Тексты песен «Elvis Costello»

On a hot city day When your white shirt turns to grey That's when she'll arrive When you look how you feel Someone steps upon your heel That's when she will come Listen now I'm not saying that there will be...

Well, there's an old man's fantasy Put in a young girl's mouth Like cheap pink lipstick Smeared on her wedding dress Will you look what you've done to her Will you look at this disgrace Well, it's all over Your...

While Nat King Cole sings "Welcome To My World" You request some song you hate you sentimental fool And it's the force of habit If it moves then you fuck it If it doesn't move you stab it And I thought I heard "The...

It's not very far from Sulfur to Sugarcane Everywhere I travel the pretty girls call my name I give them a squeeze and they shoot me a wink I buy their hard-headed husbands a long cool drink You better come up...

She wears a wedding ring her sister lent To throw them off the scent Just let them guess; it's what they expect Who in the world has bitten her neck? She's discovered wearing last night's dress The carnal and cunning...

It's not very far from Sulphur to Sugarcane Everywhere I travel the pretty girls call my name I give them a squeeze and they shoot me a wink I buy their hard-headed husbands a long cool drink You better come up...

Times are tough for English babies Send the army and the navy Beat up strangers who talk funny Take their greasy foreign money Skin shop, red leather, hot line Be prepared for the engaged sign Bridal books,...

Do you remember how to say please? You've had your own way for such a long time Your lash is sweet now, I dry your cheek You think I'm powerless when you weep You may have something, I don't deny You look too...

Sweet dreams of you, every night I go through I should hate you girl the whole night through Instead I'm having sweet dreams all about you You don't love me it's plain I should have known you'd never share my name...

Sweet pear, sweet pear Those who say they love you would never dare I'll watch out for you I'll always be there In the hour of distress you need not fear In all the world there's only one true love And finding...

Words: Mac Manus/Cassidy Music: Mac Manus (2:09) You're a swine and I'm saying that's an insult to the pig In the foul furrow that you dig Why don't you lay your head down In that unconsecrated ground WAS she your...

Words: Mac Manus/J. Thomas/M.P. Thomas/Cassidy Music: J. Thomas/Mac Manus (3:20) My dear impulsive darling I suspect my letter got to you too late And it's really just a silly fragment of paper But it means so much to...

it's such a drag to want something sometime one thing leads to another I know was a time I wanted you for mine, nobody knew you arrived like a day, passed like a cloud I made a wish, I said it out loud out loud in a...

I tried in vain to drive myself insane I talk to myself but I don't listen I found out what I was missing I miss talking in the dark Without you, I'm not conversational Without the sense of the occasional Without...

Hear silver trumpets will trill in Arabic streets of Seville Oranges roll in the gutter And you pick them up And peel back the skin To the red fruit within [Chorus:] But the flavour is... Tart And the flavour...

Who dries your eyes when you cry real tears? Who know or cares what an imitation is? Only you do You can paint his nails Make him wear high heels Why waste time altering the hemline? Or do you? Tear off your own...

Think back now when we were young There were always tears at the birthday party You know how children can be So cruel That's how it starts, but What if we never learn how to behave? I did something, and you never...

I know the name on the tip of your tongue And I know that accusing look Everybody knows I've been so wrong That's the problem and here's the hook [Chorus:] Tears before bedtime There'll be trouble tonight I...

who's this kid with this mumbo-jumbo living in air-conditioned limbo though they treat him just like a guest living under threat of arrest now that he's finally trying to make some sense he drinks in self-defense give...

(McCartney/MacManus) I feel such sorrow, I feel such shame I know I won't arrive on time Before whatever out there is gone What can I do, that day is done It's just a promise that I made I said I'd walk in her...