A couple of weeks back one of my re-posts made reference to the occasionally oblique lyrics which flowed from the pen of Billy Mackenzie. It got me thinking a bit more about Mark E. Smith who, over the years, really has had loads of us scratching our heads at many of his lyrics, including this effort from back in 1992:-
In 2001,
A life code
It pays to talk to no one
No one!
Proliferating across the earth
Also Sprach Zarathustra,
Faction Europa
Free range
2001,
Also Sprach Zarathustra
Proliferating across the earth
Pressure guilt, grudge match
12 cm flak unit,
Range 1 stroke 35
This is the spring without end
This is the summer of malcontent
This is the winter of your mind
Free Range
By 2001,
Also Sprach Zarathustra
It pays to talk to no one
No One!
Europa, faction
Proliferating across the earth
Free range
This is the spring without end
This is the winter of your mind
A life code
2001
Free range
Insect posse
Will be crushed
Moravia, trouble
Moldavia, Europa
Every second third word
Europa, it pays to talk to no one
No one!
Free range
mp3 : The Fall – Free Range
It’s an absolute belter of a tune and while the lyric might appear somewhat nonsensical it is packed with all sorts of imagery and references from history and philosophy with a message of concern about the ever-increasing rightwards shift of politics across Europe as the free market system took an ever-increasing stranglehold on society (of which one UK Prime Minister had just a few years prior stated there was no longer any such thing), events which Mark E Smith thought would inevitably lead to warfare on a scale of that such as 1914-18 and 1939-45.
The 12″ version of the single had three other belting tracks to enjoy:-
mp3 : The Fall – Return
mp3 : The Fall – Dangerous
mp3 : The Fall – Everything Hurtz
Fact….this is the only original Fall track to reach the upper echelons of the UK singles chart, hitting #40 for one week.
THE NEW VINYL VILLAIN 
Best Fall track ever, an absolute belter as you say. I prefer the single mix to the album one.
A barking genius I would say
Not a genius, not barking, but created and still creates some absolutely belting music. Possibly a megalomaniac?
He’s a contrary prick but he does make excellent music, though the pish is starting to over take the great.
Tune. Genius or barking? Neither- north Mancunian wordsmith and piss taker.
Barking or not, this is one hell of a song.