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Riding an Aerogramme Home

from "Nessuno piace un cervelone" (1987) by Coil

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Riding an Aerogramme Home

Goldenberg, leaning on a shovel,
Five miles out of town,
Tips his forty shilling hat back on his head.

Hanging on a wire, swinging on a thread,
A hundred and fifty feet above the ground,
Wing dipping under a sodden August sky.

Riding an aerogramme home,
Espresso, guess so?
Riding an aerogramme home,
Espresso, guess so?

Jack and Molly and Phoebe McGrath,
Mouths full of egg and cress,
Stare up from their rusty corrugated shed.

Hanging on a wire, swinging on a thread,
Swinging on a wire, hanging, on a thread,
Wing dipping under a sodden August sky.

Riding an aerogramme home,
Espresso, guess so?
Riding an aerogramme home,
Espresso, guess so?

Riding an aerogramme home…
Riding an aerogramme home…

Hanging on a wire, swinging on a thread,
Swinging on a wire, hanging, on a thread,
Wing dipping under a sodden August sky.

Riding an aerogramme home,
Espresso, guess so?
Riding an aerogramme home,
Espresso, guess so?

Side by side on the bed,
Songs of gay Paris,
Extraordinary visions of a better bourgeoisie.

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from "Nessuno piace un cervelone" (1987), released March 1, 1987

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Coil UK

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)
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