Pony Street Lyrics - Elvis Costello

She lives on pony street 

And they should scatter flowers at her feet 

But when they come calling I think it's appalling 

They're sober and they're polite 

They're deeply respectful when I would expect them 

To keep her out all night 

That little martinet 

Will get her own way yet 

If you need instruction in mindless destruction 

I'll show you a thing or two 

You used to adore me but now my life flashes before me 

For you to view 

Oh mother, oh mother, sometimes you are so mortifying 

From the hole in your leopard skin tights I can tell you've been spying 

But your generation confesses before it transgresses 

Those super-8 movies of daddy in your disco dresses 

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If you're going out tonight 

I won't wait up 

Reading "das kapital" 

Watching "home shopping club" 

While you're flogging a dead horse 

All the way down pony street 

Where you live after a fashion 

All the way down pony street 

The life and the soul of every indiscretion 

That lives on, that lives on, that lives on 

Pony street 

Daughter, oh daughter, you know I will love you forever 

But spare me the white ankle socks with the lace and the leather 

For you and your cartoon threat do no good to resist me 

For I am the genuine thing but for you it's just history 

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If you're going out tonight 

How can you be sure 

Where you lay your pretty head 

Mother may have been before 

So you're flogging a dead horse 

All the way down pony street 

Where you live after a fashion 

All the way down pony street 

The life and the soul of every indiscretion 

That lives on [5x] 

She lives on pony street [2x] 

She lives on, she lives on [2x]