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Coil – Metal in the Head (1987) | Track profile | Dork

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Gold Is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders)
Metal in the Head

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Metal in the Head

Release date: 1987

From Gold Is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders)

About This Track

"Metal in the Head" is a track by Coil, from the album Gold Is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders), released 1987. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Coil

Coil

Lyrics

Metal in the Head

- And I've spent five hundred quid tonight

- He's a good lad, he is

- How much?

- Here you are, you ugly

- What do I do with that?

- Yeah?

- Yeah

- Do you know, the daft thing is I never had a son. Got two daughters, but I never had a son

- He's a good lad, he is. Never been a better lad in — in your life

The north won't be the s—

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From Gold Is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders)

1987

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Album

Gold Is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders)

Release year

1987

—Thump
—For Us They Will
—Last Rites of Spring
—Cardinal Points
—Soundtap
—Boy In A Suitcase
—Aqua Regalia
—Either His, or Yours
—Metal in the Head
—Paradisiac
—Red Slur
—Golden Hole
—...of Free Enterprise
—Chickenskin
—The First Five Minutes After Violent Death
—The Broken Wheel

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