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Swing like a Parrot

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

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The miner's strike faltered and petered out. Despondency kicked in.

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Swing like a parrot

I’m letting my heart swing like a parrot,
Bleeding, dying at the bottom of its cage.
I’m making a mess of squeezing juicy news,
From the middle of a middling middle age.

I gain zero from zero.
Nothing from five percent
Is five per cent of five per cent,
Less than nothing at all.

I’m letting my job squeeze out the last drop of fun, from a fun- sequestered age.

I’m letting my heart swing like a parrot,
Dying at the bottom of its cage.

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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) ... more

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