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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