“Being Sucked In Again” is the 7th song on Wire’s sophomore full length record, Chairs Missing.
The song deals in themes of exploitation and alienation in labour, with the helpless image of being sucked into that situation over and over again.
A dorsal fin breaks the water
Salted meat, a sudden relapse
Inference drawn from every word
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Feeling numbed from anaesthetised flesh
Avoid disgrace, ideas still fresh
The gaping mouth, a fish-wive's dream
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Bound and gagged your labour's saved
The cost minute, the rules are waived
No hand, no step, your labour's in vain
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Being Sucked in Again was written by Colin Newman.
Being Sucked in Again was produced by Mike Thorne.