Elvis Costello Lyrics

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 ...

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...