[Verse 1]
It was New Year's Day a year ago
The sky was black, then blue
I'd been passing the time with kin and kith
Seeing the idea through
While ale-house pundits and tabloid tarts
Couldnae hae enough
With their AIDS scare here, and blood test there
And did the bishop have a view?

[Verse 2]
Rap and scratch was all the rage
It wasnae last year's thing
So I wrote a rap, hummed a tune
And gave Rockman a ring
In the Benio bunker for a couple of days
We got ourselves a groove
Then we cut the track, had it pressed
"From the JAMs with love to you"

[Chorus]
To cut and pinch was their ruin
Cos they found out all they were doing
Was making it easy to be clean up men
To get the people's love, oh yeah
Just making it easy to be clean up men
To steal what they did, oh yeah
[Verse 3]
If you read rock rags you'll know the rest
And have your point of view
It was "King Boy this" and "the JAMs do that"
We were hardly out the news
In our Galaxy custom V8 Ford
We were always on patrol
Whitney joined, and ABBA left
We completely lost control

[Chorus]
To rap and rhyme while others had fun
But they found out all they had done
Was made it easy being the clean-up men
That held the people's love, oh yeah
Was made it easy being the clean-up men
They stole what they did

(Indian sample)

[Verse 4]
Now we ain't the JAMs, it was a passing phase
Like love and spots and faith
Flares stroll in and hip-hop's out
In the merry-go-pop game
Well Mark E Smith, it's your turn now
To roll the dice and win
Yeah the channel's changed, now we're The Fall
The northerners win again
[Chorus]
Just making it easy to be clean-up men
To get the people's love, oh yeah
Just making it easy to be clean-up men
To steal what they did, oh yeah

Just making it easy to be clean-up men
To get the people's love, oh yeah
Just making it easy to be clean-up men
To steal what they did, oh yeah

Oh yeah! Get the people with funk!
Oh yeah, oh