This is one of my favorite songs, and I'd really like to be able to sing the whole thing (maybe even at karaoke), but there are some places where I can't understand the lyrics! I haven't found any online sources that list this song, either.
If you have never heard this song, you should; it's good.
Coldwater Canyon by Dory Previn
Coldwater, Coldwater Canyon
He said he wanted to know her
He had this place in the canyon
He said he wanted to show her
Coldwater, Coldwater Canyon
He said and hey don't sit down(?)
Let's go to my place in the canyon
Where we
Can be alone.
Well, he had a bed that was covered with tiger skins
It was a non-ecological scene
And she felt so scared cause its teeth were bared
And its smile was righteously mean
He had a water mattress and a vibrating pillow
Designed for decreasing the tension;
He had a stereo set
In the headboard, yet
And it was featuring the Fifth Dimension
High in and up(?) on the opposite wall
Disguised in a driftwood frame
Convertible(?) color TV tuned to Channel Three
Showing Hunchback of Notre Dame
And a huge aquarium with neon lights
She was quite taken aback by the sharks
And a mynah bird that she distinctly heard
Making absolutely rude remarks
Coldwater, Coldwater Canyon
He said he wanted to know her
He had this place in the canyon
He said he wanted to show her
Coldwater, Coldwater Canyon
He said and hey don't sit down(?)
Let's go to my place in the canyon
Where we
Can be alone.
Well, and it's great, he said
To be all alone
Oh, it's a young girl graduate's wish
But then the room went blank
When she looked at the tank
And saw a fish eat another fish!
And as the Hunchback rang those Notre Dame bells
And the bird yelled something risque
About the lunar ascension while the Fifth Dimension
Rendered up up up up up and away
He had his headphones on and he was gettin' it off
He had an amyl popper in his nose
So he never did see her leave the room
He never did hear that screen-door close.
And she ran ran wild like a paranoid child
And nothing was aware of her plight
Except the eye of the sleeping sky
And the ear of the Infinite, still and silent, night...
Coldwater, Coldwater Canyon
Poor baby, she should have known
Coldwater, Coldwater Canyon
You got no grace
If you got no place
To be alone!
This is the best transcription I have come up with so far.
Tucker