Stick Out Your Tongue Lyrics - Wise Up Ghost - Elvis Costello & The Roots

They talked to the sister, the father and the mother 

With a microphone in one hand and a chequebook in the other 

And the camera noses in to the tears on her face 

The tears on her face 

The tears on her face 

You can put them back together with your paper and paste 

Stick out your tongue 

Drink down the venom 

She sleeps with the shirt of a late, great country singer 

Stretched out upon her poor jealous husband's pillow 

In time you can turn these obsessions into careers 

While the parents of those kidnapped children start the bidding for their tears 

What would you say? 

What would you do? 

Children and animals two by two 

Give me the needle 

Give me the rope 

We're going to melt them down for pills and soap 

Four and twenty crowbars, jemmy your desire 

Out of the frying pan into the fire 

The king is in the counting house 

Some folk have all the might 

And majesty will run on Bombay Gin and German spite 

They come from lovely people 

(They come from lovely people) 

With a hard line in hypocrisy 

There are tears of mediocrity 

For the fag ends of the aristocracy 

What would you say? 

What would you do? 

Children and animals two by two 

Give me the needle 

Give me the rope 

We're going to melt them down for pills and soap 

Stick out your tongue, stick out your tongue 

Stick out your tongue, stick out your tongue 

Drink down the venom 

The sugar-coated pill is getting bitterer still 

You think your country needs you but you know it never will 

So pack up your troubles in a stolen handbag 

Don't dilly dally boys rally 'round the flag 

Give us our daily bread, give us our daily bread, in individual slices, in individual slices 

And something in the daily rag to cancel any crisis 

What would you say? 

What would you do? 

(Did you find out how to lie?) 

Children and animals two by two 

(Did you find out how to cheat?) 

Give me the needle 

(The elite bleat, they're obsolete) 

We're going to melt them down for 

Stick out your tongue 

(We're going to melt them down for pills and soap) 

Now if you'd only genuflect, now if you'd only genuflect 

Stick out your tongue, stick out your tongue 

Now if you'd only genuflect 

Stick out your tongue, stick out your tongue, stick out your tongue, stick out your tongue