Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Loss Adjuster, artist - Jarvis Cocker. Album song Jarvis, in the genre Альтернатива
Date of issue: 26.11.2020
Record label: Rough Trade
Song language: English
The Loss Adjuster |
«Sitting in the World’s End with some indie friends |
A newsflash on the TV says the world’s about to end |
Can’t catch all the details 'cos the volume’s turned down |
This is the last night on Earth, as spent in Camden Town.» |
There’s no way to escape |
This is it. |
Tomorrow we will all be gone |
So check what time the band are on |
Let’s go outside. |
«Yeah and this was the night I was going to balance the books |
The night I turned a minus into a plus. |
The night my adjustment became complete |
I could start again with a clean sheet. |
Now I can’t get through 'cos all the networks are down |
And fires are starting all over town. |
And you’re probably being gang-banged by tattooed locals — |
Damn those Yokels! |
Damn those Yokels! |
And a girl cries as she stumbles by, |
'No, the world can’t end now — it’s got to wait |
It can’t end when I haven’t got a boyfriend |
And I’m half a stone overweight.' |
And the guys from Arlington House are marauding the streets |
And convent girls are screwing every man that they meet |
And the album you just bought will never get heard |
Oh yeah — complete social breakdown has occurred. |
And you find yourself thinking about Egyptian Sue |
And the evil things that she used to do |
And the night you almost did it after the wedding reception |
But you didn’t have any contraception |
And anyway, you couldn’t get an erection. |
Now what the hell made you think of her? |
Could it be that old saying coming true? |
That 'nothing could survive a nuclear holocaust |
Except cockroaches, and Egyptian Sue.' |
But even Sue won’t make it through |
No, even Sue won’t make it through this time. |
It was around this time that the levels of hysteria around the Kentish Town |
Road area caused a warping of the Space / Time Continuum and I found myself |
face to face with a version of myself from fifteen years earlier, |
when I’d lived in the area. |
'Greetings Indie Legend,' said I. 'Fuck off Sad |
Bell-End, ' came the reply. |
I wanted to warn him about the rough times ahead but for some reason he had his |
coat pulled over his head and wouldn’t listen. |
I left him trying to extricate a |
punctured Spacehopper from under some rubble in a skip. |
'He'll find out soon enough, ' I thought. |
And then suddenly I realised that I |
could no longer breath." |
Here we go |
Move along |
One last time |
The loss adjuster lost his mind |
Too many claims, too little time |
To file them. |
«And suddenly it was a Tuesday afternoon |
And I could see it all crystal-clear |
Like a giant chandelier, turning slowly in the sideways sunlight |
Hanging by a thread with only seconds to last |
And each time you rang it was like an Indian call-centre on the line |
'Yes, I’m doing fine — |
Just like the last time |
And the last time |
Make this the last time.'» |
We’ll all be gone by Monday morning |
This is it, your final warning |
You never did see Dog Day Afternoon. |
Here today, but gone tomorrow |
Now you could hang your head in sorrow |
Or you could do it |
But you’d better do it soon. |
Now we’ll all be gone by Monday morning |
This is it, your final warning |
You never did see Dog Day Afternoon. |
Here today, but gone tomorrow |
You could hang your head in sorrow |
You could do it |
But you’d better do it soon. |
We’ll all be gone by Monday morning |
This is it, your final warning |
You never did see Dog Day Afternoon. |
Here today, but gone tomorrow |
Now you could hang your head in sorrow |
You could do it |
But you’d better do it soon. |