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elvis costello - she
She
May be the face I can't forget.
A trace of pleasure or regret
May be my treasure or the price I have to pay.
She may be the song that summer sings.
May be the chill that autumn brings.
May be a hundred different things
Within the measure of a day.
She
May be the beauty or the beast.
May be the famine or the feast.
May turn each day into a heaven or a hell.
She may be the mirror of my dreams.
A smile reflected in a stream
She may not be what she may seem
Inside her shell
She who always seems so happy in a crowd.
Whose eyes can be so private and so proud
No one's allowed to see them when they cry.
She may be the love that cannot hope to last
May come to me from shadows of the past.
That I'll remember till the day I die
She
May be the reason I survive
The why and wherefore I'm alive
The one I'll care for through the rough and ready years
Me I'll take her laughter and her tears
And make them all my souvenirs
For where she goes I've got to be
The meaning of my life is
She, she, she
elvis costello - hand in hand
No, don't ask me to apologise.
I won't ask you to forgive me.
If i'm gonna go down,
You're gonna come with me
You say 'why don't you be a man about it,
Like they do in the grown-up movies?'
But when it comes to the other way around,
You say you just wanna use me. oh,
You ^sit and you wonder whether
It's gonna be syndicated.
You sit with your knees together.
All the time your breath is baited.
Hand in hand.
No, don't ask me to apologise.
I won't ask you to forgive me.
If i'm gonna go down,
You're gonna come with me
Don't you know i got the bully boys out
Changing someone's facial design,
Sitting with my toy room lout,
Polishing my precious china
Don't you know i'm an animal?
But don't you know i can't stand up steady?
But you can show me any kind of hell
That i don't know already.
Hand in hand.
No, don't ask me to apologise.
I won't ask you to forgive me.
If i'm gonna go down,
You're gonna come with me
Hand in hand, hand in hand, hand in hand...
elvis costello - the greatest thing
Everyone stopped when she walked into the room
Isn?t this the greatest thing
Everyone own up but nobody could touch her
Isn?t this the greatest thing
Punch the clock keep boxing clever
You?ll be young enough for ever
Isn?t this the greatest thing
Isn?t this the greatest thing
I heard some new confection
Said we can?t afford to feel affection
And it?s the lastest thing
In and out of matrimony
Never once removed the sony
?cos it?s a status thing
So girls like that above described
Are not to be so easily bribed
With a white frock and a ring
Punch the clock and in time you?ll get pulled apart
If you?re married on paper and not in your heart
But i won?t be told that life with the one you love is sordid
Just because some authority says you can?t afford it
Since nights were long and days were olden
Woman to man has been beholden
But since then times have been changing
She sends back his tribute of a rose
And says this ring is better suited for the nose
He?s always fingering
I punch the clock and it?s ok
I know a girl who takes my breath away
And it?s the greatest
And it?s the greatest thing
elvis costello - satellite
She looked like she learned to dance from a series of still pictures
She?s madly excited now, she throws her hands up like a tulip
She looks like an illustration of a cocktail party
Where cartoon bubbles burst in the air,
champagne rolls off her tongue Like a second language
And it should have been her biggest night
The satellite looks down on her as she begins to cry
All over the world at the very same time people sharing the same sorrow
As the satellite looks down her darkest hour is somebody?s bright tomorrow
He pulled on a cigarette, in the crook of his first finger
Felt the static electric charge of her perfect hour-glass figure
As he undressed her with his eyes her weakness was his talent
How could she know as she stepped through the lights, that her dress would become transparent
And with his face pressed to the screen,
he muttered words he?d never dare to say if she could see him
All over the world at the very same time
People sharing the same cheap sensation the
thrill of watching somebody watching those
forbidden things we never mention
Chorus:
The satellite looks down right now and forever
What it has pulled apart let no man tether his own body to his dream,
His dream to someone else
Oh no, oh no.
She went back to a pitiful compromise, He?d go back to his family
But for the matter of a thousand miles that separated them entirely
In the hot unloving spotlight, with secrets it arouses
Now they both know what it?s like inside a pornographer?s trousers
And in a funny way it?s anonymous, the satellite
it blesses us and makes these dreams come
true... All over the world
Chorus
elvis costello - hurry down doomsday
The man in the corner of this picture has a sinister purpose
In the teeming Temple of the Railroad Kings
He's planting a trashy paperback book for accidental purchase
Containing all the secrets of life and other useless things
But I can't bring myself to look
Wake up Zombie write yourself another book
You want to scream and shout my little flaxen lout
Hurry down Doomsday the bugs are taking over
She sleeps with the shirt of a late, great country singer
Stretched out on her poor jealous husband's pillow
In time you can turn these obsessions into careers
While the parents of those kidnapped children start the bidding
for their tears
But I can't bring myself to look
Wake up Zombie
Get yourself off the book
You want to scream and shout my little waxen lout
Hurry down Doomsday the bugs are taking over
Forget about Beethoven, Rembrandt and rock and roll
Forget about Mickey Mouse, Marlboro and Coca Cola
Forget about Cadillac, Mercedes and Toyota
Forget about Buddha, Allah, Jesus and Jehovah
Hurry down Doomsday the bugs are taking over
Any day now a giant insect mutation
Will swoop down and devour the white man's burden
Starting out with all of the sensitive ones
Better make like a fly if you don't want to die
Look out there goes Gordon
But I can't bring myself to think
Wake up Zombie
Kick up a big stink
You want to scream and shout my little Saxon lout
Hurry down Doomsday the bugs are taking over
elvis costello - this year s girl
See her picture in a thousand places
'Cause she's this year's girl
You think you all own little pieces
Of this year's girl
Forget your fancy manners
Forget your English grammar
'Cause you don't really give a damn
About this year's girl
Still you're hoping that she's well spoken
'Cause she's this year's girl
You want her broken with her mouth wide open
'Cause she's this year's girl
Never knowing it's a real attraction
All these promises of satisfaction
While she's being bored to distraction
Being this year's girl
Time's running out
She's not happy with the cost
There'd be no doubt
Only she's forgotten much more than she's lost
A bright spark might corner the market
In this year's girl
You see yourself rolling on the carpet
With this year's girl
Those disco synthesizers
Those daily tranquilizers
Those body building prizes
Those bedroom alibis
All this, but no surprises for this year's girl
All this, but no surprises for this year's girl
All this, but no surprises for this year's girl
elvis costello - tokyo storm warning
The sky fell over cheap korean monster-movie scenery
And spilled into the reservoir of the crushed capsule hotel
Between the disney abattoir and the chemical refinery
And i knew i was in trouble but i thought i was in hell
So you look around the tiny room and you wonder where the hell you are
While the k.k.k. convention are all stranded in the bar
They wear hoods and carry shotguns in the main streets of montgomery
But they?re helpless here as babies ?cause they?re only here on holiday
Chorus:
What do we care if the world is a joke
(tokyo storm warning)
We?ll give it a big kiss
We?ll give it a poke
(tokyo storm warning)
Death wears a big hat ?cause he?s a big bloke
(tokyo storm warning)
We?re only living this instant
The black sand stuck beneath her feet in a warm sorrento sunrise
A barefoot girl from naples or was it a barcelona hi-rise
Whistles out the tuneless theme song on a hundred cheap suggestions
And a million false seductions and all those eternal questions
Chorus
So they flew the super-constellation all the way from rimini
And feasted them on fish and chips from a newspaper facsimile
Now dead italian tourists bodies litter up the broadway
Some people can?t be told you know they have to learn the hard way
Holidays are dirt-cheap in the costa del malvinas
In the hotel argentina they can hardly tell between us
For teresa is a waitress though she?s now known as juanita
In a tango bar in stanley or in puerto margarita
She?s the sweetest and the sauciest
The loveliest and the naughtiest
She?s miss buenos aires in a world of lacy lingerie
Chorus
Japanese god-jesus robots telling teenage fortunes
For all we know and all we care they might as well be martians
They say gold paint on the palace gates comes from the teeth of pensioners
They?re so tired of shooting protest singers
That they hardly mention us
While fountains fill with second-hand perfume
And sodden trading stamps
They?ll hang the bullies and the louts that dampen down the day
Chorus
We braved the cold november air and the undertaker?s curses
Saying ?take me to the folies bergere and please don?t spare the hearses?
For he always had a dream of that revolver in your purse
How you loved him ?til you hated him and made him cry for mercy
He said ?don?t ever mention my name there or talk of all the nights you cried
We?ve always been like worlds apart now you?re seeing two nightmares collide?
Chorus
elvis costello - riot act
Forever doesn?t mean forever anymore
I said forever
But it doesn?t look like I?m gonna be around much anymore
When the heat gets sub-tropical
And the talk gets so topical
Riot act - you can read me the riot act
You can make me a matter of fact
Or a villain in a million
A slip of the tongue is gonna keep me civilian
Why do you talk such stupid nonsense
When my mind could rest much easier
Instead of all this dumb dumb insolence
I would be happier with amnesia
They say forget her
Now it looks like you?re either gonna be for me or against me
I got your letter
Now they say I don?t care for the colour that it paints me
Trying to be so bad is bad enough
Don?t make me laugh by talking tough
Don?t put your heart out on your sleeve
When your remarks are off the cuff
Chorus
elvis costello - you ll never be a man
You need protection from the physical art of conversation
Though the fist is mightier than the lip, it adds the aggravation
Chorus:
I got the password
I got persuasion
A proposition for invasion of your privacy
Give yourself away and find the fake in me
You?ll never be a man
No matter how many foreign bodies you can take
You?ll never be a man
When you?re half a woman and you?re half awake
(1) With a face full of tears and a chemical shake
(2) Under the table with a chemical shake
Given half a chance, that I can take
Are you so superior, are you in such pain
Are you made out of porcelain?
When they made you they broke the cast
Don?t wanna be first, I just want to last
You strike a profile on the low side of my imagination
My eyes climbed down to find the point of possible saturation
Chorus
elvis costello - watch your step
Don?t say a word
Don?t say anything
Don?t say a word
I?m not even listening
I read in the paper about their escape
They?re just two bit of kids from a bunch of sour grapes
You better watch your step
Watch who?s knocking on your front door
Now you know that they?re watching
What are you waiting for?
Think you?re young and original
Get out before...
They get to watch your step
Ev?ry day is full of fun
And family spies
They?re making heroes out of fall guys
They say it?s good for business
From Singapore to Widnes
You better watch your step
Broken noses hung up on the wall
Back slapping drinkers cheer the heavy weight brawl
So punch drunk they don?t understand at all
You better watch your step
Ev?ry night
Go out full of carnal(carnival) desires
End up in the closing time choirs
When you?re kicking in the car chrome
And you?re drinking down the Eau de Cologne
And you?re spitting out the Kodachrome
You better watch your step
Bye
I send you all my regards
You?re so tough
You?re so hard
Listen to the hammers falling in the breaker?s yard
You better watch your step
You better watch your step
Ooh, watch your step
elvis costello - no dancing
Oh I know that she
has mad a fool of him,
like girls have done so many nights before,
time and time again.
Life is so strange.
I don?t know why,
but somebody,
somebody has to cry.
There?s gonna be no dancing when they get home.
No dancing,
there?s gonna be no dancing,
there?s gonna be no dancing on my own.
Now he?s telling her
every little thing he?s done;
Once he glanced at the jackets of some paperbacks.
Now he?s read every one.
He?s such a drag.
He?s not insane.
It?s just that everybody
has to feel his pain.
There?s gonna be no dancing when they get home.
He?s getting down on his knees.
He finds that her brother?s not so easy to please,
After all, his nights were just a paper striptease.
She?s caught it like some disease.
If he says no dancing,
there?s gonna be no dancing on my own.
She can?t even speak to him.
He can?t face her now.
He says ?Even though I wanna shake your hand,
all I ever do is bow.
so know you see
how can it be?
Why can?t you give me anythin? but sympathy??
There?s gonna be no dancing when they get home.
No dancing,
there?s gonna be no dancing,
there?s gonna be no dancing on my own.
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 get the feeling that I don't belong here
But there's no welcome in the window anyway
And I look down for a number on my keychain
'Cause it feels more like a hotel everyday
There's a stranger in the house; nobody's seen his face
But everybody says he's taken my place
There's a stranger in the house no one will ever see
But everybody says he looks like me
And now you say you've got no expectations
But I know you also miss those carefree days
And for all the angry words that passed between us
You still don't understand me when I say
There's a stranger in the house; nobody's seen his face
But everybody says he's taken my place
There's a stranger in the house no one will ever see
But everybody says he looks like me
elvis costello - clubland
With a handful of backhanders and a bevy of beauty
You?re going off limits
Going off duty
Going off the rails
Going off with booty
They tell tales of fiction found on all the criminal types
Lead to a higher ranking man or a face with thin red stripes
Chorus:
The boys next door
The mums and dads
New weds and nearly-deads
Have you ever been had in Clubland?
There?s a piece in someone?s pocket to do the dirty work
You?ve come to shoot the pony
They?ve come to do the jerk
They leave him half way to paradise
They leave you half way to bliss
The ladies? invitation never seemed like this
Chorus
The long arm of the law slides up the outskirts of town
Meanwhile in Clubland they are ready to pull them down
Hey
The right to work is traded in for the right to refuse admission
Don?t pass out now, there?s no refund
(When) Did you find out what you were missing
The crowd is taking forty winks minus ten percent
You barely get required sleep to go lingering with contemptment
Thursday to Saturday
Money?s gone already
Some things come in common these days
Your hands and work aren?t steady
Chorus
elvis costello - st stephen s day murders
I knew of two sisters whose name it was Christmas
And one was named Dawn of course, the other one was named Eve
I wonder if they grew up hating the season
Of the good will that lasts till the Feast of St. Stephen
For that is the time to eat, drink and be merry
'Til the beer is all spilled and the whiskey is flowed
And the whole family tree you neglected to bury
Are feeding their faces until they explode
[Chorus:]
There'll be laughter and tears over Tia Marias
Mixed up with that drink made from girders
And it's all we've got left as you draw your last breath
And it's nice for the kids as you've finally got rid of them
In the St Stephen's Day Murders
Uncle is garglin' a heart-breaking air
While the babe in his arms pulls out all that remains of his hair
And we're not drunk enough yet to dare criticize
The great big kipper tie he's about to baptize
His gin-flavoured whispers and kisses of sherry
His best crimble shirt flung out over the shop
While the lights from the Christmas tree blow up the telly
His face closes in like an old cold pork chop
And the carcass of the beast left over from the feast
May still be found haunting the kitchen
And there's life in it yet we may live to regret
When the ones that we poisoned stop twitchin'
elvis costello - mystery dance
Romeo was restless, he was ready to kill
He jumped out the window 'cause he couldn't sit still
Juliet was waiting with a safety net
He said, "Don't bury me 'cause I'm not dead yet"
(CHORUS) Why don't you tell me about the mystery dance
I wanna know about the mystery dance
Why don't you show me
'Cause I've tried and I've tried, and I'm still mystified
I can't do it anymore and I'm not satisfied
Well, I remember when the lights went out
And I was tryin' to make it look like it was never in doubt
She thought that I knew, and I thought that she knew
So both of us were willing, but we didn't know how to do it
(REPEAT CHORUS)
Well, I was down under the covers in the middle of the night
Tryin' to discover my left foot from my right
You can see those pictures in any magazine
But what's the use of looking when you don't know what they mean?
(REPEAT CHORUS)
I can't do it anymore and I'm not satisfied
I can't do it anymore and I'm not satisfied
I can't do it anymore and I'm not satisfied
I can't do it anymore and I'm not satisfied
I can't do it anymore and I'm not satisfied
I can't do it anymore and I'm not satisfied
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