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26.07.2009
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After The Fall

After The Fall

In an anonymous rendezvous
Where the forbidden lovers repair
They’re burning down another damn candle
They’re melting the tables and chairs

Beneath them applause from the balcony
whenever they accomplished making love
Other times they thought they heard laughter
Coming from the balcony above

Chorus:
She lies to his right and she carelessly recites
All of her brand new appetites
She seems brittle and small, it don’t sound like her at all
Since she came back to him after the fall

She said “You never visit the countryside”
“So I’ve made you a country to order”
She put up a little tent in the bedroom
Crickets played on a tape-recorder
The ceiling was festooned with phosphorous stars
She noticed his skin turning cold
Burning all his clothes on the bonfire
“Relax” she whispered and tightened the blindfold

Chorus

You’ve changed but not for the better babe
I’d tell you why but what’s the use
‘Cos it’s the same kind of pity
A drunkard gives as his excuse
You were sharp and ideal as a bobby pin
Now your eyes are deserted and quiet
We both look like those poor shattered mannequins
Thrown through the window in the riot

She lies in his arms and without any qualms
Revels in shallow delights
She seems brittle and small, it don’t sound like her at all
Since she came back to him after the fall​
 

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All Grown Up

All Grown Up

“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 unflattering comparison

Chorus:
All grown up
And you don’t care anymore
And you hate all the people that you used to adore
And you despise all the rumors and lies of the life you led before

Did I hear you right?
You’re feeling hounded and pushed around
You want to just lay down and die
If all of this life has been such a big disappointment to you
Why don’t you stop blaming some guy
And go give the next one a try

Chorus

But look at yourself
You’ll see you’re still so young
You haven’t earned the weariness
That sounds so jaded on your tongue

“I’m weak” she says
And blesses herself and gets into bed
Clutching the covers to her throat
“So punish me now and let me go back to the sham of my life”
“This night is the perfect antidote for all of the poison that
You wrote”

Chorus​
 

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Inch By Inch

Inch By Inch

You can take a powder
You can take a drink
You can keep the shrink
And the kitchen sink
Write my name in heaven
in invisible ink
I just woke up from dreaming, I think

You can take me over
You can give me a lip
You can take me under
You can give me the slip
Take off everything or tear me off a strip
Like a lady in the chamber
And another in the clip

Chorus:
Don’t move a muscle baby
Don’t even flinch
You can miss me by a mile
Or just inch by inch
Inch by inch
Inch by inch
Inch by inch
You can pull me up again
Inch by inch
Inch by inch
As pulses race
I long to see that look upon your face

You can take me outside
You can take me apart
You can take me upstairs
You can take me to heart
You made me love you when
You thought you were so smart
Don’t try to stop me when
You told me to start

Chorus​
 

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I Wanna Be Loved

I Wanna Be Loved

Why must I be so lonely?
When so many people pass me by
I’ve been waiting for oh so long now
And yet I’m unable to answer 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 for a lot of my life
Shouldn’t there be someone
Someone for me?
I hope and I pray some happy day
That I’ll be around to hear you say
I wanna be loved
I just wanna be loved​
 

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I Want To Vanish

I Want To Vanish

Elvis Costello & The Brodsky Quartet

I want to vanish
This is my fondest wish
To go where I cannot be captured
Laid on a decorated dish
Even in splendor this curious fate
Is more than I care to surrender
Now it’s too late

Whether in wonder or indecent haste
You arrange the mirrors and the spools
To snare the rare and precious jewels
That were only made of paste

If you should stumble upon my last remark
I’m crying in the wilderness
I’m trying my best to make it dark
How can I tell you I’m rarer than most
I’m certain as a lost dog
Pondering a sign post

Chorus

I want to vanish
This is my last request
I’ve given you the awful truth
Now give me my rest​
 

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You Belong To Me

You Belong To Me

What are you girls gonna tell your mother?
I don’t want to hear another word about young lovers
or hiding your boyfriend in the cupboard.
She’s been to see the doctor, so you hope that she recovers.

You act dumb.
You say you’re so numb.
You say you don’t come
under his thumb.

Don’t wanna be a goody-goody.
I don’t want just anybody.
No, I don’t want anybody
saying ‘You belong to me. You belong to me.’

Your eyes are absent, your mouth is silent;
pumping like a fire hydrant.
Things you see are getting hard to swallow.
You’re easily led, but you’re much too scared to follow.

You’ve been warned.
You’re going to get torn.
No uniform is gonna keep you warm.​
 

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Worthless Thing

Worthless Thing

How many times can you jump out of the cupboard
Before someone gets suspicious or someone gets discovered
You can live forever in a split second of fame
Come on down the price is right what’s your name
While a crocodile makes good shoes and a dog may change his coat
I can’t change what’s written on your face tonight and I quote

Chorus:
Oh I wish you could see
Quite how much you could mean to me
You worthless thing
If you were ten feet taller and almost handsome
I might pay this king’s ransom
You worthless thing

They commit blue murder along Union Avenue
Then they sell you souvenir matches
Nightclubs full of grave robbers from Memphis, Tennessee
And Las Vegas body snatchers
And he’s carrying a warning can’t you see how his eyes glint
Keep your bloody hands off my life your affectionate fingerprint

Chorus

All the cars and pills and girls who tore his shirt to tatters
Do you know how tall he was ‘cos that is all that really matters?
Do you know his mother’s last name do you think that he’s divine?
You’ve seen the film you’ve read the book
you’re drinking vintage Elvis Presley wine

Bored out of your tiny mind while life is twice as large
They’ll cut her down to size on television
She’s available and beautiful, but with more time to devote
They’re going to take this cable now and stick it down your throat
So this is an obituary which should be right and fitting
For every clockwork cat and conceivable kitten

Chorus​
 

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Član
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Why Don’t You Love Me (like you used to do)?

Why Don’t You Love Me (like you used to do)?

Why don’t you love me like you used to do?
How come you treat me like a worn out shoe?
My hair is still curly and my eyes are still blue
Why don’t you love me like you used to do?

Ain’t had no lovin’ like a-huggin’ and a-kissin’ in a long, long while
We don’t get nearer, further, closer than a country mile

Why don’t you be the sort you used to be?
How come you find so many faults with me?
I’m the same old trouble that you’ve always been through
Why don’t you love me like you used to do?

Ain’t had no lovin’ like a-huggin’ and a-kissin’ in a long, long while
We don’t get nearer, further, closer than a country mile

Why don’t you spark me like you used to do?
Say sweet nothings like you used to coo
Somebody’s changed, so let me give you a clue
Why don’t you love me like you used to do?​
 

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Član
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Lovable

Lovable

Chorus:
It’s going round the town
It’s going round the town
It’s going round the town
You’re so lovable

My baby gave me notice to quit
I just can’t get used to it
She broke my little heart in two
Now somebody else is being the same old you

Chorus

My baby has Egyptian eyes
And a wicked look beyond compare
If you thought I was a fool for you
Then I must be a bigger fool for her

Chorus

He’d turn the flowers of springtime into a wreath
He says he’d love you eternally
I say please please can’t you keep it brief

They say they’re going to bury you
Because you’re so lovable
Put your money where your mouth was
You’re so lovable
Each tender mumble brings us closer to bedlam
You’re so lovable
The toast of the town and the talk of the bedroom
You’re so lovable

You’re so sweet
You’re so honest
You say `I’ll be true to you boy’
But I won’t promise
Then you say you love me
Then you show me
As you lie there so lifelike below me

Chorus​
 

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Član
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26.07.2009
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The Birds Will Still Be Singing

The Birds Will Still Be Singing

Summertime withers as the sun descends
He wants to kiss you. Will you condescend?
Before you wake and find a chill within your bones
Under a fine canopy of lover’s dust and humourous bones
Banish all dismay
Extinguish every sorrow
Eternity stinks, my darling. That’s no joke
Don’t waste your precious time pretending you’re
heartbroken
There will be tears and candles
Pretty words to say
Spare me lily-white lillies
With the awful perfume of decay
Banish all dismay
Extinguish every sorrow
If I’m lost or I’m forgiven
The birds will still be singing

It’s so hard to tear myself away
Even when you know it’s over
It’s too much to say.
Banish all dismay
Extinguish every sorrow
If I’m lost or I’m forgiven
The birds will still be singing​
 
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