Elvis Costello & The Roots piosenki

She's pulling out the pin That lets her hair fall down She's pulling out the pin She shakes her head And it goes tumbling Her smile was out of place So she swept it off her face Let me find the words and say them Like some softly whispered "Amen" But she st...

Signal fading Listen to what I'm saying Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Testing, testing Can you hear me? This better be worth all of the breath I'm wasting Hear him coming through loud and clear Hear him treacling in your ear Well, you know your time...

What are you going to say to me? Will you be betraying me? Come The Meantimes Will you be deceiving me? And beyond believing in me? Come The Meantimes He came back, (right back) And nobody blinked He came back, (right back) At least I think that he did He ca...

If I could believe two and two is five Two wrongs make a right Well then, man alive Lost in my insolence and sneers That might sound like prayers If I could believe If I could believe You were from heaven sent Then just losing you Would be my punishment But i...

My New Haunt Gives me everything I want My New Haunt Gives me everything I want And I don't mind, I don't mind, I don't mind If she turns out to be crazy in time Bring me black strap molasses Light me a burning witch Bring me my bristle brushes Bring me my ta...

Now that you set everybody free What you going to do about me? Don't want to be treated like some poor grateful clown I'd rather go back in the sweet underground Where I can tell the time by the colour of my skin And I know my neighbour 'cos he's the one,...

They talked to the sister, the father and the mother With a microphone in one hand and a chequebook in the other And the camera noses in to the tears on her face The tears on her face The tears on her face You can put them back together with your paper and pas...

Lightning up and shake the ground Is that a horn that's blowing? Or a bell that's tolling? Walls are falling, ships pulled out from their mooring Is that a river or just a road the storm has stolen? And this will predict the times these signs will bring Me an...

They pulled the stars down one by one Hauled up the moon to shine upon A velvet curtain rising Now her puppet has cut his strings The footlights glare The trumpets blare Why is your face drawn on so glum, old chum Paintbrush dragging on a drum The rimshot on...

I've got this phosphorescent portrait of gentle Jesus meek and mild 
I've got this harlot that I'm stuck with carrying another man's child 
The solitary star announcing vacancy burnt out as we arrived 
They'd throw us back across the border if they knew that w...

Now there's a crank in every crowd Sprinkling gunpowder Seems that everything is about to blow They lit the burning paper With a waxen taper Sitting up here on Viceroy's Row And they're gathering flowers In the crack of hours where all of the nightmares go Wa...

I've got this phosphorescent portrait of gentle Jesus meek and mild 
I've got this harlot that I'm stuck with carrying another man's child 
The solitary star announcing vacancy burnt out as we arrived 
They'd throw us back across the border if they knew that w...

Will you walk us uptown? And wherever you go, you know we will follow Will you walk us uptown? And we'll stand in the light of your new killing ground, and we won't make a sound ...Except to sing our sorrow Will you walk us uptown while our tears run in torren...

Last lions roar before they're tamed I stood out in the glorious reign Knowing full well I can't go home again Wise Up Ghost Wise Up When are you going to rise up? Wise Up Ghost Yield some sighs up Wise Up Ghost Go on your merry way now if you must Fool's Go...