by Elvis Costello & The Attractions on album The Best of Elvis Costello in Concert

Nice girls, not one with a defect Cellophane shrink-wrapped, so correct Red dogs under illegal legs She looks so good that he gets down and begs She is watching the detectives Ooh, he's so cute, she

by Elvis Costello & The Attractions on album The Best of Elvis Costello in Concert

The family circle gathers 'round from very far and near To pass around the same remarks they passed away last year The little girl you dangled on your knee without mishap Stirs something in your memor

by Elvis Costello & The Attractions on album The Very Best of Elvis Costello

She wears a wedding ring her sister lent To throw them off the scent Just let them guess, it's what they expect Who in the world has bitten her neck? She's discovered wearing last night's dress The c

by Elvis Costello & The Attractions on album The Very Best of Elvis Costello

I tried in vain to drive myself insane I talk to myself but I don't listen I found out what I was missing I miss talking in the dark Without you, I'm not conversational Without the sense of the occas

by Elvis Costello & The Attractions on album The Very Best of Elvis Costello

I tried in vain to drive myself insane I talk to myself but I don't listen I found out what I was missing I miss talking in the dark Without you, I'm not conversational Without the sense of the occas

by Elvis Costello & The Attractions on album The Best of Elvis Costello and The Attractions

Don't say a word, don't say anything Don't say a word, I'm not even listening I read in the papers about their escape They're just two bitter kids from a bunch of sour grapes You better watch your ste

by Elvis Costello & The Attractions on album The Very Best of Elvis Costello and The Attractions

Don't say a word, don't say anything Don't say a word, I'm not even listening I read in the papers about their escape They're just two bitter kids from a bunch of sour grapes You better watch your ste

by Elvis Costello & The Attractions on album The Best of Elvis Costello and The Attractions

Nice girls, not one with a defect Cellophane shrink-wrapped, so correct Red dogs under illegal legs She looks so good that he gets down and begs She is watching the detectives Ooh, he's so cute, she

by Elvis Costello on album Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz Radio Broadcast (With Special Guest 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 slumb

by Elvis Costello on album Girls +£÷ Girls =$& Girls: The Songs of Elvis Costello / The Sounds of Elvis Costello & The Attractions

calling mister oswald with the swastika tatoo there is a vacancy waiting in the English voodoo varving 'v' for vandal on the guilty boy's head when he's had enough maybe you can take him to bed to tea

by Elvis Costello on album Girls +£÷ Girls =$& Girls: The Songs of Elvis Costello / The Sounds of Elvis Costello & The Attractions

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

by Elvis Costello on album Girls +£÷ Girls =$& Girls: The Songs of Elvis Costello / The Sounds of Elvis Costello & The Attractions

We play these parlor games We play at make believe When we get to the part Where I say that I'm going to leave Everybody loves a happy ending But we don't even try We go straight past pretending To t

by Elvis Costello on album Girls +£÷ Girls =$& Girls: The Songs of Elvis Costello / The Sounds of Elvis Costello & The Attractions

You lie so unfolded in a love field With your contempt for any modesty In a love field In a love field, in a love field You yield with your lips still sealed In a love field Lost in a sea of imagina

by Elvis Costello on album Girls +£÷ Girls =$& Girls: The Songs of Elvis Costello / The Sounds of Elvis Costello & The Attractions

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 b

by Elvis Costello on album Girls +£÷ Girls =$& Girls: The Songs of Elvis Costello / The Sounds of Elvis Costello & The Attractions

Oh it's so funny to be seeing you after so long, girl And with the way you look I understand That you were not impressed but I heard You let that little friend of mine Take off your party dress I'm n

by Elvis Costello on album Girls +£÷ Girls =$& Girls: The Songs of Elvis Costello / The Sounds of Elvis Costello & The Attractions

Cheap cut satin and bad perfume Showtime is almost here Tears stop by your strength Caught you laughing up your sleeve Sniggering in your beer Seen the bottom of a lot of glasses But he's never seen

by Elvis Costello on album Girls +£÷ Girls =$& Girls: The Songs of Elvis Costello / The Sounds of Elvis Costello & The Attractions

Sheep to the slaughter, oh I thought this must be love All your sons and daughters in a strangle hold with a kid glove She's got eyes like saucers, oh you think she's a dish She is the blue chip that

by Elvis Costello on album Girls +£÷ Girls =$& Girls: The Songs of Elvis Costello / The Sounds of Elvis Costello & The Attractions

I was looking at the black and white world It seemed so exciting If you'd only put me back to back with that girl When the night's inviting With just a little lighting There'll never be days like that

by Elvis Costello on album Girls +£÷ Girls =$& Girls: The Songs of Elvis Costello / The Sounds of Elvis Costello & The Attractions

Oh, I used to be disgusted Now I try to be amused But since their wings have got rusted You know the angels wanna wear my red shoes But when they told me 'bout their side of the bargain That's when I

by Elvis Costello on album Girls +£÷ Girls =$& Girls: The Songs of Elvis Costello / The Sounds of Elvis Costello & The Attractions

History repeats the old conceits The glib replies, the same defeats Keep your finger on important issues With crocodile tears and a pocketful of tissues I'm just the oily slick On the windup world of