So long ago, You stole the show, When you see there's nothing you can do, With empty promises, Are empty as your eyes, Second chance to make amends,
As I walk through This wicked world Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity. I ask myself Is all hope lost? Is there only pain and hatred, and
That Charlie Sedarka was a-playing the piano like he was pawing a dirty book He bit a hole in his big bottom lip and gave his very best little boy look
Photographs of fancy tricks to get your kicks at sixty-six He thinks of all the lips that he licks And all the girls that he's going to fix She gave
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
Bells are chiming for victory There's a page back in history 45 They came back to the world that they fought for Didn't turn out just like they thought
Five gears in reverse For girls looking for the big lift Somebody send out for the night nurse Please don't stick me on the late shift If you don't know
Oh I used to be disgusted and now I try to be amused. But since their wings have got rusted, you know, the angels wanna wear my red shoes. But when they
What is your destiny? the policewoman said (20% amnesia) The word that she wanted was destination I'm afraid (20% amnesia) This is your future boy, this
Big nothing. He stood in the road outside of town With a broken clockwork toy in his hand. A graveyard for childish dreams in his palm A broken lifeline
The snitch, the snoop, the tattletale Lead a threadbare up stairs Adieu, my little ballyhoo You broke my heart in two And now I haunt the bars and scent
Oh I just don't know where to begin Though he says he'll wait forever It's now or never But she keeps him hanging on The silly champion She says she
(Music by Diana Krall, lyrics by Elvis Costello) The glitter on a paint and plaster face Is covering desire and disgrace We could be lovers But no one
You did it 'cos you wanted Alibi, alibi And you took it 'Cos you need it Alibi, alibi [Chorus:] But if I've done something wrong there's no "ifs and
Oh it's so funny to be seeing you after so long, girl. And with the way you look I understand that you are not impressed. But I heard you let that little
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
1-2-3,2-2-3 The twitching impulses to speak your mind I'll lend you my microscope and maybe you will find it Is it in that ugly place that's just behind
You can read right through a book of matches But that won't make you smart You can laugh in the face of watches But time will only break your heart
