The Fall - GUEST INFORMANT lyrics

Baghdad/Space Cog/Analyst *

You'll never guess who called

It was Craig Steele.

It's stool pigeons, da da da da

Guest informant, guest informant

Guest informant, guest informant

I called the colonel to the cheap hotel,

I attacked the bed

I wired the phones as well,

Colonel Boggs McRoley [waltzes Michelle.]

And I count it all, I have not counted on

Guest Informant, guest informant

I've been split on, I've been tattled on,

I had not counted on Guest Informant

And the morning Scotch, of another Sunday over

A miserable Scottish hotel,

Resembled a Genesis or Marillion, 1973 LP cover

All the hotel staff had been dismissed,

It was me, the Hoover,

And the O. A. P. asked Could he turn killer

Caught, could I kill him?

Bonded?

Or is he itinerant?

But I guess he's just a pug analyst

Guest informant, guest informant

Baghdad/Space Cog/Analyst.

I could not comprehend, I could not understand

Who had not counted on, I had not counted all

Guest informant, guest informant

I've been split by a first-rate moron

And I have been counted on, I'm not counted on

Guest informant, guest informant

Guest informant, guest informant

I've been let down, by a first-rate moron

And I could not comprehend who I'd counted on

Guest informant, guest informant

[ This line, a topic of much contention, is as according to Sean

Russell, who wrote on 14 Feb., 1996: "I wrote to Cog Sinister with a

pile of

questions, one of them being what the hell Brix was saying [in "Guest

Informant"]. Lucy [Rimmer] wrote back and said she asked Brix, who said

the phrase was "Baghdad/Space Cog/Analyst".