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Puffin' On A Coffin' Nail

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Puffin' On A Coffin' Nail

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There's a heart in a girl on a ship on a sea

And I know that girl is thinking of me

There's a heart in a girl and I know that it beats like a drum

But every time that I think of the girl my heart gets heavy and I'm stuck in a whirlwind

I turn to my shadow and my heart starts to beat like a drum

Said oh you might upon a steeple set

Broken crumbling battlements

Puffin on a coffin nail

With a wry little smile that she keeps up her shell

And she hides that forest from the house that hide from the sun

Puffin on a coffin nail

With a friend of a friend and an arse like a whale

Well there's a girl with a friend who was stuck in a disco rut

Slut

Oh give me the strength just to give fate a try

Though my hands get sweaty and my mouth goes dry

Just to think every time that my plans go awry, you see

Just give fate a passage but she was just a bore

And the letters are crazy and a bit cocksure

And you can't find your mind and my heart on a coffin and agree

Come with outcry and panting breast

And break upon the slippery wreck

Puffin on a coffin nail

With a friend of a friend with an arse like a whale

But this girl is a friend of a friend you see

Stuck in a disco rut

Puffin on a coffin nail

Yes she gives you a chance and you give me the mail

And she works for the mail but she's out on bail

Well you scream

So I'm sad to say that my heart shattered this way

I knew she'd be no better

Yes I knew if I'd have met her

That I'd soon enough forget her

Now face your hero's just pretend

And I've had a word with him

(random talk)

Puffin on a coffin nail

Yes she's talking like Elvis cos she's just done a rail

But her lover's on bail with a dealer like a snail on speed

Puffin on a coffin nail

Yes I gave her a something just to tell me a tale

And she told me a tale but she told me a tale

About you

So this is the end of the road

And this is the path that you chose

Well it's no skin off my nose

A lover with a brick has had the rose

End of the road

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