Jump Up Elvis Costello

Take off your shoes, hang up your wings Stack up the chairs, roll up the rug Savor the things that sobriety brings Drain in the last from a jug But when I hit the bottle, there's no tellin' what

Monkey To Man Elvis Costello

Bartholomew And now the world is full of sorrow and pain And it's time for us to speak up again You're slack and sorry Such an arrogant brood The only purpose you serve is to bring us our food We

Complicated Shadows Elvis Costello

those Complicated Shadows Well there's a line that you must toe and it'll soon be time to go but it's darker than you know in those Complicated Shadows All you gangsters and rude clowns Who were shooting up

A Voice In The Dark Elvis Costello

in tune I announced for all mankind A boon Stand aside you big baboon Now I'm the a prize invention, girl You're the image of yourself Forget your cares Your disapproving stares I'm not here to try to jump

...Dust Elvis Costello

Oh, when they're made of money Here come the Lamb of God And the butcher's boy, sonny If dust could only gather in the needle track Then it would skip a beat and it would jump right back If dust could

Soul For Hire Elvis Costello

Jump out the window? Parole? Escape?

Worthless Thing Elvis Costello

How many times can you jump out of the cupboard Before someone gets suspicious or someone gets discovered You can live forever in a split second of fame Come on down the price is right what's your name

Pump It Up Elvis Costello

tenterhooks, ending in dirty looks List'ning to the Muzak, thinking 'bout this 'n' that She said, "That's that, I don't wanna chitter-chat" Turn it down a little bit or turn it down flat Pump it up

Pump It Up (Live At Hollywood High) Elvis Costello

tenterhooks, ending in dirty looks List'ning to the Muzak, thinking 'bout this 'n' that She said, That's that, I don't want to chitter-chat Turn it down a little bit or turn it down flat Pump it up

Hora Decubitus (Live) Elvis Costello

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

Fallen Elvis Costello

All the leaves are turning yellow, red and brown Soon they'll be scattered as they tumble down Although they may be swept up so invitingly I never did what I was told I trampled though the amber

Little Triggers Elvis Costello

Little triggers that you pull with your tongue Little triggers, I don't wanna be hung up, strung up When you don't call up (CHORUS) Little sniggers on your lips Little triggers in your grip Little

The Bridge I Burned Elvis Costello

I'm up here with my spying glass at the window up above For better or for worse - it's a perverse universe, my love.

The Other Side Of Summer Elvis Costello

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

Still Elvis Costello

These few lines I'll devote To a marvelous girl covered up with my coat Pull it up to your chin I'll hold you until the day will begin Still Lying in the shadows this new flame will cast Upon

Still (Feat. The Brodsky Quartet) Elvis Costello

These few lines I'll devote To a marvellous girl covered up with my coat Pull it up to your chin I'll hold you until the day will begin Still Lying in the shadows this new flame will cast Upon everything

Accidents Will Happen Elvis Costello

to be your victim Now you're not the only one Accidents will happen We only hit and run I don't want to hear it 'Cause I know what I've done There's so many fish in the sea That only rise up

Stations Of The Cross Elvis Costello

"The tempest blows up from a squall Past the Cape of Bad Conscience Into the Gulf of the Cauldron Roars over the coastline to batter and flatten Exposing the roots like the dyed hair of slattern Scrapper

The Comedians Elvis Costello

glitters is not chrome The social circle have these cardiac complaints Their hearts are empty when their hands are full All these new found fond acquaintances Turn out to be the red rag to my bull And I'm up

Hurry Down Doomsday Elvis Costello

the teeming Temple of the Railroad Kings He's planting a trashy paperback book for accidental purchase Containing all the secrets of life and other useless things But I can't bring myself to look Wake up

Accidents Will Happen (Live At Hollywood High/1978) Elvis Costello

Accidents Will Happen - Elvis Costello Oh I just don't know where to begin Though he says he'll wait forever It's now or never But she keeps him hanging on The silly champion She says she can't go

Radio Radio Elvis Costello

receiver When the switch broke 'cause it's old They're saying things that I can hardly believe They really think we're getting out of control (CHORUS) Radio is a sound salvation Radio is cleaning up

Spooky Girlfriend Elvis Costello

I want a girl to make a mess To do no wrong she must confess And then perhaps hitch up her dress 'Cos when the flashbulbs explode She's such a sensitive soul I want a girl who is helpless and frail Who

Radio, Radio Elvis Costello

the receiver When the switch broke 'cause it's old They're saying things that I can hardly believe They really think we're getting out of control (CHORUS) Radio is a sound salvation Radio is cleaning up

Smile (Japanese A-Side) Elvis Costello

even tho' it's breaking When there are clouds in the sky You'll get by if you smile through Your fear and sorrow smile and maybe Tomorrow you'll see the sun Come shining thru for you Light up

Living In Paradise Elvis Costello

I don't like those other guys looking at your curves I don't like you walking 'round with physical jerks Everything they say and do is getting on my nerves Soon they will be lucky to be picking up

Inch By Inch Elvis Costello

You can take a powder you can take a drink You can keep the shrink and the kitchen sink Write my name in heaven in invisible ink I just woke up from dreaming I think You can take me over you can give me

When Green Eyes Turn Blue Elvis Costello

the glory is, as it comes passing through, I know I will be there When green eyes turn blue It's the same for me Time appears to teach There is nothing quite beyond our reach Wits may sharpen up

Goon Squad (LIve At Hollywood High) Elvis Costello

Goon Squad Elvis Costello & the Attractions Armed Forces (1979) Mother, Father, I'm here in the zoo I can't come home 'cause I've grown up too soon I got my sentence I got my command They said they'd

Sneaky Feelings Elvis Costello

Now everybody's breakin' up somebody else's home, before somebody else starts breaking up their own. I get you in my dreams. You should hear the things you say.

Dissolve Elvis Costello

Sugar cube drop into a yellow cup What makes the world just waking up Revolve? Dissolve Who know where on earth it's going to stop?

Chewing Gum Elvis Costello

With their cardboard hands by their sides, here's a naked man and lady And they're yours to cut out and keep So you can dress them up maybe They don't know just who they are, or who they're supposed to

Tramp The Dirt Down Elvis Costello

and dreams you never dreamt Try telling him the subtle difference between justice and contempt Try telling me she isn't angry with this pitiful discontent When they flaunt it in your face as you line up

Hand In Hand Elvis Costello

No, don't ask me to apologize 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?"

Stalin Malone Elvis Costello

telling you the day will come when this man gets what he merits Though people still wear animal skins to ward off evil spirits Only wife-swapping and witchcraft woke the dormitory town 'Til horse's heads up

Heart Shaped Bruise Elvis Costello

It try my best it's not enough Should I give up and let you? What more is there to take from me?

Watching The Detectives (Live) Elvis Costello

Watching the Detectives Elvis Costello My Aim is True (1977) Nice girls not one with a defect, cellophane shrink-wrapped, so correct. Red dogs under illegal legs.

Living In Paradise (Live At Hollywood High) Elvis Costello

Living in Paradise Elvis Costello This Years Model (1978) I don't like those other guys looking at your curves I don't like you walking round with physical jerks Everything they say and do is getting

Church Underground Elvis Costello

Sing ""Hallelujah,"" Sister Turn up the volume, just to turn it down The trivial secrets buried with profound It's enough to put a church underground It's enough to put a church underground Deflowered

Dr. Watson, I Presume Elvis Costello

molten solder Dripping on a lacquer box Introducing keys to locks Seven talents there where hidden Mysterious and some forbidden Take the honey from the comb Ravel thread around the loom Dig the dirt up

Bedlam Elvis Costello

them I lay down on an iron frame Found myself in bedlam I wish that I could take something for drowning out the noise Wailing echoes down the corridors I've got this imaginary radio, and I'm punching up

Coal-Train Robberies Elvis Costello

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

Radio Silence Elvis Costello

going to tell you something The strings start strumming Another humdrum conundrum Signing off now Maintaining radio silence from now on But there's one thing I should have said "The hostage will end up

Home Truth Elvis Costello

I hung up the phone tonight Just as you said I love you Once this would have been coincidence 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

Watching The Detectives Elvis Costello

They beat him up until the teardrops start, but he can't be wounded 'cause he's got no heart. Long shot of that jumping sign, Visible shivers running down my spine.

Watching The Detectives (Live At Hollywood High/1978) Elvis Costello

They beat him up until the tear-drops start.

There's A Story In Your Voice Elvis Costello

and woe The uneasy time to come And the long way round we go to get there Once you told me fairy tales Everybody knows But I didn't care for their prediction Now you say you're leaving me And packing up

Sour Milk Cow Blues Elvis Costello

pleas You dial a number and they offer relief All alone with just your own device They give you something and it isn't advice To break the hearts of a million listeners Start out as lovers and you end up

I Wanna Be Loved Elvis Costello

Why must I be so lonely When so many people pass me by I've been waiting for oh so long now And yet I'm unable to answer why I can't be made to give up now Can you find room for me In your heart somehow

Deep Dark Truthful Mirror Elvis Costello

The same eyes the same lips the same lie your tongue trips Deep dark deep dark truthful mirror Deep dark deep dark truthful mirror So you bay for the boy in the tiger skin trunks They set him up