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VERSURI ELVIS COSTELLO
| Elvis Costello - 13 Steps Lead Down |
| When nobody knows she puts on secret clothes
And lies in the meadow with her hands tied behind
her back
I won't refuse if you know how to use it
Just stop playing that ugly drug music
CHORUS:
Thirteen |
| Elvis Costello - 5ive Gears In Reverse |
| Five gears in reverse
For girls looking at the big lift
Somebody send out for the night nurse
Please don't stick me on the late shift
If you don't know by now
Nobody's gonna tell you
If you don't kno |
| Elvis Costello - A Town Called Big Nothing |
| Big nothing.
He stood in the road outside of town with a
broken clockwork toy in
his hand: A graveyard for childish dreams in his
palm; a broken lifeline.
Big nothing.
The mechanical amusement sputtere |
| Elvis Costello - Accidents Will Happen |
| Oh I just don't know where to begin
Though he says he'll wait forever
It's now or never
But she keeps him hanging on
The silly champion
She says she can't go home
Without a chaperone
Accidents will |
| Elvis Costello - After The Fall |
| In an anonymous rendezvous
Where the forbidden lovers repair
They're burning down another damn candle
They're melting the tables and chairs
Beneath them applause from the balcony
whenever they accompl |
| Elvis Costello - All The Rage |
| 1-2-3,2-2-3
The twitching impulses to speak your mind
I'll lend you my microscope and maybe you will
find it
Is it in that ugly place that's just behind your
face
Where you keep my picture still despit |
| Elvis Costello - Beaten To The Punch |
| You say that you can and then you run to get your
mummy
And you're almost beaten to the punch
Looking for the man who sold you the dummy
And you're almost beaten to the punch
Laughing at the older guy |
| Elvis Costello - Clown Strike |
| She'll fix you with an iron cross
And cover you up with petals
And hang you up with some amber beads
And four or five precious metals
And in that black flamingo chair
You'll sit among her trophies
An |
| Elvis Costello - Dear Sweet Filthy World |
| Dear sweet filthy world, my wife or whoever reads
this
I think that I've lived too long
With all of my promise unfulfilled
But there is a veil drawn over all of that
I know you'll probably say, Spare u |
| Elvis Costello - Dirty Rotten Shame |
| I recall the good old days
But thankfully, they've gone
Now the ponies all are broken nags
That stumble as they groan
And throw the jockeys from their throne
When there are pitches left to dodge |
| Elvis Costello - Expert Rites |
| I marvel at the wonder of it in our souless age
Fast flow the tears upon the page
Don't be alarmed I am her friend
Will I be excused if I presume
It's more than disappointment that we share
You share |
| Elvis Costello - Fallen |
| All the leaves are turning yellow, red and brown
Soon they'll be scattered as they tumble down
Although they may be swept up so invitingly
I never did what I was told
I trampled though the amber and th |
| Elvis Costello - I Want To Vanish |
| I want to vanish
This is my fondest wish
To go where I cannot be captured
Laid on a decorated dish
Even in splendor this curious fate
Is more than I care to surrender
Now it's too late
Whether in wo |
| Elvis Costello - Inch By Inch |
| You can take a powder
You can take a drink
You can keep the shrink
And the kitchen sink
Write my name in heaven
in invisible ink
I just woke up from dreaming, I think
You can take me over
You can g |
| Elvis Costello - Last Boat Leaving |
| Hush my little one don't cry so
You know your Daddy's bound to go
They took his pride
They took his voice
Don't upset him now, don't make a noise
They said You're lucky son you've still got a
choice
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| Elvis Costello - Mouth Almighty |
| This town belongs to you and your tricks of
confidence
All the pavements for miles around are littered
with your footprints
Now every girl I get close to seems to be wearing
your perfume
And the clock s |
| Elvis Costello - My Shoes Keep Walking Back To You |
| I might say that I don't care
Hold my head up in the air
Even tell my friends I'm glad that you don't call
But when the day is through
That's when my heartaches start anew
And that's when I miss you m |
| Elvis Costello - Senior Service |
| Chorus:
Senior service
Junior dissatisfaction
It's a breath you took too late
It's a death that's worse than fate
Senior service
Junior dissatisfaction
Though it may be second hand
It's by no mean |
| Elvis Costello - Seven Day Weekend |
| One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
Monday's calling you too early when you're sound
asleep
Bells are ringing by your bedside and out in the
street
Usually Monday's long enough, but this is just th |
| Elvis Costello - Shipbuilding |
| Is it worth it
A new winter coat and shoes for the wife
And a bicycle on the boy's birthday
It's just a rumour that was spread around town
By the women and children
Soon we'll be shipbuilding
Well I |
| Elvis Costello - Still |
| These few lines I'll devote
To a marvelous girl covered up in my coat
Pull it up to your chin
I'll hold you until the day will begin
Still
Lying in the shadows this new flame will cast
Upon everythin |
| Elvis Costello - Stranger In The House |
| This never was one of the great romances
But I thought you'd always have those young girl's
eyes
But now they look in tired and bitter glances
At the ghost of a man who walks 'round in my
disguise
I ge |
| Elvis Costello - The Invisible Man |
| I WAS COMMITTED TO LIFE AND THEN COMMUTED TO THE
OUTSKIRTS
With all the love in the world
Living for thirty minutes at a time with a break
in the middle for adverts
But it's a wonderful world within the |
| Elvis Costello - The Long Division |
| Did somebody try to catch your eye
And almost change your sad expression?
Did somebody's hand linger too long?
Must I now make my confession?
But you'll never know
What suspicion is
Until you l |
| Elvis Costello - The Other End (of The Telescope) |
| Shall we agree that just this once
I'm gonna change my life
Until it's just as tiny or important as you like?
And in time we won't even recall that we spoke
Words that turned out to be as big as smoke
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| Elvis Costello - The Other Side Of Summer |
| The sun struggles up another beautiful day
And I felt glad in my own suspicious way
Despite the contradiction and confusion
Felt tragic without reason
There's malice and there's magic in every season
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| Elvis Costello - The World And His Wife |
| The family circle gather round from very far and
near
To pass around the same remarks they passed away
last year
The little girl you dangle on your knee without
mishap
STIRS SOMETHING IN YOUR MEMORY
AN |
| Elvis Costello - This Town |
| That Charlie Sedarka was a-playing the piano
like he was pawing a dirty book
He bit a hole in his big bottom lip and gave his
very best little boy look
It was a song with a topical verse which I'm
afr |
| Elvis Costello - Tokyo Storm Warning |
| The sky fell over cheap Korean monster-movie
scenery
And spilled into the mezzanine of the crushed
capsule hotel
Between the Disney abattoir and the chemical
refinery
And I knew I was in trouble but I t |
| Elvis Costello - Two Little Hitlers |
| Why are we racing to be so old?
I'm up late pacing the floor
I won't be told
You have your reservations
I'm bought and sold
I'll face the music
I'll face the facts
Even when we walk in polka dots an |
| Elvis Costello - Who Do You Think You Are |
| The hunted look, the haunted grace
The empty laugh that you cultivate
You fall into that false embrace
And kiss the air about her face
Who do you think you are?
The tres bon mots you almost quote from |
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