(1)
Jump that train school laughed
Jump on train that kids at school laughed
Time of defeat
Time of disease
Time of deserts (2)
I'm a big fat man pushing a little pram
I'm a big fat man pushing a little pram
Shut your trap skinny go or I'll s*** in your bran ram it up your crack
Shut your trap skinny go and s*** your bran
Go and s*** your bran
Big man big man big man push pram
Big man big man big man push pram
I'm a big fat man pushing a big pram
I'm a wide problem or a pot-bellied Elton John
I never did nothing 'cept I'm only one
All my kids are behind Asiatics, eh
Big man go push a f****** pram
Big man push pram
Hey shut your trap skinny go and s*** your cram pram
Big man push pram
Big man push pram
Jump that train at school man
Jump that train and scoot back
Notes
1. This is highly speculative, watch this s***e for improvements.
The song is, musically, identical to "c*** in my Pocket" by the Stooges. On Sub-Lingual Tablet, the song is credited to "Iggy Pop/James Williamson." However, the lyrics are completely new, and in cases where MES has written new lyrics to existing music I have included the songs here; this is no less an original song than "Breaking the Rules," to give one example among several possible candidates. Certainly, there is a lot of grey area, and MES changes the lyrics of songs he covers virtually 100% of the time, so eventually I may get around to annotating everything they've recorded...
Here is the entry from Reformation on "Stout Man":
This is a cover of the Stooges' c*** in my Pocket, released on the Rubber Legs album in 1987.
From an interview with Daniel Dylan Wray in Noisey:
Talk soon turns to a track from the album called "Stout Man" because, well it's called "Stout Man" and it sounds like James Williamson-era Stooges as Mark barks about a fat man pushing around a pram. "That came about because the group are always going on about The Stooges and I'm a lot older than them, so I'm going like you don't like the f****** Stooges. They think the Stooges is A/E/A/E and I said, you f****** do "c*** in my Pocket" [from the Stooges 1976 live album Metallic KO]. You know, they're saying about the first Stooges album and I'm like don't you f****** tell me about that, I bought it when I was 16. So, I said to them "alright then, c***, learn "c*** in my Pocket". Try and find that because I know it's not on any of their LPs but of course they did because it's on f****** ebay or something or they f****** shazammed it. So I said, learn it. It was a challenge." The group took up the challenge, almost too much for Mark's liking, "They'd been tricking me, they'd been sneaking back into the studio to keep tightening it up. I couldn't catch them out but in a car on the way down to London I was looking behind the seat and there was this CD, covered in dirt, with the original rough mix of it. I made them use that; they'd been doing about eight or nine different versions of it, it was pathetic. They must have worked more on that song more than any other on the whole album."
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2. This would of course be a pun so I could have spelled it "desserts" with as much justification.
"Pledge" also mentions a "time of disease."
Jump that train school laughed
Jump on train that kids at school laughed
Time of defeat
Time of disease
Time of deserts (2)
I'm a big fat man pushing a little pram
I'm a big fat man pushing a little pram
Shut your trap skinny go or I'll s*** in your bran ram it up your crack
Shut your trap skinny go and s*** your bran
Go and s*** your bran
Big man big man big man push pram
Big man big man big man push pram
I'm a big fat man pushing a big pram
I'm a wide problem or a pot-bellied Elton John
I never did nothing 'cept I'm only one
All my kids are behind Asiatics, eh
Big man go push a f****** pram
Big man push pram
Hey shut your trap skinny go and s*** your cram pram
Big man push pram
Big man push pram
Jump that train at school man
Jump that train and scoot back
Notes
1. This is highly speculative, watch this s***e for improvements.
The song is, musically, identical to "c*** in my Pocket" by the Stooges. On Sub-Lingual Tablet, the song is credited to "Iggy Pop/James Williamson." However, the lyrics are completely new, and in cases where MES has written new lyrics to existing music I have included the songs here; this is no less an original song than "Breaking the Rules," to give one example among several possible candidates. Certainly, there is a lot of grey area, and MES changes the lyrics of songs he covers virtually 100% of the time, so eventually I may get around to annotating everything they've recorded...
Here is the entry from Reformation on "Stout Man":
This is a cover of the Stooges' c*** in my Pocket, released on the Rubber Legs album in 1987.
From an interview with Daniel Dylan Wray in Noisey:
Talk soon turns to a track from the album called "Stout Man" because, well it's called "Stout Man" and it sounds like James Williamson-era Stooges as Mark barks about a fat man pushing around a pram. "That came about because the group are always going on about The Stooges and I'm a lot older than them, so I'm going like you don't like the f****** Stooges. They think the Stooges is A/E/A/E and I said, you f****** do "c*** in my Pocket" [from the Stooges 1976 live album Metallic KO]. You know, they're saying about the first Stooges album and I'm like don't you f****** tell me about that, I bought it when I was 16. So, I said to them "alright then, c***, learn "c*** in my Pocket". Try and find that because I know it's not on any of their LPs but of course they did because it's on f****** ebay or something or they f****** shazammed it. So I said, learn it. It was a challenge." The group took up the challenge, almost too much for Mark's liking, "They'd been tricking me, they'd been sneaking back into the studio to keep tightening it up. I couldn't catch them out but in a car on the way down to London I was looking behind the seat and there was this CD, covered in dirt, with the original rough mix of it. I made them use that; they'd been doing about eight or nine different versions of it, it was pathetic. They must have worked more on that song more than any other on the whole album."
^
2. This would of course be a pun so I could have spelled it "desserts" with as much justification.
"Pledge" also mentions a "time of disease."