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Fiery Jack
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Original UK release
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First released ?? January 1980 on Step Forward Records 7": SF13
01. Fiery Jack
(Smith/The Fall)
4:46
My face is slack
And kidneys burn
In the small of my back
Will never learn
Well I'm not going back
To the slow life
Cos every step is a drag
And peace is a kite of materials you never catch
Come up for a snatch
Up from hell
Once in a while
Cause I am Jack
From a burning ring
My face is slack
And I think think think
I just think think think
Too fast to write
Too fast to work
Just burn burn burn
I sat and drank
For three decades
I'm 45
Cause I am Jack
From a burning ring
And my face is slack
And I think think think
I just drink drink drink
Too fast to work
Too fast to write
I just burn burn burn
I eat hot dogs
I live on pies
I'm 45
Cause I am Jack
And I think think think
Just think think think
Too fast to write
Too fast to work
Just burn burn burn
And put down left-wing tirades
and the musical trades
And/or free trade
I say eat this grenade
To defend free trade
I said eat this grenade
Cause I am Jack
Some men from the docks
They are smart
Their brains are half
They never end
Just follow trends
But I am Jack
From a burning ring
My face is slack
And I think think think
Just think think think
Too fast to write
Too fast to work
I just burn burn burn
I am Jack
And put down left-wing tirades
and the musical trades
And/or free trade
I said eat this grenade
I said eat this grenade
And all free trade
I said eat this grenade
02. 2nd Dark Age
(The Fall)
2:00
Fat conference women
Clap return of glass house
And the Arabs have it made
Oil is women in veils, eyes glazed
Second Dark Age
Death of the USA
Return of the family
The scooter cabbages
And the commune crapheads sit and whine
While the common near my birthplace is now a police college
It's a second dark age
No Psalm Sunday or any day
The city is dead
Bust. Ghost-dance rite. Tepid
I could join a pray-peace group
Spy in Norway
Cause groups can change the world
and meet Bjorn and Benny [1]
"Hi I am Benny"
Go where the brave prance
No Czechoslovak food queues are a party, fool
A mediocre anti-Jew
And single people are screwed
in the Second Dark Age
I am Roman Totale XVII
the bastard offspring
of Charles I and the Great God Pan
Note: [1] Abba reference
03. Psykick Dancehall #2
(Smith/Riley/Scanlon)
3:36
Part of the quest, part of the quest to..
Rocky! Rocky!
It's quester psykick dance-hall
Get aboard for
ESP medium discord
My garden is made of stone
I saw an ape thing on the road
Ricky's hump is made of flesh
He has got a pigeon chest
Round the corner
Is quester psykick dancehall
Step forward for
ESP medium discord
Here they have no records
They know your questions about no words
Just mumble bumble to the waves
Twitching out to the waves
Clock it! Clock it!
It's quester psykick dance-hall
Get aboard for
ESP medium discord
Helen Duncan [1] was accused of being a fraudulent medium
They burst into a seance over a over in Portsmouth, over a chemists shop
A length of ectoplasm or a suit of cheesecloth
Was grabbed but it got away
The Witchcraft Act 1735 was used to give her 9 month's jail
The vibrations will live on
Never Mind
It's quester psykick dance-hall
Get aboard for
ESP medium discord
Step forward, step forward
Get aboard
Note: [1] Helen Duncan: Scottish medium; last person to be charged and found guilty under an old witchcraft statute in 1944; sentenced to nine months imprisonment.
(Side 1: track 1; side 2: tracks 2-3)
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Credits
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Mark E Smith - vocals, keyboards
Marc Riley - guitar, keyboards, vocals
Craig Scanlon - guitar
Steve Hanley - bass, vocals
Mike Leigh - drums, percussion
Produced by: Mayo Thompson, Geoff Travis and The Fall
Engineer: Dave Anderson
Cover artwork: Suzanne Smith
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Recording info & notes
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Recorded in Wales during September 1979.
Psykick Dancehall #2 is an alternate version to the track that originally appeared on Dragnet.
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