KEVIN COYNE LYRICS - T

 

Take a Train (Kevin Coyne - 1974) (BLAME IT ON THE NIGHT)

Take a train train train (x2)

Gotta get back home

See my mother and father again

I'm insane sane sane (x2)

Nobody remembers me

Nobody knows my name

Am I to blame blame blame (x2)

Standing in the gutter

Looking at the gurgling drain

Home is where the heart is, yes

That's where I belong

Home is where the heart is, yes

That's why I'm coming home (x2)

Take a train train train (x2)

Get back home

See my mother and father again

I'm insane sane sane

I'm insane sane insane

Nobody remembers me

Nobody knows my name

Am I to blame blame blame? (x2)

Standing in the gutter

Looking at the gurgling drain

Home is where the heart is, yes

That's where I belong

Home is where the heart is, yes

That's why I'm coming home (x2)

Taking the train

The choo choo train (x3)

Taking the train (x2)

The choo choo train (x2)

Taking the train (x2)


Take Me Back In Your Arms (Kevin Coyne - 1988) (EVERYBODY'S NAKED)

Take me back in your arms, I was lonely but you're here again

Take me back in your arms, I've been waiting for your train

Take me back in your arms, lt's lovely to see you sitting here

Take me back in your arms, our love's so strong and clear

Cause I was lonely, such a fool, treated you badly oh so cruel

Take me back in your arms, honey I apologise

Take me back in your arms, you forgive me, see it in your eyes

Take me back in your arms, I'll never hurt you again

Take me back in your arms, I want you, my only friend

Cause I was lonely and treated you cruel but now you're back, I was such a fool, such a fool, such a fool, such a fool, that's how I was, such a fool

Cause I was lonely and treated you cruel but now you're back, I was such a fool

Take me back in your arms, it's alright now the lights are low

Take me back in your arms, we're holding, you really know

Take me back in your arms, my conscience is clear at last

Take me back in your arms, let's forget all the past, all the past, all the past


Take on the Bowers (Taking on the Bowers) (Kevin Coyne/Robert Wyatt - 1980) (SANITY STOMP)

Take on the bowers of the year, sing out silence loud and clear

Hear the childd of love inside, sing songs of fratricide, sing songs of fratricide

Help the one whose heart is torn, sadly fickle, hot and warm

See the inner light reside, help the homeless suicide, help the homeless suicide

How high the hills he had to climb, how tight the bow, how sharp the twine

But God did speak and life renewed, the infant heart white clouds accrued, the infant heart white clouds accrued

Oh high banked river seal his peace, let fortune's feathers kiss release,

For God burns cold to those in fear, but love is all for those that care, but love is all for those that care

Sing on, sing on, sing on, sing on

Dark heartless melody is lost, dark heartless melody is lost

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Take Your Pain Away (Robert Coyne/Kevin Coyne - 1999) (ROOM FULL OF FOOLS)

You're the loveliest lady I've ever seeen, some thing out of Hollywood, sornething out of a dream

Saw you drinking hard in a north side bar, wondered why you were so sad and lonely, a jaded star

Chorus: I know you suffered before (x3) but I will take your pain away, yes I will

I got your telephone number last night, talked for two hours, tried to make things right

You didn't trust no-one and I don't blame you, they all let you down, told you lies, not the truth, all lied to you

Chorus

I'll take it away, take it away, all your pain away (ad lib)

Chorus

I'll take it away, take it away, all your pain away (ad lib)


Taking on the World (Kevin Coyne - 1980) (SANITY STOMP)

Is it madness is in your blood? Sometimes you think you're a sticked mud

Taking on, taking on the world

Twenty-six hours by aeroplane to discover you're half insane

Taking on, taking on the world

Chorus: Taking on the world, all the boys and girls, taking on, taking on the world.

Someone told you you could do quite well but you realize you're in a living hell

Taking on, taking on the world

Country scenes is what you require but a litlle bit of rock'n'roll is your only desire

Taking on, taking on the world

Chorus - Solo - Chorus

You're ?? but somehow you're trying to steal the ??

Taking on, taking on the world

When your mind goes blank, what do you do? You keep on walking, you keep walking in those rock'n'roll shoes

Taking on, taking on the world

Chorus

And I'll always will, I love it but sometimes I hate it but I'll always will (ad lib)


Talk About Love (Kevin Coyne - 1978) (DYNAMITE DAYS OUTTAKES)

I've broken your heart so many many many times

Told so many fairy tales and so many terrible lies

Passionate and faithless, although I've not been good

I want to love you now like I know I should

Always talk about love

I always talk about love (x2)

I've got to prove it, prove it

I was posing with all those girls

Living in a fantasy, a fantasy world

But look at me tonight

Look at this sight, look into the mirro

These tears can't be right

I always talking about love

Always talk about love (x2)

I've got to prove it, prove it

Oh honey honey oh, I love you so

Darling don't go, I will make it up this time

I won't string you on a line

Look at my face, you know my style

Wherever you are I want to be with you

Every minute all the while

But sometimes I'm far away, I need someone to hold

God know I wanted to be faithful

But sometimes I get, I get so cold

You know I always talk about love

Always talk about love (x2)

I always talk about love

Always talk about love

Talking talking talk about love

Always talk about love

Oh honey honey oh, I love you so

Darling don't go, I will make it up this time

I won't string you on a line

So here we are together for ever

Together for ever (x3)

Hold me, never stop, never stop, never stop, never stop


Talking Money (Kevin Coyne - 1993) (TOUGH AND SWEET)

Talking money, funny funny money, sticky sticky money, money's not so funny

Talking money, always talking talking money, money's not so funny, that sticky tricky money

No wonder people get crazy, get flabby, get lazy, no wonder people go crazy, go flabby, go lazy

Money (repeat). Lazy (repeat)

Talking money, all that crazy money, all that funny funny money, you know they're just talking money

Talking money, funny funny money, talking money, oh sticky tricky money

No wonder people get crazy, get flabby, get lazy, no wonder people go crazy, get flabby, get lazy

Money (repeat). Lazy (repeat)

Talking money, crazy crazy money, talking money, sticky sticky money

No wonder people get crazy, no wonder people get lazy, no wonder people get crazy, get flabby and lazy

Money (repeat). Lazy (repeat) Crazy


Talking To No-One (Kevin Coyne - 1973) (MARJORY RAZORBLADE)

Talking to no-one is strange, talking to someone is stranger

You might be in danger yes if you say too much in this world

Being on your own is hard, being with someone is harder

All the confusion inside you and there's no-one to guide you

I once found a friend, someone I could care for

Now that friend has gone, I might find a friend in the end

You know I want to go back somewhere where the warmth is, anywhere, oh I don't care

(repeat everything)


Talk is Cheap (Kevin Coyne - 1978) (DYNAMITE DAYS OUTTAKES)

I was talking to a friend only yesterday

He said it was the godspel truth but I found out the other way

Chorus: Talking (x4) to myself

Walking (x4) with myself

Talking (x4)

Talking is cheap

Talk talk talk is cheap

Chatter chatter chatter is cheap

Talk talk talk is cheap.

I was listening to a man

Said he'd save the poor

Said he loved the destitute but they couldn't sleep on his floor

Chorus

I listened to a gouvernement ??

But when they mention the cost, the ?? went down the drain

Chorus

Chatter chatter chatter

Chorus

I keep waiting for solutions

Problems have no end

Maybe I'm talking all this talk cause talking is the trend

Chorus

Talking is cheap (x2)

Chatter is cheap

Talking is cheap

Talk is cheap


Tear me Up (Hans Pukke/Kevin Coyne - 1987) (STUMBLING ONTO PARADISE)

Tear me up, I'm just a book (x4)

Tear me up (x4)

I'm just a book

I'm in love, don't break my heart (x4)

I'm in love (x4)

Don't break my heart

I'm living in a fairy story

I met a princess

I'm living in a fairy story

I've got her adress

Tear me up, I'm just a book (x4)

Tear me up (x8)

I'm just a book


Teenage Queen (Ali Neander/Kevin Coyne - 1996) (KNOCKING ON YOUR BRAIN)

Only yesterday, I saw you, standing in your dress of blue, very very young, supermarket strong, I said I love you

You just turned away and laughed and gave a little cough, said 'Maybe one day very soon, I can be your princess in my smart little dress and you can be my big baboon'

I'll be your Billy the Kid, you can be my Tiger Queen, we can jog and dance around all day

Go down to McDonald's, maybe the Burger King, we can bite bite bite the night away

Down in the Dungeon Club, that is the hub of life and spirit round here

We can dance down there, do the boogaloogaloogaloogaloo, that's the place for young lovers

Chorus: You're my teen teen teen teenage Queen (three times), kinky teenage Queen

I'll do anything for you, I'll love you good and true, give you all my money and everything

Birds of a feather, we will stick together, ting a ling, ting a ling, ting a ling, ting a ling

Hear my love fall, hear me when I call, see me when I crawl on your floor

You're towering and you're strong but I can't last for long, I'm your power man, I'm your power man

Chorus - Solo - Chorus

Have you got the message? It schould be clear, telephone me, please ring, my dear

I'll give you everything I've got and what I've got is hot, a little faded but very strong

Now you don't have to worry about little things like money, my pension's good and sure, it's in the bank

Ah, we can laugh together, go jogging in any weather, we can both wear pink suits

Do you like swimming? Do you like Oasis? Do you like rock'n'roll? Do you remember the Beatles? You don't remember the Beatles. Ah you're just a little young for that, just a little young for that, just a little young for that, you're just a little young for that


Television Life (poem) (Kevin Coyne - 1969-70) (LET'S DO IT)

He lives inside the television

He sits on valves and eats wires

His wires and valves are surrounded by valves and more wires

It's not surprising to hear him say that he believes that wires govern his extremities and valves own his brain

He knows that when he moves a great audience watches him

And that the workshop is waiting for him to crack up


Tell Me Tony (Robert Coyne/Kevin Coyne - 1993) (TOUGH AND SWEET)

Chorus: Tell me Tony, you're not giving in, come on and tell me Tony, you're not giving in (x4)

I know that life is tough and Mandy she has treated you rough, she's gone with a bloke from across the sea and she's down by the sand down on her knees

She might telephone (but she won't), she might telephone (I know she won't), she might telephone (I know she won't), she might telephone (perhaps she won't)

Come on Tony, you're not giving in, come on Tony, you've got to tell me, you're not giving in

Tell me, you're, come on and tell me you're not giving in

A man should be a man, a man should be a man, a man should be a man, you should understand (x6)

Chorus (ad lib)


Tell the Truth (Kevin Coyne/Steve Bull - 1982) (PØLITICZ)

Have you heard the story about Robin Hood?

Now Robin Hood was really good

He fed the poor to feed the rich

He didn't do a thing the bitch

Heard the story about Guru Christ?

He was a man infested with lice

He thought he was really nice

But where is he now, we need him now

We need him now

Tell the truth (x8)

Hear the story about Josef K

A man who had his day

A lion in his lair

A man who knew anywhere

He could control your soul he said

Now that man is really dead

Is he dead? Dead. He's dead. Is he dead?

Tell the truth (repeat)


That Girl Of Mine (Kevin Coyne - 1979) (ROCKPALAST)

I left my love down by the gasworks

Her little body pressed close to mine

She called me a saussage

A mere frankfurter

She was a swine, that girl of mine


That's Rock'n'Roll (Kevin Coyne - 1978) (PEEL SESSIONS ) (thanks to Matthew Sweeney)

Velveteen friends of mine dancing on a telephone booth

All the girls in the bar room, they seem to be called Ruth

White and ?? skirts exploding under the light

Down in Victoria Street, they're breaking up the night

Chorus: Oh oh oh that's rock'n'roll (x2).

Thomas Wayne stands by the juke box in his thin black suit

White white socks and thick sole boots

What happened to Tracy Pendarvis, such a good friend of mine?

All the heroes, all the names are coming back in time

Chorus

Johnny Rotten goggling down through my TV

The energy and the loving there is buckling his knees

Hi there Johnny, how are you?

I know how it feels

I've got the rythm though my hair is falling out

I can still rock and reel

Chorus (x2)


Theresa (Hans Pukke/Kevin Coyne - 1990) (ROMANCE ROMANCE )

Down at the Cafe Pompadour, we were twirling, we were having fun

A tall woman flashed by, she said: "You could be my son"

I looked up at her and I started to smile

It was love at first sight

So we skipped and we hopped till we twirled around

Off into the purple night

It felt so marvelous, didn't know what to do

I was on a big pink cloud just thinking of you

I felt histerical, I started to scream

That's so wonderful to find the girl of my dreams

We walked to slowly through the big city streetts

Then I gazed down and looked at your enormous feet

I said: "They're big, they're enormous, they're huge!"

You said: "It doesn't matter at all"

I shook my head, I said: "Let's go to bed, I'm tired, I could almost crawl"

It felt so marvelous, I found you at last

??self concious, you blessed my prayers

You touched me everywhere, a secret desire

And it felt so wonderful to find the girl of my dreams

When we got to your flat, your cat sat on your mat

Glancing across with his big green eyes at your poodle white and fat

You said: "I've got some explaining to do, it's really necessary

My name's not Theresa at all, it's really Big Terry"

I said: "It doesn't matter, I don't care one bit

I like you just the same, in fact I don't give a shit

If you're Doreen, Derik, Divinia or Don

It doesn't matter at all

When love creeps in, you can't let go

And I can hear the call"

It felt so good, never felt like this before

Heaven was oppening, thrusting back the door

I did not care, I felt so free

And it felt so wonderful to find the girl of my dreams

Felt so nice, felt perfectly right

Something had happened that wonderful night

I found ??, I found a true friend

And it felt so wonderful to find a friend in the end

Everybody said it's wrong, you should make a break

With your job in the bank, you should be franck

The boss he can't take

Your comings and goings, your strange little ways

He thinks you're going mad

I said I'm just free, I'm like a buzzy little bee

I've no time to be sad

They dismissed me, they let me go

They drove me out of the door

So I'm working on the building site now

And I'm happy like never before

I'm not ashamed, you could know my name

I'm a friend of Terry,Theresa


There She Goes (Kevin Coyne/Brian Godding - 1981) (POINTING THE FINGER)

There she goes, what am I going to say?

There she goes and she's gone away

There she goes and she'll be back again

There she goes, looking at the little fat man

Destroyed on drink

Crawling around the room

Believing the voices in his head

His head is a tomb

Filled with paraphernalia

From dreadful, lonely years

But she's here, yes she's here, yes she's here, right here

There it goes, the same old story again

There it goes, spot the happy man

There it goes, a heart and a soul for me

There it goes, endlessly and endlessly

Why was I crying at the window last night?

Why was I holding on my pillow?

And I had to bite and bite

And why was I screaming in those empty years?

Maybe there's been too many, too many savage tears

A shrinking violet, I'm never likely to be

Because I insist on being little me

So when I scream and sometimes hate

You know I love you just the same

Cause you know your name, you know your name

I love the sound of your lovely name

There she goes, don't frighten her away

There she goes, what can I say?

There she goes, got me, got me everywhere

There she goes, screaming that she cares

Touch me, touch me, like you, like you know you do

I'm just a little old fashioned

But relying on touching you

Let me feel you river of hair

Rolling down my chest

Cause I love you, I love you, you're the best


They Love Their Mother (Kevin Coyne - 1976) (CHASING RAINBOWS ) (see also I Love My Mother)

(beginning is missing)

I give that perfect light, perfect light

Arm in arm, arm in arm agains the night, the darkest night

They love their mother (x2)

And that's alright, that's alright

They love their mother, yes they do, oh they love her so

They love their mother, yes they do, yes they do


Things Gonna Get Better (Kevin Coyne - 2000) (EMPTY GLASS)

All night long, I've been crying

I'm almost breaking down

All night long, I've been crying

Almost breaking down

I've been weeping and moaning

Walking around in my dressing gown

I can't take much more (x2)

Everybody says: "Cheer up Kevin

You're gonna laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh all day"

But I know I need somebody

Someone I can trust and, trust and take care of all this pain away

I've been out on the park, walking round and round, a little ?? walking round

I've been talking to trees, singing on benches

Nobody answers back to me

And I'm mixed up and I'm confused

I'm mixed up and I'm confused

How much I've lost, I lost my little bungalow

She took it all, even my little bungalow

Everybody says to me: "Kevin, cheer up

It'll get better one day"

But I know it will take a giant bottle of vodka ??, a bottle of whisky to drive this pain away

??

?? a big black hole and I might crawl under the stairs and down

Trapped in a German town, no friends, no friends, everybody laughs, oh they just treat me bad

I want to find a place (x2)

Where I can rest my weary, my weary British head

I'm almost dead (x5)

Somebody said if you go on like this

?? Better be somebody screaming, not so down

All I know, all I know, all I know, there must be somebody out there who loves me, some little bugger who's gonna hold my hand and squeeze me for evermore because I'm a little bit lonely, a little bit sad, I need somebody lo love, anybody to love, is there anybody out there who really loves me? I've no idea but I don't really care but in a way, well it's not so bad after all

Things gonna get better (x2)

They usually get better

Things gonna get better (x2)

They usually do


Think of Sunshine (Kevin Coyne - 1979) (ELVIRA )

You see me in Paris, you see me everywhere, you see me speeding through your town

That was my face you saw in a bar, that was my name you kicked around

That was my fateful life, that was me, that was you, I forgive you, all of you

You didn't realise...

You were stronger than me it seems, I know that you didn't mean to hurt me, didn't mean to hurt me

But I'm not sure, still confused, just another glass, just another dance

Rayrnond, play that tune again, play it loud, play it strong, play it forever

This is a tiny room, not much of a bed, not much of a place, not much of an end

This is a tiny room, draw the curtains, cut out the gloom and think of sunshine

Think, think of sunshine (x4) and don't, don't cry


This is not a Joke (Kevin Coyne/Brendan Croker - 2002) (LIFE IS ALMOST WONDERFUL)

I'm undressed and I'm not well, sitting at the bay-window making the smell

I'm ashamed of my condition, I need, I need a position

Someone to tell me I'm better, better than I really feel

Someone to say, "You're better, better than you really feel"

I need the Lord up above oh to heal

Heal my toes, heal my nose, heal my ears, both of them

Heal my nose, heal my toes, heal my ears, both of them

Make something new of me, make me into a superman

Yes, make something new of me, make me into a superman

With the wisdom of an Einstein, my father's glance

It's genetic, I'm frenetic, I can't understand myself at all

It's genetic and frenetic cause I can't understand myself at all

The family Bible stands by the bed, it lies by the bed

The family Bible lies by the bed

I've got my mother's old nightie under my head and recyclining

I don't know why I'm like I am

I could have been something, I...

The teacher at school said, "If you apply yourself, you could be a bank manager, even a zoo keeper, you know, alligators would respect you and those buzzards, I've seen them, they bow when you, when you pass by. There's an air of confidence about you that inspires loyalty"

I wonder if I'll achieve my goal

I wonder, yes I wonder - and I stutter - if I'll achieve my goal

God have mercy on my angst full soul

God have mercy on me. If you're up there, please relieve me of all tension, please send me someone to love.

This is not a joke (x7)


This is Spain (Kevin Coyne - 1973) (MARJORY RAZORBLADE)

We got the tickets, caught all the trains

We're on our way to our holidays again

Everybody knows it's the time of the year to get some sun on our muscles

On our muscles that are white

We need something to make us brown

Brown as berries, brown

The two kids are wandering round the town

Buying various oddments

Various assorted things

Hope they don't steal my clothes while I'm away

That waiter looks suspicious, lurking around

I saw him across the way

He was singing songs, evil songs

Clicking his heels, flipping around

I'm sure he is a gangster, someone bad

I'll have to run back, I'm on the wrong side of town

This is Spain (x2)

This is Spain on our holidays again

This is Spain on our holidays once again

Oh Manuela, you look so well, oh Carla, is it Carla or is it, is it Manuela? Oh Manuela, Manuela...


This Is The House (poem) (Kevin Coyne - 1978) (DYNAMITE DAYS OUTTAKES)

This is the house where I was born

These are the walls and this is the door

This is the cupboard where we put the knives and forks

This is the living room where we had our talks

This is the garden where I planted the flowers

This is the path that I spent hours and hours making

And this is me in my vest like a photograph

The rest you can see is falling down

And I'm sorry that they had to do it

That they wanted to do it

Though they didn't mean to do it

And number 53 will always be home to me

Though it is flat as a ?? and they're all insane

This is the home where we had our children

Everyone of of them has gone away

This is the place, this is the yard

Where they used their skipping ropes

Where they used to trot and play

Though there wasn't room for the days

Bye bye number 53 (x2)

But you'll always be home to me

Here comes the big ball and the chain

There goes ??

There goes the numbered place I used to know as home

And where is home?

Where is home? (repeat)

No, nowhere is home, it's not here, it's not here

Here's your tea Mr. Walker; you want a biscuit? Your visitors are going to come, I think they'll be here about five-thirty


This Is The River (poem) (Kevin Coyne - 1978) (PUTNEY 83 )

This is the river in me that turns suspicious eyes into cool fingers

This is the river in me that makes me receptive for all the shit in the world

Laugh it up, laugh it up, laugh till the river speaks up

The happy fish return

You hear the sound, the sound, the cackle, the black and white lies

The worry, the inept marvelous widsom white-washing the world and its worries

Winking Wally, wept-on Wally, who the fuck's Wally? Cant' remember

Is he the man with the ?? head?

The world is ?? through my door

Bringing oversized problems, ??, dreams of oblivion and life

I ask them to take the happy road

Though they need the persuading

Ask them and ask them but forgot to take my advice

How stupid can one man be

How stupid to see and be blind

How awful the dreams that linger into days

How awful the color of humanity

?? must stop and be replaced by hands held closely

And hearts swimming and singing the true love

The world's work, it's only just begun

And William Blake sits by the water

Listen to the reverie of the new spring

See the cracked walls of industry

Blossoming, ?? flowers

Walking ?? screaming songs of life

Their pin stripe suits as flags

Their bags of ?? on their heads

See the many nations ?? with difficulty

Pressing palm into palm

Pressing riches into riches

Crying ?? of hope never heard of before

The dark sits on no-one shoulder

Only the heartless and the ??

?? has left the valley of the mind

And for Bob Marley, black and white must love each other

They're getting shadows and sharpness

We're getting past and pity

We're getting trees and torture

We're getting crime and punishment

We're getting hate and ??

We're getting lost and lovers

We're getting the details of the dead wish they'd strangled us all

We must be patient

??

With eye to eye, heartache to heartache

Revealed our singular but


Throw It All Away (Kevin Coyne - 1978) (DYNAMITE DAYS OUTTAKES)

We're walking down a dangerous road

Walking past those big fat gangsters as we go

There's a million pounds in the pockets of their clothes

??

Chorus: Throw it all, throw it all, throw it all, throw it all, throw it all, throw it all, throw it all away

?? air to breathe

Pointless politics got us to our knees

We're ?? if only we knew

Some people kill to avoid the truth

Chorus - Solo - Chorus

Candid old men they're not so wise

They ?? to cruelty and lies

Now the children, the children they see

Look into their eyes, look at liberty, liberty

Chorus

Throw it all away (repeat)

Chorus

Throw it all away (repeat)

It's all in your head


Tiger Lilian (Kevin Coyne - 2002) (SUGAR CANDY TAXI)

It was a night in South London and there was rain and snow

It was dark by the common and you had no place to go

Your little oriental eyes were shining at me as I walked up to you

You said if you can help me, give me some money if that's all you can do

I love you Miss Tiger Lilian, I need you Miss Tiger Lilian, I love you Miss Tiger Lilian

We went back to my flat, iIt was warm and hot inside

You were so lovely smiling, so grateful, said I was kind

We spent the night together, it was a perfect night of love

Every night I think of you lately, I pray to the stars up above, come home

I love you Miss Tiger Lilian, I need you Miss Tiger Lilian, I love you Miss Tiger Lilian

You never came back again, you were, you were so far away

You sent me a letter from Ethiopia, you said you might return someday

You remembered the warm coffee in the morning

And the warmth of my lovely smile

I wish you would come home once more and give me that oriental smile cause

I love you Miss Tiger Lilian, I need you Miss Tiger Lilian, I love you Miss Tiger Lilian

Love you Miss Tiger Lilian, I love you Miss Tiger Lilian, I love you Miss Tiger Lilian, always love you Miss Tiger Lily, Lily, Lilian


Tighten Up (Kevin Coyne/Nick Cudworth/Dave Clague - 1970) (THE CLUB RONDO)

Well tighten up, you're in England now

You'd better tighten up, you're in England now

They don't stand for dictators

They don't stand for evil no how

You better tighten up, we got a good parlament here

You better tighten up, we got a good parlament here

Ain't no bribery or corruption

You ain't got nothin' to fear

This is the Land of the Free, everybody here gets paid

This is the Land of the Free, everybody here gets paid

You can queue at the Labour Exchange

Man, you're made!

If you're black, if you're brown, yellow or blue

Come to England, that's the thing to do

You want to come here

Tighten up and come along inside

There'll keep a welcome in the valleys

You're gonna be alright!


Till the end of time (Kevin Coyne - 1969-71?) (THE SIREN YEARS)

Well I'm worried about the winter

I'm worried about the rain

I'm so tired baby

I'm full of pain

Help me baby

If you know how

Come her quick baby

I gotta love you love you love you baby

Till the end of time

The river's loosing water

Trees are loosing leaves

The air's all dry baby

I can't breathe

Oh baby baby baby baby

What's the matter?

I want to know (x2)

Cause I' gonna love you love you love you baby

Till the end of time

Well summer's a long time

The days seem so long

Once had a love baby

It's upside down, wrong, wrong

Help me baby

Help me get along

I said I was gonna love you love you love you baby

Till the end of time

End of time, alright

Old bandit, come on

Well there's phantoms in my sleep baby

I can't see a thing

So much pain

Oh help me baby

Help me to get along

Cause I' gonna love you love you love you baby

Till the end of time

End of time, right

Count me out on loving

Count me out on pain

Just paint my face

Hand it white and plain

I don't want know baby

I don't want know about a thing

I'm gonna love you love you love you baby

Till the end of time


Time for Tears (Friedl Pohrer/Kevin Coyne - 1995) (CRAZY FRANK)

Time for tears, a little crying

Time for sadness, time for dying

The nurse has gone from this room, left some flowers, yellow and in bloom

Chorus:

Blazing storm, blazing storm, it's gone, it's gone

Blazing storm, blazing storm, can't do me no harm

Blazing storm, blazing storm, it's gone, it's gone

Blazing storm, can't do me no harm.

Time for tears, I'm smiling

Time for tears, at your vision in this room

Time for tears but I'll soon be laughing

I can hear the pipes, the songs

Chorus

Can you hear the pipes they're playing? Mandolins in the rain

Fierce guitars strumming, it's the end of all pain

Time for tears, a little crying

Time for tears, sadness, a little sighing

The nurse is gone from this room left some flowers, yellow and in bloom

Chorus

Time for tears, I'll say goodbye

Time for tears but I'll see you in a while

Time for tears in a world where all is smiles

Time for tears, say goodbye

Time for tears (ad lib)


Time Moves On (Kevin Coyne - Werner Steinhauser) (UNDERGROUND)

Time, time, time, time.
Time moves on.
Time moves on and on.
Time moves on.
Time moves on and on.

Shadows they creep. They’re creepin’ while you sleep.
Time moves on.
Time moves on.
Time. Time moves on.
Time moves on.

Shadows they creep, creepin’ while you sleep.
Time moves on.
On. On. On. On. On.
Time moves on.
Time moves on.
Time moves on.
Time moves on.

Shadows they creep, creepin’ while you sleep.
Time moves on.
Time moves on.
Time moves on.
Time moves on.

Shadows, shadows they creep, they’re creepin’ while, while you sleep.
Shadows they creep. Creepin’ while you’re sleepin’.
Time moves on.
On. On. On. On. On. On. On. On. On.
Time moves on.
Time moves on.
On and on. On and on. On and on. On and on.
On and on. On and on. On and on. On and on.


Too Dark (One for the Hero) (Kevin Coyne/Paul Wickens - 1980) (SANITY STOMP)

I know you say I'm the best, a cut above all the rest

But I've had trouble lately don't you see? I've been denying who is me

Chorus: but it's too too too dark you say

Too too too dark you say, take that light away.

I've been running all your life, I've influenced your girl friend and your wife

You even look like me now what on earth can you do?

It's about time you decided who are you

Chorus (x2)

I know that I maybe let you down, I was a king but now I throw away my crown

I got love and affection but you're throwing it all away

Sometimes your heros have to move, they can't stay

Chorus (x2)


Totally Naked (Kevin Coyne - 1993 BURNING HEAD) or Totally Naked II (TOUGH AND SWEET )

Totally naked, that's how we came into the world you say

Totally naked, bouncing up and down upon the bathroom scales

Totally naked, I'll never change, you say I'll always be that way

Totally naked, bouncing up and down upon the bathroom scales

It's so nice, you and I, and it makes you think

It's so nice you and I though life it sometimes stinks

Totally naked, that's what you say, that 's how we came today

Ttotally naked, totally honest with not a lie, a mistruth to say

Totally naked, I'm flying high, it's such a happy day

Totally naked, I'm just a baby and it's good to feel this way

It's alright, it's so good and it makes you think

It's alright, it's so nice though sometimes the world it stinks, yes

Totally naked, that's how we came into the world they say

Totally naked, bouncing up and down upon the bathroom scales

Totally naked, feel so fine, I'm just a baby in my way

We're totally naked, I suppose we'll always remain the same

Yes, i t's so good, it's so fine and it makes you think

It's so good, it's alright though life sometimes sometimes stinks

Tthough life sometimes sometimes stinks (x2)


Trip to Heaven (Kevin Coyne/Achim Goettert - 1993) (MANSION OF DREAMS)

There's a ?? spirit in my heart tonight

I feel better, cheery and bright

Nobody's messing with my mind any more

Thrown all the misery (x2)

Out the door (x2)

I'm giggling like a baby

Smiling, I don't mean maybe

I've got it here, got it there, it's all over

I've thrown the blues out the door, out the door

Everybody knows if you go a little mad

Everybody knows it's not so good

Everybody knows if you're black or white or blue

You gotta throw them at the door, that's what you got to do

Throw them away

This is the story and it's all, it's all mine

Some of you watched it ??

Watch me spinning up and down your street

But I know it's gotta go

Throw it away (x2)

All those blues away

Throw it away

I'm happy as a sand boy, happy as a sand boy

Little tiny sand boy, happy as a sand boy

Jumping up and down (x2)

Happy as a sand boy, little tiny sand boy

Everybody sing (x2)

The bells are gonna ring in my head

Everybody sing (x2)

The bells are gonna ring in my head


Tulip (Kevin Coyne/Andy Summers - 1975) (MATCHING HEAD AND FEET)

Aged Casanova speaking to the tie-dye

Slightly fat and nineteen year old who's lived a little lie

Down in the darkness where the little glow stares

I can spot the average ones

I can tell by the hair

But you, you shouldn't be here way down on your knees

You don't need the this and that and this and that andthis and that

You don't need this

Chorus: Hey Tulip (x2), you're the strong one

Hey Tulip (x2), yours is the long one.

Hey hey hey this must be your day

Somebody knows your face

They remember from '62

When you wore your shoes blue

And you had the kind of hairdo they'd never admire

You purchased a house and a horse

But you're getting much thinner

Who's watching the children at home?

Who's making your dinner?

Chorus

Shake it just one time for him

You remember your auntie Margaret

And your cousin Jim

They've been searching for you

But you're still down here

Just one more small scotch, one more beer

Leave, leave, go home

To Bradford, Newcastle, somewhere

Go back up North, go away

They don't want you here (x2)

Chorus


Turn On Your Love Light (Kevin Coyne - 1999) (REX 99)

I wonder if you love me darling

If you really care and care and care about Kevin

If you don't, I'll go crazy tonight

Turn on your little love light

Turn on your little love light and shut your fucking mouth

Something's precious, I don't know

I'm in the garden without any clothes

Turn on your love light, light tonight

I'm going to be quite alright

All I need is some little pills

To make me feel better, I won't feel ill

Little Kevin is never gonna die

If he had wings, he'd certainly fly


Turpentine (Kevin Coyne - 1975) (MATCHING HEAD AND FEET)

Take it

I know in Seven Oaks, there are plenty of folks

Who carry guns, carry knives

Smash the faces of their wives, of their wives

Chorus: Take some turpentine

Burn the whole wide world right down now (x2)

Take some turpentine

Burn the whole wide world right down now (x2).

I see the cars, I see the people

There's a flame on the steeple

Little babies on window sills

The people far below are ready to kill

Chorus - Solo - Chorus - Solo - Chorus

Hold me, enfold me

Never leave me, don't you cold me

I'm not joking, I'm not dying

We're going to the moon

Better start flying (x2)

Chorus (x2)

Take turpentine


TypicalType (Kevin Coyne - 2004) (DONUT CITY )

When the rain falls down, lend me your umbrella, lend me your umbrella

Keep me dry when the snow is deep, dig me a hole, a big deep hole

Till it melts away when I'm all alone, ring me up, cheer me up, don't let me get down

Because all I need is a typical type, a typical type, a sweet loving woman like you (whatever that is)

When the rain comes down lend me your umbrella, lend me your umbrella

Let the raindrops go when I feel down, lift me up, make me laugh, make me smile

When I meet you on the street wave a glad hand, a happy hand and I 'Il wave back

Because all I need is a typical type, it's that typical type, a sweet loving woman like you (that's the truth)

So if I know you're there by me I can live much better, I can hope much better if I know you're there when I rnake a call, you rnake me srnile, that's all, I ask too much, no I don't ask too rnuch, life is short and I need you

Because all I need is a typical type, you're the typical type, a sweet loving woman like you

All I need is a typical type, a typical type, a typical type, a sweet loving woman like you

All I need is a typical type (whatever that is), a typical type (whatever that is), a typical type, exactly like you

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