Lyrics - Spectre Vs. Rector (live At Acklam Hall Version) by Fall

M.
R.
James, be born, be born
Yog
Sogoth.
Rape me
Lord.*
I've suffered a great wrong
Such hatred,
Church's song
Part
One:
Spectre v.
Rector
The
Rector lived in
Hampshire
The
Spectre was not focussed onthe evil dust in the air.
The
Rector locked his doors
An
Inspector drives through
Hampshire
Has to sleep because of the fog
And thinks of his new director.
Meanwhile the
Spectre possesses
Rector
Spectre blows him against the wall
Says " this is your face.
I've waited all season for this
You're flaccid, my hate is crisp
I'll wreck your hot body to pieces."[chorus]
Enter
Inspector
You have
Inspector versus
Rector possessed by
Spectre
He was spoken, this devil, rose and shrunken
The
Inspector is half insane.[chorus]
Onto the scene comes a
Hero
Soul possessed a thousand times
Only he could save the
Rector
Only he could save the
Inspector
This hero was a strange fellow"
Those flowers, take them away," he said."
They're only funeral decorations.
And
O this is a tragic nation
A nation of no imagination.
A stupid dead man is their ideal
They shook me and they think me unclean."
I wash all day and still it's unclean
I have saved a thousand souls
You can only save your own
It's like
I drunk myself sober
I get better as
I get older[chorus]
The hero
The
Spectre enters the
Herobut the possession is ineffectual.
So exit a spectre.
Inspector and hero walk on the scene
Is the
Spectre vanished forever?
Is
Spectre banished forever?
The
Spectre has exit the scenebut the
Inspector is half insane.
Serves him right for choosing such a crap career.
And the hero goes back into the mountains
He was an exorcist
But he was exhausted.[
M.
R.
James was a 19th
Century ghost story writer. '
Yog
Sogoth' is a character in
H.
P.
Lovecraft's horror stories.
Demon possession is a common theme in the
Fall, cf.
Lay of the
Land,
Impression of
J
Temperance,
Jaw
Bone and the
Air
Rifle,
Elves,
Bug
Day. ed.]

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