Elvis Costello piosenki

Bad lovers face to face in the morning Shy apologies and polite regrets Slow dances that left no warning of Outraged glances and indiscreet yawning Good manners and bad breath get you nowhere Even presidents have newspaper lovers Ministers go crawling under co...

I would send out for assistance but there's someone on the signal wire And the corporation logo is flashing on and off in the sky They're putting all your names in the forbidden book I know what they're doing but I don't want to look You think they're so dumb...

I don't wanna kiss you. I don't wanna 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 action, there's...

Oh I know that she has mad 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 dancing when they get home. No dancing, there's gonna be no...

O, mistress mine Where are you roaming? O, stay and hear Your true love's coming That can save both high and low Trip no further pretty sweeting Journeys end in lovers meeting Every wise man's son doth know Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh Trip no further pretty sweeting J...

The ink is running, the words are taught I'm sitting helpless with my paper and charts I had to follow my passion Oh well I don't get paid that much for all I deserve To waste a sentence or shatter my nerves I had to follow my passion Oh well Sometimes I lon...

Don't start that talking I could talk all night my mind was sleep walking While I'm putting the world to rights Call careers information Have you got yourself an occupation ? Oliver's Army is here to stay Oliver's Army are on their way And I would rather be an...

Raining slapping on the window pane An hour or more of teeming Storm punching like a hurricane That tore him out of dreaming Air screaming through the slightest gap Rattling between the frame and the sill Drapes hanging from the final act When I had you still...

Born in the middle of a second big baby boom Those noisy boys just might have spoken up too soon Now I'm looking for a little girl, I wonder where she's gone Big money for families having more than one Opportunity, opportunity This is your big opportunity The...

This is the place where I made my best mistakes This is the place even angels don't understand I've seen the disappointment in her face And the collection of engagement rings on her right hand She sits alone apart from the crowd In a white dress she wears lik...

She's a feline tormentor, not any vaudeville wife But with a drunk-town lament he leads her a miserable life But when he's full of that beer-champagne She pads, paws, pads, paws and claws And if he should wake up in some terrible dive And he don't know if he'...

They say you're nothing but a party girl Just like a million more all over the world I know I shouldn't be raising my hopes so high But I have seen the hungry look in their eyes They'd settle for anything in disguise of love Seen the party girls look me over S...

Stop thief, you're gonna come to grief If you don't take a little more care You're gonna get more than the family plan From this one shoestring affair I may be crazy but I can't contemplate Being trapped between the doctor and the magistrate One of these days...

Let's go out on the town tonight My pockets are heavy with loot And get drunk and blasted (And loud in your dress of blue) I've been living from hand to mouth It must be three or four weeks And I can tell you one thing Jack You listen when your stomach speaks...

Out of the aeroplane stepped Chamberlain with a condemned man's stare But we all cheered wildly, a photograph was taken, as he waved a piece of paper in the air Now the Disco Machine lives in Munich and we are all friends And I slip on my Italian dancing shoes...

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...

If I got on my knees and I pleaded with you Not to go but to stay in my arms Would you walk out the door Like you did once before This time be different Please stay don't go If I call out your name like a prayer Would you leave me alone with my tears Knowing...

You know that once upon a time I didn't need you so It would have been so easy then For me to turn and go But now there's no leavin' you I know that for a fact I'm at the point of no return And for me there'll be no turning back I told myself you'd always be...

Cut loose in a nightmare, cast off in my dreams If home is anywhere that I can hang my hat Then it's coming apart at the seams My luck is hanging upside down I try to hold on tight But money's rolling out of town And love slips right out of sight And these bo...

The poisoned rose That you gave to me It left me half alive And half in ecstasy But if half of your love Is all I can win Give me just a fraction But no more medicine The poisoned rose On a Valentine card That you take straight to the part That you call my j...