Coin Laundry Lyrics
Sitting on the top of the world
In a coin laundry
Well I could have been royalty
Sitting in the palace like a queen
Do you have a dollar for me?
Have you got a house on a hill
And a bed for three?
Do you have a story for me?
Do you know the one where
We'll all live happily
Do you, do you
Sitting on the edge
Throwing these stones to the long lost friends
I could have been a common theif
Sitting in the dirt quite happily
Do you have a dollar for me?
Maybe just an hour or two
And a pot of tea
Have you got a memory for me?
Tell me about the days when
You were seventeen
Do you, do you
Do you have a dollar for me?
Have you got a little old house
And a lemon tree?
Do you have a reason for me?
Can I be the girl that you met in a coin laundry?
Can I be the girl that you met
Can I be the girl that you met in the coin laundry?
Can I be the girl that you met
Can I be the girl that you met in the coin laundry?
I don't understand what the dollar thing is for? Wait, COIN laundry? its just all random. Yeh i know i might sound stupid but i dont get it? Besides that LOVE LISA! Such a mad voice!!
she wrote this song when she was in a coin laundry, she saw a really nice guy and would pretend she didnt have a dollar just so she could talk to him. thats where the 'do you have a dollar' comes from. then everything else is all the other questions she wants to ask him. I got this info from her website in one of her blogs http://www.lisamitchell.com.au/node/58 thats the link.
she wrote this song when she was in a coin laundry, she saw a really nice guy and would pretend she didnt have a dollar just so she could talk to him. thats where the 'do you have a dollar' comes from. then everything else is all the other questions she wants to ask him. I got this info from her website in one of her blogs http://www.lisamitchell.com.au/node/58 thats the link.
sorry it didnt actually happen to her.. she was thinking about if it could happen and made the story up.
sorry it didnt actually happen to her.. she was thinking about if it could happen and made the story up.
Also, in the video he drops an Australian (Lisa Mitchell is Australian,) "dollar coin."
Also, in the video he drops an Australian (Lisa Mitchell is Australian,) "dollar coin."
I thought it was trying to get herself noticed by this guy that she saw in the coin laundry, but he won't pay attention to her and now she's desperate because he's leaving the place and that's why shes desperate in those last few lines.
i adore this song. it is so lovely! :)
quite understandable. girl meets boy in a coin laundry..
heh first comment!
Except that the girl doesn't meet the boy in the coin laundry. :( It's really sad.
Except that the girl doesn't meet the boy in the coin laundry. :( It's really sad.
A bed for three! Hahaha.. isn't Lisa such a sweet secret nymphomaniac..
I always thought she meant 'a bed for three' as in her, him and their child. Your's is a rather amusing way of looking at it though. Haha. I had a giggle.
I always thought she meant 'a bed for three' as in her, him and their child. Your's is a rather amusing way of looking at it though. Haha. I had a giggle.
I love the line:
'have you got a little old house and a lemon tree?'
as though it was the most common thing you could ask. HA!
and her look of utter desperation in the video 'Can I be the girl that you met in the coin laundry?'
such a beautiful song, such a beautiful voice.
she really did an excellent job of breaking out of the mould idol tried to impress upon her, didn't she?
i love the music video, too. and the subtle, quiet pleading in her voice when she sings, "can i be the girl that you met in the coin laundry?"
My favorite line is: "Have you got a little old house and a lemon tree?" I think this might be one of the sweetest songs I've ever had the pleasure of hearing. One of my favrites of hers.
I take this song to be about a sugar daddy/baby relationship where the woman isnt really asking for much. Just something simple to hold her off and in return she is asking questions keeping him engaged. The tie isnt traditional in the sense that she isn't extremely materialistic which brings the idea of the coin laundry. She is just looking for someone simple when she could have extravagant wealth.
Pretty cool.
Woot alright thumbs up!