Elvis Costello Lyrics

Revolution #49 No Flag They're Not Laughing At Me Now Newspaper Pane I Do (Zula's Song) We Are All Cowards Now Hey Clockface / How C...

Cold as stone, hard as winter She turned to me and this she said "Kiss me once and you'll remember Lay with me 'til we're b...

I got no religion, I got no philosophy Got a head full of ideas and words that don't seem to belong to me You may be jokin' but I do...

Tell me, how does it feel? In the hour of deception and the moment of pretend To be scorned by those rank and those unkind strangers You wer...

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There's a tree at the crossroads There's a nail in my shoe Repeat to me softly As you vow that we'll see it through Let's go...

Time has taught us That they're sending out their sons To take away our guns and our daughters We are all cowards now Rivers rising Dark...

Hey Clockface Keep your fingers on the dial You stole those precious moments And the kisses from her smile And now I'm living in these h...

I came out to this town To seek a new career Or just another kind of whirlwind Than one that brought me here I stare up through the ceiling ...

Hetty said if you ask me nicely I'll write you up well Don't tell me twice Or quote you directly Or you'll pay the price I'l...

Hear the last confession of Vivian Whip If you're reading this "My life was lonely Never hurt a fly Or spared a kiss Never killed a...

What is it that I need that I don't already have? Who was there in the past that I couldn't seem to save? But will I seem so smart, ...

I'm sitting here wondering if this matchbox will hold my dreams Will the red head in my arms go up in flames? Or dissolve mighty regimes...

How can I show my face? I'm a mess And I fear I may confess I'm a fool with or without her Make up what you will about her It's ...

I read by line by line by line Some words of yours, some words of mine Some sentiments are best forgot Some letters read then folded shut Th...

Everyone's Playing House The Lovers That Never Were If You Love Me Down On The Bottom 

Well, well, isn't this sweet Everyone's playing house I'm not meaning to mock Or trespass On this pretty plain picture-perfect s...

I have always needed somebody girl But I close the doors to keep out the world But for you, I would be here all alone Locked in a photograph...

The fluctuating worth of this very terminal earth And the satellite that glows at night above me Won't bear upon my mind But concerning ...

Always been in trouble Nearly all of my life Always been in trouble Struggle, scorn and strife Down on the bottom Down to the last drop in t...

Under Lime Don't Look Now Burnt Sugar Is So Bitter Stripping Paper Unwanted Number I Let The Sun Go Down Mr. & Mrs. Hush Photographs...

It's a long way down from the high horse you're on When you stumble and then you're thrown The last time we saw him, he was out ...

Don't look now, don't you dare I'm not decent, go sit over there Would you rather I was draped in priceless fur? As there's ...

She says, "What is it that I've done That you want me to be punished?" When she woke up one day to find That he had started to...

I got time on my hands I'm just stripping paper It's amazing what you will find Stripping paper When you get down to the past Back t...

You should hear the things that they say about me They're saying "She's no better than she needed to be" They don't kn...

Whenever I'm in the tightest corner Whenever I feel forlorn I think of the isle where I was born And the duty to which I've sworn Bu...

I tripped through a house of mirrors Distorted my suspicions and fears (I heard a whisper) There is a place where those secrets begin (they ...

He was wired, dynamite And she was rare as treasure That's not the kind of story You deny In a frame, under glass They'll always be ...

If you wake and chance to look above you There's one I named to show how much I love you Hanging up high Poets long have written and hav...

Do you remember how to say please? You've had your own way for such a long time Your lashes sweep down, I dry your cheek You think I...

I set off alarms and fire off flares Cause sometimes they answer prayers I'm listening I wait for some distant bell to ring Why won'...

He's given me things you never would have And if you did you'd want them back Forgiven me things I didn't know that I had done, ...

Isabelle in tears, Isabelle is ringing Saying, "I need you near to me, But a telephone just isn't worth the flinging Like a book or...

Adieu, Paris Mon, ancien amour O, Adieu Paris Could I have loved you much less, or wanted you more? O, Adieu... Regarde la lumière Et regard...

He was a plain piece of paper, an ordinary smith The kind that you never trifle with Drawn in wide-eyeliner, a solitary lass Her beauty veil...

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...

 

(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 dr...

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 C...

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 t...

(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...

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, ...

(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...

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...

[Rachel:] Shita o dashite sonobashinogi Airashī sono ko shibai Mirai mitaina shinajī Shisen no oku ni wa mada mu i wadachi Kawaiito kanashī ...

(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'...

(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...

(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 ...

"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" Th...

(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...

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 ...

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 hear...

(from "Ghost Brothers of Darkland County" soundtrack) Am I fine, am I pleasing Are you pitying, are you teasing You shouldn't ...

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 ...

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...

(from "Ghost Brothers of Darkland County" soundtrack) Well you look down your noses When anyone's having fun I guess you can...

[Elvis Costello] Will you walk us uptown? And wherever you go, you know we will follow Will you walk us uptown? And we'll stand in t...

Lightning Up! And shake the ground Is that a horn that's blowing? Or a bell that's tolling? Walls are falling Ships pulled out...

Now that you set everybody free What you going to do about me? Don't want to be treated like some poor grateful clown I'd rather ...