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Cold War Kids — Coffee Spoon
Album: Behave Yourself (EP)
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6.2

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Total ratings: 109









Released: 2010
Length: 3:53
Plays (last 30 days): 0
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I can argue with the mime
I can argue with the mime
he is reading me the riot act
every line

every lawyer in his prime
every lawyer in his prime
gets nostalgic for the bar's
naivete to crime

ascetics wring their hands
this decadent misuse
inside my china room
you are my coffee spoon

my indulgence is a joke
and while everybody laughs
I'm clipping coupons
and saving my breath

I was celebrating Lent
with a candle in a tent
when you came and snatched me up
out of retirement

now I'm buying finer clothes
in department store windows
throwing credit cards down
never raise my voice
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 preacher wrote:
A weak Kings of Leon imitation?
 

That's getting REALLY weak.
Posted 13 years ago by justlistening    [ Reply ]
{#Music}
Posted 13 years ago by jagdriver    [ Reply ]
A weak Kings of Leon imitation?
Posted 13 years ago by preacher    [ Reply ]
 MojoJojo wrote:
I like this more and more with each listen. 
 
First listen. started as an 8 and, by the end of the song it's a 10 and already purchased thanks to the RP links.

Posted 13 years ago by scrubbrush    [ Reply ]
Nice transition from ELO Bill!
Posted 13 years ago by jlind    [ Reply ]
Not bad! Nice set again!
Posted 13 years ago by helgigermany    [ Reply ]
I like this more and more with each listen. 
Posted 13 years ago by MojoJojo    [ Reply ]

My kids got me into these guys.

{#Yell}  We have much to learn from our children.


Posted 14 years ago by fingerpin    [ Reply ]
Yay what a great way to sample this new album.  Loved their first album (obsession-level) and never got the 2nd, but this little EP sounds good, for the 3 songs RP has played off it so far...
Posted 14 years ago by lysisphere    [ Reply ]
strong My Morning Jacket vibe.  anyone else?
Posted 14 years ago by tallboy1968    [ Reply ]
This song just snuck up on me.  Ignored it the first time, tapped my toe the second.  Now I turn up my radio.   There's a lot about these  Cold War Kids that isn't exactly my bag...but hey!  How'd this song get in my bag?!  I'm not inclined to take it out.
 
Posted 14 years ago by tpa29970    [ Reply ]
His voice on this track is much less annoying than usual.
Posted 14 years ago by rp1125    [ Reply ]
as much as i like their 'hang me out to dry' single, which is a great song, overall these guys really aren't very good. the music goes nowhere and the lyrics just rant on about irrelevant places and things...
Posted 14 years ago by floydoftherocks    [ Reply ]
Cool Kids !!
Posted 14 years ago by HazzeSwede    [ Reply ]
Can't buy MP3's from this EP on Amazon! {#Frustrated}
Posted 14 years ago by Steve    [ Reply ]
 Steve wrote:
Mmmm, nice.   This is drop-what-you're-doing-and-turn-it-up good.
 
Agreed! Did just that, now.

Posted 14 years ago by LAinSF    [ Reply ]
Mmmm, nice.   This is drop-what-you're-doing-and-turn-it-up good.
Posted 14 years ago by Steve    [ Reply ]
There is a line from a T.S. Elliot poem: "I have measured out my life in coffee spoons."
(The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock).  Great poem, great line.  Good song.
Posted 14 years ago by haretic    [ Reply ]
{#Eek}
Posted 14 years ago by Coaxial    [ Reply ]
Hmmm.... I kind of like this.

EDIT: I could do without the voice warbling mid-way through, though. A future listen could cause my initial rating to go either way.

Posted 14 years ago by jagdriver    [ Reply ]