I’m the living result I’m a man who’s been hurt a little too much And i’ve tasted the bitterness of my own tears Sadness is all my lonely heart can feel I can’t stand up for falling down I can’t stand up for falling down Simple though love is Still it confused me Why i’m […]
We play these parlour games We play at make believe When we get to the part where i say that i’m going to leave Everybody loves a happy ending but we don’t even try We go straight past pretending To the part where everybody loves to cry (chorus) Indoor fireworks Can still burn your fingers […]
Some things you never get used to Even though you’re feeling like another man There’s nothing that he can do for you To shut me away as you walk through Lovers laughing in their amateur hour Holding hands in the corridors of power Even though i’m with somebody else right now High fidelity Can you […]
I can hardly bear the sight of lipstick on the cigarettes there in the ashtray Lyin’ cold the way you left ’em, but at least your lips caressed them while You packed Or the lip-print on a half-filled cup of coffee that you poured and didn’t drink But at least you thought you wanted it, […]
don’t tell me you don’t know what love is When you’re old enough to know better When you find strange hands in your sweater When your dreamboat turns out to be a footnote I’m a man with a mission in two or three editions And i’m giving you a longing look Everyday, everyday, everyday i […]
Clubland - Elvis Costello
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 […]
He thought he was the king of america Where they pour coca cola just like vintage wine Now i try hard not to become hysterical But i’m not sure if i am laughing or crying I wish that i could push a button And talk in the past and not the present tense And watch […]
History repeats the old conceits The glib replies the same defeats Keep your finger on important issues With crocodile tears and a pocketful of tissues I’m just the oily slick On the windup world of the nervous tick In a very fashionable hovel I hang around dying to be tortured You’ll never be alone in […]
Alison - Elvis Costello
Oh it’s so funny to be seeing you after so long, girl. And with the way you look i understand That you are not impressed. But i heard you let that little friend of mine Take off your party dress. I’m not going to get too sentimental Like those other sticky valentines, ’cause i don’t […]
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 happen We only hit and run He used to be your victim Now you’re not the only […]
