'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.