Template:My Dark Life: Difference between revisions

From The Elvis Costello Wiki
Jump to navigationJump to search
(restore to as was)
(+new format)
 
Line 1: Line 1:
She says nobody wants to believe
<noinclude>{{Lyrics for|My Dark Life}}</noinclude>
 
She says nobody wants to believe<br>
You're the same as everyone.
You're the same as everyone.<br>
 
What makes me unique? My Dark Life.<br>
What makes me unique? My Dark Life.
<br>
 
There was a kink in the world<br>
 
Sent that statue tumbling<br>
 
An invitation east<br>
There was a kink in the world
So we could watch it all crumbling<br>
 
<br>
Sent that statue tumbling
She came off like a light and so softly she spoke:<br>
 
"You don't know, you don't know about my dark life"<br>
An invitation east
And you think you're a guest, you're a tourist at best<br>
 
Peering into the corners of my dark life<br>
So we could watch it all crumbling
Now that you tear your dreams from consumptive ballerinas<br>
 
She'll stand on tiptoe for you in a grey and tattered tutu<br>
 
She stays where she is because of voyeurs like these<br>
 
With an accusative look that says "My Dark Life."<br>
She came off like a light and so softly she spoke:
<br>
 
Rubber men await you then in each beguiling alley<br>
"You don't know, you don't know about my dark life"
To shake you and to pierce you and remind you of<br>
 
My Dark Life.<br>
And you think you're a guest, you're a tourist at best
<br>
 
Enter the pious elite, in their preening finery<br>
Peering into the corners of my dark life
And bang the tambourine<br>
 
They're dining on rice paper scenery<br>
Now that you tear your dreams from consumptive ballerinas
See how the villain attracts envious glances from everyone<br>
 
She's waitressing by day<br>
She'll stand on tiptoe for you in a grey and tattered tutu
It doesn't bring in much money now<br>
 
<br>
She stays where she is because of voyeurs like these
And his strong concealed arms set off bells and alarms<br>
 
In the strangest locations of My Dark Life<br>
With an accusative look that says "My Dark Life."
But the fantasy slipped as he tipped her in cigarettes<br>
 
She tries to smile very graciously when she wants to kill him<br>
 
Now the victory is sweet, you'll get down on your knees<br>
 
It's the perfect position for kissing western leather<br>
Rubber men await you then in each beguiling alley
<br>
 
So they came from Ugly Texas and from Nameless Tennessee<br>
To shake you and to pierce you and remind you of
From Peculiar Missouri and from places closer to me.<br>
 
All the cream of heartless England, cheered the carnival is over<br>
My Dark Life.
Then remnants of red army bandsmen<br>
 
Played "America The Beautiful"<br>
 
 
Enter the pious elite, in their preening finery
 
And bang the tambourine
 
They're dining on rice paper scenery
 
See how the villain attracts envious glances from everyone
 
She's waitressing by day
 
It doesn't bring in much money now
 
 
 
And his strong concealed arms set off bells and alarms
 
In the strangest locations of My Dark Life
 
But the fantasy slipped as he tipped her in cigarettes
 
She tries to smile very graciously when she wants to kill him
 
Now the victory is sweet, you'll get down on your knees
 
It's the perfect position for kissing western leather
 
 
 
So they came from Ugly Texas and from Nameless Tennessee
 
From Peculiar Missouri and from places closer to me.
 
All the cream of heartless England, cheered the carnival is over
 
Then remnants of red army bandsmen
 
Played "America The Beautiful"

Latest revision as of 17:10, 10 May 2009

lyrics for
My Dark Life

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 invitation east
So we could watch it all crumbling

She came off like a light and so softly she spoke:
"You don't know, you don't know about my dark life"
And you think you're a guest, you're a tourist at best
Peering into the corners of my dark life
Now that you tear your dreams from consumptive ballerinas
She'll stand on tiptoe for you in a grey and tattered tutu
She stays where she is because of voyeurs like these
With an accusative look that says "My Dark Life."

Rubber men await you then in each beguiling alley
To shake you and to pierce you and remind you of
My Dark Life.

Enter the pious elite, in their preening finery
And bang the tambourine
They're dining on rice paper scenery
See how the villain attracts envious glances from everyone
She's waitressing by day
It doesn't bring in much money now

And his strong concealed arms set off bells and alarms
In the strangest locations of My Dark Life
But the fantasy slipped as he tipped her in cigarettes
She tries to smile very graciously when she wants to kill him
Now the victory is sweet, you'll get down on your knees
It's the perfect position for kissing western leather

So they came from Ugly Texas and from Nameless Tennessee
From Peculiar Missouri and from places closer to me.
All the cream of heartless England, cheered the carnival is over
Then remnants of red army bandsmen
Played "America The Beautiful"