 Genius Lyrics
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Elvis Costello (Ft. The London Symphony Orchestra) – She
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[Verse 1] / She may be the face I can't forget / A trace of pleasure or regret / May be my treasure or the price I have to pay / She may be the song that summer sings / May be the
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Elvis Costello – She Handed Me a Mirror
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[Verse] / She handed me a mirror / That she had gazed upon / The glass still held an image / The glass still held an image / But it was of a man / I turned from the reflection / To
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Elvis Costello – She Was No Good
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[Verse] / She could be no good, i'm telling you / Gather 'round boys for a tale that is tragic and true / On the mississippi riverboat, "magnolia" / No one on-board was smelling
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Elvis Costello – (She Might Be A) Grenade
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“(She Might Be A) Grenade” is a reimagining of “She’s Pulling Out the Pin” from Costello’s 2004 release The Delivery Man. The guitar riff that echoes toward the end of the song
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Elvis Costello – Pads, Paws and Claws
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[Verse 1] / She's a feline tormentor, not any vaudeville wife / But with a drunk-town lament he leads her a miserable life / But when he's full of that beer-champagne / She pads
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Elvis Costello & The Imposters – She’s Pulling Out the Pin
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[Verse 1] / She's pulling out the pin that lets her hair fall down / She shakes her head and it goes tumbling / Her smile was out of place, so she swept it off her face / [Pre-
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Elvis Costello – Watching the Detectives
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“Watching the Detectives” is a 1977 single by English singer-songwriter Elvis Costello. It was his first single that credited his backing band, the Attractions, and gave him his
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Elvis Costello – Pony St.
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[Intro] / She lives on Pony Street (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
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Elvis Costello – After The Fall
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[Verse 1] / In an anonymous rendezvous / Where the forbidden lovers repair / They're burning down another damn candle / They're melting the tables and chairs / Beneath them
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Elvis Costello – (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes
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[Chorus] / Oh, I used to be disgusted / And now, I try to be amused / But since their wings have got rusted / You know, the angels want to wear my red shoes / But when they told me
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Elvis Costello – Pump It Up
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One of Costello’s best known songs and a prime example of his witty wordplay, “Pump It Up” is pure sexual frustration, its high octane lyrics being a pun for the speaker’s
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Elvis Costello – Big Sister
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[Verse 1] / Sheep to the slaughter / Oh, this must be love / All your sons and daughters in a strangle hold with a kid glove / Eyes like saucers; oh, you think she's a dish / She
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Charles Aznavour – She
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“She” is a song written by Charles Aznavour and Herbert Kretzmer, which was released as a single in 1974. It was designed as the British TV series Seven Faces of Woman’s theme tune
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Elvis Costello (Ft. Chrissie Hynde) – Satellite
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[Verse 1] / She looked like she learned to dance / From a series of still pictures / She's madly excited now / She throws her hands up like a tulip / She looks like an illustration
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Elvis Costello – Shoes Without Heels
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[Verse 1] / This love of mine is packed with stepping stone / These shoes are made for walking in reverse / In the dead of night, you tiptoe out and leave me all alone / Putting on
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Elvis Costello – My Mood Swings
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[Verse 1] / She was smitten from the first / By a curious fellow / She said I love the way you talk / And with a flounce she announces / I love the way that you pronounce it: "
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Elvis Costello – Ghost Train
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[Verse 1] / Maureen and Stan were looking for a job / They got songs for every occasion / And a little limelight robbery / No one will employ them / There's nothing to decide / So
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Elvis Costello – Baby’s Got a Brand New Hairdo
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Baby's got a brand new hairdo, but doesn't she look so nice? / She said everything that she cares to, she's saying it not once but twice / She said it doesn't matter unless I say
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Elvis Costello & The Imposters – Burnt Sugar Is So Bitter
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[Verse 1] / She says, "What is it that I've done? / Did you want me to be punished?" / When she woke up one day to find / That he had started to vanish / [Pre-Chorus 1] / But if
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Elvis Costello & The Imposters – When I Was Cruel No. 2
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[Verse 1] / I exit through the spotlight glare / I stepped out into thin air / Into a perfume so rarefied / Here comes the bride / Not quite aside, they snide, she's number four
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Elvis Costello – Shabby Doll
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[Verse 1] / Giving you more of what for / Always worked for me before / Now I'm a shabby doll / What's going on / Behind the green elevator door / With just a shabby doll? / There'
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Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint – Wonder Woman
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[Verse 1] / When I'm down and out / She stays by me without a doubt / And if I stumble like I'm going to fall / She's right there at my beck and call / [Chorus] / She's my wonder
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Elvis Costello – Chewing Gum
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[Verse 1] / With their cardboard hands by their sides / Here's a naked man and lady / And they're yours to cut out and keep / And you can dress them up maybe / They don't know just
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Elvis Costello & The Imposters – Spooky Girlfriend (Live)
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[Verse 1] / I want a girl to make a mess / To do no wrong she must confess / And then perhaps hitch up her dress / Because when the flashbulbs explode / She's such a sensitive soul
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Elvis Costello & The Imposters – Spooky Girlfriend
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[Verse 1] / I want a girl to make a mess / To do no wrong, she must confess / And then perhaps hitch up her dress / 'Cause when the flashbulbs explode / She's such a sensitive soul
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Elvis Costello – Honky Tonk Girl
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Ever since he left her she's done nothing but wrong / Many nights she's lain awake and cried / They were so happy, her heart was in a whirl / Now she's a honky tonk girl / So turn
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Elvis Costello – License to Kill
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(Bob Dylan) / Man thinks 'cause he rules the earth he can do with it as he please / And if things don't change soon, he will / Oh, man has invented his doom / First step was
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Elvis Costello & The Imposters – Episode of Blonde
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[Verse 1] / I spy for the "spirit of curiosity" / All the scandals of each vain monstrosity / I gossip and I pry and I insinuate / If the failure is great then it tends to
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Elvis Costello (Ft. The Fairfield Four) – That Day Is Done
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[Verse 1] / I feel such sorrow, I feel such shame / I know I won't arrive on time / Before whatever out there is gone / What can I do, that day is done / It's just a promise that I
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Elvis Costello – London's Brilliant Parade
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[Verse 1] / Outside my window not long before sleep arrives / They come with their sirens / And they sweep away all the boys busy draining the joy from their lives / They never
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Elvis Costello & The Imposters – My Most Beautiful Mistake
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[Verse 1] / She was a part-time waitress with a dream of greatness / That nobody knew of or even suspected / Though it was sometimes reflected in the slant of a mirror / It was
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Elvis Costello – So Like Candy
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[Verse 1] / Here lies the powder and perfume / The pretty clothes are scattered 'round the room / And it's so like Candy / Here lies the lipstick and the face / The colored tablets
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Elvis Costello – Femme Fatale
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Here she comes, you better watch your step / She's going to break your heart in two, it's true / It's not hard to realize, just look into her false colored eyes / She builds you up
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Elvis Costello – Tiny Steps
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[Verse 1] / Muscle baby won't let go / Weekend baby won't say no / Is she an active beauty? / I should say so / Wooden bones and pretty lashes / Iodine for your baby's gashes
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Anne Sofie von Otter & Elvis Costello – For No One
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[Verse 1] / Your day breaks, your mind aches / You find that all her words / Of kindness linger on / When she no longer needs you / [Verse 2] / She wakes up, she makes up / She
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Elvis Costello – Almost Ideal Eyes
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From the My Flame Burns Blue liner notes by Elvis Costello:
Written in the mid-90s, a version of this song was recorded with the Attractions at the sessions for the album All This
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Elvis Costello (Ft. Brian Eno) – My Dark Life
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[Verse 1] / She says nobody wants to believe / You're the same as everyone / What makes me unique? / My dark life / There was a kink in the world / Sent that statue tumbling / An
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Elvis Costello – Big Sister's Clothes
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[Verse 1] / Sheep to the slaughter, oh I thought this must be love / All your sons and daughters in a strangle hold with a kid glove / She's got eyes like saucers, oh you think she
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Elvis Costello – ...And in Every Home
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[Verse 1] / You turn to the sinister when you get the boot / Sliding down the banister in your Sunday suit / Lying on a slag heap of blankets and magazines / She's only thirty-five
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Elvis Costello – Neat Neat Neat [live]
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[STAGE BANTER] / ELVIS: This is dedicated to Chris Millar / (One, two, one two three four) / [SONG BEGINS] / Can a man be a mystery man / Like a doll, like a baby doll / It can't
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Elvis Costello & The Imposters – Under Lime
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[Verse 1] / It's a long way down from the high horse you're on / When you stumble and then you're thrown / And the last time we saw him he was out in the rain / Watching that train
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Elvis Costello – Opportunity
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[Verse 1] / Born in the middle of the second big baby boom / Those noisy boys just might've spoken up too soon / Now I'm looking for a little girl, I wonder where she's gone / Big
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