Disco Inferno lyrics

Well, I couldn't find anything listed on the more well-known fan sites, which is a bit of a problem.

Anybody know?

A sky without a god is a clear, clear sky
but we've served for so long it now seems right
Information brings the light to see how quick faith burns, when so do we
The flames of doubt are burning now, but the people in control aren't scared
Cheated by technology
Real power never has nor will be shared.

My fave DI lyric being "no oceans left to cross / no mountains left to climb / or so I've been told", delivered in such a way as to weight the final five words with a sense of bloody-minded future exploration.

From the "Second Language" EP, I think I figured out the first verse from "The atheist's burden".

"i caught a dawn chorus this morning
and it was a showstopper
i'm waking early again and it's grey
i took a hell of a chance
and it's paid off handsomely
now it looks like everything is right
and the sky was deep blue and the air was ice cold
i look at the sky quite a lot
don't you know"

---

Need much help with the last few verses from "A little something", from

"you made it perfectly clear
you didnt want me anywhere near"

it takes soft arms to hold me tight
from the .. that haunt me in the middle of the night

...

it's best to take the... when you are sleeping alone
cause you never ever know how you're...

---

Has anybody given a try to "Love Stepping Out" - pity on my attempts!

lovely night..sky so bright
if we just sit and stare -
but we take a walk in london
into regents park or thereabouts
to watch the crowds...

..fully know that smashing people's hearts
is much more fun than breaking people's bones

have i ever told you
i only see my face
when i look into your eyes

and have you ever noticed
how we never ever
swallow anybody's lies

..punching women kicking men
five on one, one on ten
these fucks are getting all what they deserve
...make them think they're in their right
but we know different and use to argue
on such a lovely night

---
But, look! I can sing "I'm still in love", right to the wall of fireworks

"it's cold out but why should we care
we're stuck here until it's fair
it's cold out but why should we care
everything is gray and there's nobody out there

i'm still in love i'm still in love, it's never gone away
and you know i'm still true no matter what i say"

Goddamn, those lyrics. Ever since DB wisely noted they deserved a really close listen, the combination of them with the shimmering beauty of the arrangement just...argh.

2:38
oh (lover) it's a (lovely) night
but outside the sky's still light
if we just sit and stare
we could take a walk through london
into regent's park or thereabouts
to watch the crowd prepare to (???)

what makes your world go round
(???) chase you down
(???) in your eyes
which i smash against the ground
and any fool will know
that smashing people's hearts
can be so much more fun
than breaking people's bones

3:54
baby just don't stray too far
you're helpless on your own
these people want to change things
they're dangerous to know
if we (???) with rubbish
take you clean away from me
there's not much that i own
but i'd like to think that i own you

have i ever told you
i only see my face
when i look into your eyes?
well how can i (???)
(you) stop me dead in my tracks
like a flytrap traps a passing fly

and have you ever noticed
how we never ever swallow anybody's lies?
(god) that makes me strong
and now we've cleared the air
let's stay to watch the penalties (dispensed)

punching women kicking men
five on one, one on ten
these fuckers getting all that they deserve
it's just tricks with mirrors
that makes them think they're in the right
but we know different and who's to argue
on such a lovely night?

what makes your world go round
(???) chase you down
puts mirrors in your eyes
which I smash against the ground

(...)

baby just don't stray too far
you're helpless on your own
these people want to change things
they're dangerous to know
fill (?) your tiny head with rubbish
take you clean away from me
there's not much that i own
but i'd like to think that i own you

have i ever told you
i only see my face
when i look into your eyes?
well how can i forgive your open legs
which stopped me dead in my tracks
like a flytrap traps a passing fly

... although that's not quite as pretty an interpretation.

cause I don't know what the future's got me
but it's got to hold more than the past
any day.

now I don't care if the past has left marks on me
who can't assess their own damage with their own two eyes?
god knows how we did it
I guess while we were scrabbling around in the dirt
we just aim for the sky

there's so much pessimism around that it's frightening
makes you wonder when it's all going to end
but if you get up real early say 4:30 and look around
you see the world before the cynics have got out of bed

enjoying my life ... rolling/rotted(?) away
future ... blue ... my blues flew away
and just for a second I truly believe
but I don't know what in

we tried to talk to each other
but the words that came out of our mouths
were carried away on the wind
which turned them inside out

in desperation I tried
to communicate with my eyes
... seen ... people ...
it's hard to feign surprise

and we just smile

This is from memory, mind.

I'm enjoying my life and it's rolling away
saw a vision in blue, all my blues flew away
and just for a second I truly believe
but I don't know what in

we tried to talk to each other
but the words that came out of our mouths
were carried away on the wind
which turned them inside out

in desperation I tried
to communicate with my eyes
when all you've seen is people's pain
it's hard to feign surprise

And we just smiled

I thought it was "best to take precautions when you're sleeping around"

I got most of 'Summers Last Sound', except the huge cacophony near the end.

What I'd really like to know is:

The Last (/Long) Dance
D.I. Go Pop (easy to understand bits of it)
A Little Something
It's a Kid's World (The live version from the Starbound website is a little easier to make out the words).

Every step that we tread
The dead are behind us
Throwing shadows out over our heads
And they (live?) far in front of us

No oceans left to cross
No mountains left to climb
'cause that's what I've been told
And it's got so hard
To look around
And see just who can save you
If you don't have a pot of gold

Was there ever a time like this?

As the noise of the past
builds up into a crescendo
the layers of rubbish
(waste their crew?)
are amplified a million times or more

but our heads just can't cope
as we fall into the arms
of the waiting mystics
(boats/bugs burning?) barrels turning
a million wasted futures light up the night sky

small hopes flash past and wave
while foreign forces wait and pray
and a fear of the future is so deep in our hearts
they will all but destroy ourselves
like the centuries old feuds
being upgraded with high-tech weapons
in the end it's not the future
but the past that'll get us
i always believed (????) cost lives
that's why i was always in line for the sacrifice
but now my eyes point ahead
away from the ghosts of the dead.

D.I. Go Pop

for you i know i been raving about this story
starts (going/getting/???) to the dogs every night on the hour

ships carrying bands in their entourage
(off/live) to (see/seek) their fortune ??? ??? in america
we've been refused entry so many times we've lost count

so storm the way
(beaten/bitter/???) years
or thereabouts
maybe ??? ??? plays it safe
and have come to their senses
but we doubt it
cause the last (bar?) ??? ??? ???? ???? ??? ???
??? ???? ???? senses ??? ??? ??? ??? ???
an english type or style whose precautions
takes the whole damn country with it
so when this country goes pot with ??? ??? (done?) it

well the ship or the shore and the (crowds/crabs) are behind
but the result(edly?) fat ones who (want/warm/warn/??) the design

(expanding/standing?) behind us

and we were blocking their way
i had a limousine to take em away the bastards
(never/now we) had much money
and cars they were kinda cheap
so all were could afford was a broken down jeep
???/ ??? ??? ???? got if off rob
said he looked really sad (so/that) we sold it
but we went back to pick up a (badge?) and the engine exploded
then we walked across town to the hotel
where we were (booked?) to stay
but arrived to find ??? ??? ??? they turned us away
so we were left on the street
looking for a new place in which to stay
did it slightly remind us about checking out this brave new world ??? ??? ???

the first thing we wanted was to find a place
where we could buy something to eat
we were amazed walking back to find someone
had left a rubbish bag round in the street
as long as we got apples ??? ???? ???? ??? ??? ???
we've collapsed
as people walked(/watched?) by they kicked (us?) in the side
with their feet

??? ???? ???? (small books?)
religious fanatics who pushed their way in
to burn the heretics
books to be burnt
???? ???? ??haven't read them
it doesn't matter cause they knew what was in them
(why doing & why???)
when you've got to go never lead me astray

we passed a small boy who was covered in (blood?)
??? ??? ??? ??? ??? wicked ??? ???
the boy just ran off and we came to an alleyway
??? ??? ??? ??? see someone lying there
thought it was ??? worries ??? grab
realised it should ??? ?????? ?? stab
so we covered the body
and we called the police with ???? ??? ???
then we left ??? ??? ??? unsolveable crime ??? ??? ????

we ran away to a diner & went to a table and just sat and stared
what kind of a place are we in where nobody cares?
then the waitress came over to take our orders ??? ??? ???
and i asked her "we're all english - did you move here by choice?"
she looked at us strange so i told her our story and she ran off ??? ???
("?)you must have got on a ferry cause you never left england("?)

"(beaten/bitter/???) years" - 'been ten years'
"but we went back to pick up a (badge?) and the engine exploded" - i think it's 'battery'
"as long as we got apples ??? ???? ???? ??? ??? ???
we've collapsed" - I always heard it as something like 'It was only as we got closer that we saw it was a man who'd collapsed'
"and we called the police with ???? ??? ???" '...called the police without leaving our names'

(btw, in "love stepping out", the bit at the end of "to watch the crowd prepare to (???)" is "gather")

2:08
and the gulls are coming in off the coast
the smell of corpses (pulls/pours?) them in
mass graves uncovered
must be abroad - it can't be here
i can sense (your/raw?) violence
but i still don't understand
however (when the?) past (looks thin/dim?)
you've got the future
in the palm of your hand
??? ??? ??? through ???? screens
where killers hide
(off-routes?) get bricks in windows
and foreigners get hushed-up trials
and you're waiting for a knock at the door
which'll tell you if you'll spend the next few years
free from life in ??? ???? ??? ??? ???
the bread went up five pence today
and an immigrant was kicked to death again

and i'm scared for my life
for the first time in it
and we've known all along
being at home can put your life at risk
so i guess we'll just disperse again

and the ??? are coming off the land
they usually target (to lure them in?)
??? ??? ??? ???
don't be absurd it can't be here
until we find a place to settle
we'll just keep moving on
we stay in (flocks?) like birds
no-one dares to move along
across the sea and ??? ??? ???
(shares?) ??? ??? in all it's forms
over mountains (and their suns?)
we shoot to kill yet shoot for fun
across the deserts burning skies
we never stop to sleep and eat
death always finds us in the (end/air?)
??? ??? shadows ??? ??? (weeping?)
over hot ???? and ???
our ???? ??? wants to see us stay
all the ??? ??? ??? grain
through the ??? exploring rain
how can we never find a safe place to land?
but we find ourselves through (god's providing hand?)
it ??? ??? every (day/gain?)

I think the bit in 'last dance' was 'I always believed that ideas cost lives/that's why I was always in line for a sacrifice' but I might be completely wrong.

thanks you lot, esp Ned & Tom, for nattering on about 'em!

any ideas where I can find them on vinyl - particularly the middle 3...?

For D.I. Go Pop -
"so when this country goes pot with ??? ??? (done?) it" - I think it's 'so when this country goes *pop* we'll have already done it"

For Summer's Last Sound
"??? ??? ??? through ???? screens" - 'run through ..... (noble?) streets'
"(off-routes?) get bricks in windows" - 'Or freaks...' (?)
"free from life in ??? ???? ??? ??? ???" - "free from life attacked with petrol bombs'
"the bread went up five pence today" - There's a 'price of' in between 'the' and' bread'
"and the ??? are coming off the land" - 'crows'(?)
"they usually target (to lure them in?)" - 'The easy targets lure them in'

All I've managed to make out in A Little Something is the "1, 2, 3, oh, where was I?" And something which sounds like "tits", and the "when I was young..." part.

Hopefully Ian Crause will turn up and tell us how wrong we are about everything.

"We take you to the hotel Martinet in Brooklyn, where Bobby Millette and his orchestra are offering a program of dance music."

(music come in immediately after 'Bobby' and the rest is inaudible though)

(and, ferfuchsake, this is what I'm doing on a Friday night)

Mediocrity surrounds you
Evil (People?) pressing down around you
There's nowhere else to go but down and out.

Buy a gun,
Steal a car.
Have a ball,
Won't get far.
Pretty soon you'll find you've found your place.

It's a kid's world anyway
Pay your moral finer day ???
Who knows, this sho might be your last
Keep it loaded just in case
The world moves so much faster these days

Find souvenirs to show your kids.

It gets better as it gets light,
And you've had, the greatest night
on earth
Just to have it taken from you
Mark it in, and sewn back on you ???
It's cheap, but cheapness hurts.

It's a kid's world anyway
Pay your moral finer day ???
Who knows, this sho might be your last
Keep it loaded just in case
The world moves so much faster these days

Find souvenirs to show their kids.

Sound like some of the lyrics might be different in the live version.

No jobs for the boys, or the girls
So it's off around the world
I hate to say it but I've seen it before
The cities, the ??? ('Liftoff') the ocean floor (?)

But Tecnicolour's got me in her open arms,
I'm just a slave to her whims & charms
I've read books, but nothing compares
To watching her awards and big health scares

When you get down, to the Amazon tribes,
Give me a wave, watching on Sky
It's not as if they got much to hide,
With the Bodyshop posse coming down on their backs

Bear a gift, they'll welcome you in,
Anything shit goes straight in the bin
They're pretty choosy now, so good stuff only,
Anything by ?Lin? (Loewe?), Panasonic or Sony

Tecnicolour's got me in her open arms,
I'm just a slave to her whims & charms
I've read books, but nothing compares
To watching her awards and big health scares

Tecnicolour's got me in her open arms,
I'm just a slave to her whims & charms
I've read books, but nothing compares
To watching her awards and big health scares

There's only one thing, left for me then;
Watching whole continents slide into the sea
Don't worry, I'll get it on tape oh,
If it happens while you're away, oh

But Tecnicolour's got me in her open arms,
I'm just a slave to her whims & charms
I've read books, but nothing compares
To watching her awards and big health scares

In the meantime, I'll just have to cope with 'Over and Over' - the lyrics of which are at least entirely understandable. And hideously depressing.

one...two...three...four

(???) is chasing your luck
in turn for wasting your luck
i've got a fear of getting somewhere
and where i just don't know

(???) getting me down
(?????????????) cake
I can see where this is gonna end

when i was young
I was taught a little song
I only ever sing it
when things are going horribly wrong

It goes "take a trip to the beach
to see the masterplan, a baby hyena and an olive branch
(????????????)
And just to make sure you never wake up
from the dreaded 5 years in an office job
(???????????)

She'd make it perfectly clear
she didn't want me anywhere near
i'm in the flat with the heating full on
so why do i feel so cold?
keep expecting her to walk through the door
the old coat not on the floor
I've lasted a beautiful (???)
i think that i might just turn in

when i was young
i was taught a little song
I only ever sing it
when things are going horribly wrong

I need two soft arms to hold me tight
keep the demons that haunt me in the middle of the night
we prefer grass (???)
i can't go to sleep in the dark
this pesky tape recorder tried to sleep in the light(?)
(???????????)
other people read
i just need a little something to make me sleep
other people read
(???????????)

I always hear "and the people weep", but 'other people read' makes much more sense.

I thought it might be 'to 25 years in an office job', but either seems to work.

A Little Something

debt collectors chasing me up (?)
in turn for wasting your luck (?)
I've got a fear of getting somewhere
and where I just don't know

Bad luck getting me down
A gathering of soulless clowns
I’ve got myself a habit I’m never gonna kick
but I can see where its gonna end

When I was young
I was taught a little song
I only ever sing it
when things are going horribly wrong

It goes take a trip to the beach (?)
to see the master plan, a baby hyena and an olive branch (?)
stick it all in a fruit blender
With some mottos and some lovers and a vintage fender
And just to make sure you never wake up
from 25 years in an office job

other people meet (?)
But if I get a little something I can sleep
Other people meet (?)
But I just need a little something to wear to sleep
Other people weep (?)
But if I get a little something I can sleep

She'd made it perfectly clear
she didn't want me anywhere near
an empty flat with the heater full on
so why do i feel so cold?
I keep expecting her to walk through the door
the old coat not on the floor
I've last read a beautiful thing in this book (?)
I think that I might just turn in

when I was young
I was taught a little song
which I only ever use
when things are going horribly wrong

I need two soft arms to hold me tight
from the demons that haunt me in the middle of the night
beautiful grass and a bottle of light
I can't go to sleep in the dark
this pesky tape recorder tried to sleep in the light (?)
cause you never ever know how you’re gonna get flown (?)
I’ve gone to sleep …weren’t/ wear it in bed (?)
I keep it inside my head

other people read
I just need a little something to make me sleep
other people read
but if I get my little something I can sleep

Burn baby burn!

Burn baby burn!

Burn baby burn!

Burnin'!

To mass fires, yes!

One hundred stories high

People gettin' loose y’all

gettin' down on the roof - Do you hear?

(the folks are flaming)Folks were screamin' - out of control

It was so entertainin' -

when the boogie started to explode I heard somebody say

Burn baby burn! - Disco inferno!

Burn baby burn! - Burn that mama down

Burn baby burn! - Disco inferno!

Burn baby burn! - Burn that mama down

Burnin'!

Satisfaction (uhu hu hu)

came in the chain reaction (burnin')

I couldn't get enough, (till I had to self-destroy)so I had to self destruct, (uhu hu hu)

The heat was on (burnin’), rising to the top, huh!

Everybody's goin' strong (uhu hu hu)

And that is when my spark got hot I heard somebody say

Burn baby burn! - Disco inferno!

Burn baby burn! - Burn that mama down, yoh!

Burn baby burn! - Disco inferno!

Burn baby burn! - Burn that mama down

Burnin'!

Up above my head I hear music in the air - I hear music!

That makes me know there's (somebody)a party somewhere

Satisfaction came in a chain reaction - Do you hear?

I couldn't get enough, so I had to self destruct,

The heat was on, rising to the top

Everybody's goin' strong

That is when my spark got hot I heard somebody say

Burn baby burn! - Disco inferno! (Aah yeah!)

Burn baby burn! - Burn that mama down

Burn baby burn! - Disco inferno, yeah!

Burn baby burn! - Burn that mama down x2

Burnin’!

MUSIC TURN AROUND (12 bars)

I just can't stop

When(till) my spark gets hot

Just can't stop

When my spark gets hot

MUSIC TURN AROUND (24 bars)

Burning, burning, burning, burning 6X (24 bars)

I think I've got The Last Dance figured out, filling in the gaps of etc's contribution five years ago upthread. This song is amazing.

Every step that we tread
The dead are behind us

Throwing shadows out over our heads

And they land far in front of us
No oceans left to cross
No mountains left to climb

Cause that's what I've been told

And it's got so hard

To look around

And see just who can save you
If you don't have a pot of gold

Was there ever a time like this?

As the noise of the past
Builds up into a crescendo

The layers of rubbish 
waste that accrue 
Are amplified a million times or more
But our heads just can't cope
 as we fall
Into the arms 
of the waiting mystics

Books burning barrels turning

A million wasted futures light up the night sky

Small hopes flash past and wave
While foreign forces wait and pray
And a fear of the future beats so deep in our hearts
That we’ll all but destroy ourselves
Like the centuries-old feuds

Being upgraded with high-tech weapons

In the end it's not the future
But the past that'll get us

I always believed that ideas cost lives

That's why I was always in line
For the sacrifice

But now my eyes point ahead

Away from the ghosts of the dead

Love that song.

Okay I'm playing this now. I don't think I've heard this before. I wasn't much of a fan of D.I. Go Pop but this is kindof nice. His voice sounds higher than it should be, though. Weird.

Also I pulled out the Summer's Last Stand/Love Stepping Out single and you know...that doesn't even sound all that great to me now. Even though I used to pull out the cassette where I taped that many times and thought it was really good, now it doesn't do much for me.

Yeah, I like this Last Dance song. Thanks ILM.

"Also I pulled out the Summer's Last Stand/Love Stepping Out single and you know...that doesn't even sound all that great to me now."

you're insane

Jew by surprise
A hundred storeys high
People getting loose YOW
Getting down upon the loose, I hear
The folks were screamin'
Out of control
It was so entertaining
When the boogie started to explode
I heard somebody say BURN BABY BURN
Disco Inferno
BURN BABY BURN
Burn the mother down
Burn it!
Satisfaction!
Came with a chain reaction!
I couldn't get enough
so I had to self-destruct!!!

If you're tired of Summer's Last Sound/Love Stepping Out, you're tired of life.

There are many times that I think the lyrics for "The Last Dance" are in fact the finest lyrics ever concocted by anyone.

LOLOLOL okay but look dudes, Last Dance is better than Summer's Last Sound/Love's Stepping Out. And I'll stand by that assertion to my grave, sorry.

I finally got DI go pop yesterday. I feel like a real ILM'er now.

One of us, etc.

Ah but did you get it or did you "get it"?

I bought it, haven't listened to it yet, but have really liked the bits I've heard already. Stumbled upon a used copy, misfiled in the electronic section of a warehouse sized record store and pretty much said "enough's enough."

Correct me if I'm wrong, but can't it safely be called one of the few albums that's not a canonical classic that there's relatively no dispute about here.

i think the noise board hates it. but then it turned out the one dude didn't actually listen to the album or something

Wow, thanks for that, dad a! I wonder if I shld pick up where I left off with "D.I. Go Pop", hmmmn ...

does anybody have the lyrics of fallen down the wire? Thank you and sorry for my bad english.

Good question! I might be able to ask Paul or Rob...

Man, I love this thread.

In fact it inspired me to hie myself off to emusic, where I've discovered they have the early compilation thing "In Debt" which I'm now listening to, having not heard before. This is some great stuff! A lot more straightforward, sure, but in that same way that makes me adore For Against/Chams/Durutti Column/Dif Juz. Noice.

In Debt is their best album!!

I am very much loving it yes.

thx for reminding me i need to pick up that dif juz record at the exchange tomorrow

Which one? I love their 2 early EPs (Huremics and Vibrating Air). Actually come to think of it I also have "Who Says So?" somewhere and have never listened to it.

This early DI stuff is very much like Dif Juz, except without the dubby bass.

it's extractions. i've never heard them except for random youtube sessions but i feel like it's another band i'm bound to fall head over hills with sooner or later

Man, so much of the Disco Inferno stuff sounds amazing on a good pair of headphones.

Ah, extractions is nice. Very 4ad. Liz singing on it, of course. Strongly recommend "Soundpool" too (which is a re release of aforementioned 2 eps)

Sometimes I think I like the song titles on Extractions more than the music. Except "The Last Day." That's transcendent.

Wow this song "Falling down the Wire" is fucking great!

Fallen, even. oops.

i still can't quite work out all of 'Don't You Know'.

I've just been re-listening to "D.I Go Pop" and really want to add more to the lyrics etc and Sasha did upthread. The whole song seems to be an extended riff/joke on the idea of how horrendous, violent and uncaring the US is, only the punchline is, they then get told they never left England??! Such a wonderfully fucked up song. I want to go home and drink and listen to it on repeat and see what happens to my brain.

gettin' down on the roof - Do you hear?

OK I've added a few lines to "D.I Go Pop". At least I think I have, if someone wants to correct me, go right ahead.

[.....]

we've been refused entry so many times we've lost count

so storm the way!
It'll be ten years, or thereabouts
maybe [youre gonnna?] play it safe
and you have come to your senses
but we doubt it
'cause the next time on the train will be
a matter of [raw???]??? sensesless
then you'll shout it
And each time the stock market crashes
It takes the whole damn country with it
so when this country goes to pot we'll have already done it

well the ship pulled ashore, all the crowds were behind
but there was [already/all really] fat ones
The crowd surged forward, over and by us
>?? saw a bigger man, standing behind us
and we were blocking their way
i had a limousine to take em away the bastards

(never/now we) had much money
and cars they were kinda cheap
so all we could afford was a broken down jeep
We trusted a man, who got if off rob
said he looked really sad that he sold it
but we went back to pick up a badge,and the engine exploded!

then we walked across town to the hotel
where we were booked in to stay
but arrived to find ??? ??? ??? they turned us away
so we were left on the street
looking for a new place in which to stay
did it slightly remind us about checking out this brave new world - no, but we did anyway

[...]

... after this I gave up, I'm at work doing this and I am really gonna get into trouble, ha ha. I'll try and do more when I get home.

Actually I did some more. But this is the best I can do, some of this is inscrutably muffled:

well the ship pulled ashore, all the crowds were behind
but there was [already/all really] fat ones [??? design?]
The crowd surged forward, over and by us
When we saw a bigger man, standing behind us
and we were blocking their way
"I already had a limousine to take em away, the bastards"

Now we haven't much money
and cars they were kinda cheap
so all we could afford was a broken down jeep
We trusted a man, who got if off Rob
said he looked really sad that he sold it
but we went back to pick up a battery and the engine exploded!

then we walked across town to the hotel
where we were booked in to stay
but arrived to find [we're?] without a booking, so they turned us away
so we were left on the street
looking for a new place in which to stay
Didn't start to remind us about checking out this brave new world - but we did anyway

the first thing we wanted was to find a place
where we could buy something to eat
we were amazed walking back to find someone
had left a rubbish bag round in the street
And it was only as we got closer
that we saw it an old man who'd collapsed
as people rushed by, they kicked him aside
with their feet

We passed a small bookstore, where religious fanatics
had pushed their way in, to burn the heretics
and books had been published, [yet had anyone read them/yes well everyone read them?]
well it didn't matter - cause they knew what was in them
Well you knew anyway,
when you've got to go you never lead me astray

we passed a small boy who was covered in blood
not that there was any way we could've helped him
the boy just ran off and we came to an alleyway
I realised its dark, I could see someone lying there
thought it was ??? worries ??? grab
realised it should ??? ?????? ?? stab
so we covered the body
and we called the police without giving our names
then we left ??? ??? ??? unsolveable crime ??? ??? ????

we ran away to a diner & went to a table and just sat and stared
"what kind of a place are we in where nobody cares?"
then the waitress came over to take our orders [?? noticed we're white?]
and i asked her "you're english - did you move here by choice?"
she looked at us strange so i told her our story and she ran off and said:
"you must have got on a ferry cause you never left england"

I'm just happy there's a girl on the other side of the world from me doing exactly what I do at work.

:D

Wow, nearly seven years since my big bout of "D.I. Go Pop" transcription! If you haven't seen, on the "5 EPs" thread someone mentioned where some live bootlegs were available - I might have some luck hearing different versions with some of those songs.

Why doesn't somebody just ask Ian Crause what the lyrics are?

Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily.

If I were IC, I'd be chuffed that obsessives are still listening intently on their best headphones, 18 years later, to make out what may well have been (for him) drunken doggerel.

Haha yeah for me, this kind of transcription is merely a challenge TBH, not because I need to know what the lyrics "meeeannn". Its like working out Cocteau Twins lyrics.

I don't really want him to just show up and provide them all to us.

Yeah that'd ruin evcerything. Also, I cant imagine him doing so or caring to anyway!

STILL can't work out a good third of the lyrics in Don't You Know.

http://exeterrecordclub.com/2013/09/05/disco-inferno-technicolour-round-3-nicks-choice/

Rapidly glugged bottle of red, "The 5 EPs", excellent Friday evening.

I approve. (I would.)

And there's definitely something about hearing lyrics this way - realising you've played a track a hundred times but you're hearing something you've missed before - that is preferable to reading officially transcribed lyrics.

Was reading Mrs. Dalloway and there's a bit in Regent's Park and I had "take a walk through London/into Regent's Park or thereabouts" running through my head but I couldn't think what it was from so I googled it... oh hai

It's so wild that the band with the best sounds also had the best lyrics

I don't suppose anyones worked out anything from Footprints in Snow? I've worked out the main tune on guitar but the lyrics are still a total riddle and I want to annoy people with it at parties