Тексты песен «Elvis Costello»

Now that you set everybody free What are you going to do about me? Don't want to be treated like some poor grateful clown I'd rather go back to the sweet underground Where I can tell by the colour of my skin And I...

(Dan Penn / Spooner Oldham) I see you walk with him I see you talk to him It tears me up, oh, it tears me up And I can't stop crying Oh, baby, I can't stop crying I see you kiss his lips And squeeze his...

I see you walk with him I see you talk to him It tears me up, oh, it tears me up And I can't stop crying Oh, baby, I can't stop crying I see you kiss his lips And squeeze his fingertips It tears me up, oh, baby,...

The party's over Your time is up You've had your last pointless teardrop Washed down in that broken coffee cup This magic moment concludes when that cigarette ends Did you get what you wanted? Well I suppose that...

When we first met I didn't know what to do My old love lines were all worn out on you And the world walked round my mouth They lit me up and they snuffed me out [Chorus:] And I was everybody's boy But soon that...

Sister 4 and Brothers 3 Hanging off the family tree Practising for getting old Do you want your fortune told They're looking for you high and low Now there's nowhere for you to go So you'll just have to come out...

The children sit upon the stairs High above a valley of tears Don't let them see you crying that way oh no Oh no Joe Porterhouse Is not gone forever He'll be back another day Don't let them see you crying that way...

Everybody's talkin' like they can't sit down And lookin' like they can't stand up It must be the latest style And they've seen a lot of things that you never see Back on the mile up to the hanging tree Some people...

Layin' about, lyin' in bed Maybe it was something that I thought I'd said With the tempo of today and the temptation of tomorrow I don't know if I could give you anything but sorrow They stay alive this late on...

I'm just about glad that I knew you once And it was more than just a passing acquaintance I'm just about glad that it was a memory That doesn't need constant maintenance Now I've a few things that I regret But nothing...

He saw no tears in her eyes Say you wouldn't kid about it She's telling all of those lies She swore she'd never told before But I doubt it So he bit his tongue And tried hard to capture his breath When she said...

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 kinder murder It's a ladder to heaven from a battered stiletto Spitting out...

cheap cut satin and bad perfume showtime is almost here tears stop by your strength caught you laughing up your sleeve sniggering in your beer seen the bottom of a lot of glasses but he's never seen love so near he'd...

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 follows Love, short and painful and tidy lies in self-defense She just...

I had forgotten all about 'The Case Of The Three Pins' THEY SAID I MUST BE CRACKED Until the brown paper parcel landed on my welcome mat Even the pretty secretaries who wouldn't even Let me HANG MY HAT All recognise my...

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" Last boat...

Music: M. Thomas...

You better leave my kitten all alone You better leave my kitten all alone Well I tell you big bad bulldog Well, you better leave her alone Don't you know My kitten isn't dead Don't you know My kitten isn't dead...

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. When he's had enough of that maybe you'll take him to bed To teach him...

Jenny takes her clothes off in succession, While her husband rides a bumper in the President's procession. She's sees him on the screen as she looks up from giving head. When he's had enough of that her lover throws...