KEVIN COYNE LYRICS

KEVIN COYNE LYRICS - ALBUM: Beautiful Extremes 1974-78

Something gone Wrong (Kevin Coyne)
(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

Looking for the River (Kevin Coyne)

I've been crossing by the river in an anticipatory way

I've been searching for the river in an anticipatory way

But the river never came to me (x2)

Full of tin cans and boots and things

Full of thrown away engagement rings

Thrown away by errant boys and girls

Butcher's meat and sordid Woolworth's pearls

I've been crossing by he river, looking for it, full of anticipation

I've been crossing by the river full of anticipatory things

Men on bicycles and passing vehicles

Wheeled up, walled - up feelings under slime

Little houses knocked down for the roadway

Little ladies being kind to swans

Dogs and cats and fat men

Lying in the long grass

Little pacemakers on Christmas bikes

I've been looking for the river anticipatory in my way

I've been looking for the river but the river is far away

Roses in your Room (Kevin Coyne)

I say now people they hurt each other all the time

They try to control each other's soul and mind

But now I've changed and I've found in you

Well something that is sparkling, loving and true to me

Chorus:

And the sun don't seem so dark, the shadows don't seem so sharp

And I can almost hear the harps, I'll put some roses in your room

Loving is never easy to try

You just might lose and we just might be made to cry

But I found you and we can share it with the world, we know it's not hard to do

Chorus. x2

Make way, we're running together

We're running, we're running, never mind the mood or the weather

Well I've got your love and that's all I need

We can share it with everyone, come on and join us, please

Chorus

I'll put some roses in your room, in everybody's room

Face in the Mirror (Kevin Coyne)

Looks like a face in the mirror

That awful face in the mirror

White and sad and so unkind

Looks like a face in the mirror

Like a stagnant river

Flowing deaf and cross and blind

Looks like a face in the mirror

That lost face in the mirror

Searching for a happy mind

Looks like a face in the mirror

Margaret's face in the mirror

Waiting, waiting for the time

I know I wasn't right

I was invariably wrong

I always sang a song

When I should have been weeping

I know I laughed with you

As you stood by the door it's true

As you landed in my garden, creeping

Looks like a face in the mirror

Your round face in the mirror

Lips all red and ready for bed

Looks like a face in the mirror

Oh your face in the mirror

The signs of hatred on your forehead

Yes it looks like a face in the mirror

That awful face in the mirror

Remembering every little word I said

Oh it looks like a face in the mirror

And I don't even have to forgive her

She acts as if I was already dead

Oh I tried so hard, tried the big trump card

But I know you said I was lying

I know that you waited and waited

Waited and waited and grated

Listening, listening, listening and I was alive, I was alive

Oh it looks like a face in the mirror

Margaret's face in the mirror

Listening for for my little tune

Well I see your face in the mirror

Oh your laughing face in the mirror

And I know you've been consulting the runes

Card after card fall on the table

Each one willing and able

To send me to some sort of matrimonial doom

Yes yes, yes it's your face in the mirror

Oh your face in the mirror

Take away that darkness and that gloom, gloom, gloom

Well I told you again

Don't come here, amen

I don't want you around anymore

Your parents will come to collect you

Big Father's there to correct you

He will take you away to his den

So it looks like your face in the mirror

My face is there with her

Snap the marriage and the fate

Yes yes yes that's your face in the mirror

All sepia in the mirror,

Standing by your garden gate

All The Battered Babies (Kevin Coyne - 1976) (BEAUTIFUL EXTREMES 1974-1977)

All the battered babies looking for their mothers, looking for their cousins

All the battered babies searching in cinemas in their douzens

All the battered babies lining up and staring out

All the battered babies they know what loneliness is about

Chorus:

Please don't beat your children, p lease don't break their hearts

Please don't beat your children , a ll the battered babies

All the battered babies, looking for some love.

All the battered babies, you see 'em almost everywhere

All the battered babies, ripping up seats and burning down chairs

All the battered babies, searching for arms that really care

All the battered babies, running angry everywhere

Chorus

All the battered babies, wiping tears with barberd wire handkerchieves

All the battered babies, searching streets with grubby knees

All the battered babies, one room flats with plenty of fleas

All the battered babies, why don't you kiss them, kiss them please

Chorus

Love in your Heart (Kevin Coyne)

Bluebird, I'm with you whenever you fly though I'm feeling sleepy with this love, feeling the flow yes there's love

Love from your heart drifting right down reaching my soul it's only love

Love from your heart drifting right down reaching my soul I know that

I was always crying aside as disappeared I found your little light so full of love and I'm coming down to find love

Love in your heart drifting right down reaching my soul I'm finding love

Love in your heart drifting right down reaching my soul alright

I'm finding love

Love in your heart drifting right down reaching my soul I'm finding love

Love in your heart drifting right down reaching my soul I know that

Taking care of you is what I'll do when I arrive I'm coming let's be let's be good friends I love you so although we never met I know there's love

Love in your heart drifting right down reaching my soul I know there's love

Love in your heart drifting right down reaching my soul

Poor Little Actress (Kevin Coyne)

Down a nightmare alley amidst the beasts of the field, there leaves an actress, her heart congealed

She's full of fear and hatred too, too much money now what can she do

Poor little actress , I'm right here, holding out my hands, you've nothing to fear from me

Keep it blowing blowing blowing blowing blowing blowing blowing blowing

Our love is growing growing growing growing growing growing

There's a lonely bedroom but I'll be there, I'll fill up the space in your life, that's if you care

I think you do yes I think you do I'm not gonna beg but I know I know what's true

Poor little actress , you've never seen me before but at the first glance I knew that I was waiting for you

Blowing blowing blowing blowing it's coming baby growing growing growing growing

Blowing blowing blowing blowing growing growing growing growing

Growing growing growing growing it's blowing blowing blowing blowing

Oh it's lovely does'nt that feel nice, there's an arm around you, I'll do it more than twice or thrice

Everything is nice here, I've made a change, cut the briars from your hair, I know it feels strange

Oh poor little actress , let's stand up straight get out now on that screen, show them you can't wait

Blowing blowing blowing blowing growing growing growing growing oh honey

It's growing growing growing growing growing growing growing growing

Right in Hand (Kevin Coyne) (see also One Fine Day)

I've seen you standing in the pouring rain

Your face all red and tear stained

Somebody told me to let you go

Drive you out into the wind and snow

But don't you worry cause I'll always love you so

Don't you worry cause they'll never make me go no they won't.

And one fine day the sun will shine

And the world will be yours and mine

Everything will go as planned

Don't you know the matter's right here in hand.

I love you but they tell me to stop

Pointing fingers at the village shop

Old crones with wagging tongues, they moan, and more

Soon they'll be sending policemen to my door

Don't you worry cause I love you more and more

No matter what they say now

Don't you worry cause I love you more and more, darling

And one fine day the sun will shine Oh and the world will be yours and mine yes

Everything will go as planned The matter's here and it's right, right in the palm, the palm of my hand.

I tell them but they never listen to me

But I don't listen and they know they can't see

Gonna chase you, gonna chase you, gonna bring you down

I don't mean I'm gonna hurt you but you know I'll always be around

Locked in tight and barred, you're homeward bound

Firmly in mind, yes, you're homeward bound

Come home with me

Hello Friends, Hello Everyone (Kevin Coyne)

Hello friends, hello everyone, nice to meet you down, jangle the bell

Hello friends, hello everyone, nice to be at the tip of Hell

Hello Doreen, hello Michael, hello Jason, hello Mark

Do you know about our youngest, he doesn't like sleeping in the dark

Heard his Mummy say "No" to Daddy, heard the uncles arguing in the hall

But it's time for those festive lights

He won't sleep in the dark anymore

Hello Christmas, goodbye loneliness

Could be a birthday, could be a wedding

Hello changes as we drink them down

Hello happiness goodbye truth

Mona Where's My Trousers (Kevin Coyne)

M ona, where's me trousers, they're right upstairs

Under the meat safe there's a place

Where your father keeps his face

He gives it lots of steam and heat

But on a Saturday night his face is in his feet

M ona, where's me trousers, they're upstairs

La la la la who's that singing that song?

La la la la he must be barmy or something

La la la la your father's gone away

La la la la he's gone away on a ship, he's gone away on a ship

M ona, where's me trousers, they're right upstairs

They're right upstairs

And now Denis is going to school now

And his face is just the same as his Dad's

His face is angry and bitter

When he hides it under the fridge

But on a Saturday night he's different

When he's had beer, he's had beer

La la la la who's that singing that song?

La la la la he must be barmy, he's gone wrong

La la la la who's that singing that song?

It did'nt really matter because he didn't really mean to hurt me, he didn't mean to upset me, I mean, when he smacked me, it was quite... it was quite alright because that's his right, really, he is my father and he didn't really mean to hurt me but it was when he took me outside and he took me wellingtons off my wellingtons, he took my wellies off and then he took my shoes and threw 'em in the garden and then I felt ever so unhappy but there was really no point in crying because when I cry he just laughs at me and well, after some time, I do lie sometimes, I know but anyway I went to school and Miss Baxter, Miss Baxter said I was being a good boy and that I did'nt deserve to be punished but there you are, I did'nt deserve to be punished but anyway I did'nt mean to loose that coat, no I... I left it in the cloak room, it was there when I left but afterwards it seems to have gone, it was a new, it was a new duffle coat and I went down... I went down by the docks and I was, I was watching this man in a rowing boat and the boat was sinking, and the boat was sinking and then there was this silly man who kept calling me names, he took away me sweets cause I spend four pence on sweets, four pence on sweets, four pence on sweets, four pence on sweets, four pence on sweets, four pence on sweets, four pence on sweets, four pence on sweets, that's a lot of money but then again I did'nt mean to do it and he smacked me, he smacked me like... he smacked me, he smacked me, I did'nt mean to do it, I did'nt, I did'nt mean to do it, I did'nt mean to do it, I'm sorry Dad, I did'nt mean to do it, sorry Dad, Im' sorry, I did'nt mean to do it, I'm sorry, did'nt mean to do it, did'nt mean to do it, did'nt mean to do it

So Strange (Kevin Coyne/Bob Ward)

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

Rainbow Curve (Kevin Coyne)

Down at the Rainbow Curve, men in overalls were fighting their wives, fighting and wrestling.

Some of them used knives, plasticine molded knives made out of coal dust.

I, an aspirant man of property, watched their doings and sayings and said:

This is nothing. You see that strangled me, I couldn't see what they'd seen, what they known although I know and I knew all the time.

Down at the Rainbow Curve, there were dresses made out of silk, cheap and awful like goldfish in a bowl, eyes that didn't mean a thing, burning flames of fury beneath sausages in the pan, eyes that said to me: Prove to me that you're a man.

And I didn't know nothing, no, oh, I'll put on my other voice and complain:

You don't know me, no no you never knew me, you never knew part or find out my name.

But I was right and you were wrong so I suppose we just carry on

Appreciating other each other from a distance now

You like anything I like nothing now

Get back into your hole where you come from. That's what they say to me.

Get back into your hole where you come from. But no so explicitly

Fool, Fool, Fool (Kevin Coyne)

Hey hey hey

Now go on, go on, go on home

Now I'm tellin' you hey hey hey

Go on, go on, go on, go on home

There's a girl with her eyes like black rings

Flashing, flashing big rings, big things, flashing rings

Go on home

If you stay here you're a fool, fool, fool

I said hey hey hey

Creep out, leave, leave, leave, get out that door

Hey hey hey

Creep out, creep out, creep out, leave, get out that door

Open your bottle of whisky somewhere in the street

Your nice friends, your posh friends, your friends, your friends will eat you alive

Go on home

After all you know you know they're only gonna call you a fool fool fool

I said hey hey hey

Ooh it's cold, it's cold, it's cold out on the street

I said hey hey hey hey hey

Oh it's cold, it's cold, it's freezing out on the street

You must have been walking by the supermarkets

Lookin' at the shops, lookin' at the lights

Maybe a policeman will stop you

Maybe he'll trap you down

And he'll be the next one, the next one to call you a fool, fool, fool

I said hey hey hey

All the noise is just a dream

I said hey hey hey

The city's something of the dream

Safely tucked in bed with your head on a pillow marked with your name

Your wife's just made something nice

She's calling your name

So isn't that nice, isn't that nice?

Oh but still you're a fool, fool, fool

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