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The Fall – Bug Day (1984) | Track profile | Dork

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The Fall
The Wonderful and Frightening World Of…
Bug Day

TRACK

Bug Day

Release date: 8th October 1984

From The Wonderful and Frightening World Of…

About This Track

"Bug Day" is a track by The Fall, from the album The Wonderful and Frightening World Of…, released 8th October 1984. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

The Fall

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Lyrics

Bug Day

First off

You've got ze answer

(Misereen) all its skin

Bug day

Bug day

Midges - midges hovered over the heather

3 moths shivered

Green moths shivered

Cockroaches moldered in the ground

Tonguehorns belched fire

So, fleed at sea

Terrors hit water

Minoa said 'eek'

Minoa said 'eek'

Sea reaffirms some things

We learned some things

People behave very wrong

Create company

Green is starboard, back

Left is port, there

Old continental women

Coffee cups poised on front

Facing up to the sea is a very hard thing

Facing up to sea is a v. hard thing

Anything is better than bug day

Bug day

Bug day

Bug day

But day

(mumbles)

Bug day

Anything is better than bug day

Bug day

Bug day

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Track details

From The Wonderful and Frightening World Of…

1984

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The Wonderful and Frightening World Of…

Release year

1984

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer: Brix Smith, Craig Scanlon, Karl Burns, Mark E. Smith, Paul Hanley, Stephen Hanley
Producer: John Leckie