God Bless the Bride (Kevin Coyne/Dave Clague)

Well God bless the bride the sun shines on today

I said God bless the bride the sun shines on today

Well God bless the roses and God bless the veil

God bless the love, I hope it don't fail

Well God bless the bride the sun shines on today

Well God bless the groom waiting in the sun (x2)

Well God bless his suit andGod bless his hair

God bless his love, hope he gets there

Well God bless the groom waiting in the sun

Well God bless the hotel standing by the sea (x2)

Well God bless its room with the little potdogs

God bless the tudor and God bless the logs

Well God bless the hotel standing by the sea

Well God bless the family they have left behind (x2)

God bless the mother, God bless Dad

God bless the sister, hope she's not sad

Well God bless the family they have left behind

Well God bless the night-time, that's the time for love

I said God bless the night-time, that's the time for love

God bless the gowns and God bless the bed

God bless the love light over their head

Well God bless the night-time, that's the time for love

Well God bless the future, I hope it's not too dim

I said God bless the future, I hope it's not too dim

Well God bless the babies and God bless the house

Keep the garden tidy, keep the problems out

Well God bless the future, I hope it's not too dim

White Horse (Kevin Coyne)

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)

Uggy's Song (Kevin Coyne)

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?

Need Somebody (Kevin Coyne)

Now that I'm getting old and now I'm getting cold and there's nothing left to say

Just like a daffodil, you know I will, you know wilting in my way

Chorus:

And I need somebody, yes I need somebody, yes I need somebody now I know I'm getting old

This is a lonely life man without your wife, without a bed or view

I'm always at the gate and I'm always late cause there's nothing left to do

Chorus

Strange tunes in my head, I'll think I'll go to bed, I think I'll change the sheets and all

Maybe do some drawing, do some painting, an antelope across my wall

Chorus

A visitor out on the lawn, his hair all shorn, is he friend or is he foe

Is he a man I know, is he someone to sow, is he someone to say hello

Chorus

So I'm so confused, I'm so bemused, I think I'll settle down

Lie down on anywhere, maybe in this chair, anywhere I just don't care

Chorus

The friend I saw is at the door, he says hello once more, I met you down the road

Great long fingers holding out, I want to shout, what's the point because he knows that

Chorus x2

Evil Island Home (Kevin Coyne)

See the sand and the white birds swooping low

I see the sea and the dead fish floating by

I see the grass as it's growing up my door

And hear my dog as it's crying for his bone

Chorus: This is my home, my evil island home (x2).

See the stoat and the sharp-billed razorbill

You know they're pecking away

At my crumbling window sills

And the ice on the mountain range below

Is starting to melt

And we'll soon be washed with snow

Chorus

I want to fly

But they've taken my wings away

I want to run

But I know I have to stay

I may coax the beast

That wanders on the shore

To lend me his back

So I can ride away once more

Chorus

Araby (Kevin Coyne)

I want to take a trip to Araby (x2)

I want to see the sun descend on a maiden's knees

I want to ride in a great bronze butterfly (x2)

I want to see the sun descend in a great big blue Arabian sky

I want to go where white men never go (x2)

I want to see those natives dancing their ho-di-ho, dancing their

Oh dance all night

I want to take my trip to Araby (x2)

You know it's A-ra-ra-ra, A-ra-ra-ra, A-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-by

My Message to the People (Kevin Coyne)

Oh we're high, out on a highway

Driving, rushing down a sweaty road

Past those suburban drinking bars

Searching for, searching for my white and celluloid star

And my message to the people

Is don't tie me to your steeple

Don't put me in the stocks in your market square

Hey, hey you nameless dropper of nameless names

Don't you know I'm going to get the fame

Going to get the flame

A day pencilled in for me

I'll get the glee

I'll arrive at me

Can't you see I'm going to be there?

Oh yeah when the chimes ring out

And my message to the people

Don't tie me to your sacred steeple

Don't you put me in the stocks in your market square

So it's hey razzle-dazzle

I'm about to dazzle

I'm about to frazzle somewhere

And when you say "Who? Who is he?"

You know it's gonna be me

Cause my face is there for all of you to see every day

Upside inside out every way

And when they say "Ooh la la" at the party on the hill

I'll still get a thrill

Even though that castle's tumbling down

I won't wear a frown

'Cos I waited so long

And my message to the people

Is don't you tie me to your steeple

Don't you put me in your stocks in your market square

Oh Razzmatazz

Yes pick up that glass

Oh the funky-livin' life, the life, the strife of jazz

So watch out people

Here I'm coming, here I'm running

My gold leaden boots on my feet

I'm in your stairway, your airway to the stars

So I don't mind though you pretend to be blind

Maybe tomorrow you will alleviate my sorrow

Eh eh watch me now as into the tangle I go

And my message to the people

Is I love you all you people

And I'll find my own stocks

And I'm digging my own market square

Hey dance on your mother's grave

Hey you know I'm a media, I'm a media slave

Your Beatle-cuttin', sure-fottin' savin' rave

And my message to the people

Is that people will be people

That people will be people

Just the same

Mad Boy (Kevin Coyne)

It's in his head, it's in his head (x4)

Fetch the doctor , the d octor will sort him out (x2)

Shout

Chorus: Mad boy (x4)

Can't make it any more.

It's in his brain, it's in his brain (x4)

Fetch the doctor , the d octor'll bring the van

Fetch the doctor now, the doctor is your man

Chorus

It's in his head, it's in his head (x4)

Fetch the doctor , the d octor's on the scene

Fetch the doctor, he will make it easy, nice and clean

Chorus

It's in his brain, it's in his brain (x4)

Fetch the doctor , the d octor's gone away

Fetch the doctor, see you again another day, boy , mad

Mad boy (x4)

Can't hope any more, any more, any more, any more

He's in the van, he's in the van

He's in the van, he's with the man

He's in the van, he's in the van

He's in the van, he's with the man

Fetch the doctor , the d octor's done his job

Put him out to grass in the park

Put him out, no more trouble, no more difficulty with his mother, nothing more to say but

Mad boy (x4)

He can't make it any more, any more, any more, any more

Sand All Yellow (Kevin Coyne)

What's the matter baby?

Why do you worry so?

There's no reason to quarrel

No reason to go

If you feel sorry baby

Then I know why

Somebody's been messing with your mind

And made you cry (x2)

I'm the doctor

I can help you along

Give you some sustenance

I'll keep you strong

Come into my surgery

It's on the very top floor

You'll feel so quiet there

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

There's flowers in my garden baby

But it's alright now

I've saved all the flowers baby

I've kept them for you

They're in a big chinese bowl baby

On the top of the stairs

They match nicely with the curtains

They look well with the chairs

I've good intentions baby

I don't mean you no harm

I've given you my word, my baby

I've given you my lucky charm

One forceps

One pair of knives

One pair of goggles, baby

Two glass eyes

So when you see me baby

I don't want to see you cry

That would only hurt me baby

Only make me lie

My intentions are unsure now

I'm all qualified to lie

I have myself a bright white coat

I can help you to fly

Alright

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

We saw her out in the garden with the flowers

And she was crying

But she needs help

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

Where I reside and sit amongst the magazines

The Novas and the Woman's Owns

And reside with me

Cause I'm the doctor

Yeah I'm the doctor

It's a sleepy lagoon on a tropical island

We will go to

No thoughts of cruelty, no hurt or pain

And the coconuts bouncing by

The coconuts bouncing by

And the sand all yellow (x5)