Lyrics to
Coffee Homeground

This version of Coffee Homeground was released by Kate Bush in 1978.

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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 ??”

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Coffee Homeground, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1978 song by Kate Bush. Some of the lyrics to Coffee Homeground have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Kate Bush and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Coffee Homeground if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Coffee Homeground" means the words set to the music of Coffee Homeground, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Kate Bush. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Coffee Homeground and the lyrics to Coffee Homeground are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Kate Bush who came here looking just for the lyrics to Coffee Homeground, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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