Songbook / words & recordings
New Pine Overcoat
Hovercraft song file · /lyrics/new-pine-overcoat/
01 / The words
Wildman / Marsden / Downing / Downing · Lyrics: Wildman
From the 1996 sessions · Reconstructed 2026 · Doomed To Live, Side B
Lyrics reimagined and reworked as the 2025 single The Promised Land
When we hit the road We'll be on our way We'll be on our way When the Sun explodes And the love light grows You know we'll be ok We wander through the city Forever flying so high It's a celebration Of my generation And we feel like this And we feel like that And we don't know what we're looking at Baby understand That the promised land Is just a mile away There'll be hills to climb There'll be strength to find But it's a new day There's a life around the corner Better than the one that you know Seems like creation Of my generation And we run around And we have our fun And we make a mess of everyone And if you don't make it Then I won't too Cos just couldn't take it Without you So if you kill yourself Please send me a note I’ll read it in my New pine overcoat Na na na na na Na na na na na-a-ah Na na na na na Na na na na na-a-ah So if you kill yourself Please send me a note I’ll read it in my New pine overcoat
03 / The dossier
About this song.
- Written by
- Piers "Charlie Pepper" Wildman
- Work
- Original
A hopeful road song with a black-joke reveal: the title points towards a coffin, retrospectively poisoning much of the optimism that precedes it.
Source & versions
The 1996 demo is slower, barer and more psychologically exposed. The song was also reworked in 2025 as The Promised Land.
