No Action (Live At Hollywood High) Elvis Costello

touch I don't want to see you 'cause I don't miss you that much I'm not a telephone junkie I told you that we were just good friends But when I hold you like I hold that Bakelite in my hands There's no

The Beat (LIve At Hollywood High) Elvis Costello

Elvis Costello The Beat Lyrics Though you never enjoy, such pleasure to employ.' See your friends in the state their in. See your friends getting under their skin.

This Year's Girl (Live At Hollywood High) Elvis Costello

This Year's Girl Elvis Costello This Years Model (1978) See her picture in a thousand places 'cause she's this year's girl You think you all own little pieces of this year's girl Forget your fancy

Mystery Dance (Live At Hollywood High) Elvis Costello

Romeo was restless, he was ready to kill He jumped out the window 'cause he couldn't sit still Juliet was waiting with a safety net He said, "Don't bury me 'cause I'm not dead yet" Why don't you te...

Lip Service (Live At Hollywood High) Elvis Costello

Don't act like you're above me Just look at your shoes But everybody is going through the motions Everybody is going through the motions Are you really only going through the motions?

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

Alison (Live At Hollywood High/1978) Elvis Costello

Well, it's so funny to be seein ya after so long girl by the way look, I understand that you are not impressed I heard you let that little friend of mine take off your party dress I'm not gonna get...

Lipstick Vogue (Live At Hollywood High) Elvis Costello

Get to the slot machine almost dead on arrival Just hit me one more time with that live wire Maybe they told you you were only a girl in a million You say I've got not feelings; this is a good way

Miracle Man (Live At Hollywood High) Elvis Costello

Miracle Man Elvis Costello My Aim is True (1977) You never asked me what I wanted. You only asked me why.

Pump It Up (Live At Hollywood High) Elvis Costello

feel it Pump it up, when you don't really need it Out in the fashion show, down in the bargain bin You put your passion out under the pressure pin Fall into submission, hit-and-run transmission No

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

But he can't be wounded 'cause he's got no heart Long shot of that jumping sign Visible shivers running down my spine Cut the baby taking off her clothes Close-up of the sign that says We never close

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

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

(I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea (Live At Hollywood High) Elvis Costello

Photographs of fancy tricks to get your kicks at sixty-six He thinks of all the lips that he licks And all the girls that he's going to fix She gave a little flirt, gave herself a little cuddle But

No Action Elvis Costello

touch I don't wanna see you 'cause I don't miss you that much I'm not a telephone junkie I told you that we were just good friends But when I hold you like I hold that bakelite in my hands There's no

Waiting For The End Of The World (Live At Hollywood High) Elvis Costello

Waiting for the End of the World Elvis Costello My Aim is True (1977) The man from the television crawled into the train. I wonder who he's gonna stick it in this time?

(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes (Live At Hollywood High) Elvis Costello

Oh I used to be disgusted and now I try to be amused. But since their wings have got rusted, you know, the angels wanna wear my red shoes. But when they told me 'bout their side of the bargain, tha...

Roadette Song (Live) Elvis Costello

, friction double rich Brazen little hussy, rock 'n' rolling bitch When it comes to business take off like a jet Rocking's her vocation, she's a very high roadette Young man there ain't no need to hustle

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.

Couldn't Call It Unexpected No. 4 Elvis Costello

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 and everything he owns I've got his name" Well you can laugh at

Hora Decubitus (Live) Elvis Costello

It went by my window, refused to be captured I hope that I wake up in time Good King Neptune came flipping up my street He was a sad case tripping up the staircase Friends and relations are laughing at

(I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea (Live) Elvis Costello

Photographs of fancy tricks to get your kicks at sixty-six He thinks of all the lips that he licks And all the girls that he's going to fix She gave a little flirt, gave herself a little cuddle But there's

Clubland (Live) Elvis Costello

arm of the law slides up the outskirts of town Meanwhile in clubland they are ready to pull them down Hey The right to work is traded in for the right to refuse admission Don't pass out now, there's no

God Give Me Strength (Live) Elvis Costello

strong I might still break And I don't have anything to share That I won't throw away into the air That song is sung out This bell is rung out She was the light that I'd bless She took my last chance at

Almost Ideal Eyes (Live) Elvis Costello

When you look into those almost ideal Love is smiles, he will hypnotize you wild He tries to analyze your dreams Fill you up with all his big ideas while he really wants to make you Scream out loud at

Sparkling Day Elvis Costello

now you can tell by the way I use my walk I'm a woman's man no time to talk Music loud and women warm I've been kicked around since I was born now it's all right it's OK And you may look the

Room With No Number Elvis Costello

Clothes scattered across the floor Covers pulled back from the pillow A sign hung on the door Two lovers locked up tight Through the endless days and nights Hiding something they can't show Something no

Favourite Hour (Live) Elvis Costello

Figure hanging on a leather band Cog consults the watch he cups in his hand Bejewelled movement measures lost and vanished time Pray for the boy who makes his bed in cold earth and quicklime [Choru...

Almost Blue (Live) Elvis Costello

Almost blueAlmost doing things we used to doThere's a girl here, and she's almost youAlmost all the things that your eyes once promisedI see in hers tooNow your eyes are red from cryingAlmost blueF...

Tear Off Your Own Head ( It's A Doll Revolution) Elvis Costello

Only you do You can paint his nails Make him wear high heels Why waste time altering the hemline? Or do you?

Tear Off Your Own Head (It's A Doll Revolution) Elvis Costello

Only you do You can paint his nails Make him wear high heels Why waste time altering the hemline? Or do you?

I'm In The Mood Again Elvis Costello

Hail to the taxis They go where I go Farewell the newspapers that know more than I know Flung under a street-lamp still burning at dawn I'm in the mood again I walk the damp streets rather than

Joe Porterhouse Elvis Costello

The children sit upon the stairs High above a valley of tears Don't let them see you crying that way oh no Oh no Joe Porterhouse Is not gone forever He'll be back another day Don't let them see you crying

No Dancing Elvis Costello

Oh I know that she Has made a fool of him Like girls have done so many nights before Time and time again Life is so strange I don't know why But somebody, somebody has to cry There's gonna be no

Episode Of Blonde (Live) Elvis Costello

rain Though she had the attention span of warm cellophane Her lovers fell like skittles in a 10-pin bowling lane But nothing could compare with the explosion of fame So you jumped back with alarm Every Elvis

The Other Side Of Summer Elvis Costello

everybody swallows A teenage girl is crying 'cos she don't look like a million dollars So help her if you can 'Cos she don't seem to have the attention span CHORUS Was it a millionaire who said "imagine no

You Hung The Moon Elvis Costello

You hung the moon From a gallows in the sky Choked out the light In his blue lunar eye The shore is a parchment The sea has no tide Since he was taken from my side The lines of the fallen are viewed through

(I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea Elvis Costello

" (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea " Photographs of fancy tricks to get your kicks at sixty-six He thinks of all the lips that he licks And all the girls that he's going to fix She gave a little

Stranger In The House Elvis Costello

This never was one of the great romances But I thought you'd always have those young girl's eyes But now they look in tired and bitter glances At the ghost of a man who walks 'round in my disguise

Satellite Elvis Costello

cartoon bubbles burst in the air, champagne rolls off her tongue Like a second language And it should have been her biggest night The satellite looks down on her as she begins to cry All over the world at

Jimmie Standing In The Rain Elvis Costello

the moor Between the very memory And approaches of war Stale bread curling on a luncheon counter Loose change lonely, not the right amount Forgotten man of an indifferent nation Waiting on a platform at

Can You Be True? (Live) Elvis Costello

Can you be true? Can this possibly be real? I knew quite suddenly Do you sense how I feel? I long to hear you whisper my name 'Til you tell me "My Darling, you may be my man." There will be days wh...

Speak Darkly My Angel (Live) Elvis Costello

Speak darkly, my angelOr do I have to plead?The sweetness has gone out of itAnd all that's left is bitter barren greedA needy lover with her almost vanished liarEntangled as the gloom is strangled ...

Put Away Forbidden Playthings (Live) Elvis Costello

Put away forbidden playthingsAmusements and distractionsAnd dismantle the contraption and carry it awayIn time as beauty dissolves into glamorIt slips from your heart and falls under the hammerPut ...

She's Pulling Out The Pin Elvis Costello

is she thinking of him She's pulling out the pin She's slipping off the hook Unbuttoning her dress There's just enough to make some man a mess She tears away the veil With her fingernails She came out high

Lipstick Vogue Elvis Costello

not just anouther mouth in the lipstick vogue It's you, not just anouther mouth in the lipstick vogue Oh yeah Get to the slot machine, almost dead on arrival Just hit me one more time with that live

Dr. Watson, I Presume Elvis Costello

room with the doctor Just before we were supposed to sing He said regarding this guardian wing This black and clipped misshapen thing Hobbling on from claw to ring Hung upside down and cawing Pecking at

Tramp The Dirt Down Elvis Costello

avarice coming down on that child's lips Well I hope I don't die too soon I pray the Lord my soul to save Oh I'll be a good boy, I'm trying so hard to behave Because there's one thing I know, I'd like to live

Bullets For The New-Born King Elvis Costello

"No one looks in this place for motive or any hope But for the dead shot of an amber glass The blue light of a votive Rain obscured the window As the pain was dulled by the grains Absolved by spoons in

The Beat Elvis Costello

enjoy, such pleasure to employ" See your friends walking down the street See your friends never quite complete See your friends getting under their feet Oh, I don't want to disease you, but I'm no