Underground (Kevin Coyne - Andreas Blüml)
Sittin’ on a park bench, flowers growin’ all over me.
Up my arms ‘n’ right up my legs.
Wastin´ away.
They pass by, they say
he can´t move, he´s paralysed.
I keep a-laughin´ at myself. I can´t get home.
I want to get there but I can’t. I want to get there but I won’t
I want to get there but I can’t. I want to get there but I won’t
Live in terror of impending doom.
All the shadows that collect in my little room.
I want to stay out here. Out in the bright sunlight.
I like the weather here. The weather likes me.
I´m not goin´ anywhere. The police can come and take me away.
I won´t riot with them. I won´t go for them.
I won´t riot with no one. I won´t go for no one.
Return to the ground. I´m gonna sink right in.
Back to the basics, back to the underground.
Into the darkness where I just hear the breathing
of a million souls, of a trillion souls.
I don´t wonder and I, I don´t ask why.
I keep on sittin´ here. I keep on waiting here.
You can remove me if you like. You can remove me if you like.
I´m not goin’ anywhere. I´m not goin’ anywhere.
I´m goin’ home. I hope I´m goin’ home.
I´m not goin’ anywhere. I´m not goin’ anywhere.
I´m goin’ home. I´m goin’ home.
Way Of The World (The) (Kevin Coyne - Andreas Blüml)
That’s the way of the world (4 x)
It goes up and down like that, can’t help itself.
It swivels and bounces. Fluctuates.
Looking through cracked windows at the street,
hearing the sound of tapping feet.
Somebody above me is making a noise.
Naughty girls and naughty boys.
I’m living and unemployed, no work at all,
I toy with the idea of doing away with myself,
but I change my mind every day
I change my mind every day
I change my mind every day
Every day. (7 x)
That’s the way of the world (4 x)
You look at me now and I’m looking at you across the restaurant table.
Across by the sauce bottles, over the salt and the vinegar.
You’re looking at me and looking rather sour,
You’ve been looking like that for the past half-hour.
You want to ask me who I am, but I don’t know,
and you certainly don’t know me.
I wonder, I wonder should I change the way I am?
I wonder, I wonder should I change the way I am?
I wonder, I wonder, I wonder. That’s the way of the world.
I wonder, I wonder, I wonder. That’s the way of the world.
Here comes the sunlight. Make another start.
Here comes the sunlight. I’ll make another start.
Here comes the sunlight. Got to make another start.
Here comes the sunlight. I’ll make another start.
That’s the way of the world (8 x)
You’re my paper girlfriend with the paper heart. It’s burning all away (2 x)
You’re my paper girlfriend with a paper heart. It’s burning away
Yes, a paper girlfriend with a paper heart. It’s burning all away
In your living room, flames burn bright, I watch them glow.
In your living room, flames burn bright, yes I watch them as they glow. As they glow. Ha!
Paper house with the paper windows. I want to burn it all down.
The paper house with those paper windows. I want to burn it all down.
The paper house with its paper windows. I want to burn it all down.
The paper house with its paper windows. I have to burn it all down.
Creep in the yard with my matches. Set the bushes all aflame.
Creep in the yard with my matches. Set the bushes all aflame. All aflame. Ha!
I’m your paper man with the paper mind. It’s burning all away.
I’m your paper man with his paper mind. I’m burning all away.
I’m your paper man with his paper mind. I’m burning away.
I’m your paper man with the paper mind. I’m burning all away.
You won’t see me, very soon, I’ll, I will disappear.
You won’t see me, very soon, I will totally disappear from here, from here. Alright.
Ha! You’re my paper girlfriend with the paper heart and it’s burning all away.
You’re my paper girlfriend with the paper heart and it’s burning, burning all away.
You’re my paper girlfriend with the paper heart. Yes it’s burning all away.
You’re my paper girlfriend with the paper heart and it’s burning all away.
In your living room, burning bright, I can see the glow.
In your living room, burning bright, I can see the glow and I know and I know. I can see.
We’re finished. It’s all over. It doesn’t matter any more.
We are finished. It’s all over. It doesn’t matter any more.
Yes, we are finished. It’s all over. It doesn’t really matter any more.
We are finished. It’s all over. It doesn’t matter any more.
Low I Try (Kevin Coyne - Kevin Coyne)
Low I try. Low I try. Low I try to stoop lower and lower.
Low I try. Low I try. Low I try to stoop lower and lower.
But humility doesn’t follow me.
My arrogance seats itself upon your head.
Humility doesn’t follow me.
My arrogance seats itself upon your head.
Low I try. Low I try. Low I try, but I can’t get no lower. (4 x)
Can’t get no lower. (7 x)
Forgive me for my arrogance my friend,
it’s just my natural way of being.
I would stoop low if the shadows followed me too closely.
But they don’t.
All I see is glory, glory, glory,
and should I say Hallelujah. Ha Ha Ha Ha Hallelujah.
Low. No. No. No. No. No.
I can’t get any lower than this. Can’t get any lower than this.
Low I try. Low I try. Low I try, but I can’t get no lower. (5 x)
Mr. President (Kevin Coyne - 2004)
Mr President is talking (repeat)
Mr President is talking. Everyone must hear. (3 x)
Mr President is talking and the message is very clear.
It’s as clear as mud. (7 x)
Yes it’s as clear as mud.
Mr President is talking. Everyone must hear. (4 x)
Everyone must hear (3 x)
Mumbo jumbo jumba lumba lumba
Jumba lumba lumba jumba mumba jumba
Jumba lumba lumba jumba lumba jumba jumba mumba lumba jumba
Lumba lumba jumba jumba jumba. Nonsense.
Mumba lumba jumba lumba lumba jumba jumba lumba jumba.
It’s nonsense he’s talking (3 x)
What’s that rubbish he’s talking?
It’s rubbish he’s talking.
It’s nonsense he’s talking.
It’s nonsense he’s talking.
It’s rubbish he’s talking.
Rubbish. Rubbish. Rubbish. Rubbish. Rubbish. Rubbish.
Mr President is talking. Everyone must hear. (3 x)
Mr President is talking
What’s he talking about? (3 x)
He Knows Everything (Kevin Coyne - Werner Steinhauser)
Well he sits in the office with his porcelain brow.
He sweats, he thinks. Somehow, I’ve solved everything.
Nothing I don’t know, I know everything.
Yes he knows everything. Oh! He knows everything.
He knows everything. Yes he knows everything (he knows everything)
Out on the street he drives his fast car.
All the pedestrians stare, they say he’s gone too far.
He’s going too fast, he ought to slow down
He’s crazy fool, he’s gonna kill us all.
He just treats us like we don’t exist, he’s pissed.
He’s drunk on his own ego.
Ah! No, cos he knows everything. He knows everything. He knows everything.
Can’t tell him nothin’. You can’t tell him nothin’
In the morning when he gets out of bed he stares up at the sky.
He says, now now sky, I wonder why.
I wonder why you’re blue and not grey, and not green, and not a hazy colour of red.
It’s because, I said, I know everything.
I can make you change. I know everything, the weather changes with me.
Because I know everything
I know everything. There’s nothin’ I don’t know.
I know everything. There’s nothing I don’t know.
I know everything. There’s nothing I can be told.
I know everything. There’s nothing I don’t know.
I know everything. (5 x)
Nothing to learn. Not a thing he doesn’t know. Nothing to learn.
I know everything. (18 x)
I can’t be told. I know, I know, I know everything. I know everything.
My mother told me when I was very young, she said:, you gotta be strong.
Nobody can tell you anything because you know already.’
And that’s why I know everything.
Mother told me I know everything.
Don’t tell me. I know already. I know already. I know already. I know already.
I know it. I know it. I know it. I know already.
I know it. I know it. I know it. I know everything.
(He knows you know) everything.
Time, time, time, time.
Time moves on.
Time moves on and on.
Time moves on.
Time moves on and on.
Shadows they creep. They’re creepin’ while you sleep.
Time moves on.
Time moves on.
Time. Time moves on.
Time moves on.
Shadows they creep, creepin’ while you sleep.
Time moves on.
On. On. On. On. On.
Time moves on.
Time moves on.
Time moves on.
Time moves on.
Shadows they creep, creepin’ while you sleep.
Time moves on.
Time moves on.
Time moves on.
Time moves on.
Shadows, shadows they creep, they’re creepin’ while, while you sleep.
Shadows they creep. Creepin’ while you’re sleepin’.
Time moves on.
On. On. On. On. On. On. On. On. On.
Time moves on.
Time moves on.
On and on. On and on. On and on. On and on.
On and on. On and on. On and on. On and on.
Why, why, why, why, why, why.
why am I quivering in my shoes?
Why, why, why, why, tell me why, why
why, honey, am I quivering in my shoes?
In my shoes, size forty-two.
Every time I play a game. Every time I play a game.
Honey I lose. Honey I lose. I lose.
Why, why, why, why, why,
why do I fear that knock upon the door?
Upon the door
Knock, knock, knock, knock.
Why, why, why, why, why, why, why.
why do I fear the knock upon my door?
Knock upon my door.
Can’t take the paranoia, paranoia, ha ha.
I can’t take it any more, any more.
Why, why, why, why, why, why.
why am I wearing this silly mask?
Don’t want nobody to see me, that’s why.
Tell me why, why, why, why, why, why,
why am I wearing this silly mask?
Don’t want nobody to see me, that’s why.
I stay, I stay in the house. Ah! when it’s dark, and it’s way after dusk.
Don’t want nobody to see me, that’s why.
Alright. Alright. Ha Ha Ha. Oh yeah. Ah!
Tell me why, why, why, why, why,
why do I stutter and stammer on the telephone?
On the telephone.
Tell me, tell me why, why, why, why,
why do I stutter and stammer on the telephone?
On the telephone. On that little telephone.
I’m a-frightened the wife might catch you talking to me at home.
Talking to me at home.
So, uh why, why, why, why, why,
why do I stutter and stammer on the telephone?
My wife cat- cat- catch me, she c-could catch me,
Why why why why…she could catch me talking to you on the telephone.
On the telephone. On the telephone.
Aha! Talking to me. Talking to me.
Words of love. Got to stop this!
On the telephone.
She Said (Kevin Coyne - Andreas Blüml)
She said, I’m not your baby-minder. (4 x)
Why don’t you go and find a nurse?
Why don’t you find yourself a nurse? (3 x)
She said, I’m not your fairy princess. (4 x)
Why don’t you find a little queen?
Why don’t you find yourself your own little queen?
Why don’t you find yourself a little queen?
Why don’t you find yourself your own little queen?
She said, I’m not your dolly dolly. She said, I’m not your pretty, dolly dolly. (2 x)
Why don’t you find yourself another place?
Why don’t you find yourself another house?
Why don’t you go away? Over the hills, far away.
Fly from here. Go away. Right away.
Aargh! Alright.
Ha-ha, that’s it. That’s what she said.
She said, I’ve had just about enough. (4 x)
Go away. I don’t want you now. (4 x)
She said. That’s what she said. That’s what she always said.
That’s what she said. That’s what she said.
Go away. Over those hills, far away.
Fly over the fence. Nobody’ll notice when you’re gone.
She said. That’s what she said, that’s what she said. (4 x)
Hard And Loud (Kevin Coyne)
Let’s play hard. Let’s play loud.
Let’s play hard. Let’s play loud.
C’mon baby let's get with the crowd.
Out on the street, dancin’ around.
Honey, honey, honey it’s a full moon.
We’re gonna dance, we’re gonna rock it.
We’re gonna dance, honey we’re gonna rock it.
Yeah! Heh, I'm in a delirium.
Sometimes I feel like the chosen one
Chosen by you to have a good time.
Let’s play loud. Let’s play hard.
Let’s play loud. Let’s play hard.
Let’s play hard. Let’s play loud.
Now here comes a policeman, he’s on his beat.
Look now at his skippin’, jumpin’ feet.
He likes the music, feels alright.
Oh! It’s a magic moonlight.
Now, let’s play hard. Let’s play loud.
Let’s play hard. Let’s play loud. Alright.
Ha-ha, all the children they're laughin’ at me.
They say look at this old man, he's got his fleas.
Help us jump up, help us jump down.
You're the king of the festival. You’ve got the crown.
Now, let’s play hard. Let’s play loud.
Let’s play hard. Let’s play loud.
Let’s play hard. Let’s play loud.
Let’s play hard. Let’s play loud.
And we’ll do it cos we wanna do it. We’ll do it cos we wanna do it.
We’ll do it cos we want do it. We’ll do it cos we wanna do it.
Nobody can stop us. Nobody can stop us.
Cos we got it, yes we got it. Nobody can stop us.
Let’s play hard. Let’s play loud.
Let’s play hard. Let’s play loud.
Let’s play hard. Let’s play loud.
Something’s been teasing me and upsetting me most of, most of the day,
I been upset, I said, I can’t take it any more, and I mean everything I say,
I’ll carry this dark, dark, darkness, darkness to the grave,
unless you tell me that you love me too,
like I love you. It’s simple
I wanna be loved, I wanna be loved, I wanna be with you.
Don’t go to the office in the morning without a smile.
I’ll, I can’t wait the whole world, I can’t even wait a while, ha.
I’m desperate, I’m, er, desperate.
I’m clinging to the sheets in the morning. I got no way to go,
I go down to the grocery store, they say
oh there’s something wrong, your watch is awfully slow,
I said it’s my heart. My heart’s fallin’ apart right in front of you,
they said, that’s not right you’re shiverin’ and shakin’ right down to your shoes.
I said, she don’t talk to me like she used to talk to me.
She don’t even walk with me like she wanted to walk with me,
she says I’m just a bad man, she says I’m a disease, aha,
I don’t like it, change your ways please.
So if I have, have to put up with this much any more, I’ll,
I’ll shiver and shake and…ah! I’ll fall to the floor.
I, I can’t get my words, I can’t get my words out, can’t get my words out.
I, I’m lost without you, lost without you, can’t even find my way home.
I, I’m looking for a brand-new way,
a smile that opens up your weary, dreary face.
Love lingers and it’s under my skin.
I blame you for the shape I’m in
I blame you.
Ah! Monday, Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday all the same,
can’t even remember my birthday, now what is my real name?
I’m callin’ myself names into the mirror, I stare, I stare rather hard.
I wonder, who’s that beside me holding a, a big yellow card?
It says, get a lover like you used to do,
don’t let all this upsetting, don’t let it spoil the truth
that she’s yours and she’ll be yours forever more.
If you don’t love her you’ll be very poor, you’ll have nothing.
You’ll have nothing. You’ll have nothing, that’s what they say.
You’ll have nothing. Nothing will go your way.
You’ll be lost, you’ll be found. Lost and found again.
You’ll be the loneliest man in the avenue, a truly solitary man.
Give in now, tell her what you feel,
don’t let your chauvinistic attitudes make you rock and reel.
You can’t take it, you can’t take it, you can’t make it this way.
You got to tell her you love her one of these days.
Silence is no good to you. Silence is no good to you. Silence is no good to you. Silence.
You got to tell her the truth. She’s yours.
Silence is no good to you. Shh, shh.
I was down so long. Down so long.
Then came the change. Then came a change.
I was sleeping in my bed, it was way past midnight.
Then came the change, then came the change.
A golden light.
It filled the room. It filled the room.
What a golden glow.
A golden light, a golden light, a golden light.
And it made me cry.
What a golden light, little golden light, a golden light.
And it made me cry.
When I looked up there was no one there.
Not a soul was there.
I ran to the window and I looked out.
Not a soul was there. There was no one there.
I heard a dog bark.
I heard a cat miaow.
The universe suddenly came alive.
My pain was gone.
I felt right. I felt right, that miraculous night.
Golden light, golden light, golden light.
And it made me cry.
A golden light, there was a golden light, a golden light.
Made me cry. Alright.
Yes it made me cry.
Tears fell down.
Yes it made me cry.
Yes it made me cry, made me cry, tears fell down.
Golden light, golden light, golden light.
It made me cry.
Golden light, golden light, golden light.
Made me cry.
Now I´m old the happiness pervades, love abounds.
And it´s everywhere.
Now I´m old and happiness pervades and love abounds.
It´s everywhere.
It´s in the trees and in the air.
And in your face and it´s lookin’ at me, what a glorious sight.
It´s in the trees, it´s in the air, it´s in your face.
It´s everywhere it´s in your face.
Golden light, golden light, golden light and it made me cry.
Golden light, golden light, there was a golden light and it made me cry.
Golden light, shinin´ bright, saved my life.
Golden light, golden light, golden light.
And it made me cry.
Baby Billy (Kevin Coyne - Andreas Blüml) (UNDERGROUND)
I see your little face, watch your little smile.
Oh it lights up the room, you’re a little wild.
Kickin’ and pullin’
at the world that you see,
and let’s, let’s face it, you look a little like me.
Memory plays tricks and lets me down.
Don’t want it dark and gloomy when you’re around
Bring in the sunlight.
Takes the shadows from my face.
If I’m sad tonight, it’s just memory.
I’m thinkin’ positively about you and I, I hope you realise
When you get old enough you’ll see the love in my eyes.
Memory plays tricks and it gets me down.
I don’t want gloom and doom to come on round.
Go away.
This is happy occasion, all of us in this room
Every generation represented, represented here.
Oh the laughter when you tumble and you roll on the floor.
I’m full of emotion, I could cry, I can’t take much more.
Memory plays tricks and it gets me down.
Banish all the gloom and the doom. I don’t want it around.
Go away.
A little star, I know.
That's what you'll be.
When you get much older
I hope you’ll remember my memory.
Because when you're way up there, now don’t look down
Just remember the man with the grey hair who sometimes cast a frown
Memory plays tricks and it makes me sad.
Go away old memories, can’t all be bad.
Little boy, little boy, little boy, this is for you.
Oh! little boy, little boy, you know this is for you.
Little boy, oh! Little boy, this song is for you
Oh! Little boy, little boy, this song is for you.
It’s for you, just for you
Nobody else, just for you.
It’s for nobody else,
But you.