KEVIN COYNE LYRICS

KEVIN COYNE LYRICS - S

Sand All Yellow (Kevin Coyne - 1972) (CASE HISTORY)

What's the matter baby?

Why do you worry so?

There's no reason to quarrel

No reason to go

If you feel sorry baby

Then I know why

Somebody's been messing with your mind

And made you cry (x2)

I'm the doctor

I can help you along

Give you some sustenance

I'll keep you strong

Come into my surgery

It's on the very top floor

You'll feel so quiet there

You'll want to go and see and have some more

There's flowers in my garden baby

But it's alright now

I've saved all the flowers baby

I've kept them for you

They're in a big chinese bowl baby

On the top of the stairs

They match nicely with the curtains

They look well with the chairs

I've good intentions baby

I don't mean you no harm

I've given you my word, my baby

I've given you my lucky charm

One forceps

One pair of knives

One pair of goggles, baby

Two glass eyes

So when you see me baby

I don't want to see you cry

That would only hurt me baby

Only make me lie

My intentions are unsure now

I'm all qualified to lie

I have myself a bright white coat

I can help you to fly

Alright

The next patient, Miss Faversham is someone we know very well

We saw her out in the garden with the flowers

And she was crying

But she needs help

And I've told her to come to the top floor

Where I reside and sit amongst the magazines

The Novas and the Woman's Owns

And reside with me

Cause I'm the doctor

Yeah I'm the doctor

It's a sleepy lagoon on a tropical island

We will go to

No thoughts of cruelty, no hurt or pain

And the coconuts bouncing by

The coconuts bouncing by

And the sand all yellow (x5)

Sandy (Kevin Coyne/Nick Cudworth - 1969-70) (LET'S DO IT)

Sandy made me smile again

Held me close for a while again

Kissed me warm as I took the train

To that nowhere city

Chorus: Oh what have we done? (x2)

To spoil ourselves, Sandy, so.

Sandy made the days too short

I wear the gloves that she has bought

Try to smile at the girls I see

Who remind me of Sandy

Chorus

From the very start I longed for your love Sandy

From the very start I prayed for your love baby

From the very start I longed for your love baby

From the very start I prayed for you Sandy

Most of all I want to say

I never meant it to be that way

I wanted you for one million years

Stop the magic Sandy

Baby what can I do?

Oh what can I do?

To save ourselves Sandy now

Sandy made the days return

Leafy days when the bright light turned

Your face into a sun

Keep it going Sandy

Oh what can I do?

Oh what can we do?

To save ourselves Sandy now

Saviour (Kevin Coyne/Archie Leggett/Gordon Smith - 1975) (MATCHING HEAD AND FEET)

I said Saviour, Saviour, Saviour, I said Saviour

I said

I've been stretching, fetching, I've been retching for the riverside

Stretching, I've been fetching, I've been retching for the riverside (x2)

Stretching, I've been fetching, I've been retching for the riverside to hide

I've been stretching, I've been retching, I've been looking for the riverside (x2)

I've been stretching, I've been retching, I've been fetching - fetch the river now

I said Saviour, Saviour, I said Saviour, I said Saviour

Stretching and retching and looking for the riverside

Looking and a booking and cooking for the riverside

Booking and a taking and a making for the riverside

Anybody, anybody gonna find the riverside

Where? Where? Where? Where's that Saviour? (x2)

I've been looking, I've been cooking, I've been finding somebody

Nobody knows where the riverside comes

Saviour outstretched on the banks of the river, somebody pulls out a big fat gun

Shoot him down. He's the one with the hands and blood (x2)

Shoot him down. He ain't no good, he's the Saviour

He's yours. He's mine mine mine mine

Stretching and a retching and a looking for the riverside (x3)

Binding and a finding, got to find the riverside

Saviour. Find him (x5)

I said Saviour, I said Saviour, find a Saviour, gotta be a Saviour

Cooking and a looking and a booking for the riverside (x2)

Screaming and a screaming I was screaming for the riverside

Got to find it, got to find it, got to find a riverside

That's the one, Saviour

Saviour

On the riverside

Scene Of The Crime (Kevin Coyne/Jon Langford - 2002) (ONE DAY IN CHICAGO)

Well the sky opens like a window in the orphans of the dawn

They drop their jaws and yawn, now they’ll be heading on down

Running ragged through the town with their old hearts in tatters watching you wave goodbye to someone who ??

While those banks of fog fold like wings overhead making you just want to stay in bed, stay in bed

But I’m taking you back to the scene of the crime

This is my last chance, oh don’t spoil it for me this time

Yes I’m taking you back to the scene of the crime

This is my last chance so don’t spoil it for me this time

I’m taking you back, I’m taking you back to the scene of the crime

To the scene of the crime

Now the night terrors come and there's no sleep til dawn

There's traffic jams and black Mariahs, wives and neighbours taken down town

Leaving under the affliction, it’s like an endless addiction

This is my last chance, have to take you back to the scene of the crime

To the scene of the crime

I’m taking you back to the scene of the crime (x2)

This is my last chance so don’t spoil it for me this time

I’m taking you back to the scene of the crime

This is my last chance so don’t spoil it for me this time

Taking you back to the scene of the crime (x3)

I’m taking you back

(a big thank you to Jon Langford)

Schoolboy (Wily Wagner/Ralf Gustke/Tom Liwa/Ali Neander/Kevin Coyne - 1996) (KNOCKING ON YOUR BRAIN)

Teach me, teach me, teach me, teach me, teach me, teach me, teach me to love you (x6)

I'm reaching out (x10)

Teach me, teach me, teach me, teach me, teach me, teach me, teach me to love you (x4)

I'm reaching out (x13)

I'm a little schoolboy, looking for some love love (x7)

I'm a little schoolboy

Scunthorpe Dictator (Kevin Coyne/Nick Cudworth/Dave Clague - 1970) (THE CLUB RONDO)

I want all you workers to have a good time

I want them all to fall in line

I want them to do as I say

'Cause I don't want them to know

You know I am not a dictator

Although I like my own way

I'm going to rule the world

I like to have my say

I'm your dictating boogie boy

Down from Scunthorpe now

(spoken)

Sprechen sie Deutzsche!

Now he was somebody, that Hitler, you know...my goodness, he was a swine! All our boys went down there, you know, to keep the world free. My goodness, he'd got some rotten plans from us if he'd'ever come over here. Course, Churchill would have been the first one he'd have got, you know...all them with money ??. All us working class, we'd have been in factories, oh yes, we'd have been working very hard you know but we'd have been very poorly paid and when we got old he'd have liquidated us...nice thought, isn't it? Eh? You don't know who Hitler is, my goodness, you're ignorant! Oh, everybody's heard of Hitler. He's that little man with the moustache...you've seen him! Looks a bit like Charlie Chaplin. He died, you know, in a bunker, in a big bunker. Did he? Good gracious me! He was with him as well, you know, that Goebbels. And then there was Histler, Himmler, whatever his name was. He had, ah, I heard a rumour he had glass eyes or something. Mind you, they were a funny lot, they were Goering as well. He was something to do with the Luftwaffe...You mean you've never heard of the Luftwaffe? My goodness, where have you been? How old are you, forty eight? Bloody hell, what school did you go to? You must have been living in a tree all your life. What? You have been? Oh, I'm sorry then, I didn't know you were a nature boy. Anyway, it's about time you got back to reality, this fellow Hitler's been dead a long time, but there's a lot of 'em like him about, you know. There's still a few Hitlers, a few little Hitlers...there's that chap in Germany now, you know, Adolf von ?? . He's one of the new breed. And then there's that chap in Indonesia, Jakarto, he used to wear a face and the brown face he's got. What, that's libelous? Ah, well...I don't put up with his kind...it's ridiculous is what it is...I don't put up with it! Filandering dictators

Searching for a Friend (Kevin Coyne/Brendan Croker - 2002) (LIFE IS ALMOST WONDERFUL)

I just might be in some far away ??

I'm sitting in a corner reminicing about some movie stars

Eyes full of glitter but an embittered lost kind of face

Believing in very little, not believing in the human race

You just might find me on some cross-country train

Peeping over the newspaper, eyes full full of pain

Starting a conversation that doesn't seem to have an end

Just talking about anything, anything at all, searching for a friend

Starting a conversation that doesn't seem to have an end

A conversation that doesn't seem to have an end

You just might find me at your bus stop one day

Making comments about a time-table and a road to Mandalay

Talking all fancy, bamboozling you with my mind

But trying to be heartfelt and sincere when I don't feel kind

I don't feel kind

It's my mind

Sensual (Hans Pukke/Kevin Coyne - 1991) (WILD TIGER LOVE)

Sensual, feel the ricochet, sensual, turning night into day, sensual got me down to the bone, sensual, I can't leave you alone

Chorus: I know and you know we're watching the river flow, I know and you know honey that's the way it goes (x2)

I'm gonna kiss you in the dark, I feel sharp, I want to kiss you in the dark cause I still got a spark , I'm gonna kiss you in the dark cause I still got a spark, I'm gonna kiss you in the dark, I still got a spark

Chorus

Sensual, feel the ricochet, sensual turning night into day, sensual, got me down to the bone, sensual, I can't leave you alone

Chorus

Set me Free (Kevin Coyne - 1969-70) (LET'S DO IT)

I'm so lonely, I'm all out here on my own

I'm so lonely baby

I'm all out here (x4)

On my own

Won't somebody come along help me (x2)

Help me (x2)

Hand me a great big white telephone

Oh there's red water round my feet babe

Great big buildings tumbling down

Great big buildings tumbling

Red water all around

I got a feeling some days (x5)

Everybody's, everybody's trying to treat me down

But you're the white wonder baby

Maybe you know how you can help me

Yes you're the white wonder

Maybe you know how you can help me (x2)

If you had your way for one year and one day

Would you even think about (x3)

Set me free (x2)

I'm all out here on my own

Ain't got nobody (x2) to talk to

Yes I'm all out here on my own

Ain't got nobody (x2) to talk to

But if you're trapped baby

Somewhere maybe some ways I can help

I can help you babe

Shake Before Using (Kevin Coyne/Achim Goettert - 1993) (MANSION OF DREAMS)

Picking up, picking up the money from the money tree

Grasping out, reaching out a good life for you and me

Digging deep, digging deep into the well of pain and loneliness

Money machine has got me, I'm in a terrible mess

Picking up apples from the tree of happiness

All lights have faded, I guess I'm undressed

Digging in front of the world (x7)

Picking from the tree of happiness

Looking out for perfect bliss

Sometimes I'm in quite a mess

Looking out for perfect bliss

Looking for the tree of happiness

Of happiness (x3)

Searching something (x3)

Looking for the tree of happiness (x4)

Shake my Hand (Kevin Coyne - 1971) (STRANGE LOCOMOTION)

I've seen you baby with another boy

Only nine years old

Don't you think the difference shows

I'm only twenty-eight baby

And I have a little style

I've experienced just a few little things

I could make it in a while

If you let me hold your hand

Shake your hand, hold your hand

Alright, I'm a loser baby

I don't wear short pants and socks

Don't have a lot of curly hair

Tumbling down in golden locks

Maybe you'll have a way with him

How should I really know?

But if you have a way with me

Then baby please let it show

Come on

Shake my hand (x3)

Hold my hand

I've seen your blood boiling baby

When I accused you of stealing children

But you're, you're, you don't like the lies

You don't like it baby I put you in the wilderness

Thrown you among the thistles baby

Down among the brown weeds

To see you running with those youngsters

Makes a smart man bleed

Oh let me hold your hand

Hold your hand (x3)

Just one little note to you baby

Written on an exercice book before I go

Little blue one you've never seen before

Lights from the top and lights through the bottom

Written in bright red ink

It says the teacher stinks

Forty-five and with a boy of nine

She wants to get with somebody who can really do time

And shake her hand

Shake her hand (x2)

Hold her hand

Shake her hand, I'll shake yours (x3)

Shake her hand

(big thanks to Jim Phelan)

Shaking Hands With The Sun (Kevin Coyne - 1979) (BABBLE)

Well they crucified the saviour because he knew

A little more than maybe me or you

Well they hung his head and they made him bow so low

But I tell you honey that's not the way we're going to go, no no no

Chorus: Shaking hands with the sun (x3), let's hope the sun it doesn't burn.

Well Mussolini, he had it all

They pinned him and his mistress agains the backside wall

Well they hung them from a lampost

Hung them upside down

But I tell you honey they won't drive us to ground, no no no

Chorus

Well Hitler, he marched through foreign lands

Tried to teach the people how to live and understand

Well I think he was a great man, I think he knew more than me

Yes he's sending us up together darling, sending us up to be free (I want to fly like him)

Chorus

Well the marchers in the dark will never drive me down

You and I little woman we can run, we can run around

Let's jump in the city, show them what we can do

We've got our ideals and we've got our life style too

We know where to go

Chorus

It doesn't burn (x7)

Shangri-La (Kevin Coyne - 1976) (HEARTBURN)

As I was walking through dusty streets, I heard some voices singing

Old and familiar tunes, I heard their voices ringing

Frankie Laine and Johnnie Ray, the old heart throbs singing

Then my girlfriend she squoze my arm, she said, "Son, you must, you must be dreaming"

Chorus: Shangri-La is a million miles away, you might see it on a clear blue day

Over the hills and far away (x2)

They're singing out.

Memories, sweet memories, let them flow down your way

Open up your lonely heart, open up your doorway

Frankie Laine and Johnnie Ray, the old heart throbs singing

Then my girlfriend she squoze my arm, she said: "Son, you must, you must be dreaming"

Chorus (x2)

She Said (Kevin Coyne - Andreas Blüml) (UNDERGROUND)

She said, I’m not your baby-minder. (4 x)
Why don’t you go and find a nurse?
Why don’t you find yourself a nurse? (3 x)

She said, I’m not your fairy princess. (4 x)
Why don’t you find a little queen?
Why don’t you find yourself your own little queen?
Why don’t you find yourself a little queen?
Why don’t you find yourself your own little queen?

She said, I’m not your dolly dolly. She said, I’m not your pretty, dolly dolly. (2 x)
Why don’t you find yourself another place?
Why don’t you find yourself another house?
Why don’t you go away? Over the hills, far away.
Fly from here. Go away. Right away.
Aargh! Alright.

Ha-ha, that’s it. That’s what she said.
She said, I’ve had just about enough. (4 x)
Go away. I don’t want you now. (4 x)

She said. That’s what she said. That’s what she always said.
That’s what she said. That’s what she said.
Go away. Over those hills, far away.
Fly over the fence. Nobody’ll notice when you’re gone.

She said. That’s what she said, that’s what she said. (4 x)

She's Not There (Kevin Coyne/John Rice - 2002) (ONE DAY IN CHICAGO)

I've been living in a cow-pat, it is not much fun

I need someone to love me, put my blues on the run

I’m searching all around the houses and the fields and well,

I think there’s love around but I never get a smell

I’m so complicated, I’m mixed up and I’m mad

They say why don’t you smile a little but I’m permanently sad

I don’t think it’s right that I should be alone tonight

I need a girl, where are you girl?

Oh she’s not there

She’s not there (x5)

She doesn’t care

She’s not there (x6)

I need a restitution for the state that I’m in

If I was a Catholic they would say I was in a state of sin

But I’m a Protestant though I’m full of angst

Full of grief and pain

Oh, the Devils inside of me, they should be slain

I don’t need it, I don’t want it, I want to laugh a while

Where is that woman I need so bad, someone to make me smile

Make me laugh and make me sing, bounce up and down in bed

Where are you woman, I’ve got to dream

It’s in my head

She’s not there (x7)

She doesn’t care

She’s not there (x4)

Thinking about it, I could change it, I could get a little more positive if I had the ambition but I never had much of that. And the bones, the muscles I once had they’re all receeding into skeletal fact. Hard for you to understand but you just have to create the picture in your own mind.

I’m looking, I’m searching, I can’t find oh that precious thing, that thing called peace of mind. I’ve been looking, I’ve been booking a train to Paradise but no-one around, nobody says anything that’s nice, so if you really love me, wherever you are, maybe you’re floating above my bedroom like a guiding star; I can see you in your crinolines, your lipstick and your paint. I’ve loved you but she’s not there, she ain’t, she ain’t

She’s not there (x12)

I want a little wife that looks like Dolly Parton, I beg your pardon. I want somebody to love me, most of all I need that ardour, I need to feel the fire, the love, I want… and she cares but there is one real problem, she’s not there, she’s not there, no

That was a love song for my wife, I love her so much, she rang me today, she said ‘How are you Kevin?’ I said ‘Darling, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you’ She said ‘That’s enough. I don’t want too much passion, after all this is the telephone. Save it for when you come home’ Sorry boys, I’m rambling on, aren’t I

(a big thank you to Jon Langford)

Sign of the Times (Kevin Coyne - 1974) (BLAME IT ON THE NIGHT)

Wild palms in the hinterland

Stretches of yellow sand

A blue bird trapped in my hand

It's hard to understand

It must be a sign of the times - times

It must be a sign of the time - time - time - time - time

My friend can't talk no more

He just gazes at his kitchen floor

Building a boat that will never float

Packing it with animals and bags of oats

Must be yes a sign of the times - times

It must be a sign of the times - sign of the times

Oh give me a sign

Oh what is the sign?

Oh what is their line?

Oh a sign - a sign - any sign - any line - any time - any sigh - any lie - not mine - not mine

I'm building

What am I building?

I'm working

Why am I working?

My hands are clean and never dirty

I wear something and it hurts me

Must be my sign of the times

Must be yes my sign of the times

Sign of the times

Must be - give me a sign

Oh any sign

Oh any line - any sign - any rhyme - any time - not mine

It's not mine It's not mine It's not mine It's not mine It's not mine

My mother, she knows

I really think she knows

Taken to painting her toes

Taken to wear those odd clothes

Must be a sign of the times - times

Must be a sign of the times - times - sign of the times

So you can help me

Let me know you can help me

Make it a positive sign

Cos this face is not really mine

Must be a sign of my mind - mind - mind

Must be a sign of the times - sign of the time

A sign of the times

My face is not mine

Silence Silence (Kevin Coyne) (UNDERGROUND)

Something’s on my mind that I wanna tell you right away.
Something’s been teasing me and upsetting me most of, most of the day,
I been upset, I said, I can’t take it any more, and I mean everything I say,
I’ll carry this dark, dark, darkness, darkness to the grave,
unless you tell me that you love me too,
like I love you. It’s simple
I wanna be loved, I wanna be loved, I wanna be with you.
Don’t go to the office in the morning without a smile.
I’ll, I can’t wait the whole world, I can’t even wait a while, ha.
I’m desperate, I’m, er, desperate.
I’m clinging to the sheets in the morning. I got no way to go,
I go down to the grocery store, they say
oh there’s something wrong, your watch is awfully slow,
I said it’s my heart. My heart’s fallin’ apart right in front of you,
they said, that’s not right you’re shiverin’ and shakin’ right down to your shoes.
I said, she don’t talk to me like she used to talk to me.
She don’t even walk with me like she wanted to walk with me,
she says I’m just a bad man, she says I’m a disease, aha,
I don’t like it, change your ways please.
So if I have, have to put up with this much any more, I’ll,
I’ll shiver and shake and…ah! I’ll fall to the floor.
I, I can’t get my words, I can’t get my words out, can’t get my words out.
I, I’m lost without you, lost without you, can’t even find my way home.
I, I’m looking for a brand-new way,
a smile that opens up your weary, dreary face.
Love lingers and it’s under my skin.
I blame you for the shape I’m in
I blame you.
Ah! Monday, Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday all the same,
can’t even remember my birthday, now what is my real name?
I’m callin’ myself names into the mirror, I stare, I stare rather hard.
I wonder, who’s that beside me holding a, a big yellow card?
It says, get a lover like you used to do,
don’t let all this upsetting, don’t let it spoil the truth
that she’s yours and she’ll be yours forever more.
If you don’t love her you’ll be very poor, you’ll have nothing.
You’ll have nothing. You’ll have nothing, that’s what they say.
You’ll have nothing. Nothing will go your way.
You’ll be lost, you’ll be found. Lost and found again.
You’ll be the loneliest man in the avenue, a truly solitary man.

Give in now, tell her what you feel,
don’t let your chauvinistic attitudes make you rock and reel.
You can’t take it, you can’t take it, you can’t make it this way.
You got to tell her you love her one of these days.

Silence is no good to you. Silence is no good to you. Silence is no good to you. Silence.
You got to tell her the truth. She’s yours.
Silence is no good to you. Shh, shh.

Sixteen Women (Kevin Coyne/Dave Clague/NickCudworth - 1969) (SIREN)

Oh yeah, oh, alright

Well sixteen women live in my home town

You know that sixteen women live in my home town

Fifteen love me, the other tries to put me down

My mother hates me, she don't call my name (x2)

Everything that happens, she says I'm to blame

When I go home, I take my bag and I rest (x2)

Well I talk to my sister and get things off my chest

Well Mabel loves me, Lucille hates my name

You know Mabel loves me, Lucille hates my name

My father's crazy, he's about half insane

Sixteen women live in my home town (x2)

Fifteen love me, the other tries to put me down

Sixteen women live in my home town (x2)

Fifteen love me, the other tries to put me down

Skinhead in Heaven (poem) (Kevin Coyne - 1992) (BURNING HEAD)

It's alright here. The sofa's got no holes in it and the wallpaper's of a nice snotty pattern. Nobody's objecting to my presence. I don't need to knock anybody about. I think I'm appreciated for what I am, listened to. I had dreams about this place when I was sleeping rough. Bill (he was my best mate before he topped himself) said there was always a possibility of dreams coming true. I think he was fuckin' right. The only thing I miss is my boots. Who took them off?

Slave (The) (Hans Pukke/ Kevin Coyne - 1988) (EVERYBODY'S NAKED )

Apartment nightmare, wandering round

Kicking up the carpet, my head's down

Strange hotel, the people in bars

Nobody loves me, they say I'm a star

Chorus: I'm a slave to love (eight times).

Oh what is happening to the telephone?

Nobody answers, nobody's home

Where is she? Gone away tonight

She's gone wih some male friend, it don't seem right

Chorus

Out in the park, in the noonday sun

Children are running round, having fun

Sitting on a bench, with my schnapps and beer

No one to talk to, nobody's here

Chorus

Sleeping- Waking (Sleep-Waking) (Kevin Coyne - 1981) (POINTING THE FINGER)

Sleeping, waking, fires burn, croaking

Factory's empty, there's no-one there

The factory's empty and there's no-one there

But we're alright, we're alright, yes, we're alright, say we're alright

Wondering, Goggling, half deaf, struggling

The church is closed, there's no-one there

The church is closed and there's no-one there (x2)

But we're alright, we're alright, yes, we're alright, we're alright

Groaning, lying, down again, round again

The seaside's closed but no-one's there

The seaside's closed, there's no-one's there

But we're alright, we're alright, sayi it, we're alright, yes, we're alright

The sky's shut down but we're alright (x2)

Are we alright?

Don't know if we are

Are we alright but I don't know if we are

Slow Burner (Robert Coyne/Kevin Coyne - 1993) (TOUGH AND SWEET)

There's madness in the sky, I'm on a slow burner

I keep asking why, we're on a slow burner

Can pigs really fly with this slow burner?

It's just do or die with this slow burner, slow burner

Honey you know, I'm worried about life, honey you know, I'm worried all the time

Honey you know, I pace the bedroom, honey you know, my eyes have seen the doom, seen the doom, seen the doom, seen the doom, my eyes have seen the doom

The world's in flame and we're burning down, burning down

You know that the world's in flame and we're burning down, burning down

Don't you know that the world's in flame and we're burning down, burning down (x2)

Don't you know that the world's in flame and we're turning round, turning round (twice)

And that it's just a game that we're turning round, turning round

Baby, who's to blame that we're burning down, burning down

I hear a dead rat singing "slow burner, slow burner"

I see a bird with a broken wing, he's on a slow burner, slow burner

Hippopotamus and butterfly are on a slow burner, slow burner

Dogs and and cats are asking why, we're a slow burner, slow burner

I can see a giraffe start to laugh somewher,e I can see someone say why don't you share but nobody shares, nobody cares, there's nobody there, there's nobody there on this slow burner, on this slow burner

You know the world's in flame, we're burning down, burning down (repeat)

Smile Right Back (Kevin Coyne/Michael Lipton - 2004) (DONUT CITY )

Footsteps on the stairs what a wonderful sound

In a couple of minutes you'll be right here you'll be around smiling at me and I'Il smile right back smile right back

Footsteps on the stairs what a wonderful sound maybe in less than a minute you'll be around yes smiling at me and l'll smile right back smile right back

It's always the same for the last seventeen years we loved each other through the stress and the tears you're always loving me and I love you right back love you right back

Footsteps on the stairs what a wonderful sound in a few short minutes well you'll be around you'll be smiling a tme and I'Il smile right back smile right back

Some Dark Day (Kevin Coyne/Nick Cudworth - 1971) (STRANGE LOCOMOTION)

They say that women are made of bliss, all lips and eyes to flash

All ears of gold and perfect beauty showing, it's all trash

They say that God has arms of Heaven, smashing crutches laughing

One hundredweight of fleeces all chaste for his creation

But

Chorus: They're wrong (x4)

And some dark day (x2)

They're going to find they're lying

They say that money makes nasty men, crushes hearts inside us

They shout out chunks of history and St Paul to guide us

I've heard my mother say: "Son, help grown ladies cross the road"

Though she doesn't realize grown ladies crush her toes

Chorus

Some loud mouth speaks of perfect sex, all sweating, muscles coming

I don't know where they got the lie, I just see rooms all rocking

When people say "Shake hands and smile", I see the beast all hairy

All they see is a golden mirror, a landscape, lakes and fairies

But

Chorus

My father says "You must not know because we know already"

He prefers the greenest kept right down, he likes his cakewalk steady

I do believe that school taught me to remember sticks and lashes

Though people tell me school was nice, all flags and toothy flashes

Chorus

Well OK new boy hold my hand, wear the helmet of the dawn

Kiss the smart man close to you, watch his fist ooh here it comes

They say your vicar wants to help but that is not true

He's like the rest all in the pen, a pocket's waiting for you

They're wrong (x4)

And some dark day (x2)

You're going to find they're lying

Some Day (Kevin Coyne - 1993) (TOUGH AND SWEET)

Some day, you're gonna want me, some day, I'm gonna to touch you

Some day, you're going need me, some day, you'd better believe me

Some day, I'm going to find you, some day, right behind you

Some day, you're gonna touch me, some day, you're gonna need it

Some day, I'm gonna touch you (x2), some day, all my dreams come true about you

Some day, you're gonna touch me (x2), some day, all my dreams come true about you

Some day, you're gonna find me, some day, you're right behind me some day, you're gonna need me, some day, you're gonna scream out

Some day, that you 've found me, some day, that you want me, some day, you desire me, some day, I'm on fire

Some day, you're gonna touch me (x2), some day, all my dreams come true about you (x2)

Some day, it's the truth now, some day, the whole truth now, some day, I'm gonna find you, some day, I'm right behind you

Some day, you better watch out, some day, I'll come creeping, some day, you better watch out, some day, I'm behind you

Some day, you're gonna want me, some day, I'm gonna touch you, some day, all my dreams come true about you

Something gone Wrong (Kevin Coyne - 1977) (BEAUTIFUL EXTREMES)
(Thanks to Tony for his help with King Canute)

The world is full of poets walking about in gangs

The moonlight seems too faded, the sunlight seems to drag

I just taken my asbestos suit in for cleaning, there was a rip down the side

Canute sitting in front of the river Thames trying to turn back the tide

Something gone wrong, something not right

They've taken all the day, stolen all the nights

Oh Mr. Prime Minister, please won't you ask the Queen

If this is just a nightmare cause I just want to scream

I'm worried about the baby, he seems to have lost its way

He should have learned to talk by now, seventh birthday on its way

Now there's nothing wrong with his head they say and there's nothing wrong with his feet

God knows I'm sick and tired of watching him struggling down the street

Something gone wrong, nothing seems right

They've taken away the day, taken away the night

Oh Mr. Prime Minister, please won't you ask the Queen

If this is just a nightmare what am I going to scream

I've been out in the country but I'm not going there again

Cause last time I went in those green fields they were full of machines and men

They were rushing up roadways, digging big holes in the ground

They can keep on digging and digging but I've lost the hole that I found.

Something gone wrong, nothing seems right

They've taken all the days, stolen all the nights

Oh Mr. Prime Minister, please won't you ask the Queen

If this is just a nightmare when am I allowed to scream

Somewhere in my Mind (Kevin Coyne - 1980) (SANITY STOMP)

Somewhere in my mind there's a hand that's always kind, official smile that says I love you honey

Somewhere in my mind they draw back the blinds and love does what it's supposed to do

Chorus:

A little white cloud, a burning sun, a loving smile, my love on the run.

Somewhere in my mind I'm feeling fine, you're touching me and you know what to do oh honey

Somewhere in my mind you're holding on, giving me, giving me all that you do

Chorus - Solo - Chorus

Somewhere in my mind I'm imagining things, you'll never ever ever ever ever go away

Somewhere in my mind there's ?? sing up sing up love's praise, alleluia

Chorus

Your little white cloud smiling at me

Song for Ronald Reagan (Colin Gibson? - 1981) (VILLEPREUX)

(Since we're in Paris tonight, I'd like to sing this one in French)

Bonsoir

Merde (He's joking)

Ah ah ah ah

Morceau de gâteau pour Bing Crosby

Morceau de gâteau pour Bob Hope

Morceau de gâteau pour Henry Kissinger

But the rest of the cake is for me

Yes the rest of the cake's for me

Song of the Womb (Kevin Coyne - 1981) (POINTING THE FINGER)

Down by the water, up by he river

Looking for your mother, looking for a lover

Chorus: You're in love (x4).

Down by the canal, up by the houses

Close to the buildings, near to the fields

Chorus

Close into your mother, into the mountain

Close to the river, close to the fountain, you know...

Chorus

What is the answer? There is no answer

You may find an answer

But you're all wrong (x3)

So it's up through the tunnel

Ride through the forest

Into the catacombs

Lying there forever

Chorus

Soon (Kevin Coyne/Nick Cudworth - 1971) (STRANGE LOCOMOTION)

Well soon, it's gonna be Summer baby soon

Soon, we'll feel the Summer winds yeah

We'll have the sun gleaming on our brown backs baby

Soon honey honey soon

Soon, they'll be no Winter baby

No frost and snow, no cold ice

We'll have the sun beating on our brown backs baby

I said soon, baby baby soon

Soon, I'm gonna see you smiling darling

Wearing your pink just like you did one summer before, before

You know I feel so lazy baby, I wanna kiss you honey

Soon, baby soon

Oh Summer's here baby

What more can a good man want?

Oh Summer's here baby

Laugh at me baby I don't care

Cause soon, you're going to be beaming baby

Soon, you're gonna be red and brown

You're gonna smile for me just like you smiled before

Oh I know you will soon, baby soon

Little baby soon

Soon, it's gonna be Summer baby

You know soon, we're gonna be so happy baby

We're gonna dance on the beach

Even out of reach

Come here baby, let me teach you that

Soon, soon baby soon

Everybody's going to sing

Every bell's going to ring

Oh yes we're so happy

Everybody's snappy and I love you and we're all laughing

Baby soon, baby baby soon

So Strange (Kevin Coyne/Bob Ward- 1977) (BEAUTIFUL EXTREMES)

Funny, being with you holding and squeezing your hand

It's funny learning to love you like any man

Funny, see the band master on his stand conducting the leaves

Funny, see the old people cuddling, they know I've got everything I need

Yes it's strange, loving you, loving you is strange

Holding you tight, holding you is strange

I found you, I found you, it's strange

No mystery, I love you girl, I do, I do, I do.

Hey baby, won't you be with me for evermore, evermore

Well I love you, find a house, somewhere to live and what is more I love you for ever and ever and ever

Hey spot the sour faces as we pass by, changing into smiles

Yes it's you and me, we're altering it all, building it up, building it up, building it up

And it's strange having you, having you, is strange,

anyway it's alright, it's strange, loving you, I love you, I love you baby, I love you honey honey honey honey

Come on now we're walking, spring's in our feet, holding on,

Roll back the river, roll it back, we'll walk to the other side

I said funny funny funny funny oh I'm laughing for the very first time

Oh open me up open me up open me up open me up my whole inside is smiling

And it's strange, needing you, needing you is strange

Being here with you is strange

Oh so strange oh so strange oh so strange oh so strange

Speak To Me (Kevin Coyne - 1999) (ROOM FULL OF FOOLS)

There's a sun that rises, there's a sun that goes down, there's a light at my window, it's the world spinning round, there's a light on your face, comes from a strange sky, maybe I've heard it wrong, maybe all I've heard is lies, we don't live forever, I've not seen the signs, all I know what's in my head, it's dead and what's in my head is mine, I wished I could hear a call, that said home, come home, but all I know as I sit in this room, I feel so alone but there might be something out there, there could be something out there, there might be something out there, I hope there's somehing out there (x2), there must be somehing out there, oh speak to me, speak to me

Squeeze Me (Kevin Coyne/Dave Clague/Nick Cudworth - 1971) (STRANGE LOCOMOTION)

Well, squeeze me, squeeze me

If you can't squeeze me, please don't tease me

Squeeze me, squeeze me

If you can't squeeze me, please don't tease me

Squeeze me (x6) all night long

Well love me, love me

If you can't love me, please don't shove me

Love me, love me

If you can't love me, please don't shove me

Love me (x6)

Well hold me, hold me

If you can't hold me, please don't scold me

Hold me, hold me

If you can't hold me, please don't scold me

Hold me (x3)

Squeeze me, squeeze me dry

Well, squeeze me, squeeze me

If you can't squeeze me, please don't tease me

Squeeze me, squeeze me

If you can't squeeze me, please don't tease me

Squeeze me (x3)

Well hold me, hold me

If you can't hold me, please don't scold me

Hold me, hold me

If you can't hold me, don't scold me

Hold me (x3)

Well love me, love me

Well i f you can't love me, please don't shove me

Love me, well love me

If you can't love me, please don't shove me

Love me (x6)

Squeeze me, squeeze me

If you can't squeeze me, please don't tease me

Squeeze me, squeeze me

If you can't squeeze me, please don't tease me

Squeeze me (x4)

Stand up (Kevin Coyne - 1979) (BABBLE)

Stand up, stand up and be counted baby (x2)

I'll be, I'll be your good friend tonight, alright

Wait on, wait on just one minute (x2)

I'll be, I'll be your good friend tonight, alright

Stand up, stand up! Get up, get up! Stand up, get up!

Stop breaking, breaking down, you're making me cry, stop breaking down

(repeat the whole 3 times)

Alright

Stand up for England (Kevin Coyne - 1979) (ELVIRA )

I see the trees, the smiling faces of Nanny as she says to me that I love you

Daddy's there, provides the money, my underwear, my hair-do and a smile

I hear Mummy, she screams in the dark, she always does, it's Daddy, but he never says

Black eyes at breakfast, sobs and tears, but no one explains the problem, they never do

Elvira, stand up for England, Elvira, do us proud, Elvira, stand up for England, scream in the dark, but don't scream too loud

I see Nigel, his curly hair, his little hands on the table, they're laughing at him

I see Brian, with his dog, his cat, his nurse, red weals on the back of his hands

And I ask questions, but there's no answers, no one calls, no one says... you're not supposed to think

Still, they've planned my future, they have a plan, a master plan, and it's good, at least that's what they say

Elvira, stand up for England, Elvira, stand up proud, Elvira, scream if you like but God knows, don't scream so loud

Don't you dare scream (x3)

Don't you dare dream

Stop Picking On Me (Robert Coyne/Kevin Coyne - 2002) (CARNIVAL)

Chorus: Stop picking on me (x8)

I don't know why you 're picking on me (x2)

Sell the house, the car and let's be free (x2)

Chorus

Your little dog yapping in my yard, your little dog is yapping in my yard

Life' s all troubled and awfully hard (x2)

Chorus

Love's a curse when it goes wrong (x2)

You lose the melody in your song (x2)

Chorus

Open up the window and let some air in here, I can hardly breathe (x2)

It's so stuffy, open the window

Stop picking on me (x3)

Strange Little Story (Kevin Coyne/Wolfgang Mirbach) (LINKS)

A ragged light from the window in the kitchen shines over you, just after breakfast, it's late, it's nearly half past two.

You're wearing nothing much just bright lipstick on your lips, giving me lots of answers, little, little tips about living

Chorus: It's a strange little story I tell, one of a living hell

A butcher boy tells me that you propositioned him, said that he was Jesus Christ and was full of sin

The little boy laughed when he told me, he laughed till he cried, I was so embarrassed, ashamed, that I almost died

Chorus

Now I feel I've got to escape if I had wings, I'd stand on the top of the house and use the things

Fly away to some distant cruel suburbia, I know that loving you has tumed into a curse, a curse

Chorus

Some of you out there might know very well

A strange little story (x4)

And it happened to me, it happened to me, strange how you and me have become divorced from reality

Strange little story, it's a strange little story,with misery at the moment, fluctuations, the occasional bout of loneliness and excessive masturbation.

I'm a stranger in my own home, darling I'm alone, but you hardly have the time to whisper, I love you darling, yes I do, I wish you'd whisper, I love you darling, yes I do but you never do, shame on you

After all I've done for you, after all I've done (x5)

I've done a lot for you

After all I've done for you when I think about it I don't even know why I bother to tell you anything at all because most of the time you just interfere with every time I open my mouth. lt's like a melody, a lost little song we used to sing. You were a thrush on a branch or something like that, something simply poetic, divine, young and fine but now the harridan in you is taking over, my dear

It's a strange little story I tell, one ot a living hell. You can almost smell it from here, my dear

Strange Locomotion (Kevin Coyne/Dave Clague/Nick Cudworth - 1971) (STRANGE LOCOMOTION)

Oh yes now

Strange locomotion over the ocean baby, you can't find no better place

Strange locomotion

If you got the notion baby, get on over the ocean

Take yourself a big fat plane, get some strange locomotion

Up and down, way off the ground, strange, strange, strange locomotion (x2)

Way over the ocean baby, we've left the land and sea

Got some strange locomotion, alright now

Oh well up and down, round and round, strange, strange, strange locomotion

Up and down, way off the ground, strange, strange, strange locomotion

Over the ocean baby, we found new land, new sea

Strange locomotion

I've got a notion baby

Take some strange locomotion baby

It'll be just for you and me

Take some strange locomotion

Strange locomotion baby (x6)

Strange Locomotion (Kevin Coyne/Dave Clague/Nick Cudworth - 1976) (HEARTBURN)

Strange locomotion over the ocean, you can't find a better place

Take some strange locomotion

Yes, if you got the notion, take some strange locomotion

It'll be just for you and me, you're taking strange locomotion

Up and down, round and round, strange, strange, strange locomotion (x3)

Strange locomotion over the ocean, you can take a big fat plane, take some strange locomotion

Yes if you get the notion, take some strange locomotion

Yes it's for you and me, you're taking strange locomotion

Strange Pictures (Kevin Coyne/Brendan Croker - 2002) (LIFE IS ALMOST WONDERFUL)

In this garden, spiky flowers, fat birds with those orange beaks

I'm wandering round in this long grass, I haven't had a shave in many weeks

Al the neighboors, they keep pointing, saying stupid things to me

Like: "Is there something wrong with you, Arthur?"

I don't know, I must have a disease

I feel dizzy when I get out of bed

Strange pictures appear in my head

Very dizzy when I get out of bed

Strange pictures in my head

Now you know that my mother left us and left us all lost and alone

The sound of sirens up in the sky, I could hear those aeroplanes as they drowned

Oh this is a world of sadness, something's wrong that I don't know

Oh this is a world, a world of sadness, I gotta run, I gotta go

So if you help me, if you want to, bring around a sandwich or two

I'll eat it with you at the kitchen table and I'll tell you my story

Start Walking (Kevin Coyne/Dave Clague - 1971?) (RABBITS)

You came a long way baby, you gotta go back home (x2)

You gotta leave me baby (x2)

Well you walked a million miles but you gotta walk them back (that's true)

Well you walked a million miles but you gotta walk them back

I ain't gonna take none of your stuff baby oh no

Start walking (x2)

Though you may sit, sit and plead

You may start to bleed

It don't matter baby, no cause I'm tough and I'm rough

Oh I'm not weak anymore, you'd better start walking

You came a long way baby, you gotta go back home (x2)

You gotta get out, oh yeah

Start walking (x2)

Well I'm tough cause I'm rough

I'm tough and I'm rough

I ?? oh yeah

And I'm tough and I'm rough

I'm not weak anymore yeah

Start walking (x2)

Start walking (x4)

Cause I'm tough and I'm rough

I'm not weak anymore

Start walking

Stride (The) (Kevin Coyne/Dave Clague - 1971) (single)

Come on baby, there ain't much time

Join this dance on the party line

Chorus: Let's stride, yeah yeah yeah let's stride

Come on baby, there ain't much time, stride.

Well forget about the waltz and the ballet glide

Do a dance that's called the stride

Chorus

Well this is a dance that all can do

Come on baby, do it too

Chorus

Stride on

Oh I want you to stride for me now

Stride on

Well come on baby, there ain't much time

Get to this dance on a party line

Chorus

Well I ask you baby one more time

Give me some relief for this soul of mine

Let's stride, yeah yeah yeah let's stride

Well come on baby, one more time, stride

Stride on, here we go

Oh yeah

Oh that's good

Sugar Babe (Sugar Baby) (Kevin Coyne - 1999) (GIESSEN)

Sugar Babe, Sugar Babe, please say you'll be mine (x2)

I love you so much, in fact I'm crazy all the time

Sugar Babe, Sugar Babe, I'm crawling all over the floor (x2)

I'm so sad baby that you don't love me no more

Sugar Babe, Sugar Babe, why don't you come back home (x2)

I've been blue and so alone, so alone

Sugar Babe, Sugar Babe, please say you'll come back home (x2)

Sugar Babe, Sugar Babe, please say you'll be mine (x2)

Because I'm sick and weary, love you all the time

Sugar Candy Taxi (RobertCoyne/Kevin Coyne - 1999) (SUGAR CANDY TAXI)

Sugar candy taxi on the highway to Hell

Al Capone is in the back seat, his cigar it really smells

Blonde Tina's in the front seat, diamond rings all on her hand

She turns to Al, she says Hey pal, you never understand

A woman is a woman, she's got to be treated smart

It's not just dresses and fancy furs, a woman's got a heart

A woman's got a soul as well, she's not just high heel shoes

She gets down at the kitchen sink, even blonde girls get the blues

Sugar candy taxi on the highway to Hell

Al Copone is in the back seat, his cigar really smells

The wind is blowing outside, the storm is up ahead

Within five years, within five years, Al Copone will be dead

Sugar Daddy (Hans Pukke/Kevin Coyne - 1992) (BURNING HEAD)

Sugar Daddy's gone away, gonna take a holiday

Says he's not coming back again

Sugar Daddy's on the telephone, keeps on ringing

But nobody's home, it's not unusual

Life gets that way everyday

I don't blame him, you treated him so bad and you made him sad, no no

I don't blame him, you treated him so bad and you drove him mad

Sugar Daddy is on the plane, drinking gin and tonic

He's half insane, talking to anyone, anyone who'll listen to him, who'll listen to him

Sugar Daddy says he might arrive in South America just half alive

Some strange city where nobody really knows he's changed his clothes

I don't blame him, you treated him so bad and you made him sad

I don't blame him, you treated him so bad and you drove him mad, and you drove him mad, and you drove him mad

I don't blame him, you treated him so bad and you made him sad no

I don't blame him, you treated him so bad and you drove him mad no

I don't blame him, you treated him so bad and you made him sad, you made him cry

I don't blame him, you treated him so bad and you drove him mad now listen out

I'm talking to somebody out there, somebody listen, listen to me, I gotta hear a voice, I gotta hear a voice, freedom out there and liberty, I'm strapped in here and I'm all alone, my muscles are aching down to the bone, somebody come and hold my hand, somebody there understand but if you're not here now what can I do, I just gotta dream, dream of you, I got a picture in my head of you lying there with another man and I don't understand, somebody help me, somebody there, somebody touch me, somebody care, there must be you, it's gotta be you, there's nobody else, no-one will do, now, come on baby, come on now, hold me now, kiss me once or twice, come on here, I'm standing here, I'm all alone and I'm full of fear, I'm somewhere dreaming, somewhere scheming, scheming of you, I'm going crazy, my mind is hazy, I don't know just what to do, what can I do?

Sugar Sugar Samba (Robert Coyne/Kevin Coyne - 1999) (ROOM FULL OF FOOLS)

You gave me a chance to dance in my drceams, this lonely man you understand had no dreams till he saw you dancing towards him, in the ballroom

His little face it sparkled, it shone, like a fresh little apple, his checks they glowed, they were lovely to see, under those strange lights

And later he drove with his Fiat, into the snow over the land, the deep deep snow grew grey, the slush from the tires dirtied his shoes

Sugar sugar sugar samba I want to get higher, I want to be your big silly bird, want to be your flier, I want you to know, want you to know you're my only only desire

Sugar sugar sugar samba, I want to get high with you

We took holidays, we did wonderful things. now we're thinking of getting married, thinking of childcen, little babies in rows by the window

There's nobody can stop us, nobody can stop us, the love we felt that night, it goes on, it's a light for all to see, how wondrous, it's almost a disease

Sugar sugar sugar samba I want to get higher, I want to be your big silly bird, want to be your flier, your love is truly my only only desire

Sugar sugar sugar samba, I want to get high with you, I want to get high with you, I want to get high

Sugar Turning Sour (RobertCoyne/Kevin Coyne - 1999) (ROOM FULL OF FOOLS)

My memory's failing, don't know where to go, I switch from up, way down below

Everybody tells me I could do much better, but I don't like this city and I don't like the weather

Now if you kiss me, put some sugar in it, when your eyes light up, don't let them dim it, I want to feel your love everywhere, I'm getting old, whisper, tell me you'll care and share

Tell me you'll care and share, tell me you love me, even in my underwear

Sugar's turning sour (x3)

I used to be funky but I think I've lost most of that, everything that was muscle has certainIy turned to fat

I'm abrasive but nohody takes no notice anymore, when I start shooting, they just slam the kitcheen door

I look out the windows for friends that might arrive, I'm lost and lonely, I can't even drive

They took my license, took my number, took everything away, take me out into the countryside, I want to feel the sun

Sugar's turning sour (x3) sour, stinks, alright

Sugar's turning sour (x3)

I'm on a train, it's travelling somewhere but nobody really knows, I'm leaving this city at last and I've just got a change of clothes

I'm aiming for the seaside, for all those hobbing boats, I want to get out on that blue, I want to float

I want to float on an empty sea, to a land that's far away, I'm looking for a little paradise, a lovely happy day

But there's no chanc ehere (x2), till I get to that wondeerful place

I think they call it heaven (x2)

Sugar's turning sour (x7)

Sunday Morning Sunrise (Kevin Coyne - 1975) (MATCHING HEAD AND FEET)

Must be Sunday morning sunrise, yes it's creeping down on me

Glaring through the windows, shining all over me

Chorus: And my children are asleep and I hope that they don't wake

Must be Sunday morning once again.

Must be Sunday morning sunrise, yes love me, I love you

Put your arm across my chest my dear

All your loving, let it show, let is show right through

Chorus - Solo - Chorus

Love me, love me darling

Love me, love me cause I love you

All these years we spent together

There's nobody else will do, it has to be you

And our children are asleep and I hope that they don't wake

Must be Sunday morning once again

And our children are asleep and I hope that they don't wake

Must be Sunday morning once again

Sunshine Home (Hans Pukke/Kevin Coyne - 1987) (STUMBLING ONTO PARADISE)

Stumbling onto paradise, big wings on my back

I'm in such a holy groove, I'm on the right track

All the birds and big fat bees humming melodies

I can see the twilight grooving through the big big trees

Chorus: Taking a trip to the sunshine home

You're never alone at the sunshine home.

Old folks and young folks dancing up and down

Hey look at that fat man, he is playing the clown

I can see the big blue river and the big white birds

Gonna keep up flying, happy and absurd, we're all crazy here

Chorus - Solo - Chorus

I'm so speechless that I just can't move

I'm so happy that I'm in the paradise groove

Funky hunky monkey man, happy for the very last time

Hold hands with me right now, I'll show you what's mine, come on

Chorus x2

Sun Shines Down on me (Kevin Coyne - 1979) (BABBLE)

Daylight's shining through at last

It's running right through my past

I know that everything is alright

Oh because the lord let the sun shine down on me

Oh because the lord let the sun shine on you and me

Crying, it somehow don't seem right

I've gained back my soul and my appetite

I'm happy like I've never been before

Oh, because the lord let the sun shine down on me

Oh because the lord let the sun shine on you and me

I know I was crazy

Never did the right thing at all

I know I let my mind go lazy

I let my spirit fall

I know there was something wrong

But now it seems to have truly gone

The lord let his sun shine down on me

Oh, because the lord let the sun shine on you and me

I said now smile everybody

Don't you see it's gone

I'm surrounded by good spirits

Day and nigh time long

And when I walk, I walk like I've just been born

Oh, because the lord let the sun shine down on me

Just because the lord let the sun shine on you and me

Sweetheart (Kevin Coyne - 1979) (BABBLE)

Sweetheart, sweetheart

I know I love you, I'm taking you, needing you, I'm always wanting you

Sweetheart, sweetheart

Let's make it together, we can, yes we can, we can together now

We're walking down darkened streets

There's a daylight beneath our feet

Don't mind their smiles

Don't look at them

We have our little castle

We've really built a den

Sweetheart, sweetheart

Let's make it together

Let's mean it, let's mean it, let's try it

Let's really mean it

Sweetheart, sweetheart

Any kind of weather is my kind of weather

And your kind of weather now

It's raining, see the splashes fall

There are shadows on the city wall

Strangers we can take them

They can't move us, we can make them

Sweetheart, sweetheart

Let's keep on loving, let's hold it, let's hold it, let's hold it

Don't cold it now

Sweetheart, sweetheart

You know I'm making my life for you and you for me forever now

The birds are crying, so they say

It could be that you and I are on our way

We're steppin' out, steppin' out in style

We don't need no defence

We've got ourselves all the while

Sweetheart, sweetheart

You know I'm mumbling, I'm making up things and I don't know why I'm talking

Sweetheart, sweetheart

Let's keep on crying if crying's going to change it

Let's see the sun shine our way

Hold up the clouds, lock them back

I'm telling you now

We're on the right track

Hold onto everything

Don't let it go

We are here and everyone should know

Sweetheart, sweetheart

Here we are together, it's you and me

You're looking better

You're looking so much better now

Sweetheart, sweetheart

There's no denying that crying is lying

So don't let us cry forever now

I see you, you and me

My long hair shaking like a tree

Covering your body with every single strand

It's about time you saw

You really are a man

Sweet Melinda (Robert Coyne/Kevin Coyne - 2002) (CARNIVAL)

Oh my sweet Melinda, my true solid sender, my little bobby socks girl, from that teenage world

I remember you by the garden gate, such a lovely sight, you were never late for the schoolbus as it rolled down the road, I love you so much, I said go Melinda, go

Oh Melinda, my sweet solid sender, my bobby socks girl, from that teenage world

You're so wonderful, even now, I hold your photograph, I squeeze you somehow, I see your big blue eyes and your lovely red lips, I want to touch your hands and your fingertips

Oh Melinda, my sweet Melinda, my true solid sender, my bobby socks girl, from that teenage world, alright

Oh I love you Melinda, my sweet Melinda, my true solid sender, from my teenage world

What a wonderful girl, oh I love you Melinda, you're a real solid sender (x2), my eternal girl from that teenage world (x3)

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