I'd forgotten about this one.

[zotz]

Something I haven't dug out of the record collection in a while. I've really liked this song right since it came out, partly because by any sane standard it's bloody awful - but then The Fall have always had a knack of doing great songs that are terrible by conventional standards. This is, to be honest, a very minor Fall work, but it's always appealed to me for very obvious reasons.

The Fall - Edinburgh Man (from the LP Shift-work)

It's springtime but I still miss your streets at dawn
And in the morning walking your bridges home
As I sit and stare at all of England's souls
I tell you something
I wish I was in Edinburgh

I don't mind being by myself
Don't wanta be anywhere else
Just wanna be in Edinburgh
How I wish I was in Edinburgh

You can leave me on the shelf
I'm an Edinburgh man myself
I will always give you help

It's summertime but I still miss your skies so clear
Sitting and staring on a beach somewhere
I'll tell you something
I wish I was in Edinburgh

Don't give a toss about private wealth
And history just repeats itself
Keep me away from the Festival
And just give me a warm quarter-gill

They say you project yourself
But I'm an Edinburgh man myself

It's wintertime and I still see the cobble stones
Clacking over your streets at dawn
I was really poor since I left Edinburgh

I'm OK just by myself
Cause our miserable kings won't protect us from ourselves
How I wish I was in Edinburgh
How I wish I was in Edinburgh

I was always in good health
I'm an Edinburgh man myself
I will always give you help
I'm an Edinburgh man myself



Addendum:
Actually, "The War Against Intelligence" is pretty fantastic too.