Printhead

By The Fall

On Dragnet

Released on October 26, 1979

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[Intro]

Hey badges tinkle, T-shirts mingle

Hey you, horror face!


[Verse 1]

I'm a printhead

I go to pieces

I'm a printhead

I go to pieces, yeah

End of catch line

End of hook line


[Verse 2]

We had a two page

It's what we needed

I'm an ill head

My face in creases

How my head increases

Real problems, biz


[Verse 3]

So how is it, yeah

That I've reached here?

I thought this game

Would do me good

How could printed vinyl bring you out to here?


[Verse 4]

We laughed with them

When it was take the piss time

I'm no egghead

But I'm an ex-worker man

WC hero friend, and not water closet


[Verse 5]

There's a barrier

Between writer and singer

Uh huh, he's a good man

Although a lazy one

The singer is a neurotic drinker

The band little more than a big crashing beat

Instruments collide and we all get drunk


[Verse 6]

The last two lines

Were a quote, yeah

When we read them

We went to pieces

We went to pieces, yeah

We went to pieces, yeah

Regularly

One day a week


[Verse 7]

I'm a printhead, yeah

Twenty pence a week

Dirty fingers


[Refrain]

Printhead

Printhead

Printhead


[Outro]

With print, you substitute an ear for an extra useless eye