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| Squeeze – Black Coffee in Bed Lyrics
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(About "From the lips without passion to the lips with a kiss there's nothing in your love that I'll ever miss": I think that's direct, that he's planning to get new kisses 'from a friend with lips full of passion'. The 'stain on the notebook from a new love tonight' is also probably pretty direct, with the last line implying it's from coffee in bed with the passionate friend. (Though Chris Difford was never shy of more explicit associations.) |
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| Squeeze – Black Coffee in Bed Lyrics
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@[roy1020841:49198] (Eight years later!!) About "rings your goodbye": in Western church bell ringing, up to 12 tuned bells are rung in different sequences for events such as matins, vespers, weddings or funerals. This "change ringing" has become the idiom "ringing the changes", to go through things in different orders to make things less monotonous, or to change one's practices due to a change in life circumstance. For me, he's associating the rings of coffee stains with an important life change, and the fact that he's thinking of her through seeing a stain rather than hearing a peal of bells may also be important. "Send not to ask for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee." |
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