KEVIN COYNE LYRICS

KEVIN COYNE LYRICS - W

Waiting and Wondering (Kevin Coyne - 2000) (EMPTY GLASS)

I'm waiting and wondering

I don't know which way I'm gonna go

Well I'm waiting and wondering

I don't know which way I'm gonna go

I might just go down, go right up there, I just don't know

Wait until dark (Kevin Coyne - 1971?) (RABBITS)

You'd better wait until dark, wait until the rain starts falling (x2)

Yes cause that's the time when a young man's love starts calling

You'd better wait until winter, wait till the snow's on the ground (x2)

Cause I'm a long lost child and I need to see you around, yes I do now

You'd better wait till the moon, moon hides behind the trees

You'd better wait till the moon hides behind the trees

Cause these people are talking, they want to make a fool out of me, oh yes they do now

We'd better wait till my birthday, wait till I get the key

You'd better wait till my birthday, wait till I get the key

Cause those people are talking, say you're too old for me

You're too old for me, you're 29, you're too old baby

Wake up my Children (Kevin Coyne/Dave Clague/NickCudworth - 1969) (SIREN)

Wake up my children (x3)

Your daddy is coming home (x3)

Your daddy is on his way

Wake up my children

Look out your windows

Wake up my children

Your daddy is home from the war (x2)

He's at the door now

Coming nearer and nearer

Wake up my children

I said wake up my children yeah

Wake up my children

He's only a few hours away

He's only a few days away

He's only a few years away

Only a century away

Wake up my children (x3)

Your daddy's never coming (x3)

You know he's gone for good now

Wake up my children

Wake up my children yeah

Wake up my children

Be nice for your daddy

Put away those baddies

Be nice for your daddy

Do away with baddies

Wake up my children yeah

You must see my chidren

There's no more fighting yes

Your daddy is coming home (x4)

Walls Have Ears (Henry Beck/Kevin Coyne - 1993) (TOUGH AND SWEET)

Walls have ears and angels they scream

I can trace the madness in my face

From out of the window, twisting up the garden path

I hear the neighbours chattering, I hear the neighbours laugh

Walls have ears, walls have ears

Walls have ears and babies they cry, deep within the womb all their problems lie

The stars foretell, the maze it runs, some buy sweets and chocolates and some buy machine guns

Walls have ears, walls have ears (Hey you!) (repeat)

Wanting You Is Not Easy (Kevin Coyne - 1974) (BLAME IT ON THE NIGHT)

Tonight as I sit by your window

Thinking of your love, your perfect love

The darkness outside your window

The lights up above, the lights up above

Your head on the bed

Your hair all red

I know it's dyed

But I don't mind

I love you so

You know I'd go

Anywhere and this is not a joke

Wanting you is not easy oh little little girl (x2)

Tonight everything's quiet

Someone there who I don't care about

But I should care cause that's my style

I'll make it in a while

But your soul and your sound is on my mind

All the time

Those branches beating

Against your window

Please be kind

Oh please be kind

Loving you is not easy little girl oh little girl

You know that loving you is not easy little girl - oh little girl yeah

Well you know now wanting you is not easy little girl oh oh

Wanting you is not easy little girl oh little girl

Tonight, I am full of sadness

And you know why

I'm not one for easy romance

But you told me a lie

If I'm not up to it then let me know

Don't make me cry

Cos wanting you and loving you gonna make me die

Oh gonna make me die

Wanting you is not easy little girl oh little girl (x2)

You know wanting you is not easy little girl, oh little girl

Wanting you is not easy oh little girl, little girl

It's not easy, it's not easy, it's never easy

Oh it's never easy

Wanting you - wanting you

Wanting you - loving you

Little girl oh little girl

Wanting you

War is Over (Kevin Coyne/Dave Clague - 1969) (SIREN)

War is over baby

The fighting's all done

You can put away baby big machine gun

War is over

No use for fighting anymore, anymore baby, no, no

War is over

Ain't no use for fighting anymore

You can hang up your gloves baby

Thery're ain't no champion no more

You can go away baby

Lock your old back door

Take a holiday somewhere

Somewhere 'cross the sea, 'cross the sea, without me baby

The war is over baby

It's over baby for you and me oh yeah

You can ground the aeroplane

Put away the kites

You can take everything about

You can put away the search lights

You don't need no camouflage

You don't need, no, no, no, you need nothing baby

The war is over baby

Ain't no use for fighting anymore, oh it's all done now, oh yes

It's over baby, yes it's over baby, it's over

The war is over baby, over baby yeah, over baby yeah

Ain't no use for fighting no

Stuff away your maching gun

Put it somewhere

I won't peek

Washing Clothes/Scarecrow (Kevin Coyne/Achim Goettert - 1999) (OPERA FOR SYD, DREIEINIGKEITSKIRCHE)
(see also "N°21-Scarecrow")

On the 14th day of September, I was washing most of my clothes in the sink in a kitchen that was pink, I was looking down at my shoes

14th day of September, I felt I was wasting away, looking in the eyes of madness and lies, the pain just woudn't go away

14th day of September, there was a raging storm in the yard, the telephone rang and the cockatoo sang, life became very hard, you know the struggle became very hard, life became very hard

I dreamed with passion of flowers, of a moon aflaming in May, of a childhood full of affection, love had flown away

I waited for the sunrise, waited for life to change, nothing became any better, everything rearranged, everything rearranged, became very strange, everything rearranged, became very strange, everything rearranged

I've got a bike, you can ride if you like, it's a fast one, speedy one

Wasted Lives (Wily Wagner/Ali Neander/Kevin Coyne - 1996) (KNOCKING ON YOUR BRAIN)

(Wasted lives, all those wasted lives, throw them away) (repeat)

Angel head, little bed, pink clouds, little white hands, walking down a leafy lane, no one understands

Wondering why all those people, they just turn away, waiting for the perfect chimes for a happy day

I don't know, don't understand, why the world's this way, all I know, time goes by, some of us we stray

Little nurse standing by, holding of his hand, how the hell can he tell them that he's a man

Baby boy, baby boy, in a cloud of tears, nothing comes, nothing leaves, angels in his ears

Tra la la, tra la la, tra la la la la (x4)

And then they tell you that they love you (x2)

Wasting my Time (Kevin Coyne/Dave Clague/NickCudworth - 1969) (SIREN)

Nights and days I waited for you

Waited for your love so true

Chorus: But I'm wasting my time, yes I'm just loosing my mind.

I'm stuck here with misery

Your love dear could set me free

Chorus

Well I'm waiting in windows

Waiting in doors

Walking across those bedroom floors

Chorus

Well give me a chance or give me a break

How much more can a poor boy take

Chorus

Well I'm drunk as can be

Your love could set me free

I need, yes I do, a loving so true

Chorus

Well can't you understand I need you so

I never want to let you go

Chorus

Well I need you baby more and more

But last time darling slammed the door

And I'm wasting my time, yes I'm just loosing my mind

Well I'm pleading sweetheart don't let me down

I need you baby, need you around

Chorus

Oh yeah, that's right, it's true

Way Of The World (Kevin Coyne/Jon Langford/Pat Brennan/John Rice/RobertCoyne - 2002) (ONE DAY IN CHICAGO)

You keep on telling me it’s the way of the world

Keep on telling me it’s the way of the world

How do you know (x10)

You keep on telling me the sun will flicker through

Keep on telling me the sun will flicker through

I’m asking

How do you know (x5)

I’m asking

How do you know (x5)

My heart bleeds but you don’t notice at all (x2)

If you can see

Leave me alone (x5)

I say

Leave me alone (x5)

You keep on telling me it’s the way of the world (x2)

I’m asking

How do you know (x10)

I’m asking

How do you know (x10)

You keep on telling me that the sun will flicker through one day

You keep on telling me that the sunlight, the sun will flicker through

How do you know (x10)

My heart is bleeding but you don’t notice at all (x2)

Give me a call (x5)

I’m begging

Give me a call (x5)

I’m begging

Give me a call (x4)

I’m begging

Give me a call (x4)

Way Of The World (The) (Kevin Coyne - Andreas Blüml) (UNDERGROUND)

That’s the way of the world (4 x)

It goes up and down like that, can’t help itself.
It swivels and bounces. Fluctuates.
Looking through cracked windows at the street,
hearing the sound of tapping feet.
Somebody above me is making a noise.
Naughty girls and naughty boys.

I’m living and unemployed, no work at all,
I toy with the idea of doing away with myself,
but I change my mind every day
I change my mind every day
I change my mind every day
Every day. (7 x)

That’s the way of the world (4 x)

You look at me now and I’m looking at you across the restaurant table.
Across by the sauce bottles, over the salt and the vinegar.
You’re looking at me and looking rather sour,
You’ve been looking like that for the past half-hour.
You want to ask me who I am, but I don’t know,
and you certainly don’t know me.

I wonder, I wonder should I change the way I am?
I wonder, I wonder should I change the way I am?

I wonder, I wonder, I wonder. That’s the way of the world.
I wonder, I wonder, I wonder. That’s the way of the world.

Here comes the sunlight. Make another start.
Here comes the sunlight. I’ll make another start.
Here comes the sunlight. Got to make another start.
Here comes the sunlight. I’ll make another start.

That’s the way of the world (8 x)

We Don't Talk Too Much (Hans Pukke/Kevin Coyne - 1988) (EVERYBODY'S NAKED)

Hey see the bright sunlight

Flickering through the blinds

Feel our bodies moving closer, closer, closer

Just like our minds

Like a river flowing through my head

Hear the seagulls flying overhead

Chorus: We don't talk too much, in fact we don't talk at all (twice)

Hey is that the rolling sea

A vision in front of me

You and I on an island somewhere

A million, million miles from anywhere

Like a river flowing through my head

Like the seagulls flying overhead

Chorus

Like a river flowing through my head

Like the seagulls flying overhead

Chorus x2

We don' talk, we don't talk at all, we don't talk too much (ad lib)

Weirdo (Tom Liwa/Kevin Coyne - 1996) (KNOCKING ON YOUR BRAIN)

Gold and silver lights shining oh so bright in the corner of his room

Big wild birds on top of his house, strange creatures in the garden

Talking to himself for days and hours, he can't relax, he's got to move around

He's got to move around, pacing up and down, he's got to move around, he's a weirdo

He's got no friends, he says he doesn't need any, he doesn't need no one to care

But I believe he's a lonely man, would like a friendly arm to surround him

Craves and lusts for some warmth but love and warmth have never found him

He keeps on walking around, he keeps on pacing around, he can't stop walking around, he's a weirdo

I wonder if you remember him? He was your happy friend at school

The one that was just a little eccentric, the one they laughed at at the back of the class, called him a fool

He keeps on walking around, keeps on pacing around, keeps on walking around, he's a weirdo

He's a weirdo, they call him a weirdo, a lonely weirdo

We Know Who We Are (Kevin Coyne - 1979) (BABBLE)

It doesn't matter who you are (x3)

We know who we are (x2)

(Repeat 5 times)

Well Well Which Way can I Go? (Kevin Coyne - 1976) (CHASING RAINBOWS )

?? Saturday afternoon

Fogs bound faces in the Christmas gloom

Winston Churchill on a football ground

Holding forth to all around

Say, well well which way can I go?

Well well which way can I go?

Tells me suicide is a sin

?? a happy lives

But I see the shadows as I see the lies

Well well which way can I go? (x2)

Wendy's Dream (Kevin Coyne - 1979) (MILLIONAIRES AND TEDDY BEARS)

Wendy's dream of Ireland

Blue skys and green fields

Little men on white chalk roads

Their hearts all revealed

Wendy's dream of Ireland

Elfin houses in a line

Red-cheeked women at wicker fences

Speaking away the time (x2)

I kissed your face

I touched your lips

We gazed from the window onto the street

Rumbling traffic, straggling children

Running, aching, aching feet and loving, aching, aching, needing, needing, needing, needing, needing

Wendy's dream of Ireland

Cheap jewellery on her hands

Is there anyone in this dark place

Who really understands? (x4)

Wendy take my hand (x2)

I understand

We're All Angels [We Are Angels] (Kevin Coyne - 1985) (BERLIN)

Chorus: We're all angels (x4)

Somebody said to me: "You're not so good

You just ??, you are so scared

Chorus

Sometimes I walk under the ??

?? I just don't care

I shake and shiver when it's up there

Chorus

Sometimes strange angels get in my bed

Sometimes strange angels took hold of my head

But I feel good when light comes back in

I feel so strong and I just can't move on, you know

Chorus

Just keep your head up and then you know

There's something for you, something out there

There's always someone, someone to care

Chorus

We're [I'm] not gonna Work Anymore (Kevin Coyne - 1982?) (ROCK GARDEN 82)

When I was born they said to me: Kevin, ?? down

?? you might leave the ground

I wanted to fly up to Heaven but somebody said No

And now I'm feeling terrible, I don't know where to go

Chorus:

I'm not gonna work anymore, I'm not going to work anymore

I'm not gonna work, I dont care about fucking poor

No I'm not gonna work anymore

Well they trampled me right down, my mother and father as well

They gave us the rich idea of a living hell

But Kevin is still dancing, he swears a little bit

He feels so unhappy but he doesn't give a shit

Chorus

They compare me to Roy Harper and Jim Morrission too

They gave a glance of Captain Beefheart's dijeridoo

They told me I was strong and powerful and weak

But I'm just myself, I might just go to sleep

Chorus

We're the Brothers (Kevin Coyne - 1976) (CHASING RAINBOWS )

We're the kings, we're the queens of society

We know them all

We're the top of the shop, we'll make you crawl

We'll make you fall

See us drifting down, down the old milling road

Yes we're the kings at the Palais de Dance

You got to dance to our tune

And the sun will shine

Yes it's yours and mine

You know the sun will shine on us two brothers

Local harps, all the shops, they know us well

They can tell

Late drink Saturday night, you need to drink

You need to dry

I can say every do must have his day

And it's our turn now

We rule the world, boys and girls

Don't take a chance at the local dance

Because the sun will shine

Yes it's yours and mine

You know the sun will shine on us two brothers

Yes you know the sun will shine

Yes it's yours and mine

You know the sun will shine on us two brothers

West Helena (Kevin Coyne - 1969-71?) (THE SIREN YEARS)

Well West Helena Georgia, where do I come from?

West Helena Georgia, that's where I come from

Texas women, they're just fine

?? just like mine

Free to hope, put you down

Treat you like the son of a clown

West Helena ?? they're just fine

I love you baby

I need you baby

I wanna hold you baby (x2)

I want you baby

What is your name (Kevin Coyne/Nick Cudworth - 1969-70) (LET'S DO IT)

What is your name? What is your number?

Switch off the lightning, stop all the thunder

I need a voice to hear me, I need some company (x2)

What is your name? What is your number?

What is your face? What are its features?

I need some understanding, I need to share my fear (x2)

What is your name? What is your number?

The big city makes me lonely, it might drive me under

Won't you stay to hear me, won't you talk to me (x2)

What is your name? What is your number?

What is your aim in calling? Am I someone you need?

My empty room just hurts me and I can't talk to walls (x2)

What is your name? What is your number?

I guess so desperate here, my thoughts ??

Won't you stop a little longer? Won't you tell me you name (x2)

Tell me you name (x2)

What is your name? (x3)

When (See You Again)? (Kevin Coyne/Paul Wickens - 1980) (SANITY STOMP)

Chorus: I said when will I see you again? I don't know where or when but I'll see you again, again and again (x2).

Years I've wasted just for you, expecting some kind of impossible ??

Maybe that's the way where we are, neither of one of us could be a star

Chorus

Notes and pictures on the bedroom walls, waiting for telephones, phone calls

And I love you despite the spite of all, maybe the winner and the looser takes all

Will I see you again? When? I've got to see you again and again and again

Chorus (x1)

I've been waiting, now the time has come to tell you I love ??

But you're saying no and maybe that is right, maybe I'll see you when the moon shines bright

When? Anytime. I can't wait to see you again

Where Are You Going To (Kevin Coyne/Nick Cudworth/Dave Clague - 1970) (THE CLUB RONDO)

Where you going to?

You seem to be on your way

Blossoms on the road

Winter's on its way

River's all dried up

Leaves fallen all off the trees

Turnin' blue 'till your nose ??

Freezin' to your knees

Where you going to? x3

You've left the city

You've left all the dirt

You've come to the country

You've got brown on your shirt

You know the frogs hate you

The cows stare at you

The horses and the big white ?

They don't give a damn for you

Where you going to? x3

Any day now

The sky will fill with light

Maybe the Saviour will come

And make everything alright

But until then you must hide

In the barn by the stream

Hope to find your country place

Hope to find your dream

Where you going to? x3

Andy went away

Andy made some hay

Andy thought he could be free

Escape from the city

Dressed himself in leaves

Wore straw in his hair

Tried to escape the winter

Have sunshine everywhere

But you can't escape

You know it's true

You'll always need an old back door

You'll always need a grate with a flue

You'll always need a cracked chimney

You'll always need a big fire

You'll always need your grandmother near you

Moaning by the fire

Where you going to? x3

Where you going?

Whispering Desert (Robert Coyne/Kevin Coyne - 1999) (ROOM FULL OF FOOLS)

Your blue open-toed sandals, the glow from the candles in that gruesome Italian restaurant by the desert, the glow of the cacti, the purple cacti, curvaceous cars speeeding by, on that, on that little road out to the desert, that little road where we drove that fateful night, where we went and where the light disappeared from our relationship, where we discovered we didn't like each other, that we weren't even sister or brother, something sad and something strange but I can't rearrange the sequence, the time, the place, all I know is your little face looking at me, those strange curled ears and the hair you piled on your head, piled on your head in a little mountain, a golden mountain, speaking of mountains, do you remember our journey there, where we stoood and we surveyed the view and you said you'd like a little house somewhere on the mountain side far away from the desert, a garden with cross-eyed flowers and brambled bushes reaching almost to the heavens, darkening the roofs of that little place, somewhere spacious but also intimate where we could talk about ourselves in corners, sink into the shadows, we could sink into the shadows, we're a shadow kind of people, we don't like the light all, we don't need the light at all, not a single spark, we live in the dark, we laugh to ourselves, to our own own little jokes, we communicate by a kind of telepathy, I can hear whispering to me, as I sing I can hear you whisptering to me

Whispers in the Night (Kevin Coyne/Brendan Croker - 2002) (LIFE IS ALMOST WONDERFUL)

I hear the whispers in the night (x2)

You're maybe still thinking of me

Whispers in the night, I hear the whispers in the night

And you're still thinking of me

Oh running, running from the past, a relationship that could never last

Are you running, running from the past, our relationship that could never last

Are you whispering in the night? (x2)

A soulful song of a deep regret

Are you whispering in the night? (x2)

With a soulful song of a deep regret

Persuing some dream, some fancy complicated scheme

Persuing some dream, fancy complicated scheme

Are you whispering in the night? (x2)

Your eyes they're burning in the dark

Are you whispering in the night? (x2)

Oh those eyes, beautiful eyes, burning with pain in the dark

?? when they turn half the moon

And the darkness flows the land

Perhaps we'll understand (x2)

White Horse (Kevin Coyne - 1972) (CASE HISTORY)

White horse, riding across my mind

Wearing a band of gold around your hooves

Collecting the stars, the glint of the stars

In your great and empty eye

The drink I drink

Is a drink as strong as the strongest poison in the land

Riding on the back of my horse with his golden band

Who catches the stars in his eye

His great and empty eye

That had never smiled

Never noticed me

I would like to think that he dreamt of me

When he went to sleep at night

That he thought I was a special thing in his life

But those great eyes they see nothing

They don't profess poetry

Don't profess insight into me

Now I stand on empty man

Beside the stable door

On the stud farm

And the green and grey attendant

Hands me straw, says "Go feed the horses"

You know of course

He's a dreaming talking horse

Who wears gold bands around his feet

And dreams of stars (x2)

In his empty eye (x2)

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

With your blue rinsed hairdo, poodle on your lap, talking through your gold teeth, talking lots of crap

Chorus: Why, why, why, must you feel this way? Why, why, why, why must you feel this way?

Your husband's in the forest, wandering round and round, looking for a hole, digging underground

Chorus

You're wandering through the village, naked and profound, all the neighbours laughing, giggling, making sounds

Chorus

The ambulance is coming, the man's wearing his hat, beaming from the cabin, red and fat

Chorus

With your blue rinsed hairdo, poodle on your lap, talking through your gold teeth, talking lots of crap

Chorus: Why, why, why, must you be this way? Why, why, why, why must you be this way?

Chorus: Why, why, why, must you feel this way? Why, why, why, why must you be this way?

Why Must We be Parted like this? (Kevin Coyne - 1977) (TALKING TO SOMEONE)

Why must we be parted like this?

Why must you always drop your eyes?

Why must you always ?? and say

Say you're honest and you don't tell lies

You've always been my good friend

Though we both make mistakes sometimes

But you're leaving your little baby Kevin boy

And you're ruining his mind

Why must we be parted like this?

Why must you stay? Just go away

Why must we be parted like this?

You never listened to a word I said

You've always been my good friend

Though we both make mistakes sometimes

And you're leaving your little bouncing Kevin boy

And you're ruining his mind

Why must we be parted like this?

Why don't you love me?

Just think about it

Why must we be parted like this?

Why don't you love me?

Just think about it love

You've always been my best friend

Though we both make mistakes sometimes

But you're leaving your little bouncing Kevin boy

And you're ruining, you've already ruining his mind

Why Why Song (The) (Kevin Coyne - Andreas Blüml) (UNDERGROUND)

Why, why, why, why, why, why.
why am I quivering in my shoes?
Why, why, why, why, tell me why, why
why, honey, am I quivering in my shoes?
In my shoes, size forty-two.
Every time I play a game. Every time I play a game.
Honey I lose. Honey I lose. I lose.

Why, why, why, why, why,

why do I fear that knock upon the door?
Upon the door
Knock, knock, knock, knock.
Why, why, why, why, why, why, why.
why do I fear the knock upon my door?
Knock upon my door.
Can’t take the paranoia, paranoia, ha ha.
I can’t take it any more, any more.

Why, why, why, why, why, why.
why am I wearing this silly mask?
Don’t want nobody to see me, that’s why.
Tell me why, why, why, why, why, why,
why am I wearing this silly mask?
Don’t want nobody to see me, that’s why.
I stay, I stay in the house. Ah! when it’s dark, and it’s way after dusk.
Don’t want nobody to see me, that’s why.
Alright. Alright. Ha Ha Ha. Oh yeah. Ah!

Tell me why, why, why, why, why,
why do I stutter and stammer on the telephone?
On the telephone.
Tell me, tell me why, why, why, why,
why do I stutter and stammer on the telephone?
On the telephone. On that little telephone.
I’m a-frightened the wife might catch you talking to me at home.
Talking to me at home.

So, uh why, why, why, why, why,
why do I stutter and stammer on the telephone?
My wife cat- cat- catch me, she c-could catch me,
Why why why why…she could catch me talking to you on the telephone.
On the telephone. On the telephone.
Aha! Talking to me. Talking to me.
Words of love. Got to stop this!
On the telephone.

Why, Why, Why (Kevin Coyne/Dave Clague - 1971?) (RABBITS)

You're one in a million baby

That's what you are

You know I need you baby

You're my guiding star

Don't put me down

You know I need you so

You know it hurts me baby

When you say you go

Why, why, why, why

When I need you so

Do you have to destroy me baby

And leave me so

Oh come on baby

Don't break me down

You know I need you baby so much

Honey I need you around oh yes I do

Why, why, why, why

When I love you so

Do you decide to destroy me baby

Oh I love you so, I do

You're one in a million

That's what you are

Oh I love you baby

Wild Eyes (Henry Beck/Kevin Coyne - 1990) (ROMANCE ROMANCE )

Whispering through the walls

Their shadows are big and tall

Like a baby you crawl

You stumble and you fall

If there's anybody watching?

If there's a voice out there?

If there's anybody watching?

If there's a voice out there?

Moon has a purple ??

Winking right down at you

Gazing right to your eyes

Wispering little lies

If there's anybody watching?

If there's a voice out there?

If there's anybody watching?

If there's a voice out there?

Big purple motor car

The windows so blue and dark

The landscape sheer and stark

Fear the big dogs bark

If there's anybody watching?

If there's a voice out there?

If there's anybody watching?

If there's a voice out there?

The nurse brings you a towel

It's such a beautiful scene

The garden is very green

The lake is very blue

The sunlight looks at you

You smile and the you wake

You wake and wake and wake

Your eyes a gleaming wire

Your mouth's a marvelous smile

You're just a little child

Tender, meak and mild

You're just a little child

Tender, weak and mild

Your eyes a little wild (x3)

Winter into Summer (Hans Pukke/Kevin Coyne/Robert Steinhart/Falk Steffen - 1987) (STUMBLING ONTO PARADISE)

Winter into summer, feel the season's change

Winter was a bummer and should be rearrangered

Winter into summer, no more snow or rain

Winter into summer, daylight once again

Then you walk to the yellow sand

Let it drift right through your hand

Stare up at a wide blue sky

Sometimes you could nearly cry

Winter into summer, feel the season's change

Winter was a bummer and should be rearrangered

Winter into summer, hear the children sing

Winter into summer, such a joyous thing

Then you speed through a big blue sky

Pretending you could fly

Sunlight shadows on your hand

You feel like a reborn man

Winter into summer, feel the season's change

Summer, summer, feel the season's change

Winter was a bummer and should be rerrangered

Winter into summer, everything has changed

Then you walk to the yellow sand

Let it drift right through your hand

Stare up at a wide blue sky

Sometimes you could nearly cry

Then you speed through a big blue sky

Pretending you could fly

Sunlight shadows on your hand

You feel like a reborn man

Winter into summer, feel the seasons change

Winter was a bummer, should be rerangered

Winter into summer, no more snow or rain

Winter into summer, daylight once again

Then you walk to the yellow sand

Let it drift right through your hand

Stare up at a wide blue sky

Sometimes you think you could nearly cry

Summer's almost here (x2), winter's dead and gone (x4)

Witch (Kevin Coyne - 1973) (BLAME IT ON THE NIGHT)

Witch she's a witch and everybody knows

She's a witch and everybody knows

Why does she treat me this way?

Why does she often turn and say

"You can go away, I don't want you here today

You can't play, you cannot play"

Witch she's a witch and she's breaking my heart

She's a witch and she's breaking my heart

Why does she mooch around the house

Refer to me as 'that louse', say all those things to my friends?

It drives me round the bend! She drives me round the bend!

Witch she's a witch and I want to go

She's a witch and I can't be slow

I must rush down the road

With my little bags packed down the road

I must turn and scream at the passersby

"That woman's told me lies! You can see it in her eyes. She always was a liar."

But in another day she was so good

She helped me cut the hedge, even helped collect firewood

But that was when we was poor, didn't have a thing

Now we've got so much, our hands are smothered in clusters of rings

We've got little trinkets, a little dog with a bell that ping, ping, ping, stinks

Witch she 's a witch and everybody knows

She's a witch and everybody knows

I cannot stand her friends anymore, I'm going to wipe them across the floor

I'm going to shout abuse as they drive away

I hate their faces anyway. They laugh at me anyway

Witch she's a witch and leave me alone!

She's a witch and she won't leave me alone

She has this little idea about me, she knows all my secrets, you see

She knows what I do in that little room

She says she's going to lock me in it, trap me in it like a tomb

But in another day she was so kind, made little comments about the quality of my mind

Said delicious, delicious things about my figure and hair

I knew I knew I knew I knew she really cared to share the things we had

Now there's too much and that is bad

Now there's too much of everything bad

And look at this! We don't need this! What have you bought that for, we don't want that!

These possessions! Possessions are getting on top of us all. Every little thing! My goodness. You don't need golden walls. What about me?

Wobble (the) (Robert Coyne/Kevin Coyne - 2002) (CARNIVAL)

Went to a party the other night, my girlfriend got quite uptight

She said I can't dance, I got trouble, I said, "Just move around and do the wobble, just wobble, like a jelly on a plate"

She got the idea and she couldn't stop, she kept doing it, she couldn't stop

She wobbled to the be-bop, slop, everything, she was top of the shop, wobble, like a jelly on a plate

Now the town is in uproar, she wobbles out of her door

A queue of kids, they follow her around, they like the way she wobbles down, oh the way she wobbles, wobbles like a jelly on a plate

Alright, she wobbles, oh she wobbles, oh she shakes that thing, oh shakes that thing, she wobbles, like a jelly on a plate

Summer's here and the sun it shines, my baby is in the garden all the time

Cooking out and having fun, she's got the wobbles, she starts to run, up and down and round and rund, does the wobble, like a jelly

When she wobbles, oh she' s right, oh she wobbles, three o'clock at night, way she wobbles, oh she wobbles, ooh she wobbles, it' s alright, every night, she wobbles

The whole world's wobbling, every boy and girl, she's my wobbling girl

Wobble wobble (x5)

Woman, Woman, Woman (Kevin Coyne - 1978) (DYNAMITE DAZE)

Ha, it's a lonely little bedroom or it could be a club

Where the lights are low, where you've got the stuff

Well there's a man in a coat and his hair slick back

Well he bites his finger nails, he's laying back

Chorus: He needs a woman, woman, woman

A woman, woman, woman

He needs a woman, woman, woman

Yes he wants it just, he needs it, he wants it just, he needs it, he wants it just, he needs it at home

I've got one on my own.

Ah well there's a spiky blonde, showing her legs

He's got to crawl down, he's got to beg

Well she leers at him, she says "Come on"

But he's got to pay for being alone

Chorus

Well it's dark in the streets, the pavements are slime

He don't know about the day, he can't find the time

Well he's searching in windows, in alleyways too

He bows his head, he can't face the truth

Chorus

Ah so what do you do? You just go to bed

Stare at the wallpaper, the light over your head

Just a single bulb, just a single light

Oh what day is it? That's perpetual night

Chorus

How you're feeling (x2)

I know how you're feeling

How is it going?

Don't you cry

Never cry no more (x2)

Never see you cry no more

It's a sad sad song

Of the woman, woman, woman

You need a woman, woman, woman (x6)

Wonderful Wilderness (Kevin Coyne/Brian Godding - 1980) (SANITY STOMP) Chris Potts helped with this one

Settle your differences, put faith in the structured wilderness of ideal and heart and love and life.

Those who will change, will change, carry me over success or failure as a matter of course, as a matter of course.

The humble sinners’ donkeys awaiting the start of a loving race without end, without end, without end through the Christmas, through the cuts, through the stares, through the jokes, through the jokes, the awful jokes, cry, cry your tears and renew your strength and renew, renew your strength.

Do beggars exist in modern cities? Can you help them? Can you smile at them? Can you charge them? Do you know them? Do you care? Somebody cares. God.

I shall never stop loving even when familiar darkness breaks wondrous happiness and pulls me to my knees.

Saints pray in their own way, pray. Let your sincerity ring, while arid eccentrics laugh for joy, dancing, dancing, helping love, help love and do it, help love and do it, sister woman sister, brother man brother, child giant children, help love, love helps the glorious wonderful wilderness, of machines, of men, speaks volumes for the white clouds of divine reason.

Saints walk past the home of eternal love, eternal love. Butchers wield holy cleavers, marchers march for truth, in the sacred cinema sits the children of the past made new by the future.

God bless the nurse, the handyman, the meter-reader, the policeman, the bar keeper, all who try for truth, for truth. God bless the proud father so that he might feel the truth about himself, dig inside till it hurts, remembering that hurt hurts, God knows everything, listen, listen. His brilliance is not a shadow, a mere reflection in a pool, He who made me fashions the minutes and minds my soul for me, bless Him. Bless Him. Settle your differences, settle your differences, settle your differences, God, settle your differences, no-one knows everything, everything

Wonderland (Gary Lucas/Kevin Coyne - 1996) (KNOCKING ON YOUR BRAIN)

I'm lost and alone, objectionable and stoned, I'm looking for my mother, looking for my mother

My dear wife has gone, never coming home, she says's she's had enough, enough is enough

I'm going to Wonderland, hold Alice by the hand, and look up her skirt, look up her skirt, what do I see? Paradise for me

Looking down below, there's nowhere I can go, I just see hell with all its fire

I wonder wonder why I can't cry, I've got no tears, no tears left, nothing left

I'm going to wonderland, hold Alice by the hand, and look up her skirt, I can see Paradise there, it's the sort of place a boy like me should be

Oh, Wonderland, Alice hold my hand, dear Wonderland, Alice hold my hand, I love Wonderland, Alice hold my hand, Wonder Wonderland, Wonderland, it's magic up there

All the neighbours say his brain has flown away, it's gone through the window, gone through the window

I'm searching on the street for that precious piece of meat, I just can't find it, I just can't find it, I can't find it

I'm going to Wonderland, hold Alice by the hand, gonna look up her skirt, what do I see? Mystery, precious precious mystery, just me, oh, exctasy

Alice is waiting (x5) for me

Working Man (Twelve Bar Blues) (Kevin Coyne - 1974) (CAPITOL)

Some people say, well I don't try too hard

I should walk around the town with my, with my jacket, with the ??

Telling you I'm about to arrive

But if you understood, well you'd take, take a little time

Oh if you understood, well you'd take a little time

Smile into my one glass eye and say he's mine

But then again that's me, halucinating again

Oh then again that's me, halucinating again

Well I do my best to be the best of working men

Working man, doing the best I can

Oh I'm a working man and I'm doing the best I can

Yes I'm a working man, I'm doing the best I can

I'm just a working working man, (repeat)

Doing the best I can

Hang up me overalls, put them out to dry on the line, Mother, I'm coming home

Oh yes I'm coming home again

Work for me (x3)

Baby ??

Working man, doing the best I can (x2)

World Is Full Of Fools (the) (Kevin Coyne/Bob Ward- 1979) (MILLIONAIRES AND TEDDY BEARS)

The big bookcase it hides the window

It means I cannot see out

No ragged heads, no ragged minds are

Going to mess me, mess me about

Going to keep it right, don't mention the night

Down by the lakeside, I'm sitting with pamphlets strewn all over me

White squares of paper full of ideas

I throw them all in into the sea

They sail away, sail away

Because the world is full of fools

Ah, the world is full of fools

Yes, the world is full of fools

But it doesn't make them bad people

It's a sunny day, sun like a bauble rolling over the sky

Telephone conversation, someone tells me the weather is

Mighty fine, the sun's divine

Come on outside, enjoy yourself

But I can't, I don't know why

Maybe you can change that for me

I know I'm deep

I seem to be asleep

Hold me now, squeeze me now

You can do it somehow

It's not too late

Tell me, tell me, tell me

The world is full of fools

Yes, the world is full of fools

Oh, the world is full of fools

But it doesn't make me a bad person

World Speaks (the) (Kevin Coyne/Brian Godding - 1980) (SANITY STOMP)

Otto's first peace

Robert's first peace

Regg first peace

Ernest your peace

Ted first peace

Clive it's a peace

Stanley your peace

John Peel peace

Cecil a peace

Dandelion Record peace

Sheffield United a peace

Darby County peace

John peace

Yoko peace

Bernard peace

Bernard Manning peace

Fred peace

Chris peace

Ernest peace

Dagmar peace

Albert peace

Victoria peace

PeaceVictoria

Rama Krishna peace

Who's Rama Krishna?

The Guru Maharaji peace

George Harrison peace

Victor peace

Alan peace

Alan? Oh yes peace

Deirdre peace

Who's Deirdre?

Divinia peace

Doris peace

Indra Divy peace

Who's Indra Divy? Who is she?

Colin peace

Oh yes

Christine peace

Christine?

Courgettes peace

Cabagges peace

Lettuces peace

Potatoes peace

Gladioli peace

Oh yes gladioli

Brahmens peace

Brahmens

Jesus peace

Definitly

Jack peace

Yes

Jonah peace

Yes

Gillian peace

Yes!

Joc peace

YES!

Glasgow peace

Yes! Celtic peace

?? peace

Yes yes yes

Johnny Griffin peace

Oh yes

Peace

Brian peace

Peace

Shut up Brian

Wrong Song (Kevin Coyne - 1992) (BURNING HEAD)

It's impossible, really quite mad, the things you're saying

You should be glad, you've got a life to live, so much to give

Why this screaming, blaming me?

I know you say I'm impossible, I'm a macho man and cruel

But you're really quite wrong, you're wrong

It's the same old song, yakety yak, I don't talk back

It's all fiddle daddle and it's all so sad

It's all crazy, rotten and bad

You say I'm impossible, I'm a macho man

Mixed up and I don't understand but you're wrong, you're really wrong

Won't last long, this relationship is a sinking ship

It can't go on, it's no fun living like this

I'm going to get pissed cause

You say it's impossible, I'm a macho man and I'm mixed up

And I don't understand but you're wrong

So wrong wrong wrong

So wrong wrong

Yes you're wrong wrong

You're wrong

So wrong

Wrong

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