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The Fall - Rough Trade Shops: 25 Years - How I Wrote ‘Elastic Man’
Rough Trade Shops: 25 Years
Disc 1
01. 30 Seconds Over Tokyo
02. Boredom
03. Fisherman
04. Nag Nag Nag
05. T.V.O.D.
06. Suspect Device
07. United
08. Ambition
09. Part‐Time Punks
10. Fairytale in the Supermarket
11. Reality Asylum
12. Transmission
13. People Say
14. Let’s Build a Car
15. Final Day
16. How I Wrote ‘Elastic Man’
17. Mr Clarinet
Disc 2
01. There Goes Concorde Again
02. The Sweetest Girl
03. Shipbuilding
04. Gums Bleed
05. Hand in Glove
06. Sugar Hiccup
07. Krieg in Den Stadten
08. Tupelo
09. Road to Nowhere
10. Death Valley ’69
11. Hard Left
12. Jungle
13. Birthday
Disc 3
01. Bone Machine
02. Touch Me I’m Sick
03. Revolution
04. Different Drum
05. Further Back and Faster
06. The Light That Will Cease to Fail
07. Her Jazz
08. Fade Into You
09. Song to the Siren
10. Pink Frost
11. Soaky in the Pooper
12. Sciew Spoc
13. Plastique (video mix)
14. GAK 4
Disc 4
01. 6am Jullandar Shere
02. Presha III
03. Everything You Do Is a Balloon
04. Flashlegs (Suite)
05. As the Rain (Adrian Sherewood On‐u Sound remix)
06. Monkey on Your Back
07. Hot Topic
08. To You
09. In the Bath
10. Fuck the Pain Away
11. My Winding Wheel
12. Talk to Me (91 version)
I'm eternally grateful
To my past influences
But they will not free me
I am not diseased
All the people ask me
How I wrote "Elastic Man"

Life should be full of strangeness
Like a rich painting
But it gets worse day by day
I'm a potential DJ
A creeping wreck
A mental wretch
Everybody asks me
How I wrote "Elastic Man"

His soul hurts though it's well filled up
The praise received is mentally sent back
Or taken apart
The Observer magazine just about sums him up
E.g. self-satisfied, smug

I'm living a fake
People say, "You are entitled to and great."
But I haven't wrote for 90 days
I'll get a good deal and I'll go away
Away from the empty brains that ask
How I wrote "Elastic Man"

His last work was "Space Mystery" in the Daily Mail,
An article in Leather Thighs
The only thing real is waking and rubbing your eyes
So I'm resigned to bed
I keep bottles and comics stuffed by its head
Fuck it, let the beard grow
I'm too tired,
I'll do it tomorrow
The fridge is sparse
But in the town
They'll stop me in the shops
Verily they'll track me down
Touch my shoulder and ignore my dumb mission
And sick red faced smile
And they will ask me
And they will ask me
How I wrote "Elastic Man"