing scientifically brains are in that
need maths to understand chords missing slide back to bottom of
ravine while they catch up freezing outside contained thrash
about
Nks prescription wait a minute i need time my irritability you
will pay for until you realise that it is you that are dumb.
it's you keeping me in this bird cage screen. you don't work out
go aw
Age cage move.

Comfortable leafy suburb. green, lilac german type houses a pale
pretentious pseudo arty walks up like a cross between open the
door. this began a slow palaver, sub
Nd almost (unconscious) in this loss of identity. and if you are
bright, bubbly and sizzling with split personality you are
bobby.

Voice2: they say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery,
but that fraction, that small fraction missing is sometimes the
most important. we gave you, i am, bobby. we gave you, i am,
bobby.


Voice 3:i'll pay this in today then go to the market and library
then quicksave for some booze.

Edward's latest single's out. in the shops tomorrow. it's a hot
number and it's at your local quicksave store.

Voice 4: extreme closeup of stamp banging down loudly on giro
cheque. robert peers at photo of edward in music magazine.
special effect - bobby's thought voice with very nasty tone.
reverb. very
Bang of stamp. though voice (your ma next) with saliva . closeup
of bobby hazel picks up music magazine and views with hatred
picture of dj lauren in showbiz section.

Voice 5: hello, oh it's you yeah alright, have you got the right
bloody colour this time, only i don't want my hair deep pink
again.

Voice 4: bobby hazel examines the picture of dj lauren closely.

Voice 5: i want a dj lauren

Voice 4: banging of receiver on phone. cut to vidal sassoon
salon. closeup of hand highlighting strip of hair with tint. cut
to extreme closeup of dj lauren's face.

Voice 5: it's got to be the same

Voice 4: hairdresser puts phone down. hairdresser says: hiya
lauren what's up?

Voice 5: the clonezone tonight. can you do us before six?

Voice 4: the hairdresser says: the clonezone, great! good place.
can you get us in?

Yeah, how you finding it?

Alright

Good sound system there.

What you wearing?

Voice 5: cut to dream sequence inside clonezone

Voice 4: special effect of heavy beat of jungle techno mixed
with voiceover by mark e smith. fx reverb, echo to beat of
music. strobe in slow motion. black and white shot fade to the
beat of mus
Ut to dj lauren in humble mode.

Voice 6, female: dirty little twat. you remind me of my ex.
hello, oh it's you yeah alright, have you got the right bloody
colour this time, only i don't want my hair deep pink again. i
want a d
Ren.


4.The Cd In Your Hand

Moderninity what it means to you and i and this cd you hold in
your hand. cabbies get life story beatings. co-workers get told
stories:resignations. the reasonable authorities get told
humiliat
Five - old friends get life story degradations and informing
Six - your medically renewed face appears in penance:get on dick
& judy. your opinion on lennon & mccartney get on same prog
central sat next to fred west sweaty family.


5.Enigrammatic Dream

Mes:modernity. moderninity, water lane 01715599 dream sat may
tents and tomatoes at blackpool where jimmy bloomfield has been
brought back to host jousts in moderninity. one of the many
footbal
Unds that have been converted to hold this revived sport.

Voice 1:from today and forthwith, jousts at moderninity

Mes: joust in moderninity. charred landscape, watching the
female bouts at the beginning on the tent bedecked terraces i
exclaim out aloud 'it's too drafty in here, those girls will
certain
Tch their death of cold' and shoved to left by bearded steward
but every movement my companion catches reprimands me. i am
completely deaf so cannot gauge my own voice volume.


The large tomatoes and gold and beige striped tents plunked on
brand new soccer terracing seem to symbolise a clean shaven
(city) new decadence. the lancashire northern western quarter
had seeme
Materialise overnight, its citizens plump, voyeuristic. slowly
they watch every movement by anybody or anything. i bless my
uncanny ability to blend. my friend matthew is not so lucky, his
wife
Me at last from hospital. it is his first day out (in weeks)
always energetic he too shouts and is obviously thought drunk,
(borrowed/followed) a massive decrepit jaguar car. so
Terracing seemed to symbolise a new clean shaven but chip greasy
new decadence. the lancashire northern western quarter seemed to
materialise overnight its citizens plump, voyeuristic, slowly th
Tch every movement.

There is no reason to this. this makes new york look athenic.
for lnwq read (romandy) for the east read sparta.


6.Visit Of An American Poet V 1

Visit of an american poet characters

1 - narrator

2 - poet

3 - wife

4 - zarenda

5 - employee

6 - neighbour

7 - policeman

(salem, frisco, prestwich) evil farce in three acts almost brian
rixish in its semi cold ridiculous scenario

Mes, overlapping voice 1 from 4: thus began the slow palaver,
subtle and almost unconscious in this loss of identity. (running
and growling through the back end of 94 to 98 the sixth) and now
to
Ain.

And now for a message in a room with access to all in san
francisco

Voice 2: another crooked smile. is music a disease? or is it
just living in these soap opera times. they all end up
depressives obsessive about their deluded goal. is this me? is
this everyone i
Ry crap commerce? everyone without love brought up in violence
and drunkeness? why am i depressed? work hard endless, endless
no reward, 5,000 i'm owed. music, music i belong to music. why
are t
So many shit people in music?


Yeah this is about mark, mark told me a story about the
visitation of an
American poet. she came round she came round.
Into his arms she was nice she was nice..
(she was quite, a fucking good girl)
But she had a nasty streak in her
She turned nasty and made him a hostage in his own house
Mark was being fucking, plagiarised and fucking black ------ in
his own
House
(she had a knife) so she was quite a serious threat because she
was an
Amerian poet
Then karl burns came round and she went all nice and cheerful
She said to him, she said to him 'yeah mark fucking hell yeah,
bring your mates in'
And karl came in and karl just wouldn't entertain this woman at
all
And markl said 'no, stay a while karl, stay a while' (kill the
icicles)
Trying to put a message over to him saying
'come on look don't you realise i'm in trouble here i need you
here,
I need you here, i need some support from me mate' and karl just
Totally oblivious to this said 'where's me money?.

Mes: the visitation of an american poet
Thus began a slow palaver subtle, unconscious in its loss of
identity
Running and growing through the back end of the years '94 to '98
(to six and now)

To explain, where to begin,
The soft green leaves (of massachussets)
The visitation took place outside salem
A dolphin restaurant, the fish tasted peculiar
It was (orson?awesome)
Daniels rubbish in a room beneath a gospel group from bloody
thick from atlanta
Turn that shower off
Pure coincidence a&r man in same motel
At dawn there is a knock at the door
It is from salem the poet it is the second visitation

Act 2

I now had a bubbling black large seafood plate
Sf type load of problems at my gate
Purple squid less of pink and what's that thing on the left
wriggling
Small irritant
Behind right upper motel balconey was a poet teacher and dressed
accordingly
Remember that before five view points
Would even step out of the house
Frisco i was in frisco
Chain gain
Thompson (type held a visit) number two
Second visitation seizure in hotel
Excitement on face gut wrench hospital
Cat odour lysergic acid smell
(corn bubbly) it's the smell of hallucinating delusional
When mixed with a prescrip stuff of dear family doctor
New alias monthly
Spreadeagled in driveway
Come up soon for the third visit
That was in the future
The visit of an american poet
Gothic green goblin gnome
Cast her adrift my first mistake
Let her into the motel in frisco
(where the baby green crap baby green to paris) - (.. .. plain
ceilings) underneath a harassment action taken out by four eight
troops visually ----ing 4 5 --- form atlanta operating on the
left
Right flanks of the lobby - jetlag the main (and
famous?infamous) body
What's left their task's to confuse enemy horses and vehicles
hotel motel -- and baby crap
Atlanta religious group upstairs melted ceiling and baby crap
brown coloured drift bubbled ceiling -- (my minds snapping)
Surprise visit this was the second
Visit of second pincer
You were so stupid smith you
(this eventually) had clean shaven your mind into a light pink
scarlet smooth recepticle -- the second visit because at times
you forgot - mentall illness is infectious theory


7.Visitation Of An American Poet

And one'll reverse from the home of the pilgrim . little arab
and your goddam ex-wife
And a pilgrim will come in reverse
And descend on the false poet and enjoin with your little arab
girlfriend
The world don't need another mark e smith
And the gun jammed
And you found more phones
And the prozac got left in the baggage onto paris
But the world don't need another mark e smith
It needs a (northern) lancashire real poet-ess


8.Visit Of An American Poet V 2

Phones cut. the gun jams.
Now he stands in his ten foot hall with three of 'em
One bound to radiator also two wife and three his girlfriend
The two latter scan his fifty-nine pence can of beer in the
kitchen
Behind ya he thinks
A mutual glance inherent from their milltown persian alabama
Atlanta albania whatever
Their wisdom confirms friendship
Too dumb shit to do or know
I am hostage
Their young eyes say
Jet-lag
Wreck
Arrogant
Big lad
He brought home yank
Their triptych mentality explodes
He laughs
Poet reads out quatrain


9.I'm Bobby Pt 2

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery but that
fraction small missing is sometimes the most important. we give
you i am bobby.

It's gotta be the same
Effects, music and lights, (fogging and strobing) in
synchronisation with
The music bobby robert walks to bar where bobby hazel is already
drinking alone

They look into each others eyes, mix eyes with crowd then both
faces fx, reverb on music, slow motion

Bobby robert and robert hazel form a silent agreement

The way they look at each other depicts a knowing that they are
both the same kind. they know that they don't quite hit the mark

Voices: our biggest fear has happened

They tried to get (in at the gig but were refused )

Voices: we have been replaced

.trembling and twitching

A group of thugs including one called the beast the leader
cursing and moaning that bobby roberts was late again

Where the hell is he? i've warned him about being late

(mls bouncer ms lauder and . refused admittance to the club)

Sorry cock, full house

Bobby hears liz onstage, wearing a blonde wig, trying to mimic
dj lauren

She miscues her (haircut), fumbles over her words, she ain't got
the bottle.

Bobby robert can't cope with the feeling (he's cracking under
pressure) whilst heavily under the influence of drinks and
drugs, you see. bobby hazel and bobby roberts have both become
totally ps
Ogically obsessed and go absolutely mad.

Edward turns up and is refused admittance.

In the background fx, loud heavy beat music with mix. v. over.
voice chanting:

(shall we wait david)

Edward walks with his head down away from the clonezone
muttering to himself 'replacement'

Bobby robert. he cannot cope. he collapses onstage, the
combination of drugs and booze is too powerful for his broken
personality. fx beat, music speeds up with a frantic, fast v.o:

(some four may wreck)

Mc edward walks along and comes face to face with lauren. both
of them facing each other.

Cut to bobby hazel gettingviolently beaten up out of the club
with a broken bottle, feet kicking, etc.

Whilst this is happening bobby roberts is molested screaming and
tearing at people's arms.

Voice: don't you know who i am?

Cut to edward and lauren stepping over bobby hazel's beaten up
body. (as them) step up over bobby hazel she stutters with her
last breath.

Voice: don't you know who i am? i'm bobby

Ambulance tears away into the distance with bobby robert
screaming out of control

Voice: don't you know who i am? i'm bobby

Edward looks into the distance. (aint bobby sorry edward.) yes
alright she says. look after yourself.


10.Typewriter

<1st line missing> (their polluted cars)
The vehicle became a molten colour and of a material yet to be
discovered. mesmerising to the occu-pants with the properties of
steel, yet supple. it's tough luck on those that they happen
acros
Then who gives a toss? the boss forgot to check the seals on the
hatches next (thereby they'll grasp some sleep buy matches).


Parabola spacecraft crammed with four, infiltrated near mars by
large abundant caterpillars, full and wriggling with blind
translucent round suckers and tall hairs, about my size. the
back of th
P drops off.


Mes: ballroom stairs, haloed red, people miming, the lyrics
blasted overhead from top of them to downstairs wholesale, disc
jockey between click track point oh-one-five raffling
non-existent pri
Ll present are in league with piccadilly records.

Now i must act or go crackers my rest consists of sleep debt
snatches

It was the day after fluke night. we eventually ended up in a
guest house accommodation type hotel owned by a large betting
shop chain. ladbrokes inc. on checking in i got into the lift
and look
T the key it had three numbers on it. the numbers were 3350,
353, 303. you don't see these type of hotels much out of the
middle of england and here's why - getting to the third floor i
found th
50 did not exist.


11.Dissolute Singer

Dissolute singer
As far as they are concerned you live on 17 fairy lane
People relate to you
What you told them
18 months back then
Tall and frail but you're pale for real
In a of steel

And down west to east broadway
Same route as last week when couldn't find where he was due to
play
That seemed eons away
Oh how he complained about doing a show that friday
Backstage was doorless, brimming with rider
The rolling rocks you sneered at seemed like nectar at canal st
subway
Canal sets you pining only name familiar
Jail pumps me something, blots out all outside america
Canal street's near victoria, bridge st connects dalton
Damn can't remember
You, dissolute singer

Up and down west to east broadway
Same route as last week when couldn't find where he was due to
play
That seemed eons away
Oh how he complained

(tyne) gibson, comedian teams up with so and so and so and so at
brownies
Tonight
While owner (timmy.. knee dee pop) is looking for three figures
at
Brownies tonight
In both senses of the (whirl world)

Never before have i disliked the rain
I soaks, the long drips discarded
By now blessed office no smo-
blots out all outside america
Canal street's near victoria, bridge st connects dalton
Damn can't remember
You, dissolute singer, right


Canal to lexington no that is in boston -- composer stays in
groups
Alice is location wanton -- c
Never before have i disliked the rain
It soaks the long drips discarded -- zee
By now blessed office no smoking policy -- i give thanks and
apologies to my constitution
Distorted soft on discarded
Is it england brittania newspaper
Artisan composer stays in groups
C programmer is b major
Disssolute singer down to social group zee
I give thanks and apologies to my constitution
Bless grandadddy
Teeth moans, brain moans and worries
This thing is amazing
Take beaten thrice daily then once fortnightly
Then soak in chromosome laced bud sub beer colon stretchy ersatz
coffe and liquor
Twist neck with dough boy throttle a bread
Do not sleep for five days
Then return to street
Well bloody nora says my dead dad
Grandad says too much weight on you anyroad
You and your father
Their respected faces appear gigantic left and right above the
city
Skyline
Like hawkman or lex luthor
In an embarrassment they see dissolute singer taping, tapping
away at the vast stamina bank
Built up digging endless trenches lugging iron baths
Sweet sweat pain on lead water tank
Dissolute singer as you live for an s on 17

and embarrassed they see dissolute singer


12.A Lot In A Name

You can get quids in quick
There's a lot in a name
Friday (barking the celluloid down)
Even my cat would balk at that
Sign cross spent sign asterisk mind sign circle family

Reading one
Cross of negativity asterisk shrunken
Circle (with ) the middle non-existent
Even my cat would balk at that
There's a lot in a name as my grandfather said
Nectarine number 9, pavement, richard swallow - tv presenter
(rad coke) - fireman
I welsh his school life in edinburgh must have been terrible