KEVIN COYNE LYRICS - ALBUM: Opera for Syd w. the Achim Goettert group - 1999

N.19-Astronomy Dominé (Kevin Coyne/Achim Goettert)

What can I find inside my head?

When I wake in the morning, crawl out of bed

I wait for sunshine, it never appears

I'm waiting for your laughter

Your laughter is near (x3)

I watch all your washing, it's out on the line

You're looking, you're crazy, you're looking at mine

You're counting my socks, you're counting my shoes

Everytime you bend over, you give me the blues

You give me the blues

I just can't move

I'm rooted to the spot

I'm cold and I'm hot (x6)

I'm cold and I'm hot (x8)

Achtung, there's a spider in the wardrobe (x3)

Achtung, there's a spider in my head, in my head, in my head, it's in my head,oh in my head, it's in my head, it's in my head, spider in my head, oh in my head, oh in my head


N.23 (Kevin Coyne/Achim Goettert)

Doctor, doctor, don't tell me lies

Doctor, doctor, I see pain in your eyes

Doctor, doctor, reach out for the truth

Doctor, doctor, I'm glued, I can't move

Herr doctor, oh Herr doctor, oh Herr doctor, oh Herr doctor

A gorgious rain over Mondays, I was thinking of going shopping but then I realised it was Sunday

Everything was closed (x2) even my mind

Everything was closed (x2) even my mind

I took a walk in the park

Saw the daffodils there

Everything was blooming bright, bright and kind (x2)

Everything was blooming bright and kind

Everything shined inside my mind


N.21-Scarecrow (Kevin Coyne/Achim Goettert)

Cast aside the non-sense, the ??

If I hear you screaming, you'll drive me mad once more

Looking at the fishes in the gold fish bowl

My eyes wide open but I somehow lost my soul

Somehow lost my soul (x2)

I've got a bike, you can ride if you like (x8)

It's got a bell you can ring yet, a bell you can ring yet, you can ring the bell, you can ring the bell

It's got a bell you can ring yet, you can really ring, it's got a bell you can ring yet, you can ring the bell

It's got a bell you can ring yet, you can really ring it, you can really ring it, you can ring the bell (x2)

You can ride my bike if you like, it's a beautiful bike if you like (x2)

The wheels go round from Monday to Sunday (x3)

Those wheels go round from Monday to Sunday (x3)

I've got a bike, you can ride if you like (x2)

I've got a bike, ride if you like

I've got a bike (x2)

The wheels go round from Monday to Sunday (x3)

The wheels go round (x2)


N.22-Lucifer Sam (Kevin Coyne/Achim Goettert)

Green fat cat, fat, fat cat, fat cat, green fat, blue cat, purple cat, big cat, green cat, blue cat, fat cat, big cat, green cat, purple cat, fat cat, big cat, big cat

Big cat

Big fat cat with purple ears, oh big red cat and it's under my bed

It's giving me the voodoo (x2)

Voodoo voodoo hoodoo

Giving me the voodoo

Caty little ears (x2)

Scratching my face till it brings on tears

Caty little ears (x2)

Bringing on the ??

It's not clear (x2)

The cat is over there and the cat is right here

It's not clear (x2)

The cat is over there and the cat is right here

That cat's got something really strange (x3)

Under my bed, with a little yellow duck, he's under my bed, the cat is under my bed with a duck, it crawls round, makes scratching sound, I cannot stand it, can't stand the sound, it's under my bed, the cat's under my bed, cat's under my bed with a big red head, it's under my bed, scratching under my bed, scratch, scratch, scratch, scratching under my bed, scratch, scratch, scratch, scratching under my bed, scratch, scratch, scratch, scratching under my bed, scratch, scratch, scratch, scratching under my bed

That cat' strange, strange, strange, strange, a ballerina, a dance, a dance for a cat, give me a dance for a cat, I must dance like a cat, that cat's really strange, it's under my bed, it's under my bed, its big red head, it's under my bed, its big red head, it's under my bed, its big red head, it's under my bed, it's under my bed

N.22-Lucifer Sam (Kevin Coyne/Achim Goettert - 1999) (OPERA FOR SYD, DREIEINIGKEITSKIRCHE)

Eyes for diamonds under my bed

Pukky little red cat with a big round head

Eyes for diamonds all aglow

A little round head and a thing at the end of his nose

I say eyes for diamonds glowing in the dark

Keep away those wild whales, keep away all those sharks

That cat's got something I can't explain (x2)

That cat's got something we can't explain

Eyes like diamonds blazing in the rain

Eyes like diamonds shining in the rain (x2)

That cat's got something I can't explain (x2)

I can never explain what makes the rain

What causes the pain

Why is the strain

Such a terrible strain

That cat's got something I can't explain

Something I can't explain

I never can explain

Why it rains (x2)

What happens when it rains

I can't explain (x4)

I never can explain

Why the hell does it rain (x2)

I can't explain those ??

I can't explain

That cat's got something I can't explain (x2)


N.20-Chapter 24 (Kevin Coyne/Achim Goettert)

Dear blessed psycho, I've given you a chance

Oh dear blessed psycho, I've given you a chance

I prayed to you, I held you tight

I dreamed of you through ?? nights

Dear blessed psycho, I'm thinking of you (x2)

I've given you water, I've given you rain

I've given you the giggles and I've given you pain

I've given you everything, even my name

I've given you, I've given you

Dear blessed psycho, have you got it clear?

Is buzzing in your ear, the message buzzing in your ear

Dear blessed psycho, I've told you again

Oh dear blessed psycho, I have told you again

I've given you water, I've given you rain

I've given you laughter, I've given you pain

I've given you a message, the message is plain

Without no pain, there is no gain

Dear blessed psycho, you've got it really clear

Dear blessed psycho, you've got it loud in your ears

Come on now psycho, get up and dance

Do the dance, the lunatic dance

Dear blessed psycho, you've got it really clear

You've got that buzzing familiar in your ear

You can hear it, you can almost touch it (x2)

They're closing the doors, Sid (x2)

They won't let you out, they'll never let you out

They're closing the doors, Sid, they're closing the doors

They'll never let you out, they'll never let you out

No more high times, no more drugs

No more cocaine, no more laughter

No more night life, no cellars of blue

They've locked the doors, you can't go though (x3)

Alles geschlossen, you can't go though

Hey there, soul man, get that beat

I say hey there, soul man, you gotta get that beat

Can you hear it grooving? Going down the street

I gotta groove groove move, had to groove groove move

Hey there, soul man, it's deep to your boots

Hey there, soul man, you got it to your roots

Groove groove now (x2)

Groove groove groove now (x4)

Groove

It was a fantastic buttercup shining in my bedroom

At about twelve o'clock on July the 12th

I looked through the curtains

They were pink and ragged

I said, 'Sid, it's your birthday'

So I rang my mother

My mother said, 'Sid, you got to close the door

The crocodiles are coming down the River Thames

They're gonna get you, they're gonna eat you up

They're gonna eat you up like they eat me up, like they eat you up'

Now the bowl of tulips on the porch

My mother comes out, makes a cruel ??

She said, 'Son, go down, get buried on the ground

We don't want to hear you, you're a crazy boy, you're a crazy boy

And we're gonna bury you deeper and deeper than you ever knew

Under under under the ground

Till the crisp white daisies cover you

We're gonna bury you, bury you under the ground


N.25 (Kevin Coyne/Achim Goettert)

?? baby with big white teeth

She's coming and she says she's my niece

She's coming through the door last night

She said "Hey Baby, everything is alright"

I said "Sugar Cube, now please come home

I'm in this bedroom and I'm all alone"

She says "It's time you made some love"

So I stared right up to the clouds up above

I said "Lord, send me some light"

Lord, send me some light (x2)

Send it right down on me"

I said "Lord, send me some light

Lord, send me some light (x2)

Send it right down on me"

Monkey sugar and ??

I'm gonna get you oh hot dog

I'm gonna creep and crawl on you

I'm gonna get you when I'm telling the truth

There's nothing that you can do

When I get you with a hang up blues

I'm gonna creep right up on you

I'm gonna tell you what to do

You'll be my robot you'll be my lover

You won't have any cover

You'll be my robot you'll be my lover

You won't have any cover

Lord send it down on me (x2)

Send it right right down on me

Lord send it down on me (x2)

Send it right right down on me

Oh Lord send it down on me

Send your little light down on me (x2)

I'm confused, somewhat rattled, ex-patient of the ?? hospital in London South West 9. At the head of it all is a doctor in a white coat and there's a nurse wearing pink and blue. Now she looks up to me and she says "Is this your coat?", I said "It's not my coat". She said "Are you mad?", I said "I'm as sane as you are". She looked at me and then the day went past, and then another day went past, three years have gone past, and the time had gone past and I'd gone past

Forty days and forty nights

I struggled hard to get it right

I was searching through the clouds for a light

I did not hear a thing, there was nothing to see

I'm looking for the light, I'm looking for the day

I'm looking for a reason, I'm looking for a way

I'm looking for a ??, I'm looking for a time

I'm looking for something, that something is not mine

I'm looking for a time, I'm looking for a day

The day has flown away, I'm looking for a day (x2)


N.27 (Kevin Coyne/Achim Goettert)

When they say their Alleluias

When they stand up really proud

Don't believe a thing they're saying

They're just faces, faces in the crowd

When they talk of love and money

When they say heaven's in their view

They're just putting a voodoo on you

There's not a soul but my dog tells the truth

When the angels they start singing

In those glorious tones of old

You'll be thankful you went crazy

It's better to be hot than to be cold

There's a singer raphsody I sometimes can hear

Sometimes it comes through like the Pacific Ocean

Sometimes it dies in my ears

Everyone sings of sadness

Everybody gets sad for a time

But I want to, I want to tell you I'm happy the way I am

Because this heart and soul, it is mine

It is mine (x2)

My heart and soul, it is mine

It is mine (x2)

This heart and soul, it is mine


Any Day, Any Way (Kevin Coyne/Achim Goettert - 1993) (MANSION OF DREAMS)

I'm in Heaven and everybody's there

Dancing, jumping, jumping around, dancing right on the air

Ooh ooh ooh everybody's having fun (x2)

There's a party up there, they're dancing on air

You can see them scream and swear

You can see them every night

They're gonna put out the light

Ooh ooh ooh having fun, (x3)

Having a party up there

Ooh ooh ooh having fun, (x3)

Having a party up there

Ooh ooh ooh having fun, (x3)

Having a party up there

Everybody's dancing, singing out loud

Everybody's dancing, dancing crowd

Everybody's singing, everytime

Everybody's having fun

Ooh ooh ooh having fun, (x3)

Having fun up there

Ooh ooh ooh having fun, (x3)

Having fun up there (x4)

Ooh ooh, having fun (repeat)

Anyday-Anyway (Encore) (Kevin Coyne/Achim Goettert - 1999) OPERA FOR SYD

Here we go once again, a little ?? with nothing my friend, we're going to dance, we're going to sing, we're going to go like birds on wing, some of us will go up, some of us will go down, some of us will go up, some of us will go down, what will you do David? You'll go up. Alright!

You go down (repeat)

Last night, I let my bones grow loose

I went up and down like a crazy moose

I said "You go down", you said "No, I'll go down", you said "You go down", I said "No, I'll go down", you said "You go down", you said "I'll go down", I said "You go down", you said "I'll go down"

Last night, I had a beautiful dream

Oh do you know last night, last night, I had a beautiful dream

I was, I was moving on up

I was flying higher higher higher than I ever done before

Oh last night I had a beautiful dream

Yes last night, I had a beautiful dream

I was going up into the blue

I was hand in hand with you

I was going up into the blue

I was hand in hand with you

Going up (repeat)

 

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