Тексты песен «Elvis Costello & The Attractions»

Photographs of fancy tricks to get your kicks at sixty-six He thinks of all the lips that he licks And all the girls that he's going to fix She gave a little flirt, gave herself a little cuddle But there's no place here...

Five gears in reverse For girls looking for the big lift Somebody send out for the night nurse Please don't stick me on the late shift If you don't know by now Nobody's gonna tell you If you don't know by now The shock...

Almost blue, almost doing things we used to do There's a girl here and she's almost you Almost all the things that your eyes once promised I see in her's too, now your eyes are red from crying Almost blue Flirting with...

Baby's got a brand new hairdo But doesn't she look so nice? She said everything that she cares to She's saying, "It not once but twice" She said, "It doesn't matter unless I say it matters" Well, I don't care about all...

History repeats the old conceits The glib replies the same defeats Keep your finger on important issues With crocodile tears and a pocketful of tissues I'm just the oily slick On the windup world of the nervous tick In...

Sheep to the slaughter, oh, this must be love All your sons and daughters in a strangle, all with a kid glove Eyes like saucers, oh, you think she's a dish She is the blue chip that belongs to the big fish Big sister...

Sheep to the slaughter, oh I thought this must be love All your sons and daughters in a strangle hold with a kid glove She's got eyes like saucers, oh you think she's a dish She is the blue chip that belongs to the big...

I was looking at the black and white world It seemed so exciting If you'd only put me back to back with that girl When the night's inviting With just a little lighting There'll never be days like that again When I was...

Now it's just you and me, my blue friend And you say that it's you that she's thinking of And our affair must end but if it's you that she's thinking of I think my broken heart might mend Now it's my turn to talk and...

I feel like a boy with a problem I can't believe what we've forgotten And I even slapped your face and made you cry It's the last thing I want to do Pull the curtains on me and you Pull the carpet from under love Pull...

Payday's coming and we wash it away Clean money, clean money Payday's coming and we wash it away Clean money, clean money That's what I want to do I want to spend it on you Checking on a checkmate Classing out a...

Tears on your blackmail Written to ransom A point of that fingernail Says, he's so handsome Clowntime is over, time to take cover While others just talk and talk Somebody's watchin' where the others don't walk...

Please put your rings on a different finger if you meet me tonight 'Cause I can't stand those suspicious glances 'Cause I know the things they're saying are right They're saying, "Why don't you straighten up And see...

Don't tell me you don't know what love is When you're old enough to know better When you find strange hands in your sweater When your dreamboat turns out to be a footnote I'm a man with a mission in two or three...

When Sunday morning dandruff turns out to be confetti And the cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty The girl in your dreams would have you up on an underage charge And the man of the moment is...

Oh it's not easy to resist temptation Walking around looking like a figment of somebody else's imagination Taking every word she says just like an open invitation But the power of persuasion is no match for anticipation...

Oh, well, now you're the girl I'm simply mad about Oh yes, I'm really glad It's been me, oh yeah I hope that you've been Getting ready 'Cause I'm gonna ask you To go steady with me I got two eyes That happened by ya...

Some things you never get used to Even though you're feeling like another man There's nothing that he can do for you To shut me away as you walk through Lovers laughing in their amateur hour Holding hands in the...

Come into this house and stop that yakity yak Come into this house and stop that yakity yak 'Cause your sugar-daddy don't want no talkin' back Oh, you keep on jabberin', talkin' 'bout this and that Well, as you keep on...

Darlin', there is one thing I must tell you, you must know It's so hard to say the words I feel This fancy that I'm on is been going on too long It's time to stop pretending things are real 'Cause I've been livin' deep...