Тексты песен «Elvis Costello»

She's a feline tormentor, not any vaudeville wife But with a drunk-town lament he leads her a miserable life But when he's full of that beer-champagne She pads, paws, pads, paws and claws And if he should wake up in...

Such a picture of loveliness Didn't you notice the resemblance? Doesn't it look like she could speak? Those eyes I tried to capture They are lost to me now forever They smile for someone else Funny, how looks can...

Pardon me, madam, my name is Eve I think it's time for you to leave I don't believe that we have met That's one thing you would not forget In another time or life When I was his only wife When I was his only bride...

they say you're nothing but a party girl just like a million more all over the world I know I shouldn't be raising my hopes so high but I have seen the hungry looks in their eyes they'd settle for anything in disguise...

We're gonna drink enough tonight to drown the average army By New Year's Day the next door neighbour will be goin' barmy The milkman arrives at midday with his usual wisecrack Who knows a girl with Wednesday legs so...

(Steve Nieve/Elvis Costello) Obscure the late afternoon with a drape Don't let him follow her latest escape Or the fanfare of taxis that needlessly played As a forty watt bulb burns a hole in the shade Then they...

Stop thief! You're gonna come to grief If you don't take a little more care. You're gonna get more than the family plan From this one shoestring affair. I may be crazy but I can't contemplate Being trapped between the...

Let's go out on the town tonight My pockets are heavy with loot And get drunk and blasted (And loud in your dress of blue) I've been living from hand to mouth It must be three or four weeks And I can tell you one...

Out of the aeroplane stepped Chamberlain with a condemned man's stare But we all cheered wildly, a photograph was taken, as he waved a piece of paper in the air Now the Disco Machine lives in Munich and we are all...

As i walk through This wicked world Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity. I ask myself Is all hope lost? Is there only pain and hatred, and misery? And each time i feel like this inside, There's one...

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 catch a common cold he couldn't get arrested Too terrified to answer...

They talked to the sister, the father and the mother With a microphone in one hand and a chequebook in the other AND THE CAMERA NOSES IN TO THE TEARS ON HER FACE The tears on her face The tears on her face You can put...

They talked to the sister, the father and the mother With a microphone in one hand and a chequebook in the other AND THE CAMERA NOSES IN TO THE TEARS ON HER FACE The tears on her face The tears on her face You can put...

You had your own way one too many times and now you're going to find out what it's like Just what it's like, now you're a mess You wanted something you could never possess You went your own way one too many nights...

If I got on my knees and I pleaded with you Not to go but to stay in my arms Would you walk out the door Like you did once before This time be different Please stay don't go If I call out your name like a prayer...

Cut loose in a nightmare Cast off in my dreams If home is anywhere that I can hang my hat Then it's coming apart at the seams My luck is hanging upside-down I try to hold on tight But money's rollin' outta town And...

The poisoned rose That you gave to me It left me half alive And half in ecstasy But if half of your love Is all I can win Give me just a fraction But no more medicine The poisoned rose On a Valentine card...

She lives on Pony St. and they should scatter flowers at her feet But when they come calling, I think ita??s appalling Theya??re sober and theya??re polite Theya??re deeply respectful when I would expect them To...

She lives on Pony St. And they should scatter flowers at her feet But when they come calling I think it's appalling They're sober and they're polite They're deeply respectful when I would expect them To keep her out all...

He's out in the woods with his squirrel gun To try to recapture his anger He's screaming some words at the top of his lungs Until he begins to feel younger But back at his desk in the city we find Our trembling...