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Coathook

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Coathook Lyrics

Let me be your coat hook
Let me be your pearl grey fedora
Let me be your crushed pill
On the bureau, on the window sill

Let me be your coathook
You can carry my baby
Out on the turnpike
I'll show you how to mend a barbed wire fence

Migrant Entrance

Let me be your breadline
Let me be your picket fence
Let me be your hair pin
Little buttercup underneath your chin

Let me be your coathook
You can carry my baby
Out on the turnpike
I'll show you how to mend a barbed wire fence

Migrant Entrance

You beg, you beg me to
Drag you across the carpet
Keep talking
Now shut up

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ruairiliam On Feb 26, 2010

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ruairiliam

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2010-02-26 18:37:19

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Cover art for Coathook lyrics by Fionn Regan

by pizzatarian

16y ago

They ??? bit should be 'migrant entrance' according to the album sleeve

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Cover art for Coathook lyrics by Fionn Regan

by ruairiliam

16y ago

Thanks, I'll update, would never have got that!

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Cover art for Coathook lyrics by Fionn Regan

by aamericanos

16y ago

The start of the second verse sounds more like "Let me be your breadline"?

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