Miracle Man Elvis Costello

But don't you think that I know that walking on the water won't make me a miracle man? Baby's gotta have the things she wants. You know she's gotta have the things she loves.

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.

Delivery Man Elvis Costello

was able, so Vivian said Her shoulders flung forward Her lips in a purse She talks like the beauty that she never was Of the fabulous wild nights that she never has In a certain light he looked like Elvis

The Delivery Man Elvis Costello

was able, so Vivian said Her shoulders flung forward, her lips in a purse She talks like the beauty that she never was Of the fabulous wild nights that she never has In a certain light he looked like Elvis

Monkey To Man Elvis Costello

wanted Broke it up and plundered it and hunted Ever since we said it You went and took the credit It's been headed this way since the world began When a vicious creature took the jump from Monkey to Man

Watching The Detectives Elvis Costello

Though it nearly took a miracle to get you to stay, it only took my little fingers to blow you away. Just like watching the detectives. Don't get cute!" It's just like watching the detectives.

Roadette Song (Live) Elvis Costello

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 roadette Young man

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

Though it nearly took a miracle to get you to stay it only took my little fingers to blow you away Just like watching the detectives. Don't get cute It's just like watching the detectives.

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.

Edith And The Kingpin Elvis Costello

The big man arrives Disco dancers greet him Plainclothes cops greet him Small town, big man Fresh lipstick glistening Sophomore jive From victims Of typewriters The band sounds Like typewriters The big

The Great Unknown Elvis Costello

he sinks just like a stone Footprints set in sentimental cement Now burden down his bones Lest we forget Here lies the Great unknown My my my Delilah Who's the butcher that you harbour Take the rich man

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

Jimmie Standing In The Rain Elvis Costello

turned up against the fog Slow coaches rolling o'er 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

That's How You Got Killed Before (Live) Elvis Costello

Well, you're standing on the corner, flagging all the girls you see Now do like EC and let those ladies be You know that's wrong, man, you know that's wrong Boy, you better get control, that's how you

The Scarlet Tide Elvis Costello

Well I recall his parting words must I accept his fate Or take myself far from this place I thought I heard a black bell toll A little bird did sing man has no choice when he wants everything We'll rise

Scarlet Tide Elvis Costello

Well I recall his parting words Must I accept his fate Or take myself far from this place I thought I heard a black bell toll A little bird did sing Man has no choice When he wants everything We'll rise

Can You Be True? Elvis Costello

I long to hear you whisper my name 'Til you tell me "My Darling, you may be my man.

Can You Be True? (Live) Elvis Costello

I long to hear you whisper my name 'Til you tell me "My Darling, you may be my man."

The Beat Elvis Costello

It takes two to tumble, it takes two to tango 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

The Beat (LIve At Hollywood High) Elvis Costello

Till a man comes along and he says, 'Have you been a good boy, never played with your toy? Elvis Costello The Beat Lyrics Though you never enjoy, such pleasure to employ.'

Poor Fractured Atlas Elvis Costello

how the child in me planned it A woman wouldn't understand it" I believe there was something that I wanted to say Before I conclude this epistle But you would forgive me for holding my tongue 'Cause man

The Monkey Elvis Costello

monkey speaks his mind Now, three monkey sittin' in a coconut tree Discussin' things as they all say it to be Said one to the other, now, listen you two There's a certain rumor that can't be true That man

Peace In Our Time Elvis Costello

friends And I slip on my Italian dancing shoes As the evening descends And the bells take their toll Once again in a victory chime And we can thank God that we've finally got Peace in our time There's a man

I Wanna Be Loved Elvis Costello

why I can't be made to give up now Can you find room for me In your heart somehow I wanna be loved I just wanna be loved I guess I'm a victim of loneliness But why should this be my destiny A foolish man

All These Strangers Elvis Costello

Algiers Put tiny grains in children's tears While taking twenty five percent of all those flashbulbs and mementos From the mechanized divisions rolling over your frontiers I saw my baby talking to a man

But Not For Me Elvis Costello

"Old man sunshine listen you Never tell me dreams come true Just try it and I'll start a riot Beatrice Fairfax don't you dare Ever tell me he will care I'm certain it's the final curtain I never want to

Running Out Of Angels (Demo Ver.) Elvis Costello

they're bringing down a Hammer on anything that sells I suppose you're a winner Because they're running out of angels And all the lies upon the tongues of all the girls upon the rails Will ruin any man

My Lovely Jezebel Elvis Costello

suspects your sweet confection When you talk in contradictions Then she walks without detection Overrules all your objections Ooo, I looked in her eyes and through that window I fell She's my lovely Jezebel Man

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

Everyday I Write The Book Elvis Costello

Don't tell me you don't know what love is When you're old enough to know better WHEN YOU FIND STRANGE HANDS IN YOUR SWEATER When your dreamboat turns out to be a footnote I'm a man with a mission in two

Less Than Zero Elvis Costello

chorus A pistol was still smoking, a man lay on the floor. Mister Oswald said he had an understanding with the law. He said he heard about a couple living in the USA.

Hand In Hand Elvis Costello

No, don't ask me to apologize I won't ask you to forgive me If I'm gonna go down, you're gonna come with me You say, "Why don't you be a man about it Like they do in the grown-up movies?"

Stalin Malone Elvis Costello

poor wonders, 'til they want you alone Though they can't tell a cuckoo-clock from the squeals of saxophones That's when they'll fear my name Stalin Malone I'm telling you the day will come when this man

Blame It On Cain Elvis Costello

So if the man with the ticker tape, he tries to take it, well this is what I'm gonna say. Blame it on Cain. Don't blame it on me. Oh, oh, it's nobody's fault, but we need somebody to burn.

Home Is Anywhere You Hang Your Head Elvis Costello

"You'd look cute in your birthday suit" You tore him out and screwed him up Like a bad page in a naughty picture book They day ended as it began As he was seconds older than the man

I Lost You Elvis Costello

slipped from your costume Like an actress in this tragedy You're just an apparition in a haunting mystery I fear that you've passed over me And there's nothing I can do because I lost you Just like a rich man

A Slow Drag With Josephine Elvis Costello

threadbare up stairs Adieu, my little ballyhoo You broke my heart in two And now I haunt the bars and scent those trite affairs She went home to gather her comb And caught him unawares And there was her man

Coal-Train Robberies Elvis Costello

Of youth that drips and drips and drips They'll be sending him round from door to door, To sell you back what's already yours "so many good deeds, so little time" Say the advertising agency swine When man

She's Pulling Out The Pin Elvis Costello

starts to pull away And the lights begin to dim Is she thinking of me Or 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

Clubland (Live) Elvis Costello

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

Veronica Elvis Costello

Will you wake from your dream, with a wolf at the door, reaching out for Veronica Well it was all of sixty-five years ago When the world was the street where she lived And a young man sailed on a ship

Hurry Down Doomsday Elvis Costello

The man in the corner of this picture has a sinister purpose In the teeming Temple of the Railroad Kings He's planting a trashy paperback book for accidental purchase Containing all the secrets of life

Waiting For The End Of The World Elvis Costello

The man from the television crawled into the train. I wonder who he's gonna stick it in this time.

...This Town... Elvis Costello

Getgood moved up to Self-Made Man Row Although he swears that he's the salt of the earth He's so proud of the "kick-me-hard" sign that they hung on his back at birth He said "I appreciate beauty, if I

Chewing Gum Elvis Costello

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

Satellite Elvis Costello

sharing the same cheap sensation the thrill of watching somebody watching those forbidden things we never mention Chorus: The satellite looks down right now and forever What it has pulled apart let no man

Episode Of Blonde 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

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

Room With No Number Elvis Costello

not tell As they were sleepin' there There's a room without a number While the sign outside says There's no vacancy As you take your key They smile at you so understandingly And I wish he could be The man

American Without Tears 2 (Twilight Version) Elvis Costello

took his piece of the pie When he packed up the casino chips, the IOU and the abacus And switched off the jukebox in a "A Fool Such as I" He was a leg man who was open to offers But he couldn't get