NPP MUSIC

Song Lyrics

2013-08-08T11:11:00.000+01:00

2011 Twice As Nice
2008 My name is Edmund
2003 Why do the angels still cry
2003 You give me feelings
2002 She is the most sexiest thing
1997 In Istanbul
1995 Sugar Loaf Mountain
1993 Xmas Eve Street
1993 Love baby's on yer mind
1992 Gonna catch the Love Train
1991 Good To Do Anything
1990 Back in Brazil
1989 She's An exhibition
1989 Sheddin' That Skin
1988 Zephyr Soul
1987 Underground

Twice As Nice

2011-01-24T11:11:00.004Z

I don’t care how many times I’ve cried this song before
I just know that every time there’s a sucker on the floor
You just get up an’ bounce right back, never crawl, no don’t do that
Lift your face an’ turn your head, was it something that you said
Left you feeling low and kind of dirty

Tell me something I don’t know
I know magic stuff can happen just as water turns to snow
She said, try strawberry ice
Close your eyes I’ll whisper something, tell me if it feels twice as

Why does Einstein’s theory not allow for any torque?
If atoms are just mostly space, what’s below me when I walk?
What to be or not to be? I pinch myself an’ prove it’s me
Lift my face, turn my head, so I look at her instead
I watch her through the dark, I see her smiling

Tell me something that you fear
Then let it slip away, dissolve and disappear
She said, come around an’ take a ride
It’s just might feel twice as nice, once you find yourself inside

I don’t count how many times I’ve been upon the floor
Cos’ baby if I did I’d be here counting ever more
I just let life come fill me up, over flow my bleedin’ cup
Know the worth of everyday, love everybody come what may
Bring sunshine to a dark and troubled day

Tell me something I don’t know
I know magic stuff can happen just as water turns to snow
She said, try strawberry ice
Close your eyes I’ll whisper something, tell me if it feels twice as nice

My Name is Edmund

2008-11-20T11:11:00.006Z

La-la la-la la-la la-la, La-la la-la la-la laaaa...

Tied to a tree, inside I’m still free
1-2-3, arrows in me
4 & 5, my faith is alive
6 & 7, lucky-lucky lucky-lucky lucky-lucky heaven

My name is Edmund
This is my throne
My name is Edmund
This is my home

Tied to a tree, my soul is still free
They tried to change my mind, but I’m so strong I can sing this song
You can hurt my body, but I will never lie
You can hurt my body, still my soul will fly

My name is Edmund
This is my throne
My name is Edmund
This is my home

My name is Edmund
I am the King
My name is Edmund
Everybody sing...

La-la la-la la-la la-la, La-la la-la la-la laaaa...

Why do the angels still cry

2003-01-22T11:11:00.002Z

You never give me any reason why
Left me here, left me high and dry
And all the things you ever said to me
Mean nothing more, mean nothing more to me

Tell me why, tell me why, tell me why
Why do the angels still cry
Tell me why, tell me why
Why do the angels still cry

Everlasting love was just a spell
Kinda magic leading down to hell
You said to me that love has no rule
But in the end, I was nothing but a fool

Tell me why, tell me why, tell me why
Why do the angels still cry
Tell me why, tell me why
Why do the angels still cry

Early morning, lying there in bed
Thought and dreams and things we never said
Now and then I stop and wonder why
You made me laugh, then you made me cry

Tell me why, tell me why, tell me why
Why do the angels still cry
Tell me why, tell me why
Why do the angels still cry

Tell me why, tell me why, tell me why
Why do the angels still cry
Tell me why, tell me why
Why do the angels still cry

You give me feelings

2003-01-11T11:11:00.005Z

You give me feelings
You give me feelings I’ve never had before
You make me see things – weird and twice as far
You make me go go go – go all the places you know
Babe you’re givin’ me feelings

You give me feelings
Feelings that I can’t deny
Oh baby I know you - I know you know I do
Why can’t you tell me true – tell me you know and you do
‘Cos you’re givin’ me feelings
One thing’s for sure baby oh I want more - an’ more an’ oh I want more

‘Cos I love the things you do
And I wanna do ‘em too
And that’s fine – yeah that’s fine
Cos I love the things you do and I know you love ‘em too
And that’s why why why.......

You make the world shine
Yeah it's shinin’ all the time
And that’s fine - yeah that’s fine
Cos I love the things you do and I know you love ‘em too
And that’s why why why.......

You give me feelings
Feelings like nothing on earth
You make me taste all the good stuff – good stuff that tastes oh so good
You make me feel feel feel - feel like life is now real
‘Cos you’re givin’ me feelings

You give me feelings
Feelings that bring me alive
Can’t live without you – why would I live without you?
You make me feel feel feel – feel like life is for real
Babe and you’re givin’ me feelings
And one thing’s for sure baby oh I want more - an’ more an’ oh I want more

Cos I love the things you do
And I wanna do ‘em too
And that’s fine – yeah that’s fine
Cos I love the things you do and I know you love ‘em too
And that’s why why why.......

You give me feelings

She was the most sexiest thing

2002-12-07T11:11:00.006Z

She was the most sexiest thing
That I had ever seen, in my entire life, oh yeah
I didn’t mind one tiny little bit
When she wandered into my life, oh yeah

I couldn’t get no satisfaction elsewhere
I was just getting floored and bored, oh yeah
Then the most incredible thing just happened to me
And boy, boy did I score and more

Look what just happened in my wonderful life
She is the sexiest thing that you ever saw
I’m, the Pope in this life
I knew love was with me I was very sure
I have love with me, 24/7 and more

She is the most sexiest thing that I have ever know
In my entire life, oh yeah
And I didn’t mind one tiny little bit
Whatever she wanted in my life

Oh, I’ve got such alot to tell you
If you wanna sit down by my side
Where shall we start, how about the heart
And take it on from there, yeah yeah yeah

She is the most sexiest thing that I have ever seen
In my entire life, oh yeah
She does the most incredible things
To make a difference in my life, oh yeah

She is the most sexiest thing
That I have ever seen in my entire life, oh yeah

In Istanbul

1997-08-15T11:11:00.000+01:00

Been a long time, been a long time, been a long time with you
Been a long time, been a long time, since I first set eyes on you

A thousand million starry eyes, staring back at me
Oh I can see you baby, I can see you,
I see the wonderland in each of you

I gotta boat, I gotta drink, I’m comin’ cross, gonna toast you all
Come a long way baby, oh I’ve come a long way
I drove a blue light through a red light to get to you
Oh Istanbul

She’s full of spice baby an’ she’s makin’ me flirt, makes a sound, sounds like diggin’ up dirt Golden skin showing where she’s been, you put her in a song, you just sing! Sing! Sing!
Look at you, what do you do? You make a face and you make me laugh
It’s so crazy, living here baby

Oh baby
You drive me crazy goin’
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah – in Istanbul

Rock ‘n’ roll sittin’ on my plate, I gotta sing oh honey I can’t wait
‘Cos a small clown walking round the town, short cut baby an’ he’s man-hood bound

So,
C’mon c’mon, c’mon c’mon, I just fell in love and don’t ask me why
C’mon c’mon, c’mon c’mon, ‘cos it’s so crazy, living here baby
In Istanbul
In Istanbul

So love me Istana, love me right here and now, loving me can only make red eyes outta blue Look up an’ see the moon and star, shining down from where ever you are
It’s so crazy, living here baby

Oh baby
You drive me crazy goin’ yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
In Istanbul

It’s so crazy, living here baby, it’s so crazy, living here baby
It’s so crazy, living here baby

Oh baby

You drive me crazy goin’ yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
In Istanbul
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
In Istanbul
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
In Istanbul

Ned Pamphilon Productions © 1997 All rights reserved

Sugar Loaf Mountain

1995-01-27T11:11:00.002Z

Tonight I sit and I smoke my pipe
Just to see oh honey what it’s like
Your sunburst smile colours me wild and I love to love you
You Sugar Loaf child, oh you colour me wild

Take me up over your Sugar Loaf Mountain
Where mornings are breaking like the first blues of the day
Sounds like you’re singing and it sounds like you’re saying
Get closer get closer, feels just like you say

Just one kiss and that one told me
Shed a tear and that one showed me
How your sunburst smile colours me wild and I love to love you
You Sugar Loaf child, oh you colour me wild

Take me up over your Sugar Loaf Mountain
Where mornings are breaking like the first blues of the day
Sounds like you’re singing and it sounds like you’re saying
Get closer get closer, feels just like you say

Don’t tell me what you’re thinking
Just do it anyway
Don’t tell me what you’re thinking
Just ust do it anyway
Just ust do it anyway
Just ust do it anyway

Hmm, hmm
Sugar Loaf Mountain's where I've been
Hmm, hmm
Sugar Loaf Mountain's what I've seen
I'm gonna wait till the midnight hour
That's when my love come tumbling down
On Sugar Loaf Mountain
On Sugar Loaf Mountain

Take me up over your Sugar Loaf Mountain

c. 1995

Xmas Eve Street

1993-08-15T11:11:00.003+01:00

Let’s go from my house
Eat at the lighthouse
Chello - let’s go!

I’ve seen a goat’s head
But baby it was dead
I’m alive
So let’s jive

To Xmas Eve Street
That’s where it’s real neat
Chelo - let’s go
To Xmas Eve Street
That’s where they all meet
Chelo - let’s go

She knows
She knows what I know
And I know, I know she knows
She’s got
She’s got what I want
And she’s getting all that she needs.......

Down on Xmas Eve Street
That’s where it’s real neat
Chelo - let’s go
To Xmas Eve Street
Where mind and soul meet
Chelo - let’s go

Chelo Let’s go.......

E-A-C
Karachi 1993

Love baby's on yer mind

1993-01-27T11:11:00.003Z

Oh an’ if my heart
Opened up like a story book inside
Would you realise
If you took a look
If you took a look
At all the words an’ the pictures
That I hide inside

Oh, an’ would you still feel the same
When you’re lookin’ down deep

To find the love that you need
Mm baby yes indeed
Love that you been lookin’ out for
Here it comes crawling ‘cross the floor

You know together we can feel so fine
Wanna feel like that all the time
Together it can be so good
That’s when it’s understood

An’ when love baby, love baby’s on yer mind
Love baby, love baby’s on yer mind

Oh, an’ if you scratch my skin
You wanna scratch my skin just to see now where I bin
Oh you wanna look down
Deep down side of me
At the words and the pictures
Hidden inside of me

Oh an’ would you still feel the same
When you’re lookin’ down deep
To find the love that you need
Mm baby yes indeed
Love that you been lookin’ out for
Here it comes knockin’ on your door

Together we can be so fine
Wanna feel like that all the time
Together it can be so good
That’s when it’s understood

An’ when love baby, love baby’s on yer mind
Love baby, love baby’s on yer mind

NPP c. 1993

Gonna catch the Love Train

1992-01-27T11:11:00.002Z

You’re ma crazy baby an’ I’m your lovin’ man
Doin’ it together’s the only way we can
Which o’ us is right an’ which o’ us is wrong?
Some people jus’ forget, the rest jus’ sing along.

Yeah, it’s alright
Gonna catch the Love Train baby tonight
Yeah, it’s alright
Gonna catch the Love Train baby tonight

Saw this crazy picture in a picture-man’s shop
Heard ol’ Louis’ music an’ it made ma eyes pop
I asked the picture-man who the painter was?
He said it was himself, I could see he’d reached the top

Yeah, it’s alright
Gonna catch the Love Train baby tonight
Yeah, it’s alright
Gonna catch the Love Train baby tonight

I’m comin’, I’m comin’, I’m comin’ don’t you stop
Reachin’, reachin’, reachin’ for the top

Yeah, it’s alright
Gonna be on the Love Train baby tonight

Treckin’ to Jerusalem, treckin’ with T.Rex
Bumpin’ in a Beetle, rollin’ like a stone
I go to many places, but I don’t forget ma home

Yeah, it’s alright
Gonna catch the Love Train baby tonight
Yeah, it’s alright
Gonna catch the Love Train baby tonight
Yeah, it’s alright
Gonna catch the Love Train baby
An’ I will be in Love Town baby tonight

C-F-G
NPP c. 1992

Good To Do Anything

1991-01-27T11:11:00.003Z

I gotta magic piece o’ theatre baby
An’ it’s high up in ma head
I got Valentines at Hallo’ween
I got rainbows up at midnight

So oh, oh, oh, oh
You better believe it - it’s true!
That I, I, I, I
I’m gonna love all the hate outta you.

I got a frog in ma pocket
I got stars in ma eyes.
I keep the outside out
Make you realise.

That oh, oh, oh, oh
You better believe it - it’s true!
That I, I, I, I
I’m gonna love all the hate outta you.

You wanna see a fat man jump
You wanna sit an’ sing with kings
I guess I just got one o’ them days
When I woke up good
When I woke up good
When I woke up good
Good to do anything

I’ll take you back to crackerjack
Where birthdays are at dawn
See the jingle-bells ring out
Along the old seashore

You promise me my own small
Private little hell
You make me sigh, but honey oh
You make me laugh as well

So oh, oh, oh, oh
You better believe it - it’s true!
That I, I, I, I
I’m gonna love all the hate outta you.

You wanna see a fat man jump
You wanna sit an’ sing with kings
I guess I just got one o’ them days
When I woke up good
When I woke up good
When I woke up good
Good to do anything

Feelin’ good - good about everything!

Na-na na-na
Na-na na-na-na-na

D-G-C
NPP c.1991

Back in Brazil

1990-11-01T11:11:00.002Z

They gonna cut you
Take a little here, put a little there
Won't recognise you
We'll take that wear an' tear, hide it here an' there

They gonna cut you
Here come the surgeon knife to improve your life
Have a brain change
Put your face in place, gimme air with taste

And meanwhile baby back in Brazil
Little white ladies look decidedly ill
Reflecting on their surgical youth once again
Inside they know they were still old then

They even pay for it
The flowers in their hair, the water an' the air
U.S. America
Pay a dime an' breathe, see it an' believe

Pigs in a blanket
Delivered by machine, they say it's green an' clean
Give us good image
God in 1991, grab a gun, let's have some fun

And meanwhile baby back in Brazil
Little white ladies look decidedly ill
Reflecting on their surgical youth once again
Inside they know they were still old then

December 1990

She's An Exhibition

1989-03-03T11:11:00.002Z

In the back of the taxi
She’s spinning wheels an’ leather
What she wants is what you get
She is lost forever

In the distant summer sky
Touch of my hand, wheels go round
She is up and he is down
10,000 windmills in heaven

What a man shape of a car
She can’t tell when she gone too far
Tongue in his mouth, sunk without a trace
Wheels turn fast in this foreign place

She’s an exhibition
She’s an exhibition
She’s just a little girl in this big city yeah
She’s an exhibition

The moving staircase she lost control
She slipped an’ fell for your love yeah
A hollow head lucky hollow dreams
She finds him in a silent film

The moon’s turned up your son is home
Icy touch of an empty space
Before she woke she felt his touch
Without a breath in her body

She wakes

She’s an exhibition
She’s an exhibition
She’s just a little girl in this big city yeah
She’s an exhibition

NPP, David Riley, Stu Hurwood, Ben March 1989

Sheddin' That Skin

1989-01-27T11:11:00.003Z

It’s common nature, to cry all alone when your soul’s lost it’s throne
But you have to look on, though you fall like a brick in the hole you dug deep.

And now you’re sheddin’ that skin again.
Paradin’ your skeleton in the open again

So you discover, the secrets of life they’re not lies just surprise
And a lover was both pain and joy and they’re never the same.
And now you’re sheddin’ that skin again. Paradin’ your skeleton in the open again.
And they’re chasin’, chasin’, chasin’, chasin’
Chasin’ you like a dog
And they’d break you, break you, break you, break you
Break you if they could

The good, the evil, the black ‘n’ white
The north, the south, the peace the fight,
The Hyde in Jekyll, the wolf in man
They hide themselves the best they can

And now you’re sheddin’ that skin again
Paradin’ that skeleton in the open again

You’re a freak, a freak, a freak, a freak
Degenerate, immoral ‘n’ weak
They go round ‘n’ round ‘n’ round ‘n’ round
Send you mad, but stand stand proud

A thousand crazy savages, what can’t be cured must be endured
Powdered skin an’ oh black lace lace
Sit vacant eyes in a trying face
Pour slow words from a lonely heart

That last taste leaves a bitter tongue
A lonesome crowd in a golden age
An’ I’m not sure that I am me

An’ now you’re sheddin’ that skin again
Paradin’ you’re skeleton in the open again

An’ the way she walks is the way is the way I feel
An’ the way she looks is the way I talk
My eyes are filled with bags of dark
Lift my soul, make my body work

You never know when, you never know why
Listen too hard it’ll make you cry
I was born of two worlds an’ still I try
To reach from this one to the otherside

An’ now you’re sheddin’ that skin again
Paradin’ your skeleton in the open again

D-C-G
NPP c.1989

Zephyr Soul

1988-12-08T11:11:00.000Z

Hey man he came from a jazz camp
An’ his eyes were as deep as hell
An’ she sits in his head so sure so cold
An’ she stays in his mind
An’ she just smiles

Looking down the faces of the people that I know
Lucky seven kisses from heaven
An’ she just smiles

An’ she eats at his heart
In a wicker cage of hurt
An’ she walks on white coal
She breathes a zephyr soul

It doesn’t hurt him anymore
It’s just a little bit sad
He remembers her good side
But non of her bad
An’ she just smiles

He’s tired an’ he’s drunk
An’ hungry an’ cold
Didn’t get what he wanted
Just another night old
He gave body and soul
She gave nothing at all
An’ she just smiles

An’ she eats at his heart
In a wicker cage of hurt
An’ she walks on white coal
She breathes a zephyr soul

An’ she eats at his heart
She’s just tearin’ him apart
An’ she walks on white coal
She breathes his zephyr soul

NPP Dec. 1988

Underground

1987-01-27T11:11:00.001Z

Oh small figurine, sittin’ skinny inbetween
Gave your time and they bent your back
Left you with a crowning cap

Face of folded skin, antique hands, oriental grin
Clothe, feed, child and wife
Time honoured time and the pain of life

Oh, underground
Close my eyes and I feel the sound
Oh, underground
Drowning in the crowd of the lost and found

Old man his day secure, one rubber band, the news and the world
Time crossed granite face
Nylon mack sittin’ neat in place

Hardened hands, another day, hard earned pension on its way
Rule Brittania dream
Longin’ for the glory days he’s seen

Oh, underground
Close my eyes and I feel the sound
Oh, underground
Drowning in the crowd of the lost and found

And next dressed to the nine, camel coat hush puppy shine
Heavy gold and a heavy sweat
Wipes again his drippin’ head

Heather girls spinning round, breezin’ through their own fairground
Knotted hair, woolly arms
Sellin’ them flowers and good luck charms

Oh, underground
Close my eyes and I feel the sound
Oh, underground
Drowning in the crowd of the lost and found

Ohma diddlely-diddlely ohma way now
Ohma diddlely-diddlely ohma way now

UK c.1987
D-C-G or A-G-D