Elvis Costello Lyrics

Not a soul was stirring Not a bird was singing, at least not within my hearing I was five minutes past caring Standing in the road just s...

The streets were deserted and the house was dark Down in the basement there was the faintest spark Three boys hoping to make their mark I...

The touch of your lips next to mine Gets me excited makes me feel fine The touch of your hand Your sweet hello The fire inside you When...

When I'm down and out she stays by me without a doubt And if I stumble like I'm gonna fall She's right there at my beck and ca...

Six-Fingered Man Playing a seven-string guitar There are Seven Deadly Sins Any one of them can do you in Take what you lost from what yo...

The greatest love I ever loved Was the love I had for you The greatest wish I ever wished Was when I wished that you love me too But I ...

Where is the love It's such a ruthless business Where is the faith The hope and the forgiveness Twisting the words you say until the...

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Siren is bending, the radio humming, Sun is breaking through and the storm is coming The score is obscure, the melody fractured It went b...

Figure hanging on a leather band Cog consults the watch he cups in his hand Bejewelled movement measures lost and vanished time Pray for ...

Well, you're standing on the corner flagging all the girls you see Now do like EC and let those ladies be You know that's wrong, m...

Upon a veil of midnight blue There hung a crescent moon To light the view But I don't whisper the words When the moment arose I won...

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 ...

Almost blue Almost doing things we used to do There's a girl here and she's almost you Almost all the things that your eyes once ...

Speak darkly, my angel Or do I have to plead? The sweetness has gone out of it And all that's left is bitter barren greed A needy l...

Here she comes with her almost ideal eyes And her flawless skin and her petulant pout The memory of such a long blonde alibi Still makes ...

Put away forbidden playthings Amusements and distractions And dismantle the contraption and carry it away In time as beauty dissolves in...

As the last light glimmers And the evening hours dim Maybe I'm too proud to utter it out loud Even though my flame burns blue As th...

Nice girls not one with a defect, cellophane shrink-wrapped, so correct. Red dogs under illegal legs. She looks so good that he gets down...

Don't want to talk about the government Don't want to talk about some incident Don't want to talk about some peppermint gum D...

This tattered document A mystery you can solve Some burnt out filament Flies still buzzing around the bulb Country Darkness He though...

Once upon another time If you had the need I'd step right in the shoes that you've been walking 'Cos someone put the hurt in ...

Nothing can ever be the same All of the promises we made seem hollow But there's still some streets in this town Oh, they're mark...

I've got this phosphorescent portrait of gentle Jesus meek and mild I've got this harlot that I'm stuck with carrying another m...

"Abel was able," so Vivian said Her shoulders flung forward Her lips in a purse She talks like the beauty that she never was O...

A long time ago, our point of view Was broadcast by Mr. Bartholomew And now the world is full of sorrow and pain And it's time for us...

Nothing clings like Ivy Frightened by the dark Though she cuts deep It never leaves a mark No one quite like Ivy Ever gets it straight...

There's a part of this feeling that I just cannot kill But the name of this thing is not love And I can't take a potion, and I won...

Tell me now Or are you only teasing? I felt the cold hard facts of life Five degrees from freezing Does it amuse you to always hurt me s...

She's pulling out the pin That lets her hair fall down She shakes her head and It goes tumbling Her smile was out of place So she s...

I wish that I didn't hate you Least not as much as I do And squander all my contempt for A little nothing like you Liars like you ar...

The accused will rise to be torn in two Guilty of nothing but loving you This is the judgement And I'm willing to plead How you don...

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 ...

See how the elements obey? Eyes are blue Skies are grey Nothing I do can make you stay I'm glad it will rain today You left me sta...

Poor head Can hardly move my lips for speaking I said So, what is this thing I cannot explain? I'd blame all the things I feel but c...

You appeared when I was lost in reverie If this is not a dream, it's my mistake And now I lie in wait for dawn to break I'm fairl...

You turned to me And all at once I knew I was betrayed My eyes met yours just down the darkened path Where both of us had strayed Nothi...

All the leaves are turning yellow, red and brown Soon they'll be scattered as they tumble down Although they may be swept up so inviti...

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 s...

These few lines I'll devote To a marvellous girl covered up with my coat Pull it up to your chin I'll hold you until the day will...

I wasn't very indiscreet and yet That is a notion that I might as well forget Friends look at me these days with fond surprise But wh...

Can you be true? Can this possibly be real? I knew quite suddenly Do you sense how I feel? I long to hear you whisper my name 'Til ...

Every single time It becomes too much There's nothing I can say Or I can touch But the glory is, as it comes passing through, I kno...

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 ...

How long do I have to wait? Before I can tell you the things I've been wanting to say How long must I hesitate? I know it makes sen...

There may be a break in the road The future looks drab and dreary But if you were here with me, dear I'd spin you a line that's f...

The East has that Englishmen And the rising sun The West has the open plains And how they were won On Independence Day For all it'...

Bells are chiming for victory There's a page back in history 45 They came back to the world that they fought for Didn't turn out...

I want a girl to make a mess To do no wrong she must confess And then perhaps hitch up her dress 'Cos when the flashbulbs explode Sh...

Who dries your eyes when you cry real tears? Who know or cares what an imitation is? Only you do You can paint his nails Make him wear h...

I exit through the spotlight glare I stepped out into thin air Into a perfume so rarefied "Here comes the bride" Not quite as...

Hang my head and shut my eyes What kind of justice is this? Fool I was, I thought that you fought fire with fire Got to me more than just...

15 Petals One for every year I spent with you Jewels and precious metals will never do I love you twisted And I love you straight I...

Hear silver trumpets will trill in Arabic streets of Seville Oranges roll in the gutter And you pick them up And peel back the skin To t...

If dust could only talk What would we hear it say? Before it's brushed aside Just as it's swept away It's just the evidence...

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? ...

You did it 'cos you wanted Alibi, alibi And you took it 'Cos you need it Alibi, alibi [Chorus:] But if I've done somethin...

If only dust could talk What would we hear it say? Before it's brushed aside Just as it's swept away It's just the evidence...

There is a button and there's a switch There is a needle and there's a dial There is a lever I want to lift And still you treat m...

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...

I spy for the "Spirit of Curiosity" All the scandals of each vain monstrosity I gossip and I pry and I insinuate If the failure...

Signal fading, listen to what I'm saying Testing, testing This better be worth all of the breath I'm wasting Maintaining radio si...

I stole a glance at my reflection, Though these days I tend to hurry by. How pale the rose of my complexion, How strange the knowing look...

It's not open to discussion anymore She's out again tonight and I'm alone once more She's all I have worth waiting for Bu...

Down by the harbourside A boat is fastened by a length of rope. It was a perfect match, Dreaming of escape, Feeling almost detached. Lo...

Fine rain was falling on the gravel and glades. The last rays of September bejewelled broken blades. But there's someone that I long f...

[Chorus:] 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 curi...

I fear, my dear We've forgotten the things strangers do If we could look back To the terrible thrill that we knew Am I imagining a w...

In the cold pale sunlight that was slanting down, I spied Frost reflecting on the glass and in the air outside, Fond relations mouthing wo...

These rooms play tricks upon you Remember when they were always filled with laughter? But now they're quite deserted They seem to ju...

The stars were so much brighter then, They dim and die, So why pretend The sky goes on forever: But if they fade as science teaches, Po...

In the darkest place I know That is where you'll find me Even though you didn't have to remind me I shut out the lights Your ey...

All through the night you telephoned I saw the light blinking red Beside the cradle But you don't know how far I've gone Now I m...

I have to say that we should finish it now Before we weaken 'cause we already know this is wrong I could give in, sometimes I think th...

These rooms play tricks upon you Remember when they were always filled with laughter? But now they're quite deserted They seem to jus...

Think back now when we were young There were always tears at the birthday party You know how children can be So cruel That's how it ...

On a hot city day When your white shirt turns to grey That's when she'll arrive When you look how you feel Someone steps upon yo...