所属专辑:The Very Best of Elvis Costello
歌手: Elvis Costello
时长: 02:32
History repeats the old conceits[00:00:06]
The glib replies the same defeats[00:00:08]
Keep your finger on important issues[00:00:11]
With crocodile tears and a pocketful of tissues[00:00:14]
I'm just the oily slick[00:00:17]
On the windup world of the nervous tick[00:00:19]
In a very fashionable hovel[00:00:22]
I hang around dying to be tortured[00:00:25]
Youll never be alone in the bone orchard[00:00:30]
This battle with the bottle is nothing so novel[00:00:32]
So in this almost empty gin palace[00:00:38]
Through a two-way looking glass[00:00:42]
You see your alice[00:00:45]
You know she has no sense[00:00:48]
For all your jealousy[00:00:51]
In a sense she still smiles very sweetly[00:00:54]
Charged with insults and flattery[00:00:58]
Her body moves with malice[00:01:01]
Do you have to be so cruel to be callous[00:01:04]
And now you find you fit this identikit completely[00:01:09]
You say you have no secrets[00:01:14]
And then leave discreetly[00:01:18]
I might make it californias fault[00:01:20]
Be locked in genevas deepest vault[00:01:22]
Just like the canals of mars and the great barrier reef[00:01:24]
I come to you beyond belief[00:01:27]
My hands were clammy and cunning[00:01:34]
She's been suitably stunning[00:01:37]
But I know theres not a hope in hades[00:01:40]
All the laddies cat call and wolf whistle[00:01:46]
So-called gentlemen and ladies[00:01:50]
Dog fight like rose and thistle[00:01:52]
I've got a feeling[00:01:56]
I'm going to get a lot of grief[00:01:58]
Once this seemed so appealing[00:02:00]
Now I am beyond belief[00:02:03]