Watching The Detectives (Live) Elvis Costello, The Imposters

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 is

Watching The Detectives (Live) Elvis Costello & The Imposters

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 is watching

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.

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

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

Watching The Detectives Elvis Costello

She is watching the detectives. "ooh, he's so cute!" She is watching the detectives when they shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot.

Radio Radio (Live) Elvis Costello & The Imposters

I was tuning in the shine on the light night dial Doing anything my radio advised With every one of those late night stations Playing songs bringing tears to me eyes I was seriously thinking about hiding

National Ransom (Live) Elvis Costello & The Imposters

Runnin` pell mell and harum scarum Runnin` as hot as they do or dare Stick out your tongue and drink down all the venom Off Cut Throat Cuthbert and Millicent StCy From the real old Macau To the new False

Stella Hurt (Live) Elvis Costello, The Imposters

You should wear your red galoshes Walking o`er the city pride Streets are paved with heaven`s pennies Gutters full of suicides Teddy steadily fell from graceful Somewhere near Arcadia Once she overheard

Stella Hurt (Live) Elvis Costello & The Imposters

You should wear your red galoshes Walking o`er the city pride Streets are paved with heaven`s pennies Gutters full of suicides Teddy steadily fell from graceful Somewhere near Arcadia Once she overheard

Mystery Dance (Live) Elvis Costello, The Imposters

Romeo was restless he was ready to kill He jumped out the window `cause he couldn`t sit still Juliet was waiting with a safety net He said Don`t bury me `cause I`m not dead yet Why don`t you tell

Mystery Dance (Live) Elvis Costello & The Imposters

Romeo was restless he was ready to kill He jumped out the window `cause he couldn`t sit still Juliet was waiting with a safety net He said Don`t bury me `cause I`m not dead yet Why don`t you tell me about

Lipstick Vogue (Live) Elvis Costello & The Imposters

Don`t say you love me when it`s just a rumor Don`t say a word if there is any doubt Sometimes I think that love is just a tumor You`ve got to cut it out You say you`re sorry for the things that you`ve

All Grown Up (Live) Elvis Costello, The Imposters

comparison 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

All Grown Up (Live) Elvis Costello & The Imposters

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

Out Of Time (Live) Elvis Costello & The Imposters

So this is where he came to hide When he ran from you In a private detective`s overcoat And dirty dead man`s shoes The pretty things of Knightsbridge Lying for a minister of state Are a far cry from the

Heart Of The City (Live) Elvis Costello & The Imposters

We`re in the heart of the city Where the alligator roams I`m a little lost lamb Ain`t got no place to go I ain`t got one penny Just got a shirt on my back I left home in a hurry I ain`t never goin` back

I Want You (Live) Elvis Costello, The Imposters

Oh my baby baby I love you more than I can tell I don`t think I can live without you and I know that I never will Oh my baby baby I want you so it scares me to death I can`t say anymore than I love

I Want You (Live) Elvis Costello & The Imposters

Oh my baby baby I love you more than I can tell I don`t think I can live without you and I know that I never will Oh my baby baby I want you so it scares me to death I can`t say anymore than I love you

Man Out Of Time (Live) Elvis Costello, The Imposters

So this is where he came to hide When he ran from you In a private detective`s overcoat And dirty dead man`s shoes Incomprehensible Knightsbridge For a minister of state Is a far cry from the nod

Man Out Of Time (Live) Elvis Costello & The Imposters

Here at traitor`s gate `Cause the high heel he used to be Has been ground down And he listens for the footsteps That would follow him around To murder my love is a crime But will you still love A man

God Give Me Strength (Live) Elvis Costello, The Imposters

Now I have nothing, so God give me strength 'Cause I'm weak in her wake And if I'm strong I might still break And I don't have anything to share That I won't throw away into the air That song is sung

God Give Me Strength (Live) Elvis Costello & The Imposters

Now I have nothing so God give me strength `Cause I`m weak in herhiswake And if I`m strong I might still break And I don`t have anything to share That I won`t throw away into the air That song is sung

Everyday I Write The Book (Live) Elvis Costello & The Imposters

and six And I`m giving you a longing look Everyday everyday everyday everyday everyday Everyday I write the book The way you walk the way you talk and try to kiss me And laugh in four or five paragraphs

I Hope You're Happy Now (Live) Elvis Costello, The Imposters

He`s a fine figure of a man and handsome too With his eyes upon the secret places he`d like to undo Still he knows who knows who and where and how And I hope you`re happy now He`s got all the things

I Hope You're Happy Now (Live) Elvis Costello & The Imposters

He`s a fine figure of a man and handsome too With his eyes upon the secret places he`d like to undo Still he knows who knows who and where and how And I hope you`re happy now He`s got all the things you

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

Clubland (Live) Elvis Costello

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 a higher

(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding (Live) Elvis Costello, The Imposters

As i walk through This wicked world Searchin` for light in the darkness of insanity I ask myself Is all hope lost Is there only pain and hatred and misery And each time i feel like this inside There

(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding (Live) Elvis Costello & The Imposters

As i walk through This wicked world Searchin` for light in the darkness of insanity I ask myself Is all hope lost Is there only pain and hatred and misery And each time i feel like this inside There`s

(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes (Live At Hollywood High) Elvis Costello

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 knew that I could not refuse.

Favourite Hour (Live) Elvis Costello

Figure hanging on a leather band Cog consults the watch he cups in his hand Bejewelled movement measures lost and vanished time Pray for the boy who makes his bed in cold earth and quicklime [Chorus

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

Tear Off Your Own Head (It's A Doll Revolution) (Live) Elvis Costello, The Imposters

Who dries your eyes when you cry real tears Who knows or cares what an imitation is Only you do You can paint his nails make him wear high heels Why waste time alterin` the hemline Or do you Tear

Tear Off Your Own Head (It's A Doll Revolution) (Live) Elvis Costello & The Imposters

Who dries your eyes when you cry real tears Who knows or cares what an imitation is Only you do You can paint his nails make him wear high heels Why waste time alterin` the hemline Or do you Tear off your

Satellite Elvis Costello

air, champagne rolls off her tongue Like a second language And it should have been her biggest night The satellite looks down on her as she begins to cry All over the world at the very same time people

Almost Blue (Live) Elvis Costello

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

Episode Of Blonde (Live) Elvis Costello

I spy for the "Spirit of Curiosity" All the scandals of each vain monstrosity I gossip and I pry and I insinuate If the failure is great Then it tends to fascinate A tornado dropped a funnel cloud with

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

Almost Ideal Eyes (Live) Elvis Costello

Here she comes with her almost ideal eyes And her flawless skin and her petulant pout The memory of such a long blond alibi Still makes me want to shout out loud You ** when you clear your head my

Speak Darkly My Angel (Live) Elvis Costello

The sweetness has gone out of it And all that's left is bitter barren greed A needy lover with her almost vanished liar Entangled as the gloom is strangled by the clinging brier That ventures out to gather

Put Away Forbidden Playthings (Live) Elvis Costello

Put away forbidden playthings Amusements and distractions And dismantle the contraption and carry it away In time as beauty dissolves into glamor It slips from your heart and falls under the hammer Put

God Give Me Strength (Live) Elvis Costello

Now I have nothing, so God give me strength 'Cause I'm weak in her wake And if I'm strong I might still break And I don't have anything to share That I won't throw away into the air That song is sung out

Goon Squad (LIve At Hollywood High) Elvis Costello

Goon Squad Elvis Costello & the Attractions Armed Forces (1979) Mother, Father, I'm here in the zoo I can't come home 'cause I've grown up too soon I got my sentence I got my command They said they'd

The Beat (LIve At Hollywood High) Elvis Costello

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 your toy?

Mystery Dance (Live At Hollywood High) Elvis Costello

Romeo was restless, he was ready to kill He jumped out the window 'cause he couldn't sit still Juliet was waiting with a safety net He said, "Don't bury me 'cause I'm not dead yet" Why don't you tell

Can You Be True? (Live) Elvis Costello

be nights when clouds deny us starlight Only time will tell us I hope that it speaks gently if it isn't meant to be Then again By then we might not be listening so attentively I will be there If the

The Deportees Club Elvis Costello

In the Arrivederci Roma nightclub bar and grill Standing in the fibreglass ruins watching time stand still All your troubles you confess to another faceless backless dress Schnapps Chianti Porter and Ouzo

Lipstick Vogue (Live At Hollywood High) Elvis Costello

You say you're sorry for the things that you've done. You say you're sorry but you know you don't mean it. I wouldn't worry. I had so much fun.

No Action (Live At Hollywood High) Elvis Costello

were just good friends But when I hold you like I hold that Bakelite in my hands There's no action, there's no action, there's no action Ev'ry time I phone you, I just want to put you down He's got the

Miracle Man (Live At Hollywood High) Elvis Costello

Miracle Man Elvis Costello My Aim is True (1977) You never asked me what I wanted. You only asked me why.