Elvis Costello Lyrics

 

(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 ...

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

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...