KEVIN COYNE LYRICS - ALBUM: Tough and Sweet 1993

 

Little Miss Dynamite (Kevin Coyne)

Little Miss Dynamite, who you're talking to now? (x2)

Little Miss Dynamit,e got me jealous as hell, with your little pink shoes, with your little pink bow, your little pink scarf and your painted toes

Little Miss Dynamite, why you're teasing me? (x3) with your little pink house, your little pink car and little pink bra and your painted toes

Got me raging, raging like a bull, got me raging, raging like a crazy mad bull, I think I've had my belly full

Little Miss Dynamite, why you're breaking my hell? (x3) with your little pink hat, your little pink cat, you've got a little pink cat, with your little pink shoes, with your little pink painted toes

Precious Love (Henry Beck/Kevin Coyne)

Money won't change you, you'll always be the same, forgetting my telephone number, forgetting my real name, call me Bozo, your silly fool

Chorus: I'm waiting for your precious love, the only thing I'm dreaming of x2)

I keep waiting but nothing arrives, waiting and waiting, I'm more dead than alive

Chorus

Everybody knows I'm crazy, that I need someone like you, maybe I want to suffer? I get these weary weary blues, I keep breaking up on Mondays, and Tuesdays I go down, when you telephone and tell me you don't want to see your stool pigeon around

Everybody knows I love you, but they know that I'm half insane, I was blabbering about you to anybody who'd listen, anybody who knows your name

Chorus

If I go crazy tonight, will somebody send a doctor round for me? Somebody send someone in a long white coat, give me something to ease this misery

Chorus (x2)

Burning Head (Hans Pukke/Kevin Coyne - 1992) (BURNING HEAD) or Burning Head II (Kevin Coyne/Robert Coyne/Eugene Coyne/Hans Pukke - 1993) (TOUGH AND SWEET)

Screaming in the kitchen, there's noises in the hall, I can see things crawling down the walls

There's a shadow in the bedroom, it's mighty big, I wonder who it is, I wonder who it is

Ah the bogey man comes, ah the bogey man comes

Chorus: I've got the burning head now, I've got the worms in the brain (x2).

Ah mercy

I'rn walking in the park with my best best girl, she's the one I really love, she's out of this world

She's wearing a mask, a painted head, she's looking at me, she wants to strike me dead

Chorus

Ah mercy, ah mercy, mercy

Mercy, mercy , mercy, burning head

Got the burning, burning head (x3)

Really in Love (Henry Beck/Kevin Coyne)

Don't you know that the world is wise when I look in your eyes, heavens's gate is open so wide (x2)

Don 't you know of the joy you bring, makes my heart sing, Hallelujah, I'm really in love

Don't you know that I love you (x2)

(Repeat everything three times)

I really love you (x3)

I'm really in love (x3)

Pony Tail Song (Robert Coyne/Kevin Coyne)

I remember the Everly Brothers, Chuck Berry on a moonlight stage

Jiving dances by the old town hall, boogie was the rage

I remember the Dartells, Jarrmels, those Spiderrmen

We're rocking and rolling, still rockin', like we did then, with that...

Chorus: Shang a Lang, I love you, Shang a Lang, baby it's true, Shang a Lang, I love you, Shang a Lang, I dig your pony tail.

I remember Fats Domino smiling, smiling all the time

Little Richard in his baggy suit, now he was a friend of mine

When he screamed, I swore that the hair stood up on my neck

We're going to keep on rockin, though it's sometimes shocking, rock and roll what the heck!

Let's go with that...

Chorus - Solo - Chorus

Oh yes I do

Chorus (x2)

Dig your pony tail

Elvis Is Dead (Henry Beck/Kevin Coyne)

Elvis is dead, yapping like a hound dog , Elvis is dead (x2), looking for his mummy, yapping like a hound dog, looking for his mummy

Down at the Heartbreak Hotel, there's the smell of old wine in the cellar and out at the front there's a pink cadillac with a man in the back, smoking a big cigar, singing "Mystery Train"

Elvis is dead (x2), looking for his mummy, Elvis is dead (x2), yapping like a hound dog, looking for his mummy, yapping like a hound dog

There's a blue Kentucky moon, it's shining like a star, shining like a big balloon above the city, Las Vegas at night, I can feel the feelings just right, money cascading from the machine, I can feel that teenage dream, Elvis is here, he gives me a beer, he gives me a smile, that old hound dog

Looking for his mummy, yapping like a hound

Since you've gone away, I've got a mess of blues, I've got it right down to my blue suede shoes, I've got a mark upon my head, it says I'm dead, it says I'm dead, I can see the signs above, I can see you living in the land of love, your mother's smiling, I'm joining you, my wings are flapping, you tell the truth

Looking for his mummy, yapping like a hound dog

Baby let me be your teddy bear, I wanna know, I want you to know I care, I care about you, even though you're long away in the land of blue, I can see your face on the bedroom wall, hear you calling, hear your call, can hear you singing late at night, everything's gonna be all right

Yapping like a hound, looking for his mummy

Las Vegas night, it's gonna be all right, Cadillac car, superstar (repeat)

Elvis is dead

Totally Naked (Kevin Coyne - 1993 BURNING HEAD) or Totally Naked II (TOUGH AND SWEET )

Totally naked, that's how we came into the world you say

Totally naked, bouncing up and down upon the bathroom scales

Totally naked, I'll never change, you say I'll always be that way

Totally naked, bouncing up and down upon the bathroom scales

It's so nice, you and I, and it makes you think

It's so nice you and I though life it sometimes stinks

Totally naked, that's what you say, that 's how we came today

Ttotally naked, totally honest with not a lie, a mistruth to say

Totally naked, I'm flying high, it's such a happy day

Totally naked, I'm just a baby and it's good to feel this way

It's alright, it's so good and it makes you think

It's alright, it's so nice though sometimes the world it stinks, yes

Totally naked, that's how we came into the world they say

Totally naked, bouncing up and down upon the bathroom scales

Totally naked, feel so fine, I'm just a baby in my way

We're totally naked, I suppose we'll always remain the same

Yes, i t's so good, it's so fine and it makes you think

It's so good, it's alright though life sometimes sometimes stinks

Tthough life sometimes sometimes stinks (x2)

Walls Have Ears (Henry Beck/Kevin Coyne)

Walls have ears and angels they scream

I can trace the madness in my face

From out of the window, twisting up the garden path

I hear the neighbours chattering, I hear the neighbours laugh

Walls have ears, walls have ears

Walls have ears and babies they cry, deep within the womb all their problems lie

The stars foretell, the maze it runs, some buy sweets and chocolates and some buy machine guns

Walls have ears, walls have ears (Hey you!) (repeat)

Baby Blue (Robert Coyne/Kevin Coyne)

Oh Baby Baby Baby Blue, all the neighbours watching you, watching everything you do, your hat and your shoes

Oh Baby Baby Baby Blue, with your brand new BMW, all the style in the world, you're such an unhappy girl

Chorus: They say Claudette is your name, your cowboy husband is to blame, he's always running around with every girl in town.

Oh Baby Baby Baby Blue, all the neighbours watching you, criticising everything you do, your hat and your shoes

Oh Baby Baby Baby Blue, with your brand new BMW, all the style in the world, you're such an unhappy girl

Chorus - Solo - Chorus

Oh Baby Baby Baby Blue, I feel sorry for you, maybe you must fly away, down to that lonesome highway

Oh Baby Baby Baby Blue, pick up your hat and your shoes, there's nothing else you can do, got to run, Baby Baby Blue

Baby Blue (ad lib)

Talking Money (Kevin Coyne)

Talking money, funny funny money, sticky sticky money, money's not so funny

Talking money, always talking talking money, money's not so funny, that sticky tricky money

No wonder people get crazy, get flabby, get lazy, no wonder people go crazy, go flabby, go lazy

Money (repeat). Lazy (repeat)

Talking money, all that crazy money, all that funny funny money, you know they're just talking money

Talking money, funny funny money, talking money, oh sticky tricky money

No wonder people get crazy, get flabby, get lazy, no wonder people go crazy, get flabby, get lazy

Money (repeat). Lazy (repeat)

Talking money, crazy crazy money, talking money, sticky sticky money

No wonder people get crazy, no wonder people get lazy, no wonder people get crazy, get flabby and lazy

Money (repeat). Lazy (repeat) Crazy

Slow Burner (Robert Coyne/Kevin Coyne)

There's madness in the sky, I'm on a slow burner

I keep asking why, we're on a slow burner

Can pigs really fly with this slow burner?

It's just do or die with this slow burner, slow burner

Honey you know, I'm worried about life , h oney you know, I'm worried all the time

Honey you know, I pace the bedroom, honey you know, my eyes have seen the doom, seen the doom, seen the doom, seen the doom, my eyes have seen the doom

The world's in flame and we're burning down, burning down

You know that the world's in flame and we're burning down, burning down

Don't you know that the world's in flame and we're burning down, burning down (x2)

Don't you know that the world's in flame and we're turning round, turning round (twice)

And that it's just a game that we're turning round, turning round

Baby, who's to blame that we're burning down, burning down

I hear a dead rat singing "slow burner, slow burner"

I see a bird with a broken wing, he's on a slow burner, slow burner

Hippopotamus and butterfly are on a slow burner, slow burner

Dogs and and cats are asking why, we're a slow burner, slow burner

I can see a giraffe start to laugh somewher,e I can see someone say why don't you share but nobody shares, nobody cares, there's nobody there, there's nobody there on this slow burner, on this slow burner

You know the world's in flame, we're burning down, burning down (repeat)

All The Loving (Robert Coyne/Kevin Coyne)

All the loving in the world is what I need

All the loving in the world, oh baby please

All the loving in the world is what I crave

All the loving in the world, I'm loving's slave

Paradise is never far when you're around

Paradise is on my mind, just a little sound

Paradise of your voice in the night

Paradise if you're not there, I'll cry, I'll cry

All the loving in the world is what I need

All the loving in the world, oh baby please

All the loving in the world is what I crave

All the loving in the world, I'm loving's slave

Paradise is never far when you're around

Paradise, I can hear that little sound

Paradise, your love in the night

Paradise, if you're not here, I'll cry, I'll cry

Paradise is here when you're around

Paradise, I can hear that little sound

Paradise, your love in the night

Paradise, if you're not here, I'll cry, I'll cry

I'll cry, I'll cry (repeat)

No Lullabies (Henry Beck/Kevin Coyne)

I can see the broken toys, skinny girls and skinny boys

I can feel the murky rain, I can hear the aeroplanes

God bless the little children, standing in the rain, waiting for some peace but waiting there in vain, waiting for some peace but waiting there in vain

I can see the broken toys, skinny girls and skinny boys

I can feel the murky rain, I can hear the aeroplanes

God bless the little children, standing in the snow, waiting for the hate and terror, wanting it to go

God bless the little children, waiting in the snow

It's Amazing (Hans Pukke/Kevin Coyne - 1992) (BURNING HEAD) or It's Amazing II (Hans Pukke/Kevin Coyne - 1993) (TOUGH AND SWEET)

Chorus: It 's amazing what you do now when you do that thing (x4)

Baby what's your name? I'll call you Mary Jane, I'll keep it simple and plain, I'll call you Mary Jane

Chorus

I'm looking at you baby from across the way, let's get together, make a happy day

Oh come on here and hold me tight, it's a lovely feeling and it's Saturday night

Chorus

Wanna a drink? You're making me think l'm a stranger here, feeling kind of weird

Can I take you home? I know you're alone, don't laugh at me, don't laugh at me

Chorus

What's your name? I'll call you Mary Jane, I'll keep it simple and plain, I'll call you Mary Jane

Baby what's your name? l'll keep it simple and plain, baby what's your name? I'll call you Mary Jane

Chorus

What's your name? I'll call you Mary Jane, I'll keep it simple and plain, I'll call you Mary Jane (x2)

Chorus (ad lib)

Tell Me Tony (Robert Coyne/Kevin Coyne)

Chorus: Tell me Tony, you're not giving in, come on and tell me Tony, you're not giving in (x4)

I know that life is tough and Mandy she has treated you rough, she's gone with a bloke from across the sea and she's down by the sand down on her knees

She might telephone (but she won't), she might telephone (I know she won't), she might telephone (I know she won't), she might telephone (perhaps she won't)

Come on Tony, you're not giving in, come on Tony, you've got to tell me, you're not giving in

Tell me, you're, come on and tell me you're not giving in

A man should be a man, a man should be a man, a man should be a man, you should understand (x6)

Chorus (ad lib)

Now's the Time (Kevin Coyne )

Everybody's talking to the moon in June, there's a snowstorm and the hail is beyond the pale in Afghanistan, and there's a banana man at my door, he's selling yellow things and selling yellow wings and screaming and shouting and what is more you don't understand that I'm a man and I need more than this, I need a kiss now

Now's the time (x4)

I can't stand all this confusion everywhere and everywhere I see. There's no one seems to care, I saw a child scream today but nobody was listening to him, he told me his name was Brian (or was it Jim?) and that he'd just lost his mother or his younger brother under a railway track or somewhere at the back of beyond where nobody goes, it's slow, it's slow... time, don't you know that...

Chorus

Whenever I ask you to help me, you never will, you never say, you never even give me a thrill, you keep on pontificating about my bad manners and the house, you say, is dirty and there's smudges all over the window and I can't see out and there's nothing to do but wail and shout at a cat or a dog or anything that gets in my way... Oh life's to blame

Now's the time, now really is the time

Chorus

Running to the edge of the cliff like a child, my hair streaming out, just a little wild, choking and spitting green bile, is the air polluted, am I demoted, am I just a little man in a world that whirls and doesn't understand, it's a familiar problem, I get it all the time, there is no reason and there is no rhyme, there is no reason or rhyme

Chorus (ad lib)

Getting Old (Robert Coyne/Kevin Coyn)

I got the Amazon in my head, Methusaleh sitting in my bed, Frankfurt beaming late at night, I see a woman in big pink tights,dancing and swinging by the Eiffel Tower, talking nonsense for hours and hours, I just don't mind, I just don't care, I'm prancing up and down in my underwear

Chorus: Cause oh it's strange, oh it's so strange, oh it's so strange when you're getting old

I see the rythm of light all day, I can see those dazzlers as they just hold sway, I'm out in the country by a mountain clear, I'm drinking twenty five glasses of beer, running through the grass in my big socks, running around spinning like a clock, up and down, down through the aisles, I'm running, I'm running for miles and miles

Chorus - Solo - Chorus

I saw John Lennon late last night, he was dancing around in a pale moonlight, talking about all the things he's done, calling me a crazy bum, I'll get to heaven way one day, I'm on this road to Mandalay but when I touch down you can say, I'm gonna crow, I'm gonna crow

Chorus (ad lib) I feel good, cockle de do

Some Day (Kevin Coyne)

Some day, you're gonna want me, some day, I'm gonna to touch you

Some day, you're going need me, some day, you'd better believe me

Some day, I'm going to find you, s ome day, right behind you

Some day, you're gonna touch me, some day, you're gonna need it

Some day, I'm gonna touch you (x2), some day, all my dreams come true about you

Some day, you're gonna touch me (x2), some day, all my dreams come true about you

Some day, you're gonna find me, some day, you're right behind me some day, you're gonna need me, some day, you're gonna scream out

Some day, that you 've found me, some day, that you want me, some day, you desire me, some day, I'm on fire

Some day, you're gonna touch me (x2), some day, all my dreams come true about you (x2)

Some day, it's the truth now, some day, the whole truth now, some day, I'm gonna find you, some day, I'm right behind you

Some day, you better watch out, some day, I'll come creeping, some day, you better watch out, some day, I'm behind you

Some day, you're gonna want me, some day, I'm gonna touch you, some day, all my dreams come true about you

Love and Money (Eugene Coyne/Robert Coyne/Kevin Coyne)

Money don't mean a thing, no this diamond ring, no love could bring, could really bring

Money don't mean a thing, no this golden thing, no love could bring, no love could bring

Money don't mean a thing, this Mercedes Benz could never be your friend, could never be your friend

Why don't your behave yourself, stop messing up, why don't you behave yourself, it's just bad luck

Why don't you behave yourself, you're just fooling around, why don't your behave yourself, love is in the air and in the ground

Money won't change a thing, no this glittering ring doesn't mean a thing, doesn't mean a thing

Money won't change a thing, won't change your life, your children or your wife, your lovely wife

Money won't, no it don't mean a thing, no this diamond ring, no love can bring

Why don't you behave yourself, stop messing up, why don't you behave yourself, it's just bad luck

Why don't you behave yourself, stop fooling around, why don't your behave yourself, love is in the air and in the ground

Why don't you behave yourself, stop messing up, why don't your behave yourself, it's bad luck

Why don't you behave yourself, stop fooling around, why don't you behave yourself

Let's Get Romantic (Kevin Coyne)

Falling in love is not so easy, makes you feel dizzy and makes you feel queasy, makes you feel dirty and it makes you feel sleazy, want to lie in bed all day

But come on, come on now, let's get romantic, come on and let's get frantic, come one, I'll be your lover tonight, let's make it right

Falling in love is rather difficult, falling in love it doesn't involve the intellect, falling in love makes me the subject of your strange affection

Come on now, come on now, let's get romantic, come on, let's get frantic, come on now baby, I'll be your lover tonight, is that alright

Falling in love is almost strange, falling in love is close to being deranged, falling in love is submissive and I don't want that, I don't want that

So come on now, let's get romantic, come on now, let's get frantic, come one now, love your lover tonight, your lover tonight

Spoken: Such a long time, I was dreaming, I couldn't wait, I was looking for love, anyway to love, I had so much love to give but no-one to take it, no-one would have it and the feeling of being alone in that flat every night, of coming back every night, now, to see the sun and to see the sky, to feel that I was awake, the last to be there, and it was beautfiful

Come on now, let's get romantic, come on now, let's get frantic, come one now, I'll be your lover tonight, is that alright

Come on now, let's get romantic, come on now, let's get frantic, come one now, I'll be your lover tonight, oh tonight (repeat)

Creeper (the) (Robert Coyne/Kevin Coyne)

Roses die and sky is black, since you've been messing round my back, I can't sleep and I can't eat

I'm begging please (x2) don't let the creeper come

Dizzy dizzy late at night, I'm drunk and lost my appetite, those ghosts they hover everywhere

I'm begging please (x3) don't let the creeper come, don't let them come, don't let them come

He pleases, he teases (x2) ah yes he does

Crying, crying in the rain, doubled up with mental pain, since you've been gone nothing to do

But beg please, please, don't let the creeper come, don't let them come, don't let them come

He pleases, he teases (ad lib)

 

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