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Home Pulp Index Band members Songs Discography Films and videos Live Radio Television Press Books Links Jarvis Index Songs Discography Live Side projects Index Relaxed Muscle Help How to edit pages Sandbox Site Login Signup Recent changes Messages About PulpWiki Search	Index » Songs User rating: 8.2 out of 10 5 users have voted (Login to vote) Details Status: B-side Length: 8:13 Significant releases: They Suffocate at Night (single) (5 January 1987); Masters of the Universe (compilation album) (24 June 1994) (all releases) First played live: 1984 Recorded: 21 to 27 June 1986 (Input Studio, Sheffield) Credits Writers: Jarvis Cocker, Russell Senior, Candida Doyle and Peter Mansell Producer: Pulp and Jonathan Kirk Engineer: Alan Walker or Peter Oldfield Lyrics Tunnel... The tenth of July 1985... Don't ask stupid questions... I had nothing else... There was nothing else to do I was bored... I had... I had not... ...lying in a heap in a pile of excrement in a... Fifteen weeks since the light has gone Fifteen weeks with the same shirt on A thousand bodies stink and sweat Somebody's trying to roll a cigarette You are the clean mister Clean mister Clean mister Clean missed her I've seen her lying around for weeks Action Don't speak Clean mister Fifteen weeks with the same shirt on Clean mister Clean mister Clean missed her Just relax and enjoy it; it's nothing really. That's it (?). Let's get you out of those wet clothes, c'mon, just lift yourself up, help me get those dreadful trousers off. You'll feel so much better afterwards. Just close your eyes and let it ooze all over you. Trickling down your back warm and sticky. Isn't that nice? No, don't speak, just let yourself go, and you'll sink, let's give you a (?). Sinking down deeper and deeper and deeper. At 3 o'clock that the morning I awoke in an unfamiliar room... in my hands like sodden paper... out with a thick, glutinous pale green liquid... the sunlight through net curtains... ...going 600 miles an hour into brilliant white light... There's a brass band playing somewhere... And now I'm (?)... Roll over onto your back and wait for the talcum. But what's that smell? Pull back the light crisp linen sheets to find the shirt they (?) two hours before, the bed tips sideways. No no no no no no no...! ..the flames! No! The flames! Let me out! Let me out! Let me out! Let me out! Let me out! Let me out! Let me out! Let me out! Let me out! Let me! Out! (Distorted speech) ...I would lie down and see green fields and see the sky blue, and the sky blue above me. And to be clean again. But I know I'll never ever be clean again. Never be clean again Sleeve notes Tunnel:- The True Story I first entered the tunnel on the tenth of July 1985. It was a sunny day, just a few rolled-out wispy clouds and I was wearing my best suit. I saw the entrance and went in - simple as that. I had nothing else to do: I was bored. That was fifteen weeks ago and guess what? - I'm lost, it's so bleeding dark in here, that's the problem. But I'm not alone - oh no, there must be hundreds, perhaps thousands, down here with me. We all mill around and bump into each other in the darkness. And the stench of a thousand unwashed bodies hangs in a thick fog. That's city dirt, Fanny. I walk for at least eight hours every day but I've still never seen even the slightest glimmer of light that would tell me that I was nearing the end of the tunnel. Most of the others are content to just walk on the spot and hum to themselves, but I still make the effort. Hoping that one morning I will wake up in the sun with the sky blue above me. And to be clean again. But I know I'll never be clean again. Alternative versions Tunnel (cut-up version) Length: 4.30 Releases: They Suffocate at Night (single) (5 January 1987) Links Last.fm Related pages Song list

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Status: B-side
Length: 8:13
Significant releases: They Suffocate at Night (single) (5 January 1987); Masters of the Universe (compilation album) (24 June 1994) (all releases)
First played live: 1984
Recorded: 21 to 27 June 1986 (Input Studio, Sheffield)

Writers: Jarvis Cocker, Russell Senior, Candida Doyle and Peter Mansell
Producer: Pulp and Jonathan Kirk
Engineer: Alan Walker or Peter Oldfield

Tunnel...
The tenth of July 1985...
Don't ask stupid questions...
I had nothing else...

There was nothing else to do I was bored...
I had... I had not...
...lying in a heap in a pile of excrement in a...

Fifteen weeks since the light has gone
Fifteen weeks with the same shirt on
A thousand bodies stink and sweat
Somebody's trying to roll a cigarette

You are the clean mister
Clean mister
Clean mister
Clean missed her
I've seen her lying around for weeks

Action
Don't speak

Clean mister
Fifteen weeks with the same shirt on
Clean mister
Clean mister
Clean missed her

Just relax and enjoy it; it's nothing really. That's it (?). Let's get you out of those wet clothes, c'mon, just lift yourself up, help me get those dreadful trousers off. You'll feel so much better afterwards. Just close your eyes and let it ooze all over you. Trickling down your back warm and sticky. Isn't that nice? No, don't speak, just let yourself go, and you'll sink, let's give you a (?). Sinking down deeper and deeper and deeper.

At 3 o'clock that the morning I awoke in an unfamiliar room... in my hands like sodden paper... out with a thick, glutinous pale green liquid... the sunlight through net curtains...

...going 600 miles an hour into brilliant white light... There's a brass band playing somewhere... And now I'm (?)... Roll over onto your back and wait for the talcum. But what's that smell? Pull back the light crisp linen sheets to find the shirt they (?) two hours before, the bed tips sideways. No no no no no no no...!
..the flames! No! The flames! Let me out! Let me out! Let me out! Let me out! Let me out! Let me out! Let me out! Let me out! Let me out! Let me! Out!

(Distorted speech)

...I would lie down and see green fields and see the sky blue, and the sky blue above me. And to be clean again. But I know I'll never ever be clean again.

Never be clean again

Tunnel:- The True Story
I first entered the tunnel on the tenth of July 1985. It was a sunny day, just a few rolled-out wispy clouds and I was wearing my best suit. I saw the entrance and went in - simple as that. I had nothing else to do: I was bored.
That was fifteen weeks ago and guess what? - I'm lost, it's so bleeding dark in here, that's the problem. But I'm not alone - oh no, there must be hundreds, perhaps thousands, down here with me. We all mill around and bump into each other in the darkness. And the stench of a thousand unwashed bodies hangs in a thick fog. That's city dirt, Fanny.
I walk for at least eight hours every day but I've still never seen even the slightest glimmer of light that would tell me that I was nearing the end of the tunnel. Most of the others are content to just walk on the spot and hum to themselves, but I still make the effort. Hoping that one morning I will wake up in the sun with the sky blue above me. And to be clean again.
But I know I'll never be clean again.

Length: 4.30
Releases: They Suffocate at Night (single) (5 January 1987)

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