Oh, I just don't know where to begin. Love doesn't wait forever. It's now or never. But she keeps 'em hangin' on. You said you're so alone. She says she can't go home without a chaperon.
You can read right through a book of matches. But that won't make you smart. You can laugh in the face of watches. But time will only break your heart.
Big nothing.. . He stood in the road outside of town with a broken clockwork toy in. his hand: A graveyard for childish dreams in his palm; a broken lifeline..
The snitch, the snoop, the tattletale lead a threadbare up the stairs. Adieu, my little ballyhoo, you broke my heart in two. And now I haunt the bars and scent those trite affairs.
5ive gears in reverse, girls looking for the big lift. Somebody send out for the night nurse. Please don't stick me on the late shift. . If you don't know by now.
"What is your destiny?", the policewoman said. (20% amnesia). The word that she wanted was destination, I'm afraid. (20% amnesia). . This is your future, boy, this is your fate.
Bells are chiming for victory. There's a page back in history. 45. They came back to the world that they fought for. Didn't turn out just like they thought.
15 Petals. One for every year I spent with you. Jewels and precious metals will never do. . I love you twisted. And I love you straight. I'd write it down but I can't concentrate.
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.
If only dust could talk. What would we hear it say?. Before it's brushed aside. Just as it's swept away. . It's just the evidence. It's of no consequence.
That Charlie Sedarka was a-playing the piano like he was pawing a dirty book. He bit a hole in his big bottom lip and gave his very best little boy look.
You turn to the sinister when you get the boot. Slidin' down the banister in your Sunday suit. Lyin' on a slag heap of blankets and magazines. She's only thirty-five goin' on seventeen.
(Elvis Costello/Aimee Mann). There's no charity in you. And that surprises me. I guess I thought you were a golden idol. 'Cause I called you majesty. On the balustrade.
Oh, I used to be disgusted. Now I try to be amused. 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.
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 goin' to fix. . She gave a little flirt, gave herself a little cuddle.
You say you don't desire me. You only tire me. Now you'll hire me. Expensive care is meaningless. Feeling nothing and caring less. Cut off at the pass.
You like coffee and you like tea. Much more than you like me. And everybody says watch out yeah. For the sour milk-cow blues. You like your coffee just a little too sweet.
(Costello, Toussaint). . Six-Fingered Man. Playing a seven-string guitar. There are Seven Deadly Sins. Any one of them can do you in. Take what you lost from what you win.
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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?.