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Underworld

Stagger

Release date: 11th March 1996

From Second Toughest in the Infants
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About This Track

'Stagger' by Underworld is a 1996 song from the album 'Second Toughest in the Infants'. The lyrics paint a restless loop of street-level detail, with images of colour, clothing, and wrapped objects, moving through recognisable London locations such as Bethnal Green. The repeated instruction to “straighten” adds a sense of compulsive self-correction, even as the scene refuses to settle. It is the kind of lyric that feels like a glance caught mid-stride, then immediately resumed, as the speaker returns to the same surfaces and sights again.

"Stagger" is a track by Underworld, from the album Second Toughest in the Infants, released 11th March 1996. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 2 articles about Underworld.

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Underworld

Underworld

Lyrics

Stagger

[Verse 1]

Orange, orange, orange in the mouth again, straighten

Wearing stonewashed denim again, straighten

Carrying something wrapped in plastic, straighten

Curled on the blue velveteen again, straighten, straighten

Sightless yellow highrise, Bethnal Green, straighten

Corner tubeless, dark and wet, straighten

Ten tons slowing in again, straighten

With its glass eyes, a blue Formica halo

Stainless steel between the fingers, straighten

Pissed and leading ponytail, licking Colonel Sanders' fingers

[Instrumental Break]

[Refrain]

The naming of killer boy

[Verse 2]

Everything's going West, nothing's going East, straighten

There's no need to be so uptight, straighten

Make up for all their messes, I could listen to you all day, what a laugh

Cut me, I bleed like you, haha

[Refrain]

The naming of killer boy

[Instrumental Break]

[Bridge]

Cover your teeth, I love you

Don't bite me yet, I believe in you

I found you shopping in Europa on Wardour Street

Not phoning packwidth

[Verse 3]

Guilty as sin, straighten

Scratches on paper, pissed in a tubehole, straighten

Smelling of deepfried beans and whispering your name

Tubehole wind in my face, thunderin' gentle distant

Reactor, reactor, do you mind? Straighten

This is a random feature, random feature

This is a random feature

[Refrain]

Naming of killer boy

[Outro]

Wired up

[Instrumental Outro]

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From Second Toughest in the Infants

1996
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Second Toughest in the Infants
Second Toughest in the Infants
Underworld
Release year
1996
  1. —Pearl's Girl
  2. —Nuxx (From A2254 / Live At Liquid Room 2, Tokyo / 1994 / Remastered)
  3. —Puppies
  4. —Air Towel
  5. —Stagger
  6. —Confusion the Waitress
  7. —Blueski
  8. —Banstyle / Sappy's Curry
  9. —Juanita: Kiteless: To Dream of Love
  10. —Oich Oich
  11. —Rowla
  12. —Born Slippy (Short)

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