by Elvis Costello on album Miscellaneous

You say that you'll get him and you run and get your mummy And you're almost beaten to the punch Looking for the man who sold you the dummy And you're almost beaten to the punch Laughing at the older

by Elvis Costello on album Miscellaneous

The touch of your lips next to mine Gets me excited, makes me feel fine The touch of your hand, your sweet hello The fire inside you when you're holding me close Your love, so warm and tender The thr

by Elvis Costello on album Miscellaneous

Signal fading, listen to what I'm sayin' "Testin', testin'" This better be worth all of the breath I'm wastin' Maintainin' radio silence from now on Barricaded in the talk radio station Hostage taken

by Elvis Costello on album Momofuku

In the not very distant future When everything will be free There won't be any cute secrets Let alone any novelty You can say anything you want to In your fetching cloak of anonymity Are you fee

by Elvis Costello & the Imposters on album Miscellaneous

In the not very distant future When everything will be free There won't be any cute secrets Let alone any novelty You can say anything you want to In your fetching cloak of anonymity Are you feeling

by Elvis Costello on album Miscellaneous

"I'm trouble", she said Spread out on the floor of her father's house Her promise was almost undone Under her tongue, dissolving her responsibilities To finally deny everyone with every unflattering c

by Elvis Costello on album Miscellaneous

You say you don't desire me You only tire me Now you hire me Expensive care is meaningless Feeling nothing and caring less Cut off at the pass She knows where you're headed He wants double time Or a

by Elvis Costello on album Miscellaneous

I won't walk with my head bowed Beyond caution where lovers walk My love walks where three's a crowd Beyond caution where the lovers walk Lovers walk, lovers scramble Beyond caution where the lovers

by Elvis Costello on album Miscellaneous

Big nothing He stood in the road outside of town With a broken clockwork toy in his hand A graveyard for childish dreams in his palm A broken lifeline Big nothing The mechanical amusement sputtered

by Elvis Costello & The Roots on album Wise Up Ghost

My New Haunt Gives me everything I want My New Haunt Gives me everything I want And I don't mind, I don't mind, I don't mind If she turns out to be crazy in time Bring me black strap molasses

by Elvis Costello on album Miscellaneous

I see you laughin' Right in my face I guess, I'm gonna have to Put you in your place Because if silence was golden You couldn't raise a dime Because your mind is on vacation And your mouth is working

by Elvis Costello on album Miscellaneous

Outside in New Orleans, the heat was almost frightening But my hotel room as usual was freezing and unkind On TV, they prosecute anyone who's exciting So I put on my overcoat and went down to find In

by Elvis Costello on album In Motion Pictures

She was smitten from the first By a curious fellow She said I love the way you talk And with a flounce She then announces I love the way that you Pronounce it, "Marshmallow" So she liked to

by Elvis Costello on album Miscellaneous

Here I stand head in hand Turn my face to the wall If she's gone, I can't go on Feeling two feet small Everywhere people stare Each and every day I can see them laugh at me And I hear them say Hey,

by Elvis Costello on album Miscellaneous

Who's this kid with his mumbo jumbo Living in air-conditioned limbo? Though they treat him just like a guest He's living under threat of arrest Now that he's finally trying to make some sense He drin

by Elvis Costello on album Miscellaneous

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

by Elvis Costello on album Miscellaneous

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

by Elvis Costello on album Secret, Profane And Sugarcane

We were dancing 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 partner

by Elvis Costello on album Miscellaneous

Here in the bar, the boys like to have fun There's a wager lost and an argument won There's a stone-washed damsel on a junk food run It's a kinder murder There's a ladder to heaven from a battered s

by Elvis Costello on album Miscellaneous

It's not the way you look that touched my heart It's not the way you kissed me, baby, that tears me apart, oh oh Many, many nights I tried, I sit alone at home and I cried over you What can I do? I ca