Elvis Costello piosenki

She says what has her daddy done That you want him to be punished When she woke up one day to find That he was starting to vanish But if you hope to hear voices You know you should not be listening Push the vigilant lips Make a slice of her face Said the scand...

So you think that you have seen her When you're lying in between her And you tell me that you don't care Busy bodies getting nowhere Ev'rybody's getting meaner Busy bodies Caught in the concertina You check her outline Break her regulations You watch her leg...

Old man sunshine, listen you Never tell me dreams come true Just try it and I'll start a riot Beatrix Fairfax, don't you dare Ever tell me she will care I'm certain it's the final curtain I never want to hear from any cheerful Pollyannas Who tell you fate prov...

Everyday seem like Sunday It must be something that I have done I saw you dancing in the peep-show That every episode is leading me on I'm just another fool that you've got to humor Can't say I love you when it's just a rumor But if none of your dreams come...

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 Till you tell me "My Darling, you may be my man." There will be days when you must go from my sight There may be nights when clouds...

We were waltzin' together to a dreamy melody When they called out "Change partners" And you waltzed away from me Now my arms feel so empty as I gaze around the floor And I'll keep on changing partners Till I hold you once more Though we danced for one m...

Men made out of monkeys Men made into mice Happy days are here again And all the drinks half price A girl with a trick and a man with a calling Trying to make a living out of your downfalling TRYING TO MAKE A LIVING out of anything at all Didn't they teach yo...

Oh well, I feel so loose tonight, I might fall to pieces So be prepared to sweep me out the door And I might be horizontal by the time the music ceases So I think I'll get acquainted with the floor Oh, I was trying to get away from the things that I alway...

She throws back her hair [hands] and she shows you her mouth The breath that I waste trying to ruin your life Beauty's on a budget but you take it on the chin 'Cause you have to do your duty taking orders from the kingpin You've got a chemistry class I want a...

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 be You can make them happy or sad Or assume their identity...

She stood spot lit in a plain print dress Came howling out of the wilderness There beat a cunning and murderous heart Beneath that calm exterior You know my name, you don't know my mind Don't doubt my eyes, they betray the past And I've already forgotten Much...

Payday's coming and we wash it away Clean money, clean money Payday's coming and we wash it away Clean money, clean money That's what I want to do I want to spend it on you Checking on a checkmate Classing out a classmate So beautiful and fortunate He hates t...

She'll fix you with an iron cross And cover you up with petals And hang you up with some amber beads And four or five precious metals And in that black flamingo chair You'll sit among her trophies And pray to be abandoned Till you don't know what hope i...

Tears on your blackmail Written to ransom A point of the fingernail Says that he's handsome [Chorus:] Clowntime is over Time to take cover While others just talk and talk Somebody's watching where the others don't walk Clowntime is over A voice in the shadow...

With a handful of backhanders and a bevy of beauty You're going off limits Going off duty Going off the rails Going off with booty They tell tales of fiction found on all the criminal types Lead to a higher ranking man or a face with thin red stripes T...

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 it makes you feel good All through the karaoke girls were...

Come away, come away, death And in sad cyprus let me be laid Fie away, fie away, breath I am slain by a fair cruel maid My shroud of white stuck all with you O prepare it My part of death no one so true Did share it Come away, come away, death Not a flower, n...

I saw a girl who'd found her consolation She said, "One day my Prince of 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."...

I thought I would go to the sea and shrink down very tiny And slide inside the telephone wire that runs under the briny Till I found there is a way of crawling to the U.S.A. You had better not go too far There's one way out, there's only one way Leave your mo...

I'm crazy, crazy for feeling so lonely I'm crazy crazy for feeling so blue I knew that you'd love me as long as you wanted And then some day you'd leave me for somebody new Worry, why do I let myself worry Wondering what in the world did I do I'm crazy for th...