Тексты песен «Elvis Costello»

Payday's coming and we wash it away Clean money, clean money Payday's coming and we wash it away Clean money, clean money That's what I want to do I want to spend it on you Checking on a checkmate Grassing on a...

She'll fix you with an Iron Cross And cover you up with petals And hang you up with some amber beads And fortified precious metals And in that black flamingo chair You'll sit among her trophies And pray to be abandoned...

tears on your blackmail they turn to ransom a point of the fingernail says you're so handsome CHORUS: clowntime is over time to take over while others just talk and talk somebody's watching where the others don't walk...

Tears on your blackmail Written to ransom A point of the fingernail Says that he's handsome Clowntime is over, time to take cover While others just talk and talk Somebody's watching where the others don't walk...

With a handful of backhanders and a bevy of beauty You're going off limits Going off duty Going off the rails Going off with booty They tell tales of fiction found on all the criminal types Lead to a higher ranking man...

With a handful of backhanders and a bevy of beauty You're going off limits Going off duty Going off the rails Going off with booty They tell tales of fiction found on all the criminal types Lead to a higher ranking man...

Yesterday's coal train came to rest in the bitter cutting And as the signals took an age to change it was easy pickings So you go to the movies where they smash it up You want to feel your heart pumping it makes...

Up above me are the skies Like the twinkle in your eyes Blue must be the colour of the blues In the mail, the letters came But you can't pay for love the same Blue must be the colour of the blues The bluebird...

(Harle/Shakespeare) Come away, come away, death And in sad Cyprus let me be laid Fie away, fie away, breath I am slain by a fair cruel maid My shroud of white stuck all with you O prepare it My part of death no...

Well you know your time has come and you're sorry for what you've done You should've never have been playing with a gun In those Complicated Shadows Well there's a line that you must toe and it'll soon be time to go...

I saw a girl who'd found her consolation She said "One day my Prince of Peace will come" Above her head a portrait of her father The wilted favour that he gave her still fastened to the frame "They've got his bones...

The tiny slip at midnight A little sip at noon You're tired and torn approaching dawn My penitent buffoon Wouldn't you think I'd know by now I shouldn't have entertained it Couldn't you keep that to yourself You...

This tattered document A mystery you can solve Some burnt out filament Flies still buzzing around the bulb Country Darkness He thought of traveling Heard an approaching train Drown out his desperate pulse A...

I thought I would go to the sea and shrink down very tiny And slide inside the telephone wire that runs under the briny Till I found there is a way of crawling to the U.S.A. You had better not go too far Will those...

I thought I would go to the sea and shrink down very tiny And slide inside the telephone wire that runs under the briny Till I found there is a way of crawling to the USA You had better not go too far There's one...

I thought it was you and your optimist's view of the clock And how it's always another day Just after twelve o'clock's struck You said "Now I only want you so I don't have to promise" But tiny children in grown-up...

life isn't easy, love never lasts you just carry on and keep moving fast I pulled off the highway and rolled into town I'm just fancy free baby and I travel 'round sometimes I'm up, sometimes down where can I run to...

Everybody knows where you go when the sun goes down They say you only live to see the lights of town I wasted my time when I would try, try, try 'Cause when the lights have lost their glow, you'll cry, cry, cry Soon...

There is a button and there's a switch There is a needle and there's a dial There is a lever I want to lift And still you treat me like I'm a child Daddy can I turn this? Daddy can I turn this? Will it be very...

Words & Music: Mac Manus (3:26) Did anybody notice, over marmalade and eggs In between the Princess' legs What with wars and floods and beggars Not to mention stocks and shares If you have a moment to spare Can you...