Тексты песен «Elvis Costello»

Well, you're standing on the corner flagging all the girls you see Now do like EC and let those ladies be You know that's wrong, man, you know that's wrong Boy, you better get control - that's how you got killed...

We're all going on a summer holiday Vigilante's coming out to follow me. Heard somebody say they're out to collar me. Anybody wanna swallow me? It takes two to tumble. It takes two to tango. Speak up; don't mumble if...

Well I had a little feeling to have a big night And I woke up feeling small and not so brave and not quite right I had to face the who am I and where is she and what did I do But worst of all I had to face the big...

Words & Music: Mac Manus (4:27) Summertime withers as the sun descends He wants to kiss you. Will you condescend? Before you wake and find a chill within your bones Under a fine canopy of lover's dust and humourous...

Im walking down times square in the electric daylight The sailors on shore leave stand out in their perfect white. Im up here with my spying glass at the window of the world For better or for worse - it's a perverse...

I fell under such gentle persuasion You can't refuse it's like a home from home Meanwhile in the motor car kingdom They're finding that all that glitters is not chrome The social circle have these cardiac complaints...

Life isn't a game won or tied Lost by either side Then some people's idea Of the straight and narrow Didn't appeal to me If you were my life's companion As it seems you may turn out to be I'm contemplating How I hope...

The Days Take Care Of Everything (Costello) If you wanna feel sorry for yourself Then go ahead, I'm not gonna stop you Sometimes you're just like a petulant child You seem to get so much satisfaction Just from...

"Abel was able," so Vivian said Her shoulders flung forward Her lips in a purse She talks like the beauty that she never was Of the fabulous wild nights that she never has In a certain light he looked like Elvis...

In the Arrivederci Roma nightclub, bar and grill Standing in the fibreglass ruins watching time stand still All your troubles you confess to another faceless backless dress Schnapps chianti porter and ouzo Pernod...

It's the element within her Something under her skin That is shining out through the face of the girl Two sapphires and couple of rows of pearls It's just a part of it Like your fine tresses You know what my guess is La...

Words & Music: Mac Manus (5:00) I should open with a kiss For if you're reading this You must have opened up your case And found this letter where I placed it In between the silk and lace There were other clues, like...

She used to be the flirting kind But the boy loved her anyway He made up his mind She said, What's a girl to do to be content? Use your imagination Time to experiment Make love like a punishment So they call her...

They took old Danny Boy for a...

EVERYONE STOPPED WHEN SHE WALKED INTO THE ROOM Isn't this the greatest thing Everyone own up but nobody could touch her Isn't this the greatest thing PUNCH THE CLOCK keep boxing clever You'll be young enough for ever...

trying to be too bad trying to talk too tough trying to jack the lad you think you've had enough CHORUS: but he's not the man you think that he can be I just don't know why you can't see that he is only the imposter...

I WAS COMMITTED TO LIFE AND THEN COMMUTED TO THE OUTSKIRTS With all the love in the world Living for thirty minutes at a time with a break in the middle for adverts But it's a wonderful world within these cinema walls...

The accused will rise to be torn in two Guilty of nothing but loving you This is the judgement And I'm willing to plead How you don't want me Hoping this torment will cease Will I be released? There'll be lies,...

(words: costello, music: michael thomas) Beneath the turquoise pools and emerald jewels There lie the broken spines of seven ships The skulls of careless fools and coins of gold Pour from the banks that proffer...

Words: Mac Manus/Cassidy Music: Belton/Mac Manus (3:11) c/0 St. Ignatus House, Willoughby Drive, Parrametta, New South Wales This fifth day of July, in the year of Our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty five Why must I...