Тексты песен «Elvis Costello»

(Words: Costello, music: Nieve) Here's a thought to dwell upon, Daddy's girl is almost gone Now there's just a vain princess 'Her Ruthlessness' Tearing up the nursery Stars more used to glittering Pictured in...

LET HIM DANGLE Bentley said to Craig "Let him have it Chris" They still don't know today just what he meant by this Craig fired the pistol, but was too young to swing So the police took Bentley and the very next thing...

I wasn't very indiscreet and yet That is a notion that I might as well forget Friends look at me these days with fond surprise But when I start to speak they roll their eyes Let me tell you about her Hush now,...

Hear what I say See what I do Believe me now I'm all over you All over you I know a place A CERTAIN VERY TENDER SPOT TO HAVE AND TO HOLD TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT Listening to the sad song that the radio plays Have we come...

You could have a great career And you should, yes, you should Only one thing stops you dear You're too good, way too good If you want a future, darlin' Why don't you get a past? 'Cause, that fateful moment's...

Shall I wear a buttonhole to jog your memory? So you'll recall the promise That I swore you made to me when we were younger You look sorry for yourself but what about? I'm some idea you're not without a doubt So...

You left the motor running. But I know you're so attractive. Getting in some sharp practice. You better not do anything reckless. But everybody is going through the motions. Everybody is going through the motions. Are...

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 you've done. You...

I arose and Marigold lay down with Curious Iris Cherry gave to Victor her prudence and her virus For the sake of purity I can recall the time and place Between wisdom and murder she gave up her, immaculate face My...

Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, Little boxes, little boxes, Little boxes, just the same. There's a green one and a pink one And a blue one and a yellow one And they're all...

You can take a powder, you can take a drink You can keep the shrink and the kitchen sink You can write my name in Heaven in invisible ink But just leave me feeling when there's no time to think Little goody two...

In Chocolate Town all the trains are painted brown On the silver paper of the wrapper There's a dapper little man And he wears a wax moustache That he twists with nicotine fingers As he drops his cigarette ash And...

I would have waited all my life Just to make love out of something other than spite But the beauty is the beast you're baiting Should really be worth the waiting You do something very special to Mr. Average Now...

Little triggers that you pull with your tongue. Little triggers. I don't wanna be hung up, strung up, when you don't call up. Little sniggers on your lips. Little triggers in your grip. Little triggers. My hand on...

I don't like those other guys looking at your curves I don't like you walking round with physical jerks Everything they say and do is getting on my nerves Soon the will be lucky to be picking up the perks 'Cause when...

Outside my window Not long before sleep arrives They come with their sirens And they sweep away all the boys Busy draining the joy from their lives They never said their prayers out loud And while I'm dreaming There's...

(composed: elvis costello/paddy moloney) If on every ocean the ship is a throne And for each mast cut down another sapling is grown Then I could believe that I'm bound to find A better life than I left behind But...

(kurt weill/maxwell anderson) Before lord God made the sea and the land He held all the stars in the palm of his hand And they ran through his fingers like grains of sand And one little star fall alone Then the...

(chorus) It's going round the town It's going round the town It's going round the town You're so lovable My baby gave me notice to quit I just can't get used to it She broke my little heart in two Now somebody else is...

You lie so unfolded In a love field With your contempt for any modesty In a love field In a love field In a love field You yeild with your lips still sealed In a love field Lost in a sea of imaginary women Everything...