Playlist Edwyn Collins

edwyn collins - a girl like you

I`ve never known a girl like you before,
Now just like in a song from days of yore,
Here you come a knock-knocking on my door,
Well I've never met a girl like you before.

You give me just a taste so I want more,
Now my hands are bleeding and my knees are raw,
'Cause now you got me crawling, crawling, on the floor.
And I`ve never known a girl like you before.

You made me acknowledge the devil in me
I hope to God I'm talking metaphorically,
Hope that I'm talking alegorically,
Know that I'm talking about the way I feel
And I`ve never known a girl like you before.
Never, never, never, never
Never known a girl like you before
This old town's changed so much.
Don't feel like I belong,
Too many protest singers,
Not enough protest songs.
And now you've come along,
Yes you've come along,
And I've never met a girl like you before.

edwyn collins - 20 years too late

Hello chaos my old friend
We finally got there in the end
I found a loophole in the law
I stumbled then I crawled through
Never frightened that that noose would tighten
I felt enlightened
My senses heightened
Yet all this time you've been inclined
To watch me from the sidelines
Miles from the frontline
Hoping that some sniper
Had picked off this magic piper
To shoot the messenger
That's what's obsessing ya

You only kick me when I'm down
When I get up you come around
You come around, you say I'm great
You're only twenty years too late

Well where I lived
Don't make no bones
Was several feet below a stone
Far from appalled
I was enthralled
The snake that slithered learned to crawl
Through the quagmire of my mislaid plans
That backfired
I felt enlightened
My senses heightened
You called me up
To wish me luck
To let me know this business sucks
Let's change it
Let's rearrange it
So why do I get the feeling
That there's something you're concealing?
That it's a put on
You scratch your foot on

You only kick me when I'm down
When I get up you come around
You come around, you say I'm great
You're only twenty years too late

Did I do something to make you hate me?
It's funny how you thought you'd break me

You're too late
Too much
Too soon
How high
The moon
Too little
Toolate
Too bad
That's the breaks

edwyn collins - back to the back room

I've been doing a power of thinking
The Good Ship Lollipop is sinking
But I've been having such a good time
Just watching from the shoreline
Call waiting on the telephone
Only problem being the phone is off the hook
And besides, there's no-one home

All except in the backrooom
I'm operating in a vacuum
I'm going back to the backroom
I'm operating in a vacuum

Revolution on the South Bank
I poured poison in the think tank
Got out before the big crash
Caught the tail end of the whiplash
Reminiscing with the diehards
Uptight with the old guard
Saying out of the spotlight
Don't get blinded by the spotlight

I'm going back to the backroom
I'm operating in a vacuum
I'm going back to the backroom
I'm operating in a vacuum

On the Good Ship Lollipop
It's a nice trip to the candy shop
But the key to your success
Was the key to your excess
Was the key to your success
Was the key to your excess
Going back to the backroom
I'm operating in a vacuum

edwyn collins - calling on you

Showing out again
Like some famous flame
Showing off ahain
Lack of common sense
Your mind's exploding
Cos life keeps loading on you
The sky is falling
The void is calling on you

Shooooh shooooh
Calling on you

Moving out again
Packed some common sense
Hit the road again
To the bitter end
(and it never ends)
The road is calling
But life keeps stalling on you
The stars are falling
The void is calling on you

Shooooh shooooh
Calling on you

Pompous politician
Bug-eyed with conceit
Found a hole in purgatory
To practice his deceit
And how he duped the masses
Who held him in esteem
What he calls reality
For them is just a dream

What's possessing you
What's obsessing you
What's obsessing you
Is possessing you

I'm calling
I'm calling
Calling on you
I'm calling
I'm calling
Calling on you

edwyn collins - i still believe in you

I'm running through the backwoods
I'm running through the field
When I'm alone I miss you
Back at my house, I don't, yet

I still believe in you
Maybe you want me to
My love

I'm running out of answers
I'm running myself on red
But it's alright, it's alright
The best of us do from time to time
Another night, another night
Not knowing what to do

I still believe in you
Maybe you want me to

But it's ok to still hear the voices
Running round your brain
Cause they still sound the same

I still believe in you
Maybe you want me to

edwyn collins - its a funny thing

It's a funny thing
A funny phase I'm going through
As I drift through space
Nothing left to cling to
Don't think me morose
I've always been a tryer
Now here's what I propose
I gonna take you higher

It's a funny thing
I'm wondering what tomorrow might bring
If it's more of the same
I've only got myself to blame
That's a funny thing

It's a funny world
When you drift above it
An opalescent pearl
I could grow to love it
IfI fall from grace
Will I land upon my feet?
Now I've acquired a taste
The air up here seems oh so sweet

And that's a funny thing
I'm wondering what tomorrow might bring
If it's more of the same
I've only got myself to blame
That's a funny thing
It's a funny thing

Don't think me morose
I've always been a tryer
Now here's what I propose
I gonna take you higher

It's a funny thing
Such a funny thing

edwyn collins - johnny teardrop

Now that you've broke your heart
How long before the teardrops start?
And 'til those tears subside
You'd better find some place to hide
If you don't wanna feel
Just make believe that nothing's real
And if you don't wanna cry
Just wait until those tears run dry

Oooh oooh oooh
Johnny Teardrop
Oooh oooh oooh
Johnny Teardrop

When you don't wanna think
You pour yourself another drink
You make like you're getting high
When really you're just getting by
You say you don't wana know
You make as if it's time to go
You say you don't wanna cry
Well wait until those tears run dry

Oooh oooh oooh
Johnny Teardrop
Oooh oooh oooh
Johnny Teardrop

It's his tears that turn you on
Johnny Teardrop
It's his tears that turn you on
Johnny Teardrop

edwyn collins - keep on burning

Youve given me a head start,
Im brewing up a brainstorm
And we leave the grunges far behind
In the quagmire of the unkempt mind

Cos it got no style,no elequence,no elegance,no sensuality
All it takes is common sense
For anyone to see

As world keeps turning,
you got to keep on learning
you got to keep on yearning
you got to keep on burning

As world keeps turning,
you got to keep on learning
you got to keep on yearning
you got to keep on burning
you got to keep on burning

Youre throwing me a life line,
The way you looking so fine, sublime
From the youngsters whove just learned to shave
To the oldsters raving on the graves

Its the same old story,
Englands glory,
Claming back the Union Jack my arse
Got to prove it together now,
To counteract this class

As world keeps turning,
you got to keep on learning
you got to keep on yearning
you got to keep on burning

As world keeps turning,
you got to keep on learning
you got to keep on yearning
you got to keep on burning
you got to keep on burning
Burning

You wont get far in a cable car
You reach the top, then you had to stop
When you jump back down to the underground
Youve a train to catch
Youve plans to hatch
So lift the latch on the clubhouse door,
Theres a thousand souls out on the floor

Keep Turning
And you keep on learning
And you keep on yearning
And you keep on burning

As world keeps turning,
you got to keep on learning
you got to keep on yearning
you got to keep on burning
you got to keep on burning
Burning, burnign burning
you got to keep on burning
Burning, burnign burning
you got to keep on burning
Burning, burnign burning

edwyn collins - little things

Your first breath
Your first pain
Your first tears
Your first year
Your first smile
Your first word
Your first step
Whatever's next
Your first school
Your first crush
Your first kiss
Consider this

It's not just happenstance
Or force of circumstance
God bless the little things
That make the bigger things
God bless the little things
That make the bigger things

Your first love
Your first lover
Your first time
Was like no other
Your first fight
Your first heartache
Your first regret
You can't forget
Your first bar
Your first drink
Your best friend
The bathroom sink

It's not just happenstance
Or force of circumstance
God bless the little things
That make the bigger things
God bless the little things
That make the bigger things

Your first flat
Your first debt
Your first taste
Of the worst case
Your first job
Your first boss
Your first paycheck
Now let's get wrecked
Your first house
Your first car
Your first child
And that's the story so far

It's not just happenstance
Or force of circumstance
God bless the little things
That make the bigger things
God bless the little things
That make the bigger things

edwyn collins - mine is at

I slept in the subway
Just for a ruse
No stars for company
Just a bottle of booze
See my lifestyle ain't changed much
I just take more risks
That's remarkably easy
When you're remarkably pissed

Good times, bad times
Talking blues and spinning rhymes
And this is where mine is at
This is where mine is at
Through strange times, deranged times
I've only taken what was mine
And this is where mine is at
This is where mine is at

I moved to the country
Bought a rooster and hen
It's just the drink talking
I've been at it again
See I love to bullshit
Though I'm more honest than most
As I write from my cottage
On the Derbyshire coast

Good times, bad times
Talking blues and spinning rhymes
And this is where mine is at
This is where mine is at
Through strange times, deranged times
I've only taken what was mine
And this is where mine is at
This is where mine is at

The lies that I swallowed
Force fed as a child
A promise so hollow
My anger, my bile
Now my head is swimming
The heather's on fire
The bottle's been opened
But the genie's expired

Good times, bad times
Talking blues and spinning rhymes
And this is where mine is at
This is where mine is at
Through strange times, deranged times
I've only taken what was mine
And this is where mine is at
This is where mine is at
This is where mine is coming from
This is where mine is at

edwyn collins - never felt like this

It's a higher state of being
A different way of seeing
That I really can't resist
It seems I've stolen every scene
From the carnival of dreams
And I've never felt like this

I've never felt like this
Never felt like this
Never felt like this
And ignorance is bliss

There's no point in reminiscing
Now I've found that something missing
In every stolen kiss
I was lost in introspection
I can tell you on reflection
That I've never felt like this

I've never felt like this
Never felt like this
Never felt like this
Never felt like this

What you are is a fallen star
Burning up on a bridge to far
What I am is an also ran
Getting by any way I can

I can because I can
I can't explain exactly how I feel
I only know that the feeling's real
I've never felt like this
What you are is a falling star

edwyn collins - no idea

Watching the world from the corner of your eye
You're quite content to let life pass you by
You're numb to everything and everyone
You've no idea
You've no idea

You're wondering about the meaning of within
You furrow your brow and then you scratch your chin
Night Falls
Yet still you stall
Confound it all
You've no idea
You've no idea

You can't buy into the underground
Not for all your dollars, your yens or your pounds
You see, I saw you coming
Your plan was bound to fail
Cos the devil's in the detail
And the detail's not for sale
The detail's not for sale

You've no idea

edwyn collins - shouldn t have done that

I spent half the morning lying in bed
I should have quit while I was still ahead
Instead I stumbled out I took the air
I should have stayed home, should've washed my hair
Should've done that
Should've, should've
Should've done that
There is a bar whereI like to drink
I should've stopped as I passed the brink
There is a girl and she looks sublime
You should've guessed I wanna make her mine
Should've done that
One little piggy had roast beef
Another little piggy had none
One little piggy went to market
That little piggy should've stayed at home
Each time I saw her my heart would melt
I should have told her 'bout the way I felt
Instead I stumbled home, I took to bed
I have to quit while I'm still ahead
Should've done that

edwyn collins - splitting up

To anyone who's followed me
I offer my apologies
I'm splitting up
I can't afford to compromise
With someone I don't recognise
I'm splitting up
The idea first occurred to me
While shaving rather cautiously
Cos I bleed easily
My head is searating from my heart
I'm splitting up

The crocodiles will shed their tears
While other reptiles sneer and jeer
He's splitting up
The notices, lest we forget
Are posted on the internet
He's splitting up
I can't say I went out in style
My differences unreconciled
Embittered to the end
Neither moving nor affecting
All I'm doing is disconnecting
I'm splitting up

What's it all about?
Haven't got a clue
Only thing I know
It isn't down to you
To decide these things
Still you carry on
Still you scream and shout
I know that it's wrong
I haven't got the clout
To deride these things
But if my hearthad wings?
I'd fly away

To anyone who's followed me
I offer my apologies
I'm splitting up

I'm feeling down
I'm feeling down
I'm splitting up

I'm feeling down
I'm feeling down
I'm splitting up

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