Тексты песен «Elvis Costello»

Poor head Can hardly move my lips for speaking I said So, what is this thing I cannot explain? I'd blame all the things I feel but can't quite place Perhaps they're written on my face Someone took the words away...

Poor head Can hardly move my lips for speaking I said So, what is this thing I cannot explain? I'd blame all the things I feel but can't quite place Perhaps they're written on my face Someone took the words away...

Between last breaths and first regrets The days dragged on like cigarettes In the distance martyrs and martinets Dally, dancing with the empty silhouettes of threats So, where but heaven does love end And where on...

Hang my head and shut my eyes What kind of justice is this? Fool I was, I thought that you fought fire with fire Got to me more than just a soul for hire Speaking for myself I wouldn't take the fame, the fees, the...

Hang my head and shut my eyes What kind of justice is this? Fool I was that thought that You fight fire with fire Got to be more than just a soul for hire Speaking for myself I couldn't Take the fame, the fees,...

You like coffee and you like tea Much more than you like me And everybody says watch out yeah For the sour milk-cow blues You like your coffee just a little too sweet Without your sugar life is incomplete And everybody...

Speak darkly, my angel Or do I have to plead? The sweetness has gone out of it And all that's left is bitter barren greed A needy lover with her almost vanished liar Entangled as the gloom is strangled by the...

I want a girl to make a mess To do no wrong she must confess And then perhaps hitch up her dress 'Cos when the flashbulbs explode She's such a sensitive soul... I want a girl who is helpless and frail Who won't pull on...

I knew of two sisters whose name it was Christmas And one was named Dawn of course, the other one was named Eve I wonder if they grew up hating the season That good will that lasts 'till the Feast of St. Stephen...

[Instrumental] I'm going to make you even fear the dream you dream So don't even think about it don't make a wish You think that I don't see you as you trawl those young weak fish Hooked on those poor wonders,...

It's started to come to me Your new career would probably end like this All that professional lipstick pressed into an amateur kiss Farewell to the studied lines and carefully broken hearts The overpowering perfume...

You should wear your red galoshes Walking o'er the city pride Streets are paved with heaven's pennies Gutters full of suicides Teddy steadily fell from grace Somewhere near Arcadia Once she overheard a voice...

(Lennon/McCartney) Step inside love, let me find you a place Where all the cares of the day Will be carried away By the smile on your face We are together now and forever Come what may Step inside love and stay...

(Titus Turner) People talkin', tryin' to break us up Why don't they let us be Sticks and stones may break my bones But talk don't bother me (No) People talkin', tryin' to break us up When they know that I love...

These few lines I'll devote To a marvelous girl covered up with my coat Pull it up to your chin I'll hold you until the day will begin Still Lying in the shadows this new flame will cast Upon everything we carry...

Do you love him, or is it still soon to know When I think back a couple of days Before I found you in his spell Was there a warning What can I say Should I look away It's still too soon to know Are you sorry, or is it...

How many wrinkles in a pickle How many hairs in a head How many waves in the ocean How many crumbs in bed But last but not least, but baby most of all Why do I mmmumble everytime you call [Chorus:] Because...

This never was one of the great romances But I thought you always had those young girl's eyes But now they look in tired and bitter glances At the ghost of the man who walks 'round in my disguise I get the feelin' that...

There's a hand on a wire that leads to my mouth I can hear you knocking but I'm not coming out Don't want to be a puppet or a ventriloquist 'Cause there's no ventilation on a critical list Fingers creeping up my spine...

We used to go out walkin' hand in hand You told me all the big things you had planned It wasn't long till all your dreams came true Success put me in second place with you You have no time to love me anymore Since...