There's A Story In Your Voice Elvis Costello

"Once upon another time If you had the need I'd step right in your shoes that you've been walking 'Cause someone put the hurt in you For everyone to see And you only have to speak to tell your fortune

A Voice In The Dark Elvis Costello

And money pours down and yet Not everyone gets soaking wet When bores and bullies conspire To stamp out your spark Listen for A voice in the dark Not a moment too soon as we blue the moon And a wolf begins

Last Boat Leaving Elvis Costello

Hush my little one don't cry so You know your daddy's bound to go They took his pride They took his voice Don't upset him now, don't make a noise They said "You're lucky son you've still got a choice"

Tear Off Your Own Head (It's A Doll Revolution) Elvis Costello

Tear off your own head Tear off your own head It`s a doll revolution You can bat your lashes You can cut your strings You can pull his hair with your moveable fingers It looks so real If one won`t do it

Complicated Shadows Elvis Costello

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 those Complicated Shadows Well there's a line that you must toe and it'll soon

American Without Tears 2 (Twilight Version) Elvis Costello

December 1965 in Caracas When Arnie LaFlamme(?)

When It Sings Elvis Costello

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 says what is But never asks what isn't But a voice contains

Daddy Can I Turn This? Elvis Costello

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 me like I'm a child Daddy can I turn this? Daddy can I turn this?

Radio Sweetheart Elvis Costello

My head is spinning and my legs are weak Goose step dancing, can't hear myself speak Hope in the eyes of the ugly girls That settle for the lies of the last chancers When slow motion drunks pick

Petals Elvis Costello

Fifteen petals One for every year I spent with you Jewels and precious metals will never do The thorn is blunted And the perfume will fade I stand where sun is set I crave the shade Down in

15 Petals (Album Version) Elvis Costello

Fifteen petals One for every year I spent with you Jewels and precious metals will never do The thorn is blunted And the perfume will fade I stand where sun is set I crave the shade Down in

Deep Dark Truthful Mirror Elvis Costello

you fell all around the town until you looked the same The same eyes the same lips the same lie your tongue trips Deep dark deep dark truthful mirror Deep dark deep dark truthful mirror The

Tart Elvis Costello

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 the red fruit within But the flavour is Tart And the flavour is Tart

Roadette Song (Live) Elvis Costello

, friction double rich Brazen little hussy, rock 'n' rolling bitch When it comes to business take off like a jet Rocking's her vocation, she's a very high roadette Young man there ain't no need to hustle

Church Underground Elvis Costello

"She stood spotlit in a plain print dress Came howling out of the wilderness There beat a cunning and murderous heart Beneath that calm exterior ""You know my name You don't know my mind Don't doubt my

Delivery Man Elvis Costello

Abel was able, so Vivian said Her shoulders flung forward Her lips in a purse She talks like the beauty that she never was Of the fabulous wild nights that she never has In a certain light he looked like

The Delivery Man Elvis Costello

Abel was able, so Vivian said Her shoulders flung forward, her lips in a purse She talks like the beauty that she never was Of the fabulous wild nights that she never has In a certain light he looked like

Dissolve Elvis Costello

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?

Smile (Japanese A-Side) Elvis Costello

Smile tho' your heart is aching Smile even tho' it's breaking When there are clouds in the sky You'll get by if you smile through Your fear and sorrow smile and maybe Tomorrow you'll see the

Bullets For The New-Born King Elvis Costello

"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 Rain obscured the window As the pain was dulled by the grains Absolved by spoons in

Still Elvis Costello

These few lines I'll devote To a marvelous girl covered up with my coat Pull it up to your chin I'll hold you until the day will begin Still Lying in the shadows this new flame will cast Upon

Still (Feat. The Brodsky Quartet) Elvis Costello

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 begin Still Lying in the shadows this new flame will cast Upon everything

Less Than Zero Elvis Costello

Calling Mister Oswald with the swastika tattoo, there is a vacancy waiting in the English voodoo, carving "v" for vandal on the guilty boy's head.

Couldn't Call It Unexpected No. 4 Elvis Costello

I saw a girl who'd found her consolation She said "One day my Prince of Peace will come" Above her head a portrait of her father The wilted favour that he gave her still fastened to the frame "They've

Sulky Girl Elvis Costello

She wears a wedding ring her sister lent To throw them off the scent Just let them guess; it's what they expect Who in the world has bitten her neck?

Upon A Veil Of Midnight Blue (Live) Elvis Costello

Upon a veil of midnight blue There hung a crescent moon To light the view But you didn't whisper the words When the moment arose I wonder how she knows You find your tongue is tied Your words escape and

I Wanna Be Loved Elvis Costello

Why must I be so lonely When so many people pass me by I've been waiting for oh so long now And yet I'm unable to answer why I can't be made to give up now Can you find room for me In your heart somehow

Stella Hurt (Live) Elvis Costello, The Imposters

You should wear your red galoshes Walking o`er the city pride Streets are paved with heaven`s pennies Gutters full of suicides Teddy steadily fell from graceful Somewhere near Arcadia Once she overheard

Stella Hurt (Live) Elvis Costello & The Imposters

You should wear your red galoshes Walking o`er the city pride Streets are paved with heaven`s pennies Gutters full of suicides Teddy steadily fell from graceful Somewhere near Arcadia Once she overheard

Pads, Paws And Claws Elvis Costello

She's a feline tormentor, not any vaudeville wife But with a drunk-town lament he leads her a miserable life But when he's full of that beer-champagne She pads, paws, pads, paws and claws And if he should

Miss Macbeth Elvis Costello

All the children testified that Miss Macbeth wore a fishbone slide in her cobweb tresses Her eyes were black like first foot coal, clutched as white as chalk-dust Her fingers sweated india-ink and poison-pen

Episode Of Blonde Elvis Costello

with alarm Every Elvis has his army Every rattlesnake his charm Can you still hear me?

Episode Of Blonde (Live) Elvis Costello

with alarm Every Elvis has his army Every rattlesnake his charm Can you still hear me?

Nothing Clings Like Ivy Elvis Costello

Frightened by the dark Though she cuts deep It never leaves a mark No one quite like Ivy Ever gets it straight What she believes She won't negotiate All the words of tenderness That never quite got through

A Slow Drag With Josephine Elvis Costello

"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 the bars and scent those trite affairs She went home to gather her

Either Side Of The Same Town Elvis Costello

Nothing will ever be the same All of the promises we made seem hollow But there are still streets in this town Marked with your shadow So if you see me, look surprised If you don't then pass me by And

All These Strangers Elvis Costello

From the mechanized divisions rolling over your frontiers I saw my baby talking to a man to day Speaking softly in a confidential way I saw her shadow pull his glove off As a bluebird flew over Life's

Room With No Number Elvis Costello

show Something no one else must know There's a room without a number While the sign outside says There's no vacancy As you take your key They smile at you so understandingly She cried out in the night

...This Town... Elvis Costello

That Charlie Sedarka was a-playing the piano like he was pawing a dirty book He bit a hole in his big bottom lip and gave his very best little boy look It was a song with a topical verse which I'm afraid

Lipstick Vogue Elvis Costello

Don't say you love me when it's just a rumour Don't say a word if there is any doubt Sometimes I think that love is just a tumour You've got to cut it out You say you're sorry for the things that

Lipstick Vogue (Live At Hollywood High) Elvis Costello

Don't say you love me when it's just a rumour Don't say a word if there is any doubt. Sometimes I think that love is just a tumour; you've got to cut it out.

Chewing Gum Elvis Costello

be You can make them happy or sad Or assume their identity So here they are in the departure lounge It's the "Gateway to the East" She is just another mail-order bride She doesn't know he's a kinky beast

The Bridge I Burned Elvis Costello

I'm walking down Times Square in the Electric Daylight The sailors on shore leave stand out in their perfect white.

Can You Be True? Elvis Costello

" There will be days when you must go from my sight There may be nights when clouds deny us starlight Only time will tell us I hope that it speaks gently if it isn't meant to be Then again

Can You Be True? (Live) Elvis Costello

There will be days when you must go from my sight There may be nights when clouds deny us starlight Only time will tell us I hope that it speaks gently if it isn't meant to be Then again By then we

When I Was Cruel No. 2 Elvis Costello

Those in the know, don't even flatter her, They go one better "She was selling speedboats in a tradeshow when he met her" Look at her now She's starting to yawn She looks like she was born to it But it

Radio Silence Elvis Costello

Signal fading, listen to what I'm saying Testing, testing This better be worth all of the breath I'm wasting Maintaining radio silence from now on Barricaded in the talk radio station Hostage taken The

When Green Eyes Turn Blue Elvis Costello

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 know I will be there When green eyes turn blue It's the same for

Dr. Watson, I Presume Elvis Costello

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 misshapen thing Hobbling on from claw to ring Hung upside down and

Radio Radio Elvis Costello

I was tuning in the shine on the light night dial Doing anything my radio advised With every one of those late night stations Playing songs bringing tears to my eyes I was seriously thinking about