Pump It Up (Live At Hollywood High) Elvis Costello

Pump it up, when you don't really need it Pump it up, until you can feel it Down in the pleasure center, hell-bent or heaven-sent Listen to the propaganda, listen to the latest slander There's nothing

The Beat (LIve At Hollywood High) 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.

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

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

Mystery Dance (Live At Hollywood High) Elvis Costello

cause I'm not dead yet" Why don't you tell me about the mystery dance I wanna know about the mystery dance Why don't you show me 'Cause I've tried and I've tried, and I'm still mystified I can't do it

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.

Lip Service (Live At Hollywood High) Elvis Costello

Lip service is all you'll ever get from me Lip service is all you'll ever get from me Lip service is all you'll ever get from me But if you change your mind, you can send it in a letter to me Don't

Alison (Live At Hollywood High/1978) Elvis Costello

I heard you let that little friend of mine take off your party dress I'm not gonna get too sentimental like those other sticky valentines cuz I don't know if you were lovin somebody I only hope it

Lipstick Vogue (Live At Hollywood High) Elvis Costello

Sometimes I think that love is just a tumour; you've got to cut it out. You say you're sorry for the things that you've done. You say you're sorry but you know you don't mean it.

No Action (Live At Hollywood High) Elvis Costello

in my head start hurtin' my mind And I think about the way things used to be Knowing you're with him is driving me crazy Sometimes I phone you when I know you're not lonely But I always disconnect it

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

They beat him up until the tear-drops start.

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

Pump It Up Elvis Costello

Pump it up, when you don't really need it Pump it up, until you can feel it Down in the pleasure centre, hell-bent or heaven-sent Listen to the propaganda, listen to the latest slander There's

(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

You know that it still hurts me just to say it. Oh, I know that she's disgusted (oh why's that) Cause she's feeling so abused.

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?

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

Roadette Song (Live) Elvis Costello

She can roll her shoulder, she can roll her ass Ain't no doubt about it, she's a gamely lass Jerking with her elbow, clever with her knees When she move it over, does the best to please Diction very bad

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.

Almost Ideal Eyes (Live) Elvis Costello

pay for Be sure of what you're wishing for, be careful what you pray for When you look into those almost ideal Love is smiles, he will hypnotize you wild He tries to analyze your dreams Fill you up

Clubland (Live) Elvis Costello

The long arm of the law slides up the outskirts of town Meanwhile in clubland they are ready to pull them down Hey The right to work is traded in for the right to refuse admission Don't pass out now, there's

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

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?

Episode Of Blonde (Live) Elvis Costello

I spy for the "Spirit of Curiosity" All the scandals of each vain monstrosity I gossip and I pry and I insinuate If the failure is great Then it tends to fascinate A tornado dropped a funnel cloud with

Almost Blue (Live) Elvis Costello

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 Flirting with this disaster became me It

Tramp The Dirt Down Elvis Costello

avarice coming down on that child's lips Well I hope I don't die too soon I pray the Lord my soul to save Oh I'll be a good boy, I'm trying so hard to behave Because there's one thing I know, I'd like to live

She's Pulling Out The Pin Elvis Costello

"She's pulling out the pin That lets her hair fall down 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

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?

Favourite Hour (Live) Elvis Costello

for the lamest excuse [Chorus] Put out my eyes so I may never spy Waving branches as they're waving goodbye Their vile perfume brings to my mouth a bitter taste The murmuring brooks had best speak up

God Give Me Strength (Live) Elvis Costello

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 This bell is rung out She was the light that I'd bless She took my last chance at

(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

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

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

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

The Bridge I Burned Elvis Costello

I'm up here with my spying glass at the window up above For better or for worse - it's a perverse universe, my love.

Dr. Watson, I Presume Elvis Costello

room with the doctor Just before we were supposed to sing He said regarding this guardian wing This black and clipped misshapen thing Hobbling on from claw to ring Hung upside down and cawing Pecking at

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

Monkey To Man Elvis Costello

Bartholomew And now the world is full of sorrow and pain And it's time for us to speak up again You're slack and sorry Such an arrogant brood The only purpose you serve is to bring us our food We

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

Home Is Anywhere You Hang Your Head Elvis Costello

Misery He's tearing out his hair again He's crying over her again He's standing in the super-market shouting at the customers Here comes Mr.

Can You Be True? (Live) Elvis Costello

There will be days when you must go from my sight There may be nights when clouds deny us starlight Only time will tell us I hope that it speaks gently if it isn't meant to be Then again By then we

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

Fallen Elvis Costello

All the leaves are turning yellow, red and brown Soon they'll be scattered as they tumble down Although they may be swept up so invitingly I never did what I was told I trampled though the amber

Speak Darkly My Angel (Live) Elvis Costello

The 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

Home Truth Elvis Costello

I hung up the phone tonight Just as you said I love you Once this would have been coincidence Now these things start to bother me You still close your eyes when I kiss you And I close mine too But we didn't

Jump Up Elvis Costello

Take off your shoes, hang up your wings Stack up the chairs, roll up the rug Savor the things that sobriety brings Drain in the last from a jug But when I hit the bottle, there's no tellin' what

Watching The Detectives Elvis Costello

They beat him up until the teardrops start, but he can't be wounded 'cause he's got no heart. Long shot of that jumping sign, Visible shivers running down my spine.

Poison Moon Elvis Costello

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

Satellite Elvis Costello

She looked like she learned to dance from a series of still pictures She's madly excited now, she throws her hands up like a tulip She looks like an illustration of a cocktail party Where cartoon bubbles