KEVIN COYNE LYRICS - ALBUM: Carnival - 2002

 

Sugar Turning Sour (RobertCoyne/Kevin Coyne)

My memory's failing, don't know where to go, I switch from up, way down below

Everybody tells me I could do much better, but I don't like this city and I don't like the weather

Now if you kiss me, put some sugar in it, when your eyes light up, don't let them dim it, I want to feel your love everywhere, I'm getting old, whisper, tell me you'll care and share

Tell me you'll care and share, tell me you love me, even in my underwear

Sugar's turning sour (x3)

I used to be funky but I think I've lost most of that, everything that was muscle has certainIy turned to fat

I'm abrasive but nohody takes no notice anymore, when I start shooting, they just slam the kitcheen door

I look out the windows for friends that might arrive, I'm lost and lonely, I can't even drive

They took my license, took my number, took everything away, take me out into the countryside, I want to feel the sun

Sugar's turning sour (x3) sour, stinks, alright

Sugar's turning sour (x3)

I'm on a train, it's travelling somewhere but nobody really knows, I'm leaving this city at last and I've just got a change of clothes

I'm aiming for the seaside, for all those hobbing boats, I want to get out on that blue, I want to float

I want to float on an empty sea, to a land that's far away, I'm looking for a little paradise, a lovely happy day

But there's no chanc ehere (x2), till I get to that wondeerful place

I think they call it heaven (x2)

Sugar's turning sour (x7)

Charlene (Robert Coyne/Kevin Coyne/Michael Lipton)

I'm going round to Charlene's house

I'm going to play with her video games

Bounce around upon her big settee

Gaze with lust at her beautiful knees

Chorus: I might marry her when I get my divorce, just might marry her when I get my divorce.

I'm going round to Charlene's house

I'm going to eat a pizza pie

Watch her as she decorates her living room

And she turns and looks at me, and gives me the eye

Chorus

I'm going round to Charlene's house

I hope her husband will be away

He spends weeks out in the country

Charlene's lonely and she doesn't find it very funny

S he believes in ghosts, she thinks the house is creepy

She daren't go to the bathroom after eight o'clock

Chorus (x2)

When my divorce comes through, Charlene, I, I'll marry you, when my divorce comes through, Charlene, I'II marry you, it' s a promise (x4), I'll marry you

Wobble (the) (Robert Coyne/Kevin Coyne)

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)

Missing You (Kevin Coyne/Michael Lipton)

In the palace of a fool, there' s a million smiles

Lots of mirrors to catch everyone

Out in the garden there's a funny owl

And a little boy that sucks his thumb

On the kitchen table, there's an ice cream cake

A thing she loved to eat

Chorus: All he knows is he's missing you (x2).

Remembers every little detail of everything you used to do, he can't forget a thing

Out on the strange roadway, there's a strange little car

A madman at the wheel

Heading for the coastline, he's obsessed

Life gave him a, gave him a raw deal

Chorus

Can't forget any little thing that we used to do, no he can't forget a thing

Chorus

Every little detail of every little thing you used to do, he can't forget a thing (x3), missing you (x3)

All he knows is he's missing you

Don't Forget Me (Robert Coyne/Kevin Coyne)

Don't forget me now the rain has come (x4)

Send a boat, make it swift and strong (x3)

Send me a boat, make sure it floats

Don't forget me now the sun's gone down (x4)

Send me an aeroplane, make it swift and sure (x3)

Send me an aeroplane, don't forget the parachute

I Heard you (Robert Coyne/Kevin Coyne)

I heard you, I think I heard you, I'm sure I heard you, was it you?

I heard you, calling, calling, calling, crawling, calling very loud it seemed, echoing across the dance floor

I heard you, I'm convinced I heard you, I believe it was you I heard, I' m sure it was you I heard, I heard you (x2)

Was it you? (x6), somebody else maybe, echoing across that dance floor, that day, last week, I think it was last week, was it the week before?

My Story (Robert Coyne/Kevin Coyne)

I get hot, I get cold, I get hot, very cold, I get hot, fall down, when I see you running around

I got to ring you, I got to ring you, I hope you answer, hope you answer when I call, when I call, I'll be calling, I'll be calling you

We can take a roll, stroll down by the river, tell you my history, my story

Don' t tell your mother, don't tell your father, don't tell mama, don't tell papa, don't tell 'em a thing, don't give 'em a clue, don't tell 'em a thing, what I'm planning to do

Saturday night, maybe Friday night, the whole weekend, spend with you, spend with you, little you

We take a roll, stroll down by the river and I could tell you my, all my history, my story, you might like it, alright

Yes, I'm a sailor, from the sea, little sailor, way from the deep sea, cross the ocean, far away, I've never been round to your place

You know I like it, I must like it, I know I 'll love it, sitting in your living room, in that room, in that cosy room

Make sure the house is empty, make sure there's no-one in, we will stroll, down by the river and I'll tell you my history, my story, my story, you got to hear my story, I wanna tell you my story, oh my story, such a story, my history, my story, my story

Sweet Melinda (Robert Coyne/Kevin Coyne)

Oh my sweet Melinda, my true solid sender, my little bobby socks girl, from that teenage world

I remember you by the garden gate, such a lovely sight, you were never late for the schoolbus as it rolled down the road, I love you so much, I said go Melinda, go

Oh Melinda, my sweet solid sender, my bobby socks girl, from that teenage world

You're so wonderful, even now, I hold your photograph, I squeeze you somehow, I see your big blue eyes and your lovely red lips, I want to touch your hands and your fingertips

Oh Melinda, my sweet Melinda, my true solid sender, my bobby socks girl, from that teenage world, alright

Oh I love you Melinda, my sweet Melinda, my true solid sender, from my teenage world

What a wonderful girl, oh I love you Melinda, you're a real solid sender (x2), my eternal girl from that teenage world (x3)

Party Party Party (Robert Coyne/Kevin Coyne)

Hey, honey,let's go out tonight, hey honey honey honey, let's move and groove tonight

We're going downtown, we're gonna boogaloo, I'm going to twist and shout, do the knees bend with you

Oh, let's party party party party (x3), party, let' s do it

Hey Baby, put your glad rags on, those sparkling tights of yours, oh they turn me on

I wanna go in a taxi, I ain't driving no car, wanna get drunk drunk drunk, so I don't know who I am or where you are

Going to party party party (x3), I' m going to party

Mambo with me baby, and do the frug too, we can do all the dances, and do them again

I get dizzy in the street, there's a call for the cab, I can see that glint in your eyes as you turn to me and you laugh, you laugh, you sing it out

Oh, let's party party party (x3), let's party

My goodness, going to see your feet move, oh Miss Twinkle Toes, look at those clothes you're wearing, all the fun we're sharing, we're having a good time

All My Friends (Robert Coyne/Kevin Coyne)

All my friends are far away (x2), wonder when they'll return (x2), all my friends, my friends are far away

All my friends, they ask why don't you write, all my friends ask why don't you write, they ask why don't you write, I can't shine a light at night, can't see the paper, that's why I don't write

All my friends say what causes your pain (x2), well I say I don't know, it's something inside that grows and grows, it keeps happening again and again, it keeps on happening, again and again, all my friends say smile a little while (x2), no I haven't got the time, I just don't have the time to smile a while, to smile a while, my friends, to smile a while, to smile a while, my friends, all my friends (x3)

For Angel Eyes (Robert Coyne/Kevin Coyne)

Drifting heart, across the sea, waiting for you and me, angel eyes shining out, everywhere, everywhere,

Looking for a new sunrise, a world where they don't tell lies, honesty, love for me, everywhere, everywhere

I'm a dreamer, I don't mind, I love you but you might find that sometimes I lose my patience and lose my tolerance and start to scream

City minds, city madness (x2)

I will try in my way, to help you through the days, if I cause pain, if I cause pain, I'm sorry, I'm sorry

Looking out on my world, I love you like no other girl, I' m wondering, I' m losing control, am I losing, losing control?

It' s just a dream, just a dream, such a dream, honey I, I mean it, when I say I, I will try

City mind, city madness (x4)

But You Do (Robert Coyne/Kevin Coyne)

I don't know why you get me like you do, don't know why you get me like you do (x2), but you do (x3)

I don't know why you crush my heart (x3), but you do (x3)

I don't know why I'm living like this (x3), oh come on over and give me a kiss (x4)

I don't know why you do me like you do, I don't know why, honey, you do me like you do, I don't know why you do me like you do, but you do (x3)

I don't know why I'm feeling like this (x3), come on over and give me a kiss (x4)

Carnival (Robert Coyne/Kevin Coyne )

We're at the carnival amidst those big blue-white lights, we're walking hand in hand through the dark, the purple night, we watch the big wheel turning, spinning round, the people scream, I wonder if we're really here or are we just in a dream

I hear you laugh, you cough, you turn and then you skip around, just like a five year old, a brand new life, you have found, you say you 'll leave me when the carnival is done and gone, I wonder if I can find my real way, my way back home

Crawling through the tunnel of love (twice), gonna find the light at the end, when will I reach the light at the end?

Riding bumper cars, we wheel and we turn, the flares above us, they burn and they burn, the strongman flexes his muscles and smiles, you'll be leaving in a very short while

Meet him at the gate in his big fancy car, take you into town where I know you'll star at some niterie, down in the gloom, leave me all alone in my bed-sitting room

Crawling through the tunnel of love (x6), will I ever reach the light at the end (x2)

Crawling through the tunnel of love (x2), will I ever reach the light at the end (x3)

Almost Invisible (Robert Coyne/Kevin Coyne)

I'm a regular kind of guy, I think you've seen me around

I suppose you've noticed me as I passed your window, I suppose you heard my voice that time I called

l suppose you laughed when I made a joke at the supermarket,

I suppose you noticed me as I helped you with your bags, the oranges, the apples

I suppose everything goes right for you in your world,

I suppose, I know, I'm sure you're a regular kind of girl

If it' s true that you've noticed, then let me know, if it's true that you've noticed me, then please God, let me know

If it' s true that you're interested, then drop me a line, if it's true that you noticed me, then indicate, gesticulate, help me

I'm just a regular kind of guy

I'm the sort you'll meet almost every day, down by the railway station, up by the market, just passing your way

I'm the sort you might meet at the back of the church, in your pew

I'm the sort that 'll help you when you stumble and fall at the bus queue

That's me, I'm afraid, it's nothing special (x2), that's me, I'm afraid, but I'm nothing special , I hope you realise how ordinary I am

That's me, I'm nothing special, oh honey, that's me, you know I'm nothing special

Nothing at all, I'm almost invisible (x2). If I shake my head, I might disappear (x2), if I move a leg, you won't see me again, I'll vanish into the air

I'm almost invisible (x4), I'm invisible, a regular kind of guy

 

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