Beyond Belief Lyrics - Unfaithful Music - Elvis Costello

History repeats the old conceits 

The glib replies, the same defeats 

Keep your finger on important issues 

With crocodile tears and a pocketful of tissues 

I'm just the oily slick 

On the windup world of the nervous tick 

In a very fashionable hovel 

I hang around dying to be tortured 

You'll never be alone in the bone orchard 

This battle with the bottle is nothing so novel 

So in this almost empty gin palace 

Through a two-way looking glass 

You see your Alice 

You know she has no sense 

For all your jealousy 

In a sense she still smiles very sweetly 

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Charged with insults and flattery 

Her body moves with malice 

Do you have to be so cruel to be callous 

And now you find you fit this identikit completely 

You say you have no secrets 

And then leave discreetly 

I might make it California's fault 

Be locked in Geneva's deepest vault 

Just like the canals of Mars and the Great Barrier Reef 

I come to you beyond belief 

My hands were clammy and cunning 

She's been suitably stunning 

But I know there's not a hope in Hades 

All the laddies cat call and wolf whistle 

So-called gentlemen and ladies 

Dog fight like rose and thistle 

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I've got a feeling 

I'm going to get a lot of grief 

Once this seemed so appealing 

Now I am beyond belief 

I've got a feeling 

I'm going to get a lot of grief 

Once this seemed so appealing 

Now I am beyond belief