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

rate me

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 on

the 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 Hero

but 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 scene

but 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.]