its tongues on poles

ooh so many mistakes!

In a dressmaker shop in Greece
The pins stick like tongues on poles or butts in an ashtray
Lunchtime packages, waxed and wrapped and held
Down a dusty road, inside an apron fold

It's cool, it's cool to love your family
It's cool, it's cool to love your family
It's cool, it's cool to love your family, I know
because I love them more and more

You know my grandpa brought power to the planes
Now he winks at me from thirty thousand feet
Now my uncle's got his face
And he takes the power to a different place
Hey hey, he's okay

It's cool, it's cool to love your family
It's cool, it's cool to love your family
It's cool, it's cool to love your family, I know
because I love them more and more

In the Copenhagen city morgue
The dead sleep in metal slips
Called and last
And someone loved them once
And someone loves them still
And someone misses them
And someone always will

You know that, it's cool, it's cool to love your family
It's cool, it's cool to love your family
It's cool, it's cool to love your family, I know
because I love them more and more

and i dunno why everyone thinks it's apron ford. that doesn't make sense! it's fold!

First, song meaning - she's poking fun at a braggart.

Lyrics sound to me like this:

...

"In a dressmaker’s shop in Greece
The pins stick like tongues on poles or butts in an ashtray
Lunchtime packages, waxed and wrapped and held
Down a dusty road, inside an apron fold

"It's cool, it's cool to love your family
It's cool, it's cool to love your family
It's cool, it's cool to love your family, I know
because I love them more and more

"You know my grandpa brought power to the plains
(Do tell! Do tell!)
Now he winks at me from thirty thousand feet
Now my uncle's got his face
And he takes the power to a different place
Hey hey, he's okay

"It's cool, it's cool to love your family
It's cool, it's cool to love your family
It's cool, it's cool to love your family, I know
because I love them more and more

"In the Copenhagen city morgue
The dead sleep in metal slips
Called at last
And someone loved them once
And someone loves them still
And someone misses them
And someone always will

"You know that, it's cool, it's cool to love your family
It's cool, it's cool to love your family
It's cool, it's cool to love your family, I know
because I love them more and more"

...

You've got to get the "do tell" in there, it's really funny and tells you something about the attitude of the narrator