KEVIN COYNE LYRICS - ALBUM: Everybody's Naked 1988

 

Millionaires Song (The) (Kevin Coyne)

Everybody jump for joy

I'm my mother's pride and joy

Sitting here with the millionaires

A long cool drink by my side

Here comes my blushing bride

Sitting here with the millionaires

Chorus:

I've done well for a working class boy, everybody knows

Look at my hair, look at my shoes, look at my fancy clothes, look at my fancy clothes.

I'm sailing on the sea

Everybody's waving at me

Sitting here with the millionaires

I arrived by a big jet plane

Everybody knows my name

Sitting here with the millionaires

Chorus

I've left the factory behind

I've found money and peace of mind

Sitting here with the millionaires

Come on waiter, over here

Bring me an ice and.another long beer

Sitting here with the millionaires

Chorus - Solo - Chorus

My mother's coming out to see me tonight. She's coming out on a big jet plane and she's bringing more money. We've made so much money these last few years and my wife is very happy. lt's marvellous to be rich. I never want to be working class again. Oh I'm so happy with all this money, look at these millionaires, they all love me, they're all smiling at me. Happy happy boy. No more dirty factories for me. Oh I'm so happy. What a wonderful live we're living... So nice there by the Mediterranean... marvelous, wonderful, beautiful...


I Couldn't Love You (Hans Pukke/Kevin Coyne)

I couldn't love you anymore than I do (spoken twice)

Hey honey it's me on your street

Waltzing around, kicking up my feet

That's you waving from your door

I couldn't love you anymore

It feels good to be back home, I know you've been alone

Chorus: I couldn't love you anymore than I do (four times).

Hey honey, who's talking to me?

Seems to be the neighbours are watching

But I feel free to kiss and hug you all down the road

Your mine, your mine and everybody knows

I know you've been alone but now I'm really home

Chorus (four times)

I know you've been alone but now I'm really home

Chorus (six times)

I love you, love you so, love you everywhere I go

You're on my mind, on my mind, on my mind, on my mind


Not The Way (Kevin Coyne)

Sunday morning in the kitchen

Dry toast, all alone

Wandering round, doing nothing

The one I love's just left home

It's usual sometimes to quarrel a litlle, have a fight

But she told me it's the last time

She's not coming back, it s not right

Chorus:

Hey hey this is not the way they write in books

Hey hey, this is not the way, I don't like the way things look.

Chauvinism? Maybe I got it?

But I'm getting old and it's hard to change

Darning socks is a strange occupation

But you never did it anyway!

I thought we were free and liberal and easy

That's what I was always told !

It's strange to be so adrift

When you're getting, getting old

Chorus

It's a new life, a new start

But where do I go, go from here?

I got used to the life we had

Although it was complicated, it was usually clear

That I loved you and you loved me

This was always agreed

Now I know that something's wrong

And maybe you don't love me

Chorus - Solo - Chorus


We Don't Talk Too Much (Hans Pukke/Kevin Coyne )

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)


Here Comes The Morning (Hans Pukke/Kevin Coyne)

Chorus: Here comes the morning, the crystal white light

Here comes the morning, it's been a long night.

I heard the footsteps crashing down the stairs

Stood in the bedroom, but no help was there

Chorus

I watched the traffic, the people racing by

I realised that could live again , that our love was a lie

Chorus

I heard strange music, a new symphony

It seemed that a new love was singing just for me


City Crazy (Hans Pukke/Kevin Coyne)

Oh mercy mercy, there's a train trough my head

It's got big headlights and it's taking me for dead

Looking out my window at the big placards

There's a man with a big red nose and he's laughing oh so hard

I can see the traffic, hear it roaring all the time

And every car that passes by it's going through this head of mine

Chorus: City crazy, and its driving me mad (x4)

Freedom - Money (x4).

The walls are closing in, crack in the ceiling there

Everything that comes through here is foul and bad air

The smoke is pouring through the garden, ripping up the weeds

See an old lady standing by, her head it starts to bleed

Chorus

I'm just rolling around looking for a place

Where people don't laugh at me and they like my face

I've been like this for years searching high and low

For a country place and somewhere peaceful to go

Chorus

Freedom - Money (ad lib)


Take Me Back In Your Arms (Kevin Coyne)

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


Last Time Blues (Hans Pukke/ Kevin Coyne)

Up and down every single day, h azy, crazy, nothing's going my way

Here comes another lover, m ust be number twenty-two

This i s the last time honey you are giving me the blues

Racing down the street in my new pair of shoes

Letting in the water, what can I do?

Knock upon your door honey, honey, please choose

It's the last time baby you're giving me the blues

You gave me the runaround for almost ten years

FilIed me full of pain, filled me full of fear

Treat me like a baby, what can I do?

Seem to be your captive

Last time your giving me the blues

Let me go, let me go

Tough hearted women always pick me

They can kick me around, give me misery

I've had enough of that stuff, I know just what to do

It's the last time last time honey you are giving me the blues, yes it is

It's the last time, it's the last time for you (ad lib)

It's the last time last time honey you are giving me the blues

Got to choose

It's the last time, it's the last time for you (ad lib)


Slave (The) (Hans Pukke/ Kevin Coyne)

Apartment nightmare, wandering round

Kicking up the carpet, my head's down

Strange hotel, the people in bars

Nobody loves me, they say I'm a star

Chorus: I'm a slave to love (eight times).

Oh what is happening to the telephone?

Nobody answers, nobody's home

Where is she? Gone away tonight

She's gone wih some male friend, it don't seem right

Chorus

Out in the park, in the noonday s un

Children are running round, having fun

Sitting on a bench, with my schnapps and beer

No one to talk to, nobody's here

Chorus


Old Hippie (Kevin Coyne)

Sitting complaining in the public bar

To your small circle of friends you know you're a star

You don't like the govemment you say that it's too right

You're getting drunk and it's late at night

Chorus: Just an old hippie, a bitter hippie, a sleepy hippie, getting old

Talk about peace and love, full of hate

You haven't got a lob, nothing regular, it's too late

You were going to be a poet b ut now it's in the past

How long can your attitude last?

Chorus


Radio (Hans Pukke/Kevin Coyne)

Hey honey there's a man in the moon singing you a silly tune

He'll be talking, talking soon, turn your radio on

Here's the sun up in the sky, it's like a ball of fire

You can see it flying high, turn your radio on

Chorus: Turn it on (nine times), turn it up, turn it on

Turn it on (nine times), tum it up, turn it on.

Everyone in the city tonight, they're smiling, smiling bright

They can hear, hear the light, turn your radio on

There's hope and there is joy for every girl, every boy, hi hi hi foy loy, turn your radio on

Chorus

Getting dizzy with the feeling, feeling, feeling x2

In the jungle hear them loud baboons, monkeys, a happy crowd

What a little happy crowd, turn your radio on

You can hear the lions roar, you can see heavens door

You can see the golden floor, turn your radio on,

Chorus ad lib


Everybody's Naked (Hans Pukke/Kevin Coyne)

Bedside manners, they're no good

Don't you know I'm made ot flesh and blood

Feeling easy in the dark

Feeling good, feeling sharp

Feeling wonderful, feeling good (four times)

Chorus: Hey, it's ok, there' nothing more to say

Hey, it's ok, everybody's naked in their way.

It's a natural feeling It've got right now

I can't lose it, no way, no how

Hey where am I? Could be on Mars

Got me rolling and a tumbling like a superstar

Chorus

Feel so wonderful, feel so good (four times)

Hey there's nothing, nothing more to say, all is clear and all is ok

There's nothing more, nothing more to say

Hey, everybody's naked in their way (repeat)

Turn on the lights, turn off the lights, it's alright, everybody's naked in their way (ad lib)

 

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