Jam Song

[Could do with a fucking chorus, that's the main fucking thing, innit?...] (1)

It dim-a-nim sim choo-boy

[Eleni: Those mou kati / those mou ena komati]  (2)

It started one afternoon
When the LP came on
It erased the brain of the man we held dear
Now we have to make sure
The estate and sound
And we have to make sure
The estate and sound

It started
It started one afternoon
It started too soon
It erased the brain of the man we all held dear
Now we have to make sure
It is safe and sound today 

And the dormant channel of review
Would be a corpse again
We have to ensure
The dormant channel of review

A permanent irritant
Permanent gasp for breath in town
Change from way to chest to...
...gasp for breath in with a tenth
Of whatever 
ha ha Wray composite (3)
I make truck with porcelain
I make truck with porcelain (4)

That done timmy song (5)

1. MES, in Vulture, an online satrap of New York Magazine:

One of the producers — I won’t name him — but he said, "What we need is verse-chorus-verse-chorus." I said, "That’s it, go home."

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2. "Gimme something/Gimme a piece." Both the transcription and the translation are by Simon from the comment section. 

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3. Maybe this is a reference to Link Wray; on the other hand, maybe it's "ray." And cathal below points out what, somehow, didn't occur to me: that it could refer back to "Sir William Wray," or to Sir William Wray, for that matter. The context is not very helpful in this regard, and there is no particular reason, for that matter, to think that these lyrics are intended to be meaningful.

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4. I don't know what this means; it suggests trading in porcelain, as "truck" is business or traffic. For vague reasons, this line reminds me of "I dont make rice with screwdrivers/Or fried chicken with a trowel" from "Mexico Wax Solvent."

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5. Tim Presley, the former Fall guitarist, co-wrote and appears on some of the songs on Re-Mit, but not, apparently, this one. The lyric here may be something more grammatical than I have it above, but that's the best I can make it out.

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