Gibbus Gibson
Lyrics
Talks to
The tattooed militia
He goes: "ssss."
He rolls his eyes.
Gibbus Gibson strikes again
Gibbus Gibson strikes again
Gibbus Gibson strikes again
His sputum...
Makes his appointment
For his neck prescription
For his ointment
Gibbus Gibbon strikes again
Gibbus Gibson strikes again
In the park
He buys it
And another
Rolls his eyes
I'm sorry
He covers
(Gibson)
Gibbus Gibbon Strikes again
(Gibson)
Gibbus Gibbon Strikes again
I'm busy
I've been in jail
Notes
1. MES uses the word "gibbous" in both "Van Plague" and "Hittite Man."
In an interview in Vulture from around the time of Re-Mit, he discusses "Hittite Man":
I like that you use the word gibbous in the song; it’s such a chic way of saying hunchbacked.
Lovecraft made up a lot of words, didn’t he? I might well have gotten that from him.
Despite what MES says, 1. I am unaware of any words that Lovecraft actually made up, aside from proper names, and 2. "gibbous" is not made up. The primary meaning of "gibbous" is, according to the OED, "Convex, rounded, protuberant," although it is almost always used to refer to the moon when it is midway between halfway full and full (without regard to whether it is waxing or waning). MES himself used the word in this sense in "Van Plague" ("a body's waste 'neath a gibbous moon"), which suggests that he would have known then that the word isn't made up.
Steve confirms that Lovecraft uses the word not once but twice in the story "Dagon."
Dan: "The head of Action Records - a shop and a record label which has done a lot of work with The Fall - is Gordon Gibson. There may be a connection."
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Comments (22)

- 1. | 24/08/2017

- 2. | 30/08/2017

- 3. | 28/09/2017

- 4. | 17/11/2018

- 5. | 18/05/2019
I'm not hearing this "ssss" sound at that point?

- 6. | 18/05/2019
I've been in jail"
Not hearing that either. But it does all get difficult at the end there.

- 7. | 07/06/2019

- 8. | 07/06/2019

- 9. | 07/06/2019

- 10. | 07/06/2019

- 11. | 10/06/2019

- 12. | 23/10/2019

- 13. | 09/11/2019

- 14. | 24/09/2020

- 15. | 27/09/2020

- 16. | 04/10/2020
As I point out in comment #3 on the Hittite Man page, Lovecraft gets the earliest citations for the words "meep" and "vigintillion" in the Oxford English Dictionary, but otherwise his usages like "gibbous" are just kind of obscure or archaic. Mind you, getting a couple of coinages in the OED is better than most post people manage (assuming earliest citations indicate a coinage, which may not be the case, but still).

- 17. | 16/01/2021
https://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-vin2.htm#:~:text=It's%20rather%20rare%20but%20vigintillion,its%20meaning%20has%20been%20disputed.&text=It%20was%20one%20of%20Pike's,may%20be%20continued%20without%20end.

- 18. | 16/01/2021

- 19. | 16/01/2021


- 21. | 09/07/2023
Tries make prescription for his ointment =
His sputum misses appointment
For his neck prescription
For his ointment, gibbus gibbon