KEVIN
COYNE LYRICS - J
Jacky
and Edna (Kevin Coyne - 1973) (MARJORY
RAZORBLADE)
You
called me Jacky, I called you Edna
Sitting
in the green arcade, laughing at the paper hats we've made
The white
sea wall, the boarding house
Sitting
round the table, your sister, mother, brother and little boy
Now I'm
so lonely, just a picture of you
Stuck
up in my bedroom, everywhere I go I think of you
Chorus:
Why can't we go out darling like we did before?
Life
should be ever open, ever open door
Now I'm
so lonely, lost and all alone
They
say you're married with children of your own.
Called
me Jacky, I called you Edna
The white
seagulls around, circle breaking, what a sound
The big
arcade, the noise inside
Seen
you drift down the peer, oh how your grey skirt glides
You know
it"s right, it can't be wrong
Just
two weeks, one summer, didn't last so very long
Chorus
Called
me Jacky, I called you Edna
Now you're
gone away, living somewhere, no-one will say
Not a
line, a single card, sitting in this lonely room
Don't
you know the times are hard
No work
at all, no money too
Dreaming,
dreaming dreams, lonesome dreams with tales of you
Chorus
James,
Mark and Me (in the manner of Tom Waits) (Kevin Coyne - 1980) (MINIATURES)
Oh
Mark Rothko
Or may
I say, you're beautiful
Beautiful?
Oh you're
so beautiful
And you
and Jimmy Joyce
Are dancing
with one voice
In Heaven
(x10)
And I
will be with you soon
Laughing
John
the Baptist (Kevin Coyne - 1971?) (RABBITS)
Well
I'm not John the Baptist
No I
didn't lose my head
No I
haven't had it on a plate
With
a pumpkin and a bread
No not
with a lumpy gravy
??
No I'm
not John the Baptist no no no no no
Well
watch out prosecutors
I've
got ?? hands
I'm gonna
burn my way right through you
I'm gonna
reach the Promise Land
I've
got fire in my belly
And everything
is coming on fine
No
I'm not John the Baptist no no no no no
No I'm
not John the Baptist
Take
a look at my neck
You know
you'll see no ?? scars
You'll
see no blood flesh
No you
won't see no pain baby
I'm a
strong and mighty man
No I'm
not John the Baptist no no no no no
Well
I'm not John the Baptist
Don't
you do this to me
I'm a
strong man now
I'm strong
and I'm free
No you're
not gonna burn me
You ain't
ripping me apart
No I'm
not John the Baptist no no no no no
John
the Baptist (Kevin Coyne - 1969-70)
(LET'S
DO IT)
No
I'm not John the Baptist
No I
didn't lose my head
No I
haven't had my head on a plate
With
the pumpkins and a bread
Or the
cheese or the gravy
No I'm
not John the Baptist no
No I'm
not John the Baptist
Bathing
in the stream
You know
I haven't ?? my own peers
No I
don't dream saintly dreams
With
my eyes baby, with my encensed ?? nose
I'm not
John the Baptist no no no
No
I'm not John the Baptist
Take
a look at my neck
You'll
see no ?? scars
No ??
or blood flecks
Flocking
down my chest
?? down
my neck
No I'm
not John the Baptist no no no
No I'm
not John the Baptist
Take
your hands from my arm
I won't
be your prisoner
No I
won't be sweet and calm
Crawling
to your cruelty
Creeping
for your pain
No I'm
not John the Baptist no
Well
goodbye persecutors
I've
got fire in my hands
I'll
burn my way right through you
And light
this weary town
Tear
away the cardboard
Stand
on all your statues
No I'm
not John the Baptist no no no no
Juliet
And Mark (Kevin Coyne/Bob Ward - 1978) (DYNAMITE
DAZE)
I
say now Juliet, you lost your heart and soul, you don't believe in a thing
at all, no no no no
You lost
your spirit again
I say
Mark, you sit in the dark, sitting facing the wall, nobody seems
to ever call no no no
You lost
your spirit again
Funny
how the gramophone never seems to play when you're down, when you're down
You open
up the curtains and the world is spinning round, round and round
Said
Juliet, read all the books, you read them all, you tore them up no no no
You lost
your spirit again
I say
Mark, don't stay in the dark, climb a wall, punch a hole through the ceiling,
anything no no no
You lost
your spirit again
Funny
how the gramophone never seems to play when you're down
You open
up the curtains and the world seems to go round and round, round and round
I said
Juliet, yes I'm knocking, knocking on your walls and pipes and doors no no
no
You lost
your spirit again
I said
Mark, there's a lark in the sky singing, punch a hole in that roof, see the
sky no no no
You lost
your spirit again
Funny
how the gramophone never seems to play when you're down
You open
up the curtains and the world seems to go round and round
I said
Juliet, I've lost patience, I'm running, gonna catch a train, no no no no
I found
my spirit again
I said
Mark, I've been in the dark with you too long in the corners, I'm moving out
no no no no
I found
my spirit again
And it's
funny how the gramophone never seems to play when you're down, when you're
down
You open
up the curtains and the world goes round and round
Juliet,
hope you see me, hope you see me smiling in the park today cause no no no
no
I found
my spirit again
And I
said Mark, don't be sharp with me, my mind's free, I found a way no no no
you're wrong
I found
my spirit again
And it's
funny how the gramophone always seems to play when you're up up, up in this
world
Strange
how the curtains they fall down and the light comes shining in
Let it
shine
Jump
and Shout (Kevin Coyne - 1977) (TALKING
TO SOMEONE)
Now
listen to this, this boogie on a tape recorder, good, I like this
I say
Jump
and shout (x3)
Let it
all hang out
Boogie
on a tape recorder
Alright,
gonna have some fun today
Give
me an A
Give
me a B
Give
me a C
And a
D
Now
you all know your alphabet, you can all be ?? doctors
Give
me an A again
And a
B
Sounds
so good, C
And a
fucking D
Now you
all know your alphabet, you can be effectivly ??
You can
be the Prime Minister
Jump
and shout (x3)
Let it
all hanging out
Jump
and shout
I'll
do a pause now, turn it down, Bob, turn it down, Bob cause I want the people,
I want to you imagine that I'm Kevin Ayers, here we are
And now
I want to talk, just to reminice about some of my friends in the business,
I've got some great friends in the business, really great men, ??
But it
was one night in Gladioli Club in Chesterfield, I came across one of the most
influential man in my carreer: ?? wonderful man, anyway, I'm gonna carry on,
we're going to do a little James Brown, I hope you like it, boogie on a tape
recorder
Jump
and shout (x3)
Let it
all hanging out
Oh yeah
come on baby, boogie
It's
a nightmare, turn it down, trun the fucking time down, it's bloody time
All my life,
I worked to be in this position, to stand in front of you like this,
this is wonderful, I want to show you something you've probably never seen
before or maybe you have if you remember me well, no I don't mean to
insult my audience but
I've got to
boogie (x3)
We've got
to boogie
Boogie to
death
We're
gonna boogie to death
Turn
it down, I'm going to have a conversation with my mother now
I don't
like your music, son
My mother,
she's wonderful, can you see her? She's here
You fucking
?? I don't like the bloody loud music you fucking play
I've got to
boogie (x3)
I'm booged
Oh turn it
down
??
Jumping
(encore) (Kevin Coyne/Achim Goettert - 1993) (MANSION
OF DREAMS)
Sweet
bells ringing always singing in my lonely head (x2)
People
talking, footsteps walking, am I alive or dead?
Sweet
bells singing, voices singing
in my lonely head
Sweet
voices singing,
voices ringing
in my lonely head
Sweet
voices singing,
joy bells ringing
in my lonely head
Alleluia,
Alleluia, am I alive or dead?
Sweet
voices, sweet
voices in
my lonely head
Sweet
voices, sweet
voices, don't go away
(x2)
My
lonely head
Yes there's
sweet voices
singing
and joy
bells ringing
in my lonely
head (x2)
Sweet
voices singing,
joy
bells ringing, am I alive or am I
dead?
Sweet
voices singing,
joy
bells ringing
Voices
in my head (x3)
Just
my Imagination (Kevin Coyne - 1982) PUMERENT
Weel it's
just my imagination, you and me
Perfect, perfect
to me
Just a little
dream, just a little lie, just a little dream, it don't come true, me and
you
Baby me and
you (x2)
Just my illusion,
perfect delusion, waiting for you all my life
Just a little
dream, just a lie, just a little dream, a love come true, a love come true
For me and
you, no it won't come true
Just my confusion,
perfect delusion
Just my confusion,
drunk again
Just a little
dream, just a lie, just a little dream, it don't come true for me and you
No it
doesn't come true for me and you (x2)
Somebody
let me down (x2)
Just
a little dream, just a lie, just a little dream, it won't come true for me
and you
No it won't
come true for me and you (x2)
It's impossible
For me and
you (repeat)
It won't come
true for me and you
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