The Nwra Lyrics - Fall

When it happened he walked through all the estates, from 

Manchester right to, er, Newcastle. In Darlington, helped an old 

man on his own chase some kids who fucking threw bricks through 

his flat window. He had a way with people like that. [Because of 

this] we moved on. 

'Junior Choice' played one morning. The song was 'English 

Scheme.' Mine. They'd changed it with a grand piano and turned 

it into a love song. How they did it I don't know. DJs have 

worsened since the rising. Collaborating on nothing in praise of 

the track with words they can hardly pronounce in telephone 

voices. 

I was mad, and laughed at the same time. The West German 

government have brought over huge yellow trains on Teeside docks. 

In Edinburgh. I stayed on my own for a few days, wandering about 

in the, er, pissing rain, before the Queen Mother hit town. 

I'm Joe Totale 

The yet unborn son 

The North will rise again 

The North will rise again 

Not in 10,000 years 

Too many people cower to criminals 

And government crap 

The North will rise again X4 

Look where you are 

Look where you are 

The future of my father 

Shift! 

Tony was a business friend 

Of RT, 17 

And was an opportunist man 

Come, come hear my story 

How we set out to corrupt and destroy 

This future Rising 

The business friend came round today 

With teeth clenched, he grabbed my neck 

I threw him to the ground 

His blue shirt stained red 

The north will rise again. 

I said you are mistaken, friend 

I kicked him out of the home 

Too many people cower to criminals 

And that government pap 

When all it takes is hard slap 

Got out the window, a burglar wrote 

There were men with beads on sticks 

The fall had made them sick 

A man with butterflies on his face 

His brother threw acid in his face 

His tatoos were screwed 

The streets of Soho did reverberate 

With drunken Highland men 

Revenge for Culloden dead 

The North had rose again 

But it would turn out wrong 

The North will rise again 

So R. Totale dwells underground 

Will wait from cyclic grind 

With ostrich head-dress 

A face a mess, covered in feathers 

Orange-red with blue-black lines 

That draped down to his chest 

They are a tentacle mess 

And light blue pant-heads 

TV showed sham Chip and Dale 

No concept of what they mean 

The Arndale had been razed 

Shop staff knocked off their ladders 

Security guards up from the escalators 

And now darkness descends 

Tony seize the control 

He built his base in Edinburgh 

He had on his hotel wall 

A hooded friar on a tractor 

He took a bluey and called Totale 

Who said, "the North has rose again" 

But it will turn out wrong 

When I was in cavalry 

I vowed to defend 

All our English clergy 

Though they have gone wrong 

And the fall has begun 

This has gotten out of hand 

I will go for a foreign base 

But he told me off life down at home 

Said Totale, go back to bed 

The North has rose again today 

And you can't stop your age 

And you can't stop your age