I've heard many different stories about the usage in this song.Skronk wrote:I don't come across it much in the music I like. The Fall's "Classical", uses it.There is no culture is my brag,
Your taste for bullshit reveals a lust for a home of office
THIS IS THE HOME OF THE VAIN!
THIS IS THE HOME OF THE VAIN!
Where are the obligatory niggers?
HEY THERE FUCKFACE!!
HEY THERE FUCKFACE!!
There are twelve people in the world
The rest are paste
THIS IS THE HOME OF THE VAIN!
THIS IS THE HOME OF THE VAIN!
I just left the Hotel Amnesia, I had to go there
Where it is I can't remember,
But now I can remember...now I can remember
HAFTA! HAFTA!
MESSAGE FOR YER! MESSAGE FOR YER!
Too much reliance on girl here
On girls here, behind every shell-actor
Snobbier Snobbier
Too much romantic here
I destroy romantics, actors,
Kill it!
Kill it!
KILL IT A !
KILL IT!
KILL IT A !
The funniest one is that Quincy Jones wanted to sign them and Mark E. Smith inserted the word to make sure they screwed that up.
I've also heard a more logical story that suggests that he was fed up with seeing all these white kids in London and Manchester who were copping black culture for their own. Hence the obligatory.
