Afternoon Disco
Afternoon Disco
(1)
There's official offal, manufactured unofficially
Paper and procedures from big wheels rolling
Plaque-ridden officials keep swimming
I get to--through them
You're not welcome here in the city
On a small island part of town
A bleachified played up so much that you could see the teeth falling out
Afternoon disco
Bald headed idiots
Wouldn't let 'em in a barn dance
Include the town, it is now a city
On a small portion of the town, on a corner of your city
He said: "I love you so I want to be sick"
I go home slow
Small part of town
Laughing at the rain
The Athenian building blending
The town, small, it is now a city
And all rejoice
More Information
I don't have any more information, but this section appears under every other song so I'll be damned if I'm going to omit it here.
Comments (6)
- 1. | 06/05/2019
- 2. | 18/05/2019
There's official offal, manufactured unofficially
Paper and procedures from big wheels rolling
Plaque-ridden officials keep swimming
I get [ ] through them
You're not welcome here in this city
On a small island part of town
A bleachified played up so much that you could see the teeth falling out
Afternoon disco
Bald-headed idiots
Wouldn't let 'em in a barn dance
Include the town, it is now city
On a small portion of the town, on a corner of your city
He said, "I love you so, I wanna be sick, I go home slow"
Small part of town, laughing at the rain
The Athenian buildings blending
The town, small, it is now a city, we can all rejoice
- 3. | 07/06/2019
Sounds like "I get to brew them"
Almost "in abandon" or something besides "barn dance," but not sure and that might be it
I feel like it's "including the town, it is now a city" with some of that swallowed. So tough judging between the two transcriptions.
I wonder where the "now a city" came from, is there another version Doc was working from?
"Athenian building," I hear no 's' at all
Last bit, "it" kind of swallowed," maybe "we can" kind of swallowed, or just "and all rejoice"
- 4. | 07/06/2019
Not sure about the quotation marks, just making it two lines with no quotation marks would be less of an interpretation but it also may be more confusing
That can be revisited. The rest I think is as close as can be.
- 5. | 05/05/2020
There's official offal, manufactured unofficially = There's official offal, malefaction unofficially
A bleachified played up so much = A bleachified, cleaned up so much
Include the town, it is now city = clean the town up, it is now a city
He said: "I love you so I want to be sick"
I go home slow = He said, "I love you so, I wanna be sick and go home slow"
and "Athenaeum" I think, not Athenian, could be;
http://pubs-of-manchester.blogspot.com/2010/11/athenaeum-spring-gardens.html
or
https://historicengland.org.uk/services-skills/education/educational-images/the-athenaeum-princess-street-manchester-8458
- 6. | 04/08/2020
No it’s not 'Snazzy'. It was just one of many that didn’t pass the MES test. We would finish recording an album thinking that was it then by the time we would hear the finished final version, it would be totally different.
and
that was one that didn’t make 'Re-Mit'
"Since 2000, city status has been awarded to towns or local government districts by competition on special occasions. A large number of towns have applied for the honour in recent decades including Blackpool, Colchester, Croydon, Gateshead, Ipswich, Middlesbrough, Milton Keynes, Reading and Swindon. Four successful applicants in England have become cities, as well as two in Wales; in 2000 for the Millennium Celebrations, the new cities were Brighton and Hove and Wolverhampton; in 2002 for the Queen's Golden Jubilee it was Preston and Newport, and in 2012 for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee it was Chelmsford and St Asaph."
Is the song about a real city? Probsbly not. Which of these cities has "Athenian buildings."