A Voice In The Dark Elvis Costello

"You can read right through a book of matches But that won't make you smart You can laugh in the face of watches But time will only break your heart Kings reign beneath umbrellas Hide pennies down in cellars

Deep Dark Truthful Mirror Elvis Costello

One day you're going to have to face A deep dark truthful mirror And it's going to tell you things that I still love you too much to say The sky was just a purple bruise the ground was iron And

There's A Story In Your Voice Elvis Costello

"Once upon another time If you had the need I'd step right in your shoes that you've been walking 'Cause someone put the hurt in you For everyone to see And you only have to speak to tell your fortune

When It Sings Elvis Costello

All the words you say to me Have music in them All the sorrows and the joys like magnetism And a selfish boy looks through a prism And says what is But never asks what isn't But a voice contains

Nothing Clings Like Ivy Elvis Costello

Frightened by the dark Though she cuts deep It never leaves a mark No one quite like Ivy Ever gets it straight What she believes She won't negotiate All the words of tenderness That never quite got through

All These Strangers Elvis Costello

"""Mistreat me darling and I might just disappear"" Upon freighter running dark out of Algiers Put tiny grains in children's tears While taking twenty five percent of all those flashbulbs and mementos

I Want To Vanish Elvis Costello

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 wonder

Complicated Shadows Elvis Costello

Well you know your time has come and you're sorry for what you've done You should've never have been playing with a gun In those Complicated Shadows Well there's a line that you must toe and it'll soon

My Lovely Jezebel Elvis Costello

"She attracts dark rumors Travels in blue and other humors Each time she walks in the room Brings in much more than you'd assume Ooo, I looked in her eyes and out through that window I fell She's my lovely

A Slow Drag With Josephine Elvis Costello

"The snitch, the snoop, the tattletale Lead a threadbare up stairs Adieu, my little ballyhoo You broke my heart in two And now I haunt the bars and scent those trite affairs She went home to gather her

You Left Me In The Dark Elvis Costello

See how the elements obey?

Veronica Elvis Costello

Is it all in that pretty little head of yours? What goes on in that place in the dark?

Living In Paradise Elvis Costello

perks 'Cause when they pull the shutters down and throw up in the dark They'll find that all the dogs outside bite much worse than they bark (CHORUS) Here we are living in paradise, living in luxury

Scarlet Tide Elvis Costello

Well I recall his parting words Must I accept his fate Or take myself far from this place I thought I heard a black bell toll A little bird did sing Man has no choice When he wants everything We'll rise

The Scarlet Tide Elvis Costello

Well I recall his parting words must I accept his fate Or take myself far from this place I thought I heard a black bell toll A little bird did sing man has no choice when he wants everything We'll rise

Church Underground Elvis Costello

"She stood spotlit in a plain print dress Came howling out of the wilderness There beat a cunning and murderous heart Beneath that calm exterior ""You know my name You don't know my mind Don't doubt my

My Little Blue Window Elvis Costello

This is a calling card Maybe it will be a farewell note The poison fountain pen now requires the antidote But if I avert your gaze And I should become a shrinking flower Just punch me on the arm This could

Last Boat Leaving Elvis Costello

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"

Radio Radio Elvis Costello

I was tuning in the shine on the light night dial Doing anything my radio advised With every one of those late night stations Playing songs bringing tears to my eyes I was seriously thinking about

Radio, Radio Elvis Costello

I was tuning in the shine on the light night dial Doing anything my radio advised With every one of those late night stations Playing songs bringing tears to my eyes I was seriously thinking about hiding

Sulky Girl Elvis Costello

She wears a wedding ring her sister lent To throw them off the scent Just let them guess; it's what they expect Who in the world has bitten her neck?

American Without Tears 2 (Twilight Version) Elvis Costello

December 1965 in Caracas When Arnie LaFlamme(?)

Living In Paradise (Live At Hollywood High) Elvis Costello

Living in Paradise Elvis Costello This Years Model (1978) I don't like those other guys looking at your curves I don't like you walking round with physical jerks Everything they say and do is getting

Someone Took The Words Away Elvis Costello

I'd blame all the things I feel but can't quite place Perhaps they're written on my face Someone took the words away Why don't you speak up and say what you mean?

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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

Days Elvis Costello

Thank you for the days Those endless days those sacred days you gave me I'm thinking of the days I won't forget a single day believe me I bless the light I bless the light that shines on you believe me

Five Small Words Elvis Costello

"Maybe you'll recognize in time Maybe one day you will discover All the pain that lies behind You and your unfortunate love Somebody might be more Unsuitable and strange With eyes that offer everything

Peace In Our Time Elvis Costello

Out of the aeroplane stepped Chamberlain with a condemned man's stare But we all cheered wildly a photograph was taken As he waved a piece of paper in the air Now the disco machine lives in Munich And

Love Field Elvis Costello

You lie so unfolded in a love field With your contempt for any modesty In a love field In a love field in a love field You yield with your lips still sealed In a love field Lost in a sea of imaginary women

The Delivery Man Elvis Costello

Abel was able, so Vivian said Her shoulders flung forward, her lips in a purse She talks like the beauty that she never was Of the fabulous wild nights that she never has In a certain light he looked like

Alison (Elvis Costello) Hitomi Shimazaki

Alison (Elvis Costello) - Hitomi Shimazaki (시마자키 히토미/島崎ひとみ) 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.

You Hung The Moon Elvis Costello

You hung the moon From a gallows in the sky Choked out the light In his blue lunar eye The shore is a parchment The sea has no tide Since he was taken from my side The lines of the fallen are viewed through

Jimmie Standing In The Rain Elvis Costello

is falling Jimmie's standing in the rain Nobody wants to buy a counterfeited prairie lullaby in a colliery town The hip flask and fumbled skein of some stage door Josephine is all he'll get now Eyes going

Kinder Murder Elvis Costello

Here in the bar, the boys like to have fun There's a wager lost and an argument won There's a stone-washed damsel on a junk-food run It's a kinder murder It's a ladder to heaven from a battered stiletto

The Deportees Club Elvis Costello

In the Arrivederci Roma nightclub bar and grill Standing in the fibreglass ruins watching time stand still All your troubles you confess to another faceless backless dress Schnapps Chianti Porter and Ouzo

Stranger In The House Elvis Costello

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

Everyday I Write The Book Elvis Costello

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

The Only Flame In Town Elvis Costello

I know a girl got my mind in a mess I never heard her say goodnight and God bless She's not the only flame in town And when we're alone we never quarrel I'm miles away now here's the moral She's not the

Stations Of The Cross Elvis Costello

and mauler in a rope ring this small Outside the wind is punching There's no one to hear it No one hears the bell ring Except the one who comes to fear it And they continue to brawl He's buying his way

The Beat Elvis Costello

It takes two to tumble, it takes two to tango Speak up--don't mumble if you're in the combo On the beat, on the beat Till a man comes along and he says "Have you been a good boy, never played with

Delivery Man Elvis Costello

Abel was able, so Vivian said Her shoulders flung forward Her lips in a purse She talks like the beauty that she never was Of the fabulous wild nights that she never has In a certain light he looked like

...This Town... Elvis Costello

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 afraid

Poor Fractured Atlas Elvis Costello

He's out in the woods with his squirrel gun To try to recapture his anger He's screaming some words at the top of his lungs Until he begins to feel younger But back at his desk in the city we find Our

Imagination Elvis Costello

So you're trying to make connection, you heard whispers in the hall She'll be out again this evening, when you come around to call So, you dodge the lady-killer, who came creepin' 'cross the floor

Clubland (Live) 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

Dissolve Elvis Costello

Sugar cube drop into a yellow cup What makes the world just waking up Revolve? Dissolve Who know where on earth it's going to stop?

I'm In The Mood Again Elvis Costello

Hail to the taxis They go where I go Farewell the newspapers that know more than I know Flung under a street-lamp still burning at dawn I'm in the mood again I walk the damp streets rather than

Episode Of Blonde Elvis Costello

twenty tons of rain Though she had the attention span of warm cellophane Her lovers fell like skittles in a 10-pin bowling lane But nothing could compare with the explosion of fame So you jumped back

Episode Of Blonde (Live) Elvis Costello

twenty tons of rain Though she had the attention span of warm cellophane Her lovers fell like skittles in a 10-pin bowling lane But nothing could compare with the explosion of fame So you jumped back

Lipstick Vogue Elvis Costello

Don't say you love me when it's just a rumour Don't say a word if there is any doubt Sometimes I think that love is just a tumour You've got to cut it out You say you're sorry for the things that