Тексты песен «Elvis Costello»

Did somebody try to catch your eye And almost change your sad expression? Did somebody's hand linger too long? Must I now make my confession? But you'll never know What suspicion is Until you lie awake And every...

All the bedroom lights go out As the neighbourhood gets quiet Everything in heaven and earth is almost right But there's a wife whos wondering where her husband could be tonight And when the phone rang only once she...

Don't get smart or sarcastic He snaps back just like elastic Spare us the theatrics and the verbal gymnastics We break wise guys just like matchsticks [Chorus:] What would the loved ones say Your pride and joy is...

The monkey speaks his mind And three monkeys sat in a coconut tree Discussing things as they are said to be Said one to other now listen, you two 'There's a certain rumour that just can't be true That man...

There's a part of this feeling that I just cannot kill But the name of this thing is not love And I can't take a potion, and I won't take a pill So it tortures me still But the name of this thing is not love Then...

Oh, the night before Larry was stretched Well the boys they all paid him a visit A bit in their sacks too they fetched For they sweated their duds till they rivered For Larry was always the lad When a boy was...

(Ivy J. Bryant) Everybody knows you been steppin' on my toes And I'm gettin pretty tired of it Keep steppin' outta line and messin' with my mind If you had any sense, you'd quit But ever since you were just a...

Everybody knows you been steppin' on my toes And I'm gettin pretty tired of it Keep steppin' outta line and messin' with my mind If you had any sense, you'd quit But ever since you were just a little bitty girl...

I know a girl got my mind in a mess I never heard her say goodnight and God bless She's not the only flame in town And when we're alone we never quarrel I'm miles away now here's the moral She's not the only flame in...

I know a girl got my mind in a mess I never heard her say goodnight and God bless She\'s not the only flame in town And when we\'re alone we never quarrel I\'m miles away now here\'s the moral She\'s not the only flame...

Shall we agree that just this once I'm gonna change my life Until it's just as tiny or important as you like? And in time we won't even recall that we spoke Words that turned out to be as big as smoke As smoke...

Shall we agree that just this once I'm gonna change my life Until it's just as tiny or important as you like? And in time we won't even recall that we spoke Words that turned out to be as big as smoke As smoke that...

The sun struggles up another beautiful day And I felt glad in my own suspicious way Despite the contradiction and confusion Felt tragic without reason There's malice and there's magic in every season [Chorus:]...

It's a chilly Florentine evening Two men in evening hats Telling tales of the underground and fishing for Reds Policemen armed with Uzis stand guard but they don't speak Ain't seen no Michaeangelo he'll be here...

(Elvis Costello and Henry Burnett) Well I recall his parting words Must I accept his fate? Or take myself far from this place I thought I heard a black bell toll A little bird did sing Man has no choice When he...

The stamping ground, The stamping ground. All your old gang still hang around. Coming in with the same blokes, going home with the same jokes, if you ever go missing I know where you'll be found : the stamping...

You only saw red After I said, "How can we continue?" Hidden from your view In the blue corner that I painted myself into Then we started to fight And it changed everything Here's the ring You dropped the band,...

(costello/nieve) Above the tears Before the scream Invisible and secret scar The true salvation is the human voice Beloved voices of the past The forever stiffled voice Tender echoes Lost cause Miserable...

The very thought of you And I forget to do The little ordinary things That everyone ought to do I'm living in a kind of daydream I'm happy as a king And foolish though it may seem to me That's everything The...

The family circle gather round from very far and near To pass around the same remarks they passed away last year The little girl you dangle on your knee without mishap STIRS SOMETHING IN YOUR MEMORY AND SOMETHING IN...