Kate Bush

  Coffee Homeground


    Down in the cellar
    You're getting into making poison.
    You slipped some on the side,
    Into my glass of wine,
    And I don't want any coffee--homeground.

    Offer me a chocolate,
    No thank you, spoil my diet, know your game!
    But tell me just how come
    They smell of bitter almonds?
    It's a no-no to your coffee homeground.

        Pictures of Crippin
        Lipstick-smeared.
        Torn wallpaper.
        Have the walls got ears here?

        Well, you won't get me with your Belladonna--in the coffee,
        And you won't get me with your aresenic--in the pot of tea,
        And you won't get me in a hole to rot--with your hemlock
        On the rocks.

    Where are the plumbers
    Who went a-missing here on Monday?
    There was a tall man
    With his companion,
    And I bet you gave them coffee--homeground.

    Maybe you're lonely,
    And only want a little company,
    But keep your recipes
    For the rats to eat,
    And may they rest in peace with coffee
    homeground.

        Well, you won't get me with your Belladonna--in the coffee,
        And you won't get me with your aresenic--in the pot of tea,
        And you won't put me in a six-foot plot--with your hemlock
        On the rocks.

        You won't get me with your Belladonna--in the coffee,
        And you won't get me with your aresenic--in the pot of tea,
        And you won't get me in a hole to rot--with your hemlock
        On the rocks.

        With your hemlock on the rocks.
            "Noch ein Glas, mein Liebchen?"*
        With your hemlock on the rocks.
            "Es schmeckt wunderbahr!"*
        With your hemlock on the rocks.
            "Und "*

<*--"Noch ein Glas, mein Liebchen? Es schmeckt wunderbahr!
Und..." German words, spoken by Kate at the end of the
recording. In English: "Another glass, my dear? It tastes
wonderful! And..." I cannot make out the last two words.>


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