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To Nk Roachment: Yarbles
Lyrics
[Full credit for the room next door
Found the party assembled on the landing]
Everyday you have to die some
Everyday you have to cry some (2)
For the rumour
All the good times are past and gone (3)
Wipe the tears from your eyes some
[They found full credit in the bathroom
The presence was voluminous]
Everyday you have to die some
Everyday you have to cry some
All the good times are past and gone....
Notes
1. This song bookends This Nation's Saving Grace, which opens with "Mansion," an instrumental version of the same song, and closes with this one. "NK Roachment" suggests "encroachment," and "yarbles" is taken from A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. In the invented language of the book ("Nadsat"), yarbles are testicles.
Dan reminds us that the name of Brix's first band, Banda Dratsing, was Nadsat; from The RIse, The Fall, and The RIse:
"‘Banda’ and ‘Dratsing’ were two separate words in the made-up language Nadsat, taken from the book A Clockwork Orange, which we both loved. ‘Banda’ meant band, and ‘Dratsing’ meant fighting. Fighting Band."
Russell points out:
"A situation in real estate where a property owner violates the property rights of his neighbor by building something on the neighbor's land or by allowing something to hang over onto the neighbor's property. Encroachment can be a problem along property lines when a property owner is not aware of his property boundaries or intentionally chooses to violate his neighbor's boundaries. This is also known as structural encroachment. Encroachment problems are sometimes resolved with a simple conversation, but other times these problems must be taken to court. Because of this, potential homebuyers are advised to avoid properties with encroachment issues."
From Zack:
"Mansion" was the set opener for nearly every Fall gig in 2002. It's listed as "To Nk Roachment: Yarbles" on the Touch Sensitive DVD but was always written as "Mansion" on setlists, and they definitely played it more in the peppy "Mansion" style rather than the downbeat "Yarbles" style. MES would sing a few "Yarbles" lyrics, then shout "Mansion!"
2. The lyrics and melody here are taken from "Every Day I Have To Cry Some," written by Arthur Alexander and recorded by Steve Alaimo, who had a minor hit with it in 1962, and covered by a whole bevy of artists, including Dusty Springfield, Johnny Rivers, and the Bee Gees. Alexander himself finally recorded the song in 1975. The chorus: "Everyday I have to cry some/ Everyday I have to cry some/ Dry the water from my eyes some/ Everyday I have to cry."
Another source with which MES would have likely been familiar is "Home of the Brave" on Lou Reed's Legendary Hearts album, which includes the lyric "And everyday you have to die some/Cry some and die some."
The riff had appeared on "Billy the Monster" by The Deviants (1969, thanks to Petula Macabre) and .earlier on "The Light Hurts My Eyes" by The Great Scots (1966, thanks to John Coan).
Brix, in her book, says this is her version of Disney's "Haunted Mansion Ride" theme (note that this song first appears as the instrumental "Mansion"), and it is easy to hear how the riff could have been adapted from the latter, although it would still be a somewhat sizable coincidence if she had done so without hearing at least one of the songs mentioned above.
3. "All the Good Times are Past and Gone" is an American folk standard, and appears in various iterations, complete with "floating" verses (verses shared by other songs). The song was recorded by Fred and Gertude Gossett in 1930, although it surely predates this version, and the Monroe Brothers recorded it in 1936. It has become a bluegrass staple, and has seemingly been recorded by nearly all the chief purveyors of the genre, including Bill Monroe (with the Blue Grass Boys, after the bluegrass era began), Jimmy Martin, Flatt and Scruggs, Ralph Stanley, and Del McCoury.
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Full credit for the room next door
Found the party assembled on the landing
They found full credit in the bathroom
The presence was voluminous
How to drive MES round the twist:
A situation in real estate where a property owner violates the property rights of his neighbor by building something on the neighbor's land or by allowing something to hang over onto the neighbor's property. Encroachment can be a problem along property lines when a property owner is not aware of his property boundaries or intentionally chooses to violate his neighbor's boundaries.
This is also known as structural encroachment.
Encroachment problems are sometimes resolved with a simple conversation, but other times these problems must be taken to court. Because of this, potential homebuyers are advised to avoid properties with encroachment issues. Property owners wishing to make changes near their property lines may want to talk to their neighbors and/or have a land survey done to make sure the work falls within their own property's boundaries.
Surely someone from the Halifax could have pointed this out?
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"Wipe the tears from your eyes son"
He reports listening to a friend's Northern Soul compilation, and being taken aback to hear the words to this song.
He writes:
He goes on:
Indeed not.
See The Rise, The Fall, and The Rise:
See also: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:A_Clockwork_Orange
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadsat
and
https://web.archive.org/web/20170618031341/https://soomka.com/nadsat.html
From Lou Reed: A Life by Anthony DeCurtis (2017), discussing Legendary Hearts:
Lou Reed: The Defining Years by Peter Dogget (1992/2012, originally published as Growing Up In Public), says the same:
We don't know whether MES is quoting Reed quoting Alexander/Alaimo, or quoting Alexander/Alaimo directly, but it seems clear that the lines are a quote, even without a clear acknowledgement by Reed.
I mean, it's just the same word, and I wouldn't usually bother. But it's an unusual word, and there's already a Reed connection, if only by deduction.
Encroachment - I have to go for this date https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbchomeservice/basic/1967-09-14#at-15.00