Elvis Costello Lyrics

Just because you don’t speak the language Doesn’t mean that you can’t understand Just because you don’t speak the language Doesn’t mean t...

They talked to the sister, the father and the mother With a microphone in one hand and a chequebook in the other And the camera noses in ...

What are you going to say to me? Will you be betraying me? Come The Meantimes Will you be deceiving me? And beyond believing in me? Co...

She's pulling out the pin That lets her hair fall down She's pulling out the pin She shakes her head And it goes tumbling Her ...

I stood at the kerb trying not to disturb The dark carnival crew and a glittering voice Far off there said, "Rejoice" "As ...

Now there's a crank in every crowd Sprinkling gunpowder Seems that everything is about to blow They lit the burning paper With a wa...

Last lions roar before they're tamed I stood out in the glorious reign Knowing full well I can't go home again Wise Up Ghost Wi...

If I could believe two and two is five Two wrongs make a right Well then, man alive Lost in my insolence and sneers That might sound lik...

My New Haunt Gives me everything I want My New Haunt Gives me everything I want And I don't mind, I don't mind, I don't mind...

Signal fading Listen to what I'm saying Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Testing, testing Can you hear me? This better be wor...

They pulled the stars down one by one Hauled up the moon to shine upon A velvet curtain rising Now her puppet has cut his strings The f...

Running pell-mell and harum-scarum Running as hot as they do or dare Stick out your tongue And drink down all the venom From Cut-Throat ...

Third-Class ticket in his pocket Punching out the shadows underneath the sockets Tweed coat turned up against the fog Slow coaches roll...

The tempest blows up from a squall Past the Cape of Bad Conscience Into the Gulf of the Cauldron Roars over the coastline to batter and f...

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 t...

Maybe you'll recognize in time Maybe one day you will discover All the pain that lies behind You and your unfortunate love Somebody...

She stood spotlit in a plain print dress Came howling out of the wilderness There beat a cunning and murderous heart Beneath that calm ex...

The homecoming fanfare is echoing still Now tapping on tables And sensing a chill Poor families expecting loved one's return Only su...

No one looks in this place for motive or any hope But for the dead shot of an amber glass The blue light of a votive The rain obscured t...

I Lost You I Lost You You slipped from your costume Like an actress in this tragedy You're just an apparition in a haunting mystery ...

I sat in a motel room with the doctor Just before we were supposed to sing He said regarding this guardian wing This black and clipped mi...

Raining slapping on the window pane An hour or more of teeming Storm punching like a hurricane That tore him out of dreaming Air scream...

The spell that you cast Seems to be wearing off fast (The spell that you cast) Come back baby, cos I don't know if I can last (The s...

I have a friend She's just a friend I tried to comfort and defend I gave her what you might call advice But nothing like that comes ...

She attracts dark rumours Travels in blue and other humours Each time she walks in the room Brings in much more than you'd assume O...

"Mistreat me darling and I might just disappear" Upon freighter running dark out of Algiers Put tiny grains in children's te...

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 br...

Sometime, somewhere We're gonna meet again, I know And I won't love you anymore I hope Somewhere, somehow You're gonna nee...

Down among the wines and spirits Where a man gets what he merits... Once it was written in letters 'bout nine feet tall Now he sees h...

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 tho...

Well, there's a difference in the way that you kissed me And there's a sadness in your eyes that you can't hide Why do you tre...

When I was away I needed you so And now coming I'm home to stay I won't wake in the night and reach for you And turn on the light...

I'm sorry to say that you don't know me I'm sad in ways you never understood Each time I try to tell the ugly truth You alway...

She handed me a mirror That she had gazed upon The glass still held an image The glass still held an image But it was of a man I turned...

I dreamed of my old lover last night I wonder if I spoke out loud If by chance my husband overheard He'd put my face back in the crow...

Is this is not a pretty tale? Is this not a riddle? A bow shoots arrows through the air A bow drags notes from a fiddle But who is the b...

She could be no good, I'm telling you Gather 'round boys for a tale that is tragic and true On the Mississippi riverboat, "Ma...

It's not very far from Sulphur to Sugarcane 'Cos everywhere I travel pretty girls call my name I give 'em as squeeze and they ...

I'm cutting up her pure white dress That I dyed red That I dyed red I'm putting scraps in cheap tin lockets What time erases and...

Life isn't a game... won or tied... lost by either side... Then some people's idea of the straight and narrow Didn't appeal to...

We were dancing together to a dreamy melody When they called out "Change partners" And you waltzed away from me Now my arms fee...

In the not very distant future When everything will be free There won't be any cute secrets Let alone any novelty You can say anyth...

One, two, three, four Somewhere downtown a pretty girl kneels Offers her soft lips and a handful of pills Peels off her dress and then t...

I can't tell if this is real or if I am sleeping I'll embroider the truth And that's so I shall reap I took things that didn...

I met them first on their wedding night Faces were flushed by their pledges plight We passed in the hall and I met them well But as their...

Maybe we're nothing but skin and bone Blare and rubber Eyes that blubber Teeth that bite Hands that slight And I'm trying to d...

Last rays of sunlight die Full moon begins to rise Reflected in your eyes I can't believe that this is happening You make the motor...

You should wear your red galoshes Walking o'er the city pride Streets are paved with heaven's pennies Gutters full of suicides ...

They looked at her this way ever since she was a girl Mr. Feathers, Mr. Feathers The echo in every smile that would curl into a leer Oh m...

Day is dawning Almost sounded like a warning Wind was rushing through the trees almost roaring I never thought that I'd become The p...

Between last breaths and first regrets The days dragged on like cigarettes In the distance martyrs and martinets Dally, dancing with the ...

Pardon me, Madam, my name is Eve I think it's time for you to leave I don't believe that we have met That's one thing you wou...

Are we rolling? One, two, one, two, three, four Here in my little spy movie With my garter and dagger And my gag and my cuff And my gu...

Sunrise Sunset Since the beginning it hasn't changed yet People fly high begin to lose sight You can't see very clearly when you...

I may do things you don't understand But remember I'm only doing the best I can Every little thing I do I'm trying to get clo...

Wake up early in the morning I got you on my mind Even a simple phone call would suit me just fine Tears, tears and more tears I can...

I wore my finest suit of clothes The sharpest thorn defending the rose Hot as a pistol Keen as a blade The sharpest thorn upon parade ...

We may seem happy like everything's alright But from the outside looking in Everything's uptight But deep down inside we're c...