Lyric discussion by heartbeats_xxx 

Cover art for Fodderstompf lyrics by Public Image Ltd.

It's a jam session. Like the "we only wanted to finish the album with the minimum amount of effort, which we are now doing very suc-cess-fully" line implies - they needed one more longish song to complete the album and give it the required running time, so they just started screwing around in the studio late one evening and came up with this.

Much to John Lydon and the rest of the bands' amusment, it became a big hit in the discos of America...