Тексты песен «Elvis Costello»

there's a smart young woman on a light blue screen who comes into my house every night she takes all the red, yellow, orange and green and she turns them into black and white CHORUS: but you tease you flirt and you...

No, don't ask me to apologise. I won't ask you to forgive me. If I'm gonna go down, you're gonna come with me You say 'Why don't you be a man about it, like they do in the grown-up movies?' But when it comes to the...

He selects the plainest face form a spiteful row of girls Elegant insulted women, a flaw of cultured pearls He drops a name or two, she fails to catch At last he's met his match Unspoiled and unaffected, he wants...

I met them first on their wedding night Faces were flushed by their pledges plight We passed in the hall and I met them well But as their carriage arrived, I found that I couldn't quite tell them It's not very far...

I got the picture that you gave to me And it's signed with love, just like it used to be The only thing different, the only thing new I got the picture, he's got you I got the records that we used to share And they...

Tell me now Or are you only teasing? I felt the cold hard facts of life Five degrees from freezing Does it amuse you To always hurt me so? I try my best it's not enough Should I give up and let you? What more...

They used to call it Sin City now it's gone way past that. Painting the town and then burning it down now even that's old hat. Now there's a choir of angels at the fall of Rome singing "Ave Maria" or "Home Sweet...

Her lips are sweet Her legs are big Her looks can make you Dance the jig Her touch is so soft Her heart is so warm What knocks me out Is your hidden charms Her voice is so soft Her love is so true I think...

I'm sorry to say that you don't know me I'm sad in ways you never understood Each time I try to tell the ugly truth You always let it pass you by You said I'd never tell you a lie Just because I could Did you really...

some things you never get used to even though you're feeling like another man there's nothing that he can do for you to shut me away as you walk through lovers laughing in the amateur hour holding hands in the corridors...

Here comes Mr. Misery He's tearing out his hair again He's crying over her again He's standing in the super-market shouting at the customers Here comes Mr. Misery He'll never be any good with a mouth full of gold and...

Here comes mr. misery He's tearing out his hair again He's crying over her again He's standing in the super-market shouting at the customers Here comes mr. misery He'll never be any good with a mouth full of gold...

I hung up the phone tonight Just as you said I love you Once this would have been co-incidence Now these things start to bother me You still close your eyes when I kiss you And I close mine too But we didn't open them...

Come into this house and stop that yakity yak 'Cause your sugar-daddy don't want no talkin' back You keep on babblin', talkin' 'bout this and that I got news for ya baby, you ain't nothin' but an alley cat Turn off...

Who do you see when you turn your eyes down? Who do you see when I'm not seeing you? The news is out all over town and all these girls Are taking turns at being you Chorus: Well, well, well You'd better make up your...

Who do you see when you turn your eyes down? Who do you see when I'm not seeing you? The news is out all over town and all these girls Are taking turns at being you Chorus: well, well, well You'd better make up...

Five miles out of London on the Western Avenue Must have been a wonder when it was brand new Talkin' 'bout the splendour of the Hoover factory I know that you'd agree if you had seen it too It's not a matter of life...

Siren is bending, the radio humming, Sun is breaking through and the storm is coming The score is obscure, the melody fractured It went by my window Refused to be captured I hope that I wake up in time Good King...

They said that Jenny too was once an ugly wretch And how her dress was torn and ragged Back when her life was brief and rugged She had no sense for fine perfume And still her eyes cast down as she walks Through each...

Darling, there is one thing I must tell you, you must know It's so hard to say the words I feel This fancy that I'm on's been going on too long It's time to stop pretending things are real 'Cause I've been living...