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Rowche Rumble

Original UK release
First released 30 July 1979 on Step Forward Records 7": SF11

01. Rowche Rumble (Smith/Riley/Scanlon) 3:59  Lyrics

Rowche Rumble
Is valium
Valium
Valium
Rowche Rumble
That's rumble

Thousands of wives around the world
are given them by doctors, who think they're little girls
The doctors need prescriptions
The wives need their pill
So Rowche Rumble

Menopause wives are hard to handle
No culture or love, no gambles
The dull manage, especially smashed
on Rowche Rumble
Rowche Rumble

Physician, heal thyself

Our government's built on expense accounts
Once in, never out
A step to Rowche
Force feeding
What are the people around you taking?
Rowche Rumble

Now I've tried crazy things
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

Physician, heal thyself
Musician, heal thyself
Hey mister, heal thyself

Loads of people across the land
Do a prescribed death dance
While condemning speed and grass
They got an addiction like a hole in the ass
Rowche Rumble
Rowche Rumble

I send 70 pounds instead of 70 p to
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?

Rowche Rumble
Is valium
That's rumble

Note: Rowche is a play on the name of the giant Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche.

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02. In My Area (Smith/Riley/Pawlett/Scanlon) 4:00  Lyrics

The dwarf plays pool to prove his height
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 the birth of bad
I have seen declining tracks
I have seen the madness in my area

Understand time till I'm asked about it
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 the birth of bad
I have seen declining tracks
I have seen the madness in my area

Former friends suck on the Fall
Genuine white crap article
Their future cries
of broken pain are idiot victims
Just adds to the madness in my area

I have seen the birth of bad
I have seen declining tracks
I have seen the madness in my area

Politic comic fools in full bloom
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 birth of bad
I have seen the declining tracks
I have seen the madness in my area

I have seen the burrowmen
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

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(Side 1: track 1; side 2: track 2)

Credits
Mark E Smith - vocals
Marc Riley - guitar, vocals
Craig Scanlon - guitar
Steve Hanley - bass
Mike Leigh - drums
Yvonne Pawlett - keyboards

Produced by: Oz McCormick and The Fall
Engineer: John Brierley

Recording info & notes
Recorded at Cargo Studio, Rochdale on 11 June 1979.

Several alternate takes of both tracks appear on the 2004 Sanctuary reissue of Dragnet.


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