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

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

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

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

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

Little Triggers Elvis Costello

Little triggers that you pull with your tongue Little triggers, I don't wanna be hung up, strung up When you don't call up (CHORUS) Little sniggers on your lips Little triggers in your grip Little

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.

Heart Shaped Bruise Elvis Costello

I felt the cold hard facts of life Five degrees from freezing Does it amuse you to always Hurt me so? It try my best it's not enough Should I give up and let you? What more is there to take from me?

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

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

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

When Green Eyes Turn Blue Elvis Costello

Every single time It becomes too much There's nothing I can say Or I can touch But the glory is, as it comes passing through, I know I will be there When green eyes turn blue It's the same for

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.

Coal-Train Robberies Elvis Costello

Yesterday's coal train came to rest in the bitter cutting And as the signals took an age to change it was easy pickings So you go to the movies where they smash it up You want to feel your heart pumping

Chewing Gum Elvis Costello

With their cardboard hands by their sides, here's a naked man and lady And they're yours to cut out and keep So you can dress them up maybe They don't know just who they are, or who they're supposed to

Still Elvis Costello

These few lines I'll devote To a marvelous girl covered up with my coat Pull it up to your chin I'll hold you until the day will begin Still Lying in the shadows this new flame will cast Upon

Still (Feat. The Brodsky Quartet) Elvis Costello

These few lines I'll devote To a marvellous girl covered up with my coat Pull it up to your chin I'll hold you until the day will begin Still Lying in the shadows this new flame will cast Upon everything

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.

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

Stations Of The Cross Elvis Costello

"The tempest blows up from a squall Past the Cape of Bad Conscience Into the Gulf of the Cauldron Roars over the coastline to batter and flatten Exposing the roots like the dyed hair of slattern Scrapper

Dr. Watson, I Presume Elvis Costello

molten solder Dripping on a lacquer box Introducing keys to locks Seven talents there where hidden Mysterious and some forbidden Take the honey from the comb Ravel thread around the loom Dig the dirt up

Hand In Hand Elvis Costello

No, don't ask me to apologize I won't ask you to forgive me If I'm gonna go down, you're gonna come with me You say, "Why don't you be a man about it Like they do in the grown-up movies?"

Watching The Detectives (Live At Hollywood High/1978) Elvis Costello

They beat him up until the tear-drops start.

Complicated Shadows Elvis Costello

those Complicated Shadows Well there's a line that you must toe and it'll soon be time to go but it's darker than you know in those Complicated Shadows All you gangsters and rude clowns Who were shooting up

Blame It On Cain Elvis Costello

Government burglars took it long before I could mail it to you. Still, you are the only one. Now I can't let it slip away.

Accidents Will Happen Elvis Costello

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

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

Tramp The Dirt Down Elvis Costello

tarmacadam Well I hope that she sleeps well at night, isn't haunted by every tiny detail 'Cos when she held that lovely face in her hands all she thought of was betrayal And now the cynical ones say that it

There's A Story In Your Voice Elvis Costello

in your shoes that you've been walking 'Cause someone put the hurt in you For everyone to see And you only have to speak to tell your fortune There's a story in your voice Both by damage and by choice It

Sneaky Feelings Elvis Costello

Now everybody's breakin' up somebody else's home, before somebody else starts breaking up their own. I get you in my dreams. You should hear the things you say.

American Without Tears 2 (Twilight Version) Elvis Costello

took his piece of the pie When he packed up the casino chips, the IOU and the abacus And switched off the jukebox in a "A Fool Such as I" He was a leg man who was open to offers But he couldn't get

Home Is Anywhere You Hang Your Head Elvis Costello

Misery He'll never be any good with a mouth full of gold and blood He's contemplating murder again He must be in love Chorus: But you know she doesn't want But you can't seem to get it in

Dissolve Elvis Costello

Sugar cube drop into a yellow cup What makes the world just waking up Revolve? Dissolve Who know where on earth it's going to stop?

Deep Dark Truthful Mirror Elvis Costello

the boots of roustabouts But you're never in any doubt something happening somewhere You chase down the road till your fingers bleed On a fiberglass tumbleweed You can blow around the town but it

Radio Radio Elvis Costello

receiver When the switch broke 'cause it's old They're saying things that I can hardly believe They really think we're getting out of control (CHORUS) Radio is a sound salvation Radio is cleaning up

Radio, Radio Elvis Costello

the receiver When the switch broke 'cause it's old They're saying things that I can hardly believe They really think we're getting out of control (CHORUS) Radio is a sound salvation Radio is cleaning up

Poison Moon Elvis Costello

of sight And these bones, they don't look so good to me Jokers talk and they all disagree One day soon, I will laugh right in the face of the poison moon You look in the mirror I'm sorry, but it

45 Elvis Costello

Nine years later a child is born Theres a record, so you put it on 45 Nine years more, if were lucky now Nine-year-old puts his money down 45 Every scratch. every click, every heartbeat Every breath that

Tart Elvis Costello

Hear silver trumpets will trill in Arabic streets of Seville Oranges roll in the gutter And you pick them up And peel back the skin To the red fruit within But the flavour is Tart And the flavour is Tart

The Judgement Elvis Costello

There'll be lies, there'll be tears A jury of your peers With a pitiful look of experience Hand down the judgement And if I done wrong And loved you too long Stand up and just testify How can you deny?

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

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.

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

Church Underground Elvis Costello

Sing ""Hallelujah,"" Sister Turn up the volume, just to turn it down The trivial secrets buried with profound It's enough to put a church underground It's enough to put a church underground Deflowered

A Voice In The Dark Elvis Costello

overflowing And I suddenly seem to be all seeing and all knowing I've got something right there You might want to hear I have no fear Lend a hand Lend an ear If your rent-money is in arrears We'll be striking up

Sour Milk Cow Blues Elvis Costello

here instead Sour milk cow blues sour milk cow blues You take your place in this parade of pleas You dial a number and they offer relief All alone with just your own device They give you something and it

Stalin Malone Elvis Costello

I'm going to make you even fear the dream you dream So don't even think about it don't make a wish You think that I don't see you as you trawl those young weak fish Hooked on those poor wonders, 'til they

Bedlam Elvis Costello

them I lay down on an iron frame Found myself in bedlam I wish that I could take something for drowning out the noise Wailing echoes down the corridors I've got this imaginary radio, and I'm punching up

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

Less Than Zero Elvis Costello

Turn up the TV. No one listening will suspect, even your mother won't detect it, no your father won't know. they think that I've got no respect but everything means less than zero.