Тексты песен «Elvis Costello And The Attractions»

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

He thought he was the King of America Where they pour Coca Cola just like vintage wine Now I try hard not to become hysterical But I'm not sure if I am laughing or crying I wish that I could push a button And talk...

Men made out of monkeys, men made into mice Happy days are here again And all the drinks half price A girl with a trick and a man with a calling Trying to make a living out of your down falling Trying to make a...

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...

Up above me are the skies like the twinkle in your eyes Blue must be the colour of the blues In the mail, the letters came but you can't pay for love the same Blue must be the colour of the blues The bluebird...

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...

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...

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...

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...