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

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

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

Lipstick Vogue (Live At Hollywood High) Elvis Costello

Sometimes I almost feel just like a human being It's you not just another mouth in the lipstick vogue It's you not just another mouth in the lipstick vogue oh yeah.

Lip Service (Live At Hollywood High) Elvis Costello

You left the motor running But I know you're so attractive Getting in some sharp practice You better not do anything reckless But everybody is going through the motions Everybody is going through

No Action (Live At Hollywood High) Elvis Costello

I don't want to 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

The Beat (LIve At Hollywood High) Elvis Costello

Speak up; don't mumble if you're in the combo. On the beat, on the beat. Till a man comes along and he says, 'Have you been a good boy, never played with your toy?

Alison (Live At Hollywood High/1978) Elvis Costello

were lovin somebody I only hope it wasn't mine < > Alison I know this world is killin you oh, Alison my aim is true well i see ya got a husband now but did you leave your pretty fingers lying in

Mystery Dance (Live At Hollywood High) Elvis Costello

'Cause I've tried and I've tried, and I'm still mystified I can't do it anymore and I'm not satisfied Well, I remember when the lights went out And I was tryin' to make it look like it was never in

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

I've been on 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

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

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

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

You think you're alone until you realize you're in it. Now your fear is here to stay. Love is here for a visit. They call is instant justice when it's past the legal limit.

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?

(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

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

Our love got fractured in the echo and sway. How come everybody wants to be your friend? You know that it still hurts me just to say it.

Clubland (Live) Elvis Costello

tell tales of fiction found on all the criminal types Lead to a higher ranking man or a face with thin red stripes The boys next door The mums and dads New weds and nearly-deads Have you ever been had in

Roadette Song (Live) Elvis Costello

it over, does the best to please Diction very bad, 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

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

Episode Of Blonde (Live) Elvis Costello

insinuate If the failure is great Then it tends to fascinate A tornado dropped a funnel cloud with twenty tons of rain Though she had the attention span of warm cellophane Her lovers fell like skittles in

God Give Me Strength (Live) Elvis Costello

Now I have nothing, so God give me strength 'Cause I'm weak in her wake And if I'm 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

Almost Ideal Eyes (Live) Elvis Costello

ideal eyes And her flawless skin and her petulant pout The memory of such a long blond alibi Still makes me want to shout out loud You ** when you clear your head my dear You can't come out here in

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

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

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.

Any King's Shilling Elvis Costello

Stay at home tonight if you know what's good for you I can't say more it would be telling For if you don't what will become of you Just isn't worth any king's shilling I will answer when they make that

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 [Chorus

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?

Almost Blue (Live) Elvis Costello

Almost blue Almost doing things we used to do There's a girl here, and she's almost you Almost all the things that your eyes once promised I see in hers too Now your eyes are red from crying Almost blue

(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

Can You Be True? (Live) Elvis Costello

that it speaks gently if it isn't meant to be Then again By then we might not be listening so attentively I will be there If the days bring torments and trials To close the distances only measured in

Speak Darkly My Angel (Live) Elvis Costello

sweetness has gone out of it And all that's left is bitter barren greed A needy lover with her almost vanished liar Entangled as the gloom is strangled by the clinging brier That ventures out to gather in

Sour Milk Cow Blues Elvis Costello

Sounds like a different woman with a different name Sour milk cow blues sour milk cow blues You wear a different size and style of shoe I think that someone must be poisoning you To replace you with a living

Put Away Forbidden Playthings (Live) Elvis Costello

Put away forbidden playthings Amusements and distractions And dismantle the contraption and carry it away In time as beauty dissolves into glamor It slips from your heart and falls under the hammer Put

Tramp The Dirt Down Elvis Costello

I saw a newspaper picture from the political campaign A woman was kissing a child, who was obviously in pain She spills with compassion, as that young child's face in her hands she grips Can you imagine

My Flame Burns Blue (Blood Count) (Live) Elvis Costello

evening hours dim Maybe I'm too proud to utter it out loud Even though my flame burns blue As the night's descending Once again I find I'll tarry and pretend My confidential friend Will suddenly appear in

Jimmie Standing In The Rain Elvis Costello

in and out of focus Mild and bitter from tuberculosis Forgotten man Indifferent nation Waiting on a platform at a Lancashire station Somebody's calling you again The sky is falling Jimmie's standing in

Less Than Zero Elvis Costello

Calling Mister Oswald with the swastika tattoo, there is a vacancy waiting in the English voodoo, carving "v" for vandal on the guilty boy's head.

Sparkling Day Elvis Costello

I've been kicked around since I was born now it's all right it's OK And you may look the other way We can try to understand The New York Times' effect on man Well now I get low and I get high

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

Upon A Veil Of Midnight Blue (Live) Elvis Costello

of the wine you drank Your mind is just blank I wonder how she knows I guess she will wonder until You pluck up the courage to tell her how you feel So close you can feel her heart trembling You look in

Lipstick Vogue Elvis Costello

things that you've done You say you're sorry but you know you don't mean it I wouldn't worry, I had so much fun Sometimes I almost feel just like a human being It's you, not just anouther mouth in

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

Alibi Elvis Costello

one that knows this Alibi, alibi You deserve it 'cause you're special Alibi, alibi Maybe Jesus wants you for a sunbeam Alibi, alibi But if I've left something out I apologize But if you look in

Episode Of Blonde Elvis Costello

insinuate If the failure is great Then it tends to fascinate A tornado dropped a funnel cloud with twenty tons of rain Though she had the attention span of warm cellophane Her lovers fell like skittles in

Poor Fractured Atlas Elvis Costello

He's out in the woods with his squirrel gun To try to recapture his anger He's screaming some words at the top of his lungs Until he begins to feel younger But back at his desk in the city we find Our

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

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