Elvis Costello songs lyrics

Nice girls, not one with the defect cellophane, shrink-wrapped so correct red dogs under illegal legs she looks so good that he gets down and begs...

You're sending me tulips mistaken for lilies You give me your lip after punching me silly You turned my head till it rolled down the brain drain ...

Now everybody's breakin' up somebody else's home, before somebody else starts breaking up their own. I get you in my dreams. You should hear the...

Trying to be too bad Trying to talk too tough Trying to jack the lad You'd think he'd had enough But he's not the man you'd think that he can be...

Georgie grew to hate her name It sounded like a tiny man And the one she had said "I can't see you, but I'll call you whenever I can" Sometimes...

She had her mind made up just like her face She painted in the lines and shadows She shaded color in that would express The lonely mood that...

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 standing...

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...

Photographs of fancy tricks Go get your kicks at sixty-six he thinks of all the licks he lips and all the girls he's going to fix She gave a...

Here comes Mr. Misery He's tearing out his hair again He's crying over her again He's standing in the super-market shouting at the customers ...

I thought I'd write to Juliet, for she would understand And when someone is already dead they can no longer let you down Instead I find myself...

Here in the bar, the boys like to have fun There's a wager lost and an argument won There's a stone-washed damsel on a junk food run It's a...

This is the place where I made my best mistakes This is the place even angels don't understand I've seen the disappointment in her face And the...

There's a young girl with her old man who's too sick to mention She'll be turning twenty seven as she draws her widow's pension But he couldn't...

The sky fell over cheap Korean monster-movie scenery And spilled into the mezzanine of the crushed capsule hotel Between the Disney abattoir and...

It's started to come to me Your new career would probably end like this All that professional lipstick pressed into an amateur kiss Farewell to...

You say you don't desire me, she's only a hired hand, now you are tired of me. Expensive care is meaningless, feeling nothing and caring less. ...

I sat there alone upon the ferris wheel A pastel-colored carriage in the air I thought you'd leave me dangling for a little while A silly twist...

(Written by Elvis Costello, Submitted by Craig Ciccone) I fear, my dear We've forgotten the things strangers do If we could look back To the...

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 She's such a...