Mouth Almighty Lyrics - Elvis Costello

This town belongs to you and your tricks of confidence 

All the pavements for miles around are littered with your footprints 

Now every girl I get close to seems to be wearing your perfume 

And the clock strikes the letters of your name 

Both midnight and noon 

But I used to shoot my mouth off 

Till you'd had enough of me 

Once or twice nightly 

I know I've got my faults 

And among them I can't control my tongue 

But if you didn't believe me 

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Why did you have to leave me 

With my mouth almighty 

Mouth almighty that's what I've got 

Mouth almighty telling you what's what 

Mouth almighty 

I wish I'd never opened my mouth almighty 

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So I threw away the rose and held onto the thorn 

Crawling round with my crooner cufflinks and my calling card cologne 

But the realization of being replaced starts to tell tales across my face 

Without a soul to talk to or a hair out of place