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Blue Overcoat

from Ramshackle Heart by Lach

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Lach: "I don't write too many blues, really. I felt punk freed rock and roll from that obligation. Still, I have a few amongst the thousand plus tunes I've penned. This one is obviously inspired by Robert Johnson's Love in Vain made famous by The Rolling Stones. I generally despise "tion" rhyming but I like the 'connection' to 'concoction' to 'toxin' rhyme metamorphosis which plays with the idea that in the beginning of the song you don't if the character is waiting for an airplane flight or a drug dealer but by the end it's simply about lost love. (or, dear listener, is it all three?)"

lyrics

Blue Overcoat

I missed my connection
No flight tonight
I guess I’ve got some time to think
I mix up a concoction
of love’s sweet toxin
I settle in to nursing my drink
It's a cold, lonely night in Jet City
I’m making my troubles float
I take a walk up the runway
pull on the collar of my blue overcoat

And I don't have any luggage
Just seem to have so much baggage
And I try to lose it all in vain
I don’t know where I’m going
I don’t know why I came
I can't remember where I've been
It's a cold, lonely night in Jet City
I can’t believe what she wrote
I take a walk up that runway
Pull on the collar of my blue overcoat

So cold

credits

from Ramshackle Heart, released February 14, 2013
Lach - Vocals, Guitar

Adam Parfitt - Guitar Lead

Ben Hall - Bass

Caroline Banks - Drums

Neil Halstead - Guitar

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Lach Edinburgh, UK

Lach, founder of the Antifolk movement and star of BBC Radio 4's The Lach Chronicles.

‘Beat-punk-unplugged joy!’-The Guardian UK

‘Splendid! Best of it's kind!’- Mojo

‘Incredibly bright, influential, funny, poetic.’-Suzanne Vega

‘Best punk guitarist since Johnny Ramone.’-Billy Ficca of Televis
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