KEVIN COYNE LYRICS - U

 

Uggy's Song (Kevin Coyne - 1972) (CASE HISTORY)

Take any city

Take any town

You'll always find my sort around

On any door step

Any tree

Snoozin' bleary, a man like me

Why should you care?

Why should you share?

Why should you want

Why should you want a man, a man around who's looking like me

I'm lost and lonely

No money at all

Hoping someday I can recall

A better day

And of better way

Something special to hold on to

Why should you care?

Why should you share?

Why should you want

Why should you need a man around looking, looking like me?

So they told me to move on

Pack my scraps and go

Tell me

Where can I go? (x2)

And it's startin' to rain

And it's startin' to pour

Reckon I'll hide in some fat old rich man's door

Why should you care?

Why should you share?

Why should you want

A man like me, oh a man like me around?

Oh you know a man like, a man like, a man like, a man like, a man like me around?

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Underground (Kevin Coyne - Andreas Blüml) (UNDERGROUND)

Sittin’ on a park bench, flowers growin’ all over me.
Up my arms ‘n’ right up my legs.
Wastin´ away.
They pass by, they say
he can´t move, he´s paralysed.
I keep a-laughin´ at myself. I can´t get home.

I want to get there but I can’t. I want to get there but I won’t
I want to get there but I can’t. I want to get there but I won’t

Live in terror of impending doom.
All the shadows that collect in my little room.
I want to stay out here. Out in the bright sunlight.
I like the weather here. The weather likes me.
I´m not goin´ anywhere. The police can come and take me away.

I won´t riot with them. I won´t go for them.
I won´t riot with no one. I won´t go for no one.

Return to the ground. I´m gonna sink right in.
Back to the basics, back to the underground.
Into the darkness where I just hear the breathing
of a million souls, of a trillion souls.
I don´t wonder and I, I don´t ask why.
I keep on sittin´ here. I keep on waiting here.
You can remove me if you like. You can remove me if you like.

I´m not goin’ anywhere. I´m not goin’ anywhere.
I´m goin’ home. I hope I´m goin’ home.

I´m not goin’ anywhere. I´m not goin’ anywhere.
I´m goin’ home. I´m goin’ home.

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Up North (Kevin Coyne - 1979) (ARCHIVES )

The whistling fool from everywhere comes around, he doesn't care, works all night almost anywhere, he's just another victim

He goes on down to Darley Dale, he dreams of milk drunk from a pail, he's never seen the inside of a jail, he's always regular

And all the people that I know, they all wear almost identical clothes and they all shop for the very same shoes

Up north (x3)

And most of them despise me now, they feel that I'm a sacred cow, who lost the touch anyhow and doesn't really care

They think my sentimental heart has exploded in a terrible fart and exuding of a rotten heart that didn't belong to them anyway

Up north (x4)

But I'll be back home again, climbing up your flock wallpapered walls, hearing the postman when he calls at four o'clock in the morning, and gets me out of bed

I hope it's when I'm dead

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