Тексты песен «Elvis Costello»

When I fall in endless sleep I hope that I'll be buried deep Let me be the one that fortune favours Even good children got shallow graves Throw another clown to the lions Throw another Joan on the blaze Cast me...

When I fall in endless sleep I hope that I'll be buried deep Let me be the one that fortune favors Even good children got shallow graves Throw another clown to the lions Throw another Joan on the blaze Cast me...

I fear, my dear We've forgotten the things strangers do If we could look back to the terrible thrill that we knew Am I imagining a world without you? Must we be shamed into love? What can I say? Will you pardon...

I see those newlyweds, their eyes wide and believing They bill and coo at the mention of Chez Nous Appearances can be deceiving It's just a door and a window Four walls and a roof But a home of your own would be...

She May be the face I can't forget A trace of pleasure or regret May be my treasure or the price I have to pay She may be the song that summer sings May be the chill that autumn brings May be a hundred different...

(Charles Aznavour and Herbert Kretzmer) She May be the face I can't forget A trace of pleasure or regret May be my treasure or the price I have to pay She may be the song that summer sings May be the chill that...

She handed me a mirror That she had gazed upon The glass still held an image The glass still held an image But it was of a man I turned from the reflection To see who it might be Is that poor vanity quite How she...

She could be no good, I'm telling you Gather 'round boys for a tale that is tragic and true On the Mississippi riverboat, Magnolia No one onboard was smelling too sweet That precious one must have been stamping her...

She's pulling out the pin That lets her hair fall down She shakes her head and It goes tumbling Her smile was out of place So she swept it off her face Let me find the words and say them Like some softly...

Is it worth it A new winter coat and shoes for the wife And a bicycle on the boy's birthday It's just a rumour that was spread around town By the women and children Soon we'll be shipbuilding Well I ask you The boy said...

Is it worth it A new winter coat and shoes for the wife And a bicycle on the boy's birthday It's just a rumour that was spread around town By the women and children Soon we'll be shipbuilding Well I ask you The boy said...

This love of mine is packed with stepping stone These shoes are made for walking in reverse In the dead of night, you tiptoe out and leave me all alone Putting on your satin slip-ons and your sultry French cologne...

How does it feel now you've been undressed by a man with a mind like the gutter press So disappointed to find it's no big sin Lying skin to skin Chorus: Shot with his own gun Now dad is keeping mum Shot with his own...

Dream myself alive I dream myself alive You can't deny There's something dark Against the light All i can say It doesn't have to be this way We'll be chasing our tails madly See days pass like wildfire Right...

One, two A one, two, three, four Six-fingered man Playin' a seven string guitar There are seven deadly sins Any one of them will do you in Take what you want from what you win And, oh, it's never enough...

The soldier asked my name and did I come here very often Well I thought that he was asking me to dance In my holy coat and hat and him in his red bonnet We'd have made a lovely couple but we never had the chance...

(Felice and Boudleaux Bryant) Through the sleepless nights I cry for you And wonder who Is kissing you Oh, these sleepless nights Will break my heart in two Somehow, through the day I don't give in I hide the...

Now everybody's breakin' up somebody else's home, Before somebody else starts breaking up their own. I get you in my dreams. You should hear the things you say. I's not that it's so much fun, But it's safer that way...

Here lies the powder and perfume The pretty clothes are scattered 'round the room And it's so like Candy Here lies the lipstick and the face The coloured tablets keep it all in place And it's so like Candy So like...

Do. Do do do do do. So young, we've discovered. Got them so confused. Don't mind putting the time in. It's shocking. That's what they all say now when we're walking hand in hand As one, you and I. [Chorus:] Ooh...