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

She is watching the detectives when they shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot.

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.

Alison (Live At Hollywood High/1978) Elvis Costello

Well, it's so funny to be seein ya after so long girl by the way look, I understand that you are not impressed I heard you let that little friend of mine take off your party dress I'm not gonna get

This Year's Girl (Live At Hollywood High) Elvis Costello

This Year's Girl Elvis Costello This Years Model (1978) See her picture in a thousand places 'cause she's this year's girl You think you all own little pieces of this year's girl Forget your fancy

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.

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

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

Watching The Detectives (Live) Elvis Costello, The Imposters

watching the detectives when they shoot shoot shoot shoot 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

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

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

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.

Lip Service (Live At Hollywood High) Elvis Costello

You left the motor running But I know you're so attractive Getting in some sharp practice You better not do anything reckless But everybody is going through the motions Everybody is going through

Pump It Up (Live At Hollywood High) Elvis Costello

I've been on tenterhooks, ending in dirty looks List'ning to the Muzak, thinking 'bout this 'n' that She said, That's that, I don't want to chitter-chat Turn it down a little bit or turn it down flat

(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.

(I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea (Live At Hollywood High) Elvis Costello

Photographs of fancy tricks to get your kicks at sixty-six He thinks of all the lips that he licks And all the girls that he's going to fix She gave a little flirt, gave herself a little cuddle But

Waiting For The End Of The World (Live At Hollywood High) Elvis Costello

Waiting for the End of the World Elvis Costello My Aim is True (1977) The man from the television crawled into the train. I wonder who he's gonna stick it in this time?

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

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

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

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

Living In Paradise Elvis Costello

the perks 'Cause when they pull the shutters down and throw up in the dark They'll find that all the dogs outside bite much worse than they bark (CHORUS) Here we are living in paradise, living in

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

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

Couldn't Call It Unexpected No. 4 Elvis Costello

got his bones and everything he owns I've got his name" Well you can laugh at this sentimental story But in time you'll have to make amends The sudden chill where lovers doubt their immortality As the

(I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea (Live) Elvis Costello

Photographs of fancy tricks to get your kicks at sixty-six He thinks of all the lips that he licks And all the girls that he's going to fix She gave a little flirt, gave herself a little cuddle But there's

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

I'm In The Mood Again 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

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

Tear Off Your Own Head ( It's A Doll Revolution) Elvis Costello

Only you do You can paint his nails Make him wear high heels Why waste time altering the hemline? Or do you?

Tear Off Your Own Head (It's A Doll Revolution) Elvis Costello

Only you do You can paint his nails Make him wear high heels Why waste time altering the hemline? Or do you?

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

Sparkling Day Elvis Costello

now you can tell by the way I use my walk I'm a woman's man no time to talk Music loud and women warm I've been kicked around since I was born now it's all right it's OK And you may look the

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

She's Pulling Out The Pin Elvis Costello

"She's pulling out the pin That lets her hair fall down She shakes her head and It goes tumbling Her smile was out of place So she swept it off her face Let me find the words and say them Like some softly

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

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

Tramp The Dirt Down Elvis Costello

I know, I'd like to live long enough to savour That's when they finally put you in the ground I'll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down When England was the whore of the world Margeret [sic] was

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

(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes 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.

Name Of This Thing Is Not Love Elvis Costello

"There's a part of this feeling That I just cannot kill But the name of this thing is not love And I can't take a potion And I won't take a pill So it tortures me still But the name of this thing is not

My Flame Burns Blue (Blood Count) (Live) Elvis Costello

As the last light glimmers And the evening hours dim Maybe I'm too proud to utter it out loud Even though my flame burns blue As the night's descending Once again I find I'll tarry and pretend My confidential

Upon A Veil Of Midnight Blue (Live) Elvis Costello

Upon a veil of midnight blue There hung a crescent moon To light the view But you didn't whisper the words When the moment arose I wonder how she knows You find your tongue is tied Your words escape and

The Name Of This Thing Is Not Love Elvis Costello

love You start entertaining such a terrible thought Life is so very short And the name of this thing is not love There's a bruise on her arm, and some blood on the floor But the name of this thing is

That's How You Got Killed Before (Live) Elvis Costello

Well, you're standing on the corner, flagging all the girls you see Now do like EC and let those ladies be You know that's wrong, man, you know that's wrong Boy, you better get control, that's how you

Jimmie Standing In The Rain Elvis Costello

bread curling on a luncheon counter Loose change lonely, not the right amount Forgotten man of an indifferent nation Waiting on a platform at a Lancashire station Somebody's calling you again The sky

The Other Side Of Summer Elvis Costello

From the foaming breakers of the poisonous surf The other side of Summer To the burning forests in the hills of Astroturf The other side of Summer The automatic gates close up between the shanties and