• Song:

    Coffee Homeground

  • Artist:

    Kate Bush

  • Album:

    Lionheart

Intro:   B5     A5     F#5     F#5


Bb5                F#5
Down in the cellar

Eb5                  F5                     F5     
You're getting into making poison.

Ab5                             C#5               F#5  
You slipped some on the side, 

                Bb5       A5
Into my glass of wine,

           F#5                A5    F5             Bb5 
And I don't want any coffee--homeground.

                      F#5
Offer me a chocolate, 

Eb5                            F5                      Bb5                       
        No thanks you spoil my diet, know your game!

Ab5          C#5      
Tell me just how come 

F#5                    Bb5            A5
They smell of bitter almonds? 

         F#5         Ab5         F5          Bb5
It's a no-no to your coffee homeground.

(Refrain)

A5                  B5
Pictures of Crippin

B5       B5 
Lipstick-smeared.

A5               B5 
Torn wallpaper. 

B5                         B5   Ab5    Bb5
Have the walls got ears here?

         Eb5                                 F5            F#5            C#5
You won't get me with your belladonna--in the coffee,

                Eb5                                  F5      F#5           C#5     B5 
And you won't get me with your arsenic--in the pot of tea,

                Eb5                        F5           F#5                 C#5    
And you won't get me in a hole to rot--with your hemlock

Ab5     Eb5 
On the rocks.

(Repeat verse and refrain)

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


(Refrain)


You won't get me with your Belladonna--in the coffee, 
And you won't get me with your arsenic--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 ???"
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