The Aphid
Lyrics
And who can ever forget this one?
Six times parcan (2)
Six, four
Form bar and six
Form a boxline
The aphid
The aphid
Bend down
Scratch around the carpet for insect
Get hook clamp
Stand up
Gel frame (3)
Put insect in a jar
The aphid
Walk back two, three and four
Stop for a rest
Go back to scratch
The aphid
Hook clamp
Go back down
Scratch around the floor
Take hook clamp and put in jar
The aphid
Cover up with gel frame
Take two times four 0 0 0 one
UV gun back (4)
Go back to the floor
Scratch around
Five, six supplied
The aphid
Bend right back
Form a boxline, sidecar
The aphid
Twenty times steps back
Fresno (5)
Get hook clamp
Turn to barn door
Retrieve kill frame
(Absolutely wonderful)
[Spoken, (not MES)]:
"Take six bottles of the six back, stand up straight, then bend down and scratch the carpet for insects and, if you find any, put the insects into the jar, then check the clamp on the jar and take six steps back. Ensure the hook clamp is on the jar and that's the aphid."
Notes
'Yeah,' he laughs, 'that's right. It's what Philip K. Dick people who were on drugs would do in 1962, if that makes sense?'
'Yeah, very much. I saw that Schwarzenegger... what's it called... Total Recall. that was a travesty, that.'
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Comments (17)

- 1. | 04/04/2013

- 2. | 27/06/2014
Isn't is "Fresno"?
"than check the clamp on the jar and take six steps back"
Should be "then check the clamp..."

- 3. | 15/07/2014
I bet I took that typo over from the Lyrics Parade...I usually mind my thens and thans!

- 4. | 27/08/2014
Gel frames, hook clamps and, believe it or not, barn doors are all components of stage lighting instruments such as Fresnels.
In order to hang or adjust a light in a theater or studio, one must usually climb a ladder or use a Genie lift, so even the line "go back to the floor" may be related to the lighting theme of this song.

- 5. | 31/01/2017

- 6. | 11/02/2017
Wait...maybe you're sabotaging the lyrics! I've got my eye on you...anyway I shall listen to it and see if my ears accord with yours.

- 7. | 11/02/2017

- 8. | 15/02/2017

- 9. | 27/09/2018

- 10. | 13/10/2018

- 11. | 14/12/2019

- 12. | 07/12/2020

- 13. | 22/02/2021
12: I'll have to dig up the quote about TR in Renegade, that would be good to add to the note. I can't even remember whether I have a hard copy or a kindle copy of the book, unfortunately...if it's a hard copy, I haven't seen it in quite some time...

- 14. | 22/02/2021

- 15. | 22/02/2021
Odd that I found this same article earlier tonight looking in to the "Frightened"/Travis Bickle conneciton...

- 16. | 22/02/2021
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jan/24/final-interview-with-mark-e-smith-the-fall-people-still-cross-the-road-from-me

- 17. | 28/02/2021
kind of funny that M.E.S went from calling the first Total Recall film "a travesty", whereas in "Renegade" he's praising Verhoeven and Schwarzenegger to the skies; saying "they had the right idea, there" etc. (I'm paraphrasing)!
I've checked, and Renegade doesn't mention Total Recall whatsoever.
Or Verhoeven.
Or Schwarzenegger.
The most relevant bit is this: