The Acute

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One one one one one one one one one.

Have I got "I need advice" written on my forehead?
Have I got "I need advice...?"

Do I look like I have on my forehead,
Do I look like I have on my face,
Complain here and rip me off?
My advice to you is this
(Have I got "I need advice written on my forehead?")
Keep your pen with a cap,
(Have I got "I need advice...")
Don't press your finger in the wrong socket.
(written on my forehead?")

And to sum up,
The motive of this film is:
Keep your cap on your pen
And your dick in your pants. (2)

Do I look like
I have...
Written on my forehead
On my forehead
On my forehead

Acute
Acute

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1. Could the title of this be a humorous echo of The Chronic, the blockbuster 1992 Dr. Dre album that introduced Snoop Doggy Dogg to an unsuspecting world? In "U.S. 80s-90s," MES refers to himself as "the big shot original rapper"...See note 2 below, however.

Dan:

Jim Watts, writing as sdOK on the Fall Online Forum, commented that the original lyrics included references to Frank Skinner:
 

I remember The Acute having a few lines about Mr Skinner in it in its original dictaphone format we were given to put over the music.

I have a desk mix of that version somewhere.

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2. All this seems to be the same sort of "advice" as "If you go to Mexico, don't drink the water" and "Don't play with matches."

DJ Ash on the Fall Online Forum connects the lyrics with the the taxonomy in Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (and, perhaps more relevantly in this case, the film of the same name--note "The motive of this film" above) in which patients are divided into "chronics" and "acutes." As Ash points out, McMurphy, an "acute," gets into a lot of trouble--indeed, winds up getting lobotomized--because of his failure to "keep [his] dick in [his] pants."

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The Acute: Fall Tracks A-Z tracks down other Fall dick references. 

The Story of the Fall: 2001

The Acute on the Fall Online Forum