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Ersatz G.B.
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Original UK release
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First released 14 November 2011 on Cherry Red Records CD: CDBRED500; and LP: BRED500
01. Cosmos 7
(Spurr/Smith)
2:49
Cosmos
Sail the seas
Embraces
And makes your hair silver
H CO CO2
Rat's head
Cosmos 4 awaits
Cosmos 7
A mythical European lifestyle
Con
Sharp brains
Cosmos 7
Cosmos 11
Cosmos rat's head
Four eyes, this is coming
Russian in the back
[?]
02. Taking Off
(Smith/Greenway)
4:01
Take off!
6pm, Bonjela complexion
Taking off!
Stress at four is forbid
Silence 6pm
Bonjela completion
To servant
To servant to stress
Take it off
Too stressed
To Simon, to chef
Ersatz! Ersatz!
Invest, toupee!
Enter, tidying, tied in!
Echoed eyeballs
By skips
Take off
Grating three-fold
Within a thorough
Lack of paper
Take off
You never told me, Simon
About the forty carat scum
At Newquay train station
Take off at weekends!
Digest, ingest
Taking, success
Sauce, to chef
Digress, ingest
Take off!
In success, respect
Digress, before
Eon, take off
Stop, take off!
03. Nate Will Not Return
(Spurr/Smith/Greenway)
6:03
Out of the fog
Out of the fog connection
Grasping the deception
Coming out of the fog
Grasping the connection
Grasping the deception
There was a man called Nate
He was a good man
His girlfriend and the Russian maid
He was called Nate
He decided to sublimate
He went to London
He called his Father and said,
"Father, it's Nate.
Of both girlfriend and mate,
I perchance do decide to replicate,
For I am Nate."
The Russian maid revealed that she was not a citizen of New York State,
But had slipped in on a Ukrainian crate
Due to overtime we missed the gossip girl on New York Channel number 38
Which is not available anywhere else but in maybe New Jersey State
I am Nate.
I would like to do a lick as an actor, and do it straight
In my role I fail, irate
Is it too late
To cover the song by The Fall called "Hot Cake"?
The plough and the aid of un-natural offal, it disgusts
There was a man called Nate
Ringing in England filming
He said, "Hello mate."
I might visit the gallery
I might visit the gallery known as Tate
I am Nate
I am an actor
I'll do it straight
I'll do it straight
A margin out of the connection
Out of the fog in time
Out of the fog connection
I am Nate
I am Nate
On the streets of Russia
The maidens and maids are irate
He promised them homes
Instead they got a crate
I perchance...
04. Mask Search
(Smith/Greenway)
2:41
I'm studying in spring
In caustic and lime
You're supposed to do that
But I'm so sick
Of Snow Patrol
And where to find
Esso lubricant
And mobile number
05. Greenway
(Ioakimoglou/Smith)
4:14
It's good enough for you it's good enough for me
It's good enough for you it's good enough for Richard
It's good enough for Richie Sounds
Channel hopping the other day through Danish rock TV
I noticed the video, where the person beared a remarkable coincidental resemblance to myself
To the video I was in recently
So I rang the crew that the Jason fellow cited
The attitude that group had to me when I asked if they had a CD player in their room
Their tone especially
Greenway
Greenway
I decided to visit their room, where they had a pile of chairs piled behind the door
Their tone was snotty and offensive so I called them
People like that really get on my nerves
To relax I called my cat
Greenway
Greenway
I had to wank off the cat to feed the fucking dog
It's good enough for you it's good enough for you
It's good enough for Richard
It's good enough for Richie Sounds
Greenway
Greenway
I had wank off the dog to feed the fucking cat
Greenway
It's good enough for me it's good enough for you boy
It's good enough for you it's good enough for me
It's good enough for Richard
It's good enough for right now
Greenway
Channel hopping the other day on Danish rock TV
06. Happi Song
(Poulou)
4:19
If I can see and you can see why can't they see
Raindrops on the highway
It was in the second hour I saw them sitting there
If I can see and you can see why can't they see
As we drove through Australia
It was always going to be a matter of time
If I can see and you can see why can't they see
Got no english folk music got no [?] four one six
I reach out
If i can see and you can see why cant they see
No its never on the radio i can wait and wait and wait it will never show
[?] is the source of joy but they can't see that but look into his eyes
If i can see and you can see why cant they see
07. Monocard
(Spurr/Melling/Smith)
8:09
How can we stand firm?
How can we stand firm against the process?
And the malefactors
Cropped by night
Nocturnal surprise
Felicitatious malefactions
When will I get grasp of Monocard?
Is it bread? When will it begin?
I walk into village
Fate-infected
Trenches in Hounslow
The true chiefs
Gorilla's an apprentice
Of Chiswick
At my peril and at my demand Monocard
From Prussia and Chiswick
Give me grasp
Of monocard
Is it bread?
Or is it yeast?
Will it, with it give assist
At my peril and at my demand
I should apprentice possess
In Chiswick
And rats
Of style
Of Mono
Hands!
Ersatz apprentice
Okay style
Okay mono
Hands
To be one Cosmo
08. Laptop Dog
(Smith/Greenway)
4:01
All life was there
But the path disappears
I say to you
I say to you
All life was there
But lap disappears
Searches all the bins
On advice of PC
No luck did he
All life was there
But lap disappeared
Searches all the bins
Burning veins
Outside the B'n'B
Now takes two months
No joy has he
Has no family
Has no
I say to you
All life was there
Lap disappeared
Searches all the bins
Burning veins
Do not underrate what I say
And the intolerant of laptop craze
A big creature will stalk you
And it will alliterate and proclaim
Laptop ignorant
Everybody proclaims
Laptop ignorant
No luck has he
Keith Richards follows him
To his hotel stop
Laptop ignorant
09. I've Seen Them Come
(Smith)
6:06
I've been to Banding
I've been to Fong
I've been to Gong
I've been to Ban Hu
I've been to Fu Gong
I've been to Guangzhou
I've been to Praha-ha
I've been to Petakwai
I've been to Balthazar
I've been to the Alps
To Meijiang
Auckland
Brisbane
I've seen them come
I've seen them come
I've been to Dong, Ding, Fu
Dong-View
Ah Praha-ha
Betty Blue
Balthazar
Balthazar
Metal Mass
Beijing
I've been to Ansatz
I've been to Brisbane
I've been to Dong, Fong, Fu, Ha
Gone to woo'woo'woo, again
I'm goin' anywhere that wants me
On form
I've seen them come
where 'ts
10. Age Of Chang
(Spurr/Smith)
3:27
Into the flower duct
Into the lowlands
The flower drum awaits
As I, clever Dick, change
And sets the hawks
Somewhere down the line
Change, no bed of roses
Somewhere down the line
We'll find our wants
And put paid and galvanise
Our reminiscences
And put p..
Time for change!
T for change!
Time for change!
T for change!
No time for reminisces
Consign them
To your insect mind
No time for reminiscent
This is time for change
Change the socks
To the rats, change!
Time for change!
T for change!
Time for Chang!
Time for change!
T for change!
Contractual land
And laptop survey
A dam of vast proportions
Slops film of dyke in Thailand
Time for change!
Of the all the change
Get cash for change
Card for change
Time for change!
Time for change
T for change!
Tears for change
Time for change
Reminiscing
T for change!
Sop for change!
Time for change!
T for change!
Space games for change
Time for change!
To challenge
T for change!
To change
A dam of vast proportions will break over Hawksmoor
(CD: tracks 1-10)
(LP side 1: tracks 1-6; side 2: tracks 7-10)
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Credits
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Mark E Smith - vocals
Peter Greenway - guitar (uncredited)
David Spurr - bass
Keiron Melling - drums
Eleni Poulou - keyboards, vocals
Produced by: Mark E Smith, Simon "Ding" Archer
Engineered by: Sam at Metropolis, Ed at Toerag
Cover artwork: Mark Kennedy, Mark E Smith
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Recording info & notes
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Recorded at Metropolis Studios, London and Toerag Studio, London in mid 2011.
Greenway is adapted from the song "To Gameboy" originally recorded by Greek heavy metal group Anorimoi. MES wrote the Greenway lyrics.
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