Anyone Who Had A Heart lyrics - Elvis Costello
(Live In London at Royal Festival Hall, October 29, 1998)
Anyone who ever loved
Would look at me and know that I love you
Anyone who ever dreamed
Would look at me and know I dream of you
Knowing I love you so
Anyone who had a heart
Would take me in her arms and love me too
You couldn't really have a heart
And hurt me like you hurt me
And be so untrue
What am I to do?
Every time you go away
I always say
"This time it's goodbye, dear."
Loving you the way I do
I take you back
Without you I'd die, dear
Knowing I love you so
Anyone who had a heart
Would take me in her arms and love me too
You couldn't really have a heart
And hurt me like you hurt me
And be so untrue
What am I to do?
Knowing I love you so
Anyone who had a heart
Would take me in her arms and love me too
You couldn't really have a heart
And hurt me like you hurt me
And be so untrue
Anyone who had a heart would love me too
Anyone who had a heart would surely take me in her arms and always love me
Why can't you?
Anyone who had a heart would love me too
Anyone who had a heart would surely take me in her arms and always love me
Why can't you?
Anyone who had a heart would love me too
Anyone who had a heart would surely take me in her arms and always love me
Why can't you?
Blue Minute lyrics - Elvis Costello
Blue minute, blue minute, blue minute
I don't know how I got in it
I thought about you for a while
And then I tried to dial you anyway
Can't get you out of my day
I tried to get you off my mind
I'm better off without your kind
Then I get along just fine for a day or two
But now that I'm on my own again
I find that every now and then
Something always seems to remind me of you
Blue minute, blue minute, blue minute
I don't know how I got in it
I thought about you for a while
And then I tried to dial you anyway
Can't get you out of my day
Why oh why do you affect me this way
Oh I get that helpless feeling any time any day
Blue minute, blue minute, blue minute
I don't know how I got in it
I thought about you for a while
And then I tried to dial you anyway
Can't get you out of my day
Can't get you out of my day
Can't get you out of my day
Blue minute, blue minute, blue minute
But Not For Me lyrics - Elvis Costello (feat. Larry Adler)
Old man sunshine, listen you
Never tell me dreams come true
Just try it and I'll start a riot
Beatrix Fairfax, don't you dare
Ever tell me she will care
I'm certain it's the final curtain
I never want to hear from any cheerful Pollyannas
Who tell you fate provides a mate
It's all bananas
They're writing songs of love
But not for me
A lucky star's above
But not for me
With love to lead the way
I've found more skies of gray
Than any Russian play could guarantee
I was a fool to fall and get that way
Hi ho alas and also lackaday
Although I can't dismiss
The memory of her kiss
I guess she's not for me
I was a fool to fall and get that way
Hi ho alas and also lackaday
Although I can't dismiss
The memory of her kiss
I guess she's not for me
I guess she's not for me
Here, There And Everywhere lyrics - Elvis Costello & The Imposters
(originally by The Beatles)
To lead a better life
I need my love to be here
Here
Making each day of the year
Changing my life with a wave of her hand
Nobody can deny that there's something there
There
Running my hands through her hair
Both of us thinking how good it can be
No one is speaking, but she doesn't know he's there
I want her everywhere
And if she's beside me I know I need never care
But to love her is to need her everywhere
Knowing that love is to share
Each one believing that love never dies
Watching her eyes
And hoping I'm always there
I will be there and everywhere
Here, there and everywhere
Honeyhouse (Cruel No. 2) lyrics - Elvis Costello
I exit through the spotlight glare
I stepped out into thin air
Into a perfume so rarefied
Here comes the bride
Not quite aside, they snide, she's number four
There's number three just by the door
Those in the know, don't even flatter her, they go one better
She was selling speedboats in a trade show when he met her
Look at her now
She's starting to yawn
She looks like she was born to it
But it was so much easier
When I was cruel
She reaches out her arms to me
Imploring another melody
So she can dance her husband out on the floor
The captains of industry just
Lie there where they fall
In eau-de-nil and pale carnation creation
A satin sash and velvet elevation
She straightens the tipsy head-dress of her spouse
While hers recalls a honey house
There'll be no sorrows left to drown
Early in the morning in your evening gown
But it was so much easier
When I was cruel
The entrance hall was arranged
With hostesses and ushers
Who turned out to be the younger wives
Nursing schoolgirl crushes
Parting the waves of those
Few feint friends
Fingers once offered are now too
Heavy to extend
The ghostly first wife glides up
On stage, whispering to raucous talkers
Spilling family secrets out to
Flunkey's and castrato walkers
See that girl, watch that scene
Digging the dancing queen
Two newspaper editors like playground sneaks
Running a book on which of them is going to last the week
One of them calls to me and he says, I know you
You gave me this tattoo back in '82
You were a spoilt child then with a record to plug
And I was a shaven headed, seaside thug
Things haven't really changed that much
One of us is still getting paid too much
There are some things I [?] report
The memory of his last retort
But it was so much easier
When I was cruel, oh
Look at me now, she's starting to yawn
She looks like she was born to it
Ah, but it was so much easier
When I was cruel
I'll Still Love You lyrics - Elvis Costello
(originally by Johnny Cash)
One of these mornings
I'm gonna rise up flying
One of these mornings
I'll sail away
Beyond the blue
I've gotta promise
There's a world ahead
I want you to know that when I come
I'll still love you
I'll still love you
I won't be a stranger
When I get to heaven
'Cause you gave me heaven
Right here on earth
If I get rewarded
With an ancient heart of gold
[?] for what it's worth
I'll still love you
One of these mornings
When my trouble's over
One of these morning
When all my suffering is through
I'll go out singing
It'll be a day to sing about
And I'll guarantee for eternity
I'll still love you
I'll still love you
I'll still love you
I'll still love you
Let Me Roll It lyrics - Elvis Costello & The Imposters
You gave me something
I understand
You gave me loving in the palm of my hand
I can't tell you how I feel
My heart is like a wheel
Let me roll it
Let me roll it to you
Let me roll it
Let me roll it to you
I want to tell you
And now's the time
I want to tell you that
You're going to be mine
I can't tell you how I feel
My heart is like a wheel
Let me roll it
Let me roll it to you
Let me roll it
Let me roll it to you
You gave me something
I understand
You gave me loving in the palm of my hand
I can't tell you how I feel
My heart is like a wheel
Let me roll it
Let me roll it to you
Let me roll it
Let me roll it to you
Magnificent Hurt (Remix) lyrics - Elvis Costello, The Imposters & chelmico
[Rachel:]
Shita o dashite sonobashinogi
Airashī sono ko shibai
Mirai mitaina shinajī
Shisen no oku ni wa mada mu i wadachi
Kawaiito kanashī wa kamihitoe
Wakaranainara sono sakini tobe
Taimingu wa osokare hayakare
Wakaranainara soko no kami ni toe
2tsu no engi kakeru tenbin
Kara mawaru made fukasu enjin
Boku ni wa nai sekinin
Kimi no katachi ni nuritsubushita sutenshiru
Nan datte shitterushi
Dokoni datte ikeru bokutachi
It's the way you make me feel, magnificent hurt
[Mamiko:]
Kore matamata mukashi no hanashi
Sōtei-gaina boku no me o choromakashi
Akai sora no shita mō dō surya ī
Iunareba kore wakagenoitari
Eda kara ringo ochiru toki
Boku no kokoro mo mata ochikomi
Tokidoki wakan'naku naru
Yueni kimi ni muchū subete sasagete ita
Rikai shitai
Shigeki-zai o nonde aruku
Kimi wa ippo rīdo itsu datte
Itsu datte kimi wa boku o warau
Korya migotona hodo no itamida
It's the way you make me feel, magnificent hurt
I stood at the door, and I almost went through with it
Tight as the angle of my amen and I swore
To ゙ u shiyō mo nai
Kimi ka ゙ sonoke ni sa seru toki
Furimawasare ni itteru
Waraeyo
To ゙ u shiyō mo nai
Kimi ka ゙ sonoke ni sa seta toki
Itaiyo kuse ni natteru
Baka nanoha to ゙ tchi
It's the way you make me feel, magnificent hurt
I stood at the door, and I almost went through with it
Tight as the angle of my amen
And I swore
To ゙ u shiyō mo nai
Kimi ka ゙ sonoke ni sa seru toki
Furimawasare ni itteru
Waraeyo
Utsukushi suki ゙ru kimi
Yurushi wa shi ゙-meta kokoro to karada
Mō tomaru koto wanai
Shigeki-teki sa
Ā itai na
[Japanese:]
[Rachel:]
舌を出してその場しのぎ
愛らしいその小芝居
未来みたいなシナジー
視線の奥にはまだ無い轍
可愛いと悲しいは紙一重
分からないならその先に飛べ
タイミングは遅かれ早かれ
分からないならそこの神に問え
2つの演技 かける天秤
から回るまでふかすエンジン
僕には無い責任
君の形に塗りつぶしたステンシル
なんだって知ってるし
どこにだって行ける僕たち
It's the way you make me feel, magnificent hurt
[Mamiko:]
これまたまた昔のハナシ
想定外な僕の目をちょろまかし
赤い空の下もうどうすりゃいい
いうなればこれ若気の至り
枝からりんご落ちる時
僕の心もまた落ちこみ
時々分かんなくなる
故に君に夢中全て捧げていた
理解したい
刺激剤を飲んで歩く
君は一歩リードいつだって
いつだって君は僕を笑う
こりゃ見事なほどの痛みだ
It's the way you make me feel, magnificent hurt
I stood at the door, and I almost went through with it
Tight as the angle of my amen and I swore
どうしようもない
きみがその気にさせる時
振り回されにいってる
笑えよ
どうしようもない
きみがその気にさせた時
痛いよ クセになってる
バカなのはどっち
It's the way you make me feel, magnificent hurt
I stood at the door, and I almost went through with it
Tight as the angle of my amen
And I swore
どうしようもない
きみがその気にさせる時
振り回されにいってる
笑えよ
美しすぎるきみ
許しはじめた心と身体
もう止まることはない
刺激的さ
ああ痛いな
Make It Easy On Yourself lyrics - Elvis Costello
(Live In London at Royal Festival Hall, October 29, 1998)
'Cause breaking up is so very hard to do
If you really love him
And there's nothing I can do
Don't try to spare my feelings
Just tell me that we're through
And make it easy on yourself
Make it easy on yourself
'Cause breaking up is so very hard to do
And if the way I hold you
Can't compare to his caress
No words of consolation
Will make me miss you less
My darling, if this is goodbye
I just know I'm gonna cry
So run to him
Before you start crying too
And make it easy on yourself
Make it easy on yourself
'Cause breaking up is so very hard to do
It's so hard to do
It's so hard to do
My Little Red Book lyrics - Elvis Costello
(Live In London at Royal Festival Hall, October 29, 1998)
I just got out my little red book
The moment that you said goodbye
I thumbed right through my little red book
I wasn't gonna sit and cry
And I went from A to Z
I called up every pretty girl in town
They danced with me and as I held them
All I did was talk about you
Hear your name and I'd start to cry
There's just no getting over you
No girl who's in my little red book
Just ever could replace your charms
And each girl in my little red book
Knows you're the one I'm thinking of
Won't you please come back to me?
Without your precious love I can't go on
Where can you be? I need you so much
All I do is to talk about you
Hear your name and I start to cry
There is just no getting over you
Won't you please come back to me?
Without your precious love I can't go on
Where can you be? I need you so much
All I do is to talk about you
Hear your name and I start to cry
There is just no getting over you
All I do is to talk about you
Hear your name and I start to cry
There is just no getting over you
I just got out my little red book
I just got out my little red book
I just got out my little red book
Out Of Time lyrics - Elvis Costello & The Imposters
(originally by The Rolling Stones)
You don't know what's going on
You've been away for far too long
You can't come back and think you are still mine
You're out of touch my baby
My poor discarded baby
I said, baby, baby, baby, you're out of time
Well, baby, baby, baby, you're out of time
I said, baby, baby, baby, you're out of time
Yes, you are left out, yeah, you're out of there without a doubt
Baby, baby, baby, you're out of time
You thought you was a clever girl
Giving up your social whirl
You can't come back and be the first in line
You're obsolete, my baby
My poor old-fashioned baby
I said baby, baby, baby you're out of time
Yeah, baby, baby, baby, you're out of time
I said, baby, baby, baby, you're out of time
Yes, you are left out
Yeah, you're out of there without a doubt
Baby, baby, baby, you're out of time
Oh, oh, oh, baby, baby, baby you're out of time
I said, baby, baby, baby you're out of time
Yes, you are left out
Yeah, you're out of there without a doubt
Baby, baby, baby, you're out of time
Oh, yeah
Baby, baby, baby, you're out of time
I said, baby, baby, baby you're out of time
You're left out
Yeah, you're out of there without a doubt
Baby, baby, baby, you're out of time
Phonographic Memory lyrics - Elvis Costello
"We have not come so much to a fork in the road, as a fork on the plate, scraping the last lick off the gravy train of history"
There was nervous laughter round from the dais that rolled outwards through the crowd on a breeze that rustled flags and banners.
It was the voice of Orson Welles, his baritone coming to us over decades of dead silence through a metallic tannoy, each word meticulously tape-spliced from various soundtracks and radio broadcasts in the Library of Congress.
It wowed the crowd before it fluttered and faltered as the powder of lost oxide caused a catch in his voice just as the spool ran out.
Curiously, the simulated address seemed to be delivered in the same, strange, stage-Irish accent that Welles had possibly purloined from the actor, Michael MacLiammóir, when he had bluffed his way onto the Dublin stage as a teenager.
Now it was just one in a queue of immigrant inflections that might have taken the day.
It was also the voice that Orson had used in "Lady From Shanghai". You know, the one with the shootout amidst the shattered reflections of fun house mirrors.
Few remembered that motion picture now.
One man in the third row remarked to his wife that he seemed to remember this voice selling him sweet sherry in his youth but there were many in the crowd who knew nothing of this "Citizen" and the "Kane" he had once raised, back when the worst one could imagine was an invasion from another sphere.
After the peace was negotiated and the internet switched off, knowledge returned to its medieval cloister, in this and that illuminated volume, the jealous possession of the pious and the superstitious, who might once again wield ignorance like a scythe.
There were but dimly remembered facsimiles after many of the public libraries had been torched. Untouched books now went for the price of a Vuitton handbag.
Ever since the U.S. Mint was sucked dry and spat out, bookworms paid for rare tomes with wheelbarrows full of banknotes, some of them worthless Confederate money, stashed in plinths of various toppled statues.
They bartered it on a Mississippi square with the irony and arrogance of victors.
None of it helped the healing.
Yet in the absence of a noble woman or a statesman equal to the task, a tireless engineer had magically assembled the random words of Welles' oration into a speech worthy of the occasion from the depths of the national archive.
President Swift gave a slight, shy smile of pearl and pillar-box red and began to sing a plain song of her acceptance.
Smile lyrics - Elvis Costello
(originally by Nat King Cole)
Smile though your heart is aching
Smile even though it's breaking
When there are clouds in the sky
You'll get by
If you smile through your fear and sorrow
Smile and maybe tomorrow
You'll see the sun come shining through
For you
Light up your face with gladness
Hide every trace of sadness
Although a tear
May be ever so near
That's the time you must keep on tryin'
Smile, what's the use of cryin'
You'll find that life is still worthwhile
If you'd just smile
Light up your face with gladness
Hide every trace of sadness
Although a tear
May be ever so near
That's the time you must keep on tryin'
Smile, what's the use of cryin'
You'll find that life is still worthwhile
If you'd just smile
Smile
So You Want To Be A Rock ‘N’ Roll Star lyrics - Elvis Costello & The Imposters
So you want to be a rock-and-roll star?
Then listen now to what I say
Just get an electric guitar
Then take some time and learn how to play
And with your hair swung right
And your pants too tight
It's gonna be all right
Then it's time to go downtown
Where the agent man won't let you down
Sell your soul to the company
Who's waiting there to sell plastic ware
And in a week or two if you make the charts
The girls'll tear you apart
The price you paid for your riches and fame
Was it all a strange game?
You're a little insane
The money, the fame
And the public acclaim
Don't forget what you are
You're a rock-and-roll star
La, la la la la la, la la la la la la
La la la la la
La, la la la la la, la la la la la la
La la la la la
Someone Else's Heart lyrics - Elvis Costello
I got nosy and I read her letters
I read her diary it's the same story and nothing better
The words remind me of someone else's heart
Has gone and left a mark
And the pop music plays
On the local radio
There's people on the streets but no one that I know
And like my heart is now
I know not where they go
Same words different meaning
Same heart different feeling
So much for him so much for her 'cause that's past
Now I know about that someone else's heart
She got nosy and read my letters too
And my notebook surprised to find that
Love is not so new
So we both took
Someone else's heart
And walked it through the dark
A feeling so rich
I turned around to laugh
We had both indulged in each other's past
To find out that our love
Was true enough to last
Same words different meaning
Same heart different feeling
So much for him so much for her 'cause that's past
Now I know about that someone else's heart
(Someone else's heart)
Now I know about that someone else's heart
That's Me lyrics - Elvis Costello
(from "Ghost Brothers of Darkland County" soundtrack)
Am I fine, am I pleasing
Are you pitying, are you teasing
You shouldn't look at me
You shouldn't look at me that way
Should a glance from you, just shoot through me
If a glimpse of you could undo me
You shouldn't look at me
You shouldn't look at me that way
Time among all of your enemies
Leaves you nothing but bitter memories
From the first splash of affection
To avoiding your own reflection
You shouldn't look at me
You shouldn't look at me that way
Now the flashbulbs may dazzle
While you're figuring out this puzzle
You shouldn't look at me
You shouldn't look at me that way
Don't take more than I offer
All my love or I'll make you suffer
You shouldn't look at me
You shouldn't look at me that way
Time among all of your enemies
Makes disguises from drastic remedies
From the first splash of detection
To avoiding your own reflection
You shouldn't look at me
You shouldn't look at me that way
You shouldn't look at me that way
Truth Drug - Memphis Magnetic Version lyrics - Elvis Costello & The Imposters
I've been taking the truth drug
I've been telling a friend
It's alright
I've been up all night
I've been taking the lid off
I've been telling a friend
Like it is
In the mood to fizz
Rushing here and there
Talking everywhere
I'll see everything
'Cause I don't care
Hands are getting wet
Drugs are feeling warm
I'm a modern boy
In the whole light of dawn
On the truth drug
On the truth drug baby
I've been taking the truth drug
I've been telling a friend
It's wonderful
Like an animal
I've been taking the truth drug
I've been telling a friend
It's alright
I've been up all night
One more
One more
One more
When I Was Cruel No. 1 lyrics - Elvis Costello
Did you talk your way out of this?
Did someone flip your switch?
Now there is only right or wrong
Can you tell which is which?
But it was so much easier
When I was cruel
Why did you leave your happy home?
Why did you travel far abroad?
So you could sleep with strangers?
You must have heard just how absurd
The words poured out of you, you fraud
I guess you don't know what pain is
So dont pretend you're innocent
Do I look like your fool?
I guess you have forgotten
When I was cruel
Oh, when I was cruel, I could make you so unhappy
Lonely cowards followed me like ghouls
And you liked me too, when I was cruel
Oh, you know you did
But if you should feel anything, a signal from within
Go back in your laboratory and try to dial it in
And if you should feel anything, a signal from without
Abandon your dreams of vengence
So don't protest your innocence
The truth is hard to judge
Perhaps you have forgetten when
I had a grudge
Oh, but I was cruel and I would make you very sorry
Lonely cowards followed me like ghouls
And you liked me too, when I was cruel
Oh, you know you did
Wrong, Wrong, Wrong About Me lyrics - Elvis Costello
(from "Ghost Brothers of Darkland County" soundtrack)
Well you look down your noses
When anyone's having fun
I guess you can't remember
What it's like to be young
You got no fun lovin' spirit left in you at all
Just two young lovers here tryin' to have a ball
It's people like you
Who think that heaven's the place to be
But you're wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong about me
Well you've lied to your children
About what's good and bad
And you falsify the truth
About all the fun that you've had
You always act so goody-goody
With your "thank you, dear" and "please"
But you're wrong, you're wrong, you're wrong about me
In summation just to bring this to a close
I bet you've done some things yourself
That nobody's supposed to know
Don't forget who you're talkin' to, dear
Because everything you do I see
But you're wrong, you're wrong, you're wrong about me
Ten commandments, hell!
With me, there's only one
Each individual has the right
The fella next to you has none
You're wrong, you're wrong, you're wrong about me
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