Worthless Thing Lyrics - Goodbye Cruel World - Elvis Costello

How many times can you jump out of the cupboard 

Before someone gets suspicious or someone gets discovered 

You can live forever in a split second of fame 

Come on down the price is right what's your name 

While a crocodile makes good shoes and a dog may change his coat 

I can't change what's written on your face tonight and I quote 

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Oh I wish you could see 

Quite how much you could mean to me 

You worthless thing 

If you were ten feet taller and almost handsome 

I might pay this king's ransom 

You worthless thing 

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They commit blue murder along Union Avenue 

Then they sell you souvenir matches 

Nightclubs full of grave robbers from Memphis, Tennessee 

And Las Vegas body snatchers 

And he's carrying a warning can't you see how his eyes glint 

Keep your bloody hands off my life your affectionate fingerprint 

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All the cars and pills and girls who tore his shirt to tatters 

Do you know how tall he was 'cos that is all that really matters? 

Do you know his mother's last name do you think that he's divine? 

You've seen the film you've read the book 

you're drinking vintage Elvis Presley wine 

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Bored out of your tiny mind while life is twice as large 

They'll cut her down to size on television 

She's available and beautiful, but with more time to devote 

They're going to take this cable now and stick it down your throat 

So this is an obituary which should be right and fitting 

For every clockwork cat and conceivable kitten 

Chorus