Elvis Costello

[GKZ]

Days

Days

Thank you for the days
Those endless days those sacred days you gave me
I’m thinking of the days
I won’t forget a single day believe me

I bless the light
I bless the light that shines on you believe me
And though you’re gone
You’re with me every single day believe me

Days I remember all my life
Days where you can’t see wrong from right
You took my life
And then I knew that very soon you’d leave me

But it’s alright
Now I’m not frightened of this world believe me
I wish today could be tomorrow
The night is dark
It just brings sorrow let it wait

Thank you for the days
Those endless days those sacred days you gave me
I’m thinking of the days
I won’t forget a single day believe me

I bless the light
I bless the light that shines on you believe me
And though you’re gone
You’re with me every single day believe me
Days I remember all my life
Days where you can’t see wrong from right
You took my life
And then I knew that very soon you’d leave me

But it’s alright
Now I’m not frightened of this world believe me...days

Thank you for the days
Those endless days those sacred days you gave me
I’m thinking of the days
I won’t forget a single day believe me

I bless the light
I bless the light that shines on you believe me
And though you’re gone
You’re with me every single day believe me...days​

 

[GKZ]

Colour Of The Blues

Colour Of The Blues

Up above me are the skies
Like the twinkle in your eyes
Blue must be the colour of the blues
In the mail, the letters came
But you can’t pay for love the same
Blue must be the colour of the blues

The bluebird singin’ in the trees
Seems to sympathize with me
‘Cause he’s not singin’ like he used to do
Pretty waters in the sea
Feel as cold as you left me
Blue must be the colour of the blues

Blue days come and blue days go
The way I feel, nobody knows
Life is finally empty without you
There’s a blue note in each song
That I sing since you’ve been gone
Blue must be the colour of the blues​

 

[GKZ]

Boy With A Problem

Boy With A Problem

I feel like a boy with a problem
I can’t believe what we’ve forgotten
And I even slapped your face and made you cry

It’s the last thing I want to do
Pull the curtains on me and you
Pull the carpet from under love
Pull out like young lovers do

You swore you wouldn’t shout
If it’s not your punch then its your pout
Days in silence try my temper
Nights spent drinking to remember
How memories are always tender

I crept out last night behind your back
The little they know might be the pieces I lack
Came home drunk
Talking in circles
The spirit is willing but I don’t believe in miracles
I’ve got a problem but let’s go to bed
I can roll over and I can play dead
But here I am in the doghouse instead

I feel like a boy with a problem
I can’t believe all you’ve forgotten
Sleeping with forgiveness in your heart for me​

 

[GKZ]

Blue Chair

Blue Chair

Now it’s just you and me, my blue friend
And you say that it’s you that she’s thinking of
And our affair must end
But if it’s you that she’s thinking of
I think my broken heart might mend

Chorus: Now it’s my turn to talk and your turn to think
Your turn to buy and my turn to drink
Your turn to cry and my turn to sink down in the Blue Chair
Down in the Blue Chair

Now I’ve made up my mind I’ve made my mistake
And I know that she cries for you
When she’s barely awake
Well she’s going to bend your mind
Well I hope it don’t break

Chorus

Down in the Blue Chair
We can watch our troubles rise
Like smoke into the air
And drift up to the ceiling
Down in the Blue Chair
You can feel just like a boy or a man
And next minute you can find yourself kneeling
Down in the Blue Chair
They’re boasting of loving the daylights right out of her in the small hours
Down in the Blue Chair
You say that your love lasts forever when you know the night just hours

And still I want her right now
Not any minute, hour or day
And wherever she is tonight
I want her anyway
I suppose she never said to you,
You were just in the way

Chorus

Down in the Blue Chair
Down in the blue
Blue becomes you
Down in the Blue Chair​

 

[GKZ]

Accidents will happen

Accidents will happen

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 home
Without a chaperone

Accidents will happen
We only hit and run
He used to be your victim
Now you’re not the only one

Accidents will happen
We only hit and run
I don’t want to hear it
‘Cause I know what I’ve done

There’s so many fish in the sea
That only rise up in the sweat and smoke like mercury
But they keep you hanging on
They say you’re so young
Your mind is made up but your mouth is undone

Chorus

And it’s the damage that we do
And never know
It’s the words that we don’t say
That scare me so

There’s so many people to see
So many people you can check up on
And add to your collection
But they keep you hanging on
Until you’re well hung
Your mouth is made up but your mind is undone

Chorus

I know, I know, (repeat)​

 

[GKZ]

All This Useless Beauty

All This Useless Beauty

It’s at times such as this she’d be tempted to spit
If she wasn’t so ladylike
She imagines how she might have lived
Back when legends and history collide
So she looks to her prince finding he’s so charmingly
Slumped at her side
Those days are recalled on the gallery wall
And she’s waiting for passion or humour to strike

What shall we do, what shall we do with all this useless beauty?
All this useless beauty

Good Friday arrived, the sky darkened on time
‘Til he almost began to negotiate
She held his head like a baby and said “It’s okay if you cry”
Now he wants her to dress as if you couldn’t guess
He desires to impress his associates
But he’s part ugly beast and Hellenic deceased
So she finds that the mixture is hard to deny

Chorus

She won’t practice the looks from the great tragic books
That were later disgraced to face celluloid
It won’t even make sense but you can bet
If she isn’t a sweetheart or plaything or pet
The film turns her into an unveiled threat

Nonsense prevails, modesty fails
Grace and virtue turn into stupidity
While the calendar fades almost all barricades to a pale compromise
And our leaders have feasts on the backsides of beasts
They still think they’re the gods of antiquity
If something you missed didn’t even exist
It was just an ideal -- is it such a surprise?

Chorus (2x)​

 

[GKZ]

Baby It’s You

Baby It’s You

(Sha, la, la, la...)
It’s not the way you look that touched my heart.
It’s not the way you kissed me, baby, that tears me apart.
Many, many nights I tried. I sit alone at home and I cried over you.
What can I do? I can’t help myself, cause baby, it’s you.

You should hear the things they say about you.
They say you’re never, ever, ever, ever gonna be true. Oh.
I don’t listen to a word they say. I’m gonna love you any old way.
What can I do? It’s true. I can’t help myself, cause baby, it’s you.

I don’t listen to a word they say. I’m gonna love you any old way.
What can I do? It’s true. I can’t help myself, cause baby, it’s you.
Baby, it’s you.​

 

[GKZ]

Almost blue

Almost blue

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 blue
Flirting with this disaster became me
It named me as the fool who only aimed to be

Almost blue
It’s almost touching it will almost do
There’s a part of me that’s always true...always
Not all good things come to an end now it is only a chosen few
I’ve seen such an unhappy couple

Almost me
Almost you
Almost blue​

 

[GKZ]

Why Can’t A Man Stand Alone?

Why Can’t A Man Stand Alone?

Why can’t a man stand alone?
Must he be burdened by all that he’s taught to consider his own?
His skin and his station, his kin and his crown, his flag and his nation
They just weigh him down
You know pride is a sin that we tend to forgive
But it gets hard to live
When you don’t have the love in her heart to begin with
Why can’t a man stand alone?

Why can’t a woman be just what she seems?
Must she be tarnished by men who can only be men in their dreams?
When beauty meets ignorance they shout in the street
Repeating their offer to each girl they meet
The respect that she needs, it isn’t a gift
But it gets hard to lift yourself up
When you don’t have the strength to begin with
Why can’t a woman stand alone?

Why can’t a baby sleep at night and dream of the time to come
And never fear the world outside the touch of someone very near
Why can’t a man stand up?
Why can’t a man stand up?
Why can’t a man stand alone?​

 

[GKZ]

13 Steps Lead Down

13 Steps Lead Down

When nobody knows she puts on secret clothes
And lies in the meadow with her hands tied behind her back
I won't refuse if you know how to use it
Just stop playing that ugly drug music

CHORUS:
Thirteen steps lead down
Thirteen steps lead down
There's commoners and kings
And everyone's a prisoner of
Paper and glue
And a decent pair of scissors
So tonight I'm drinking to your health
Because I just can't stand myself

Thirteen steps lead down [4x]

She stands and fails
On fashion fingernails
Her lovers have her walking 'round
On instruments of torture
And one of them is poisonous
The other is a thief they say
So what one could give to her
The other cannot take away

When nobody knows she puts on secret clothes
And lies in her splendour for a picture opportunity
Cover up that bruise, put on patent leather shoes
Just stop playing that bad mood music

CHORUS

Thirteen steps lead down [4x]​