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Aint we lucky to be free

from Coil '78 by Coil

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Full of mistakes, this is an off the back of a fag packet song with the lyrics written at work as usual and then recorded in Steve Giles four track front room studio later that day.

Phil Dann had a TV repair shop in Junction Road, Northampton and Steve Curtis and eventually Finbar Lillis lived in the flat above the shop. We eventually turned the back room into a rehearsal space and spent any time we were not at work playing, writing and recording.

The whole place was owned by two brothers who wore identical berets and came and went each day in their old flat bed truck, kept in their scrap yard behind the shop.

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Ain’t we lucky to be free

I don’t waste no time with slick phraseology.
I don’t have no time to take in what the papers and the TV tell me.
I find it strange that they know for sure, when we’re right and when we’re bloody wrong.

Oh life is like a little rainbow,
With a colour TV
Oh life is like a little rainbow in the sky,
With a colour TV

Sun and the Mirror say listen to us!
Pin your eyes to the tits on page 3!

Keep your job and you can get a car on the HP
Screw your wife and stay inside the law.

Oh ain’t we lucky to be free?
To watch what we feel like on the telly.
Oh ain’t we lucky to be free?
To watch what we feel like on the telly.

And when you were a kid do you remember what they said.
Keep your mouth shut, keep your nose clean
It’s the only way you’re gonna stay ahead.
But when you’re old and dumb and incontinent,
They’ll dance and laugh behind your back.

And you’ll get a bit of company
From the colour TV
And you’ll get a bit of company
Watching crossroads on the telly.

Oh ain’t we lucky to be free?
To watch what we feel like on the telly.
Oh ain’t we lucky to be free?
To watch what crossroads on the telly.

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from Coil '78, released October 21, 2012

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Genre: new wave, post punk, fast, sharp, slightly chippy, good SOH, mature, attractive, desirable, not too stupid.

Members: Phil Dann (guitar, vocals), Tony Harrison (bass, vocals), , Kev Jones (drums), Finbar Lillis (vocals) Steve Curtis (percussion, vocals) ... more

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