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 It was a...

If only dust could talk What would we hear it say? Before it's brushed aside Just as it's swept away It's just the evidence It's of no consequence It's only fl...

When nobody knows she puts on secret clothes And lies in the meadow with her hands tied behind her back I won't refuse if you know how to use it Just stop playi...

15 Petals One for every year I spent with you Jewels and precious metals will never do I love you twisted And I love you straight I'd write it down but I can't...

WHAT IS YOUR DESTINY? THE POLICE WOMAN SAID(20% amnesia) The word that she wanted was destination I'm afraid (20% amnesia) This is your future boy, this is your...

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 45 Here...

Five gears in reverse For girls looking at the big lift Somebody send out for the night nurse Please don't stick me on the late shift If you don't know by now N...

The snitch, the snoop, the tattletale lead a threadbare up the stairs Adieu, my little ballyhoo, you broke my heart in two And now I haunt the bars and scent th...

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 Big noth...

(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 suspects...

oh I just don't know where to begin love just doesn't wait forever it's now or never but she keeps him hanging on the silly cheering her on she says she can't g...

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 applaus...

You did it 'cause you wanted Alibi, alibi And you took it Cause you need it Alibi, alibi But if I've done something wrong there's no "ifs and buts" 'Cause I lo...

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 friend o...

Im trouble she said Spread out on the floor of her fathers house Her promise was almost undone Under her tongue, dissolving her responsibilities To finally deny...

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 your fa...

Almost blue Almost doing things we used to do There's a girl here and she's almost you Almost all the things that your eyes once promised I see in hers too Now ...

December 1965 in Caracas When Arnie LaFlamme(?) took his piece of the pie When he packed up the casino chips, the IOU and the abacus And switched off the jukebo...

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-fi...

Youre a fine one, oh yes you are Youre a fine one just like me And were friends now, oh wouldn't you say? Weve been friends now, oh haven't we? Stay at home ton...

oh I just don't know where to begin love just doesn't wait forever it's now or never but she keeps him hanging on the silly cheering her on she says she can't g...

Not a soul was stirrin' Not a bird was singin' Least not within my hearin' I was five minutes past carin' Standing in the road just starin' Thought I heard som...

(Sha, la, la, la) It's not the way you look that touched my heart It's not the way you kissed me, baby, that tears me apart Many, many nights I tried I sit alo...

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 matte...

Bama lama bama loo Gotta girl named lucinda They call her the great pretender Gotta girl named lucinda They call her the great pretender And when she talks She ...

Lucy Grace can't show her face down in the North End Road For in Belgravia Rumours have been whispered and suggestions have been made Did you sell your friends ...

I've got this phosphorescent portrait of gentle Jesus meek and mild I've got this harlot that I'm stuck with carrying another man's child The solitary star anno...

History repeats the old conceits The glib replies the same defeats Keep your finger on important issues With crocodile tears and a pocketful of tissues I'm just...

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 s...

I was looking at the black and white world It seemed so exciting If you'd only put me back to back with that girl When the night's inviting With just a little l...

Vain boys are gonna have to swallow their pride this time So let the punishment fit the crime It's under the table Under your skin Into the cable Is this the de...

Once upon a time, I had a little money Government burglars took it long Before I could mail it to you But, you are the only one Na, I can't let it slip away So ...

I feel like a boy with a problem I can't believe what we've forgotten And I even slapped your face and made you cry It's the last thing I want to do Pull the c...

Alone in the crowd Simply taking up space You would never admit to tears Till they?re rolling down your face Chorus: One day, love, long from now Maybe you?ll l...

We stood there in the courthouse room so close but far apart You brought along the lawyer and I brought a broken heart The judge pronounced the words the way yo...

No one looks in this place for motive or any hope But for the dead shot of an amber glass, the blue light of a votive Rain obscured the window as the pain was d...

So you think that you have seen her When you're lying in between her And you tell me that you don't care Busy bodies getting nowhere Ev'rybody's getting meaner ...

Don't want to talk about the government Don't want to talk about some incident Don't want to talk about some peppermint gum Don't want to talk about the time to...

Everyday seem like Sunday It must be something that I have done I saw you dancing in the peep-show That every episode is leading me on I'm just another fool th...

Can you be true? Can this possibly be real? I knew quite suddenly Do you sense how I feel? I long to hear you whisper my name 'Til you tell me "My Darling, you ...

We were dancing together To a dreamy melody When they called out, "Change partners" And you waltzed away from me Now my arms feel so empty As I gaze around the...

Men made out of monkeys Men made into mice Happy days are here again And all the drinks half price A girl with a trick and a man with a calling Trying to make a...

Oh, well, I feel so loose tonight I might fall to pieces So be prepared to sweep me out the door And I might be horizontal by the time the music ceases So I thi...

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 a little fl...

Payday's coming and we wash it away Clean money, clean money Payday's coming and we wash it away Clean money, clean money That's what I want to do I want to spe...

She'll fix you with an iron cross And cover you up with petals And hang you up with some amber beads And four or five precious metals And in that black flamingo...

Tears on your blackmail Written to ransom A point of the fingernail Says that he's handsome Clowntime is over Time to take cover While others just talk and talk...

With a handful of backhanders and a bevy of beauty You're going off limits Going off duty Going off the rails Going off with booty They tell tales of fiction fo...

Yesterday's coal train came to rest in the bitter cutting And as the signals took an age to change it was easy pickings So you go to the movies where they smash...

Up above me are the skies Like the twinkle in your eyes Blue must be the colour of the blues In the mail, the letters came But you can't pay for love the same B...

(harle/shakespeare) Come away, come away, death And in sad cyprus let me be laid Fie away, fie away, breath I am slain by a fair cruel maid My shroud of white ...

I saw a girl who'd found her consolation She said "One day my Prince of Peace will come" Above her head a portrait of her father The wilted favour that he gave ...

The tiny slip at midnight A little sip at noon You're tired and torn approaching dawn My penitent buffoon Wouldn't you think I'd know by now I shouldn't have en...

This tattered document A mystery you can solve Some burnt out filament Flies still buzzing around the bul Country Darkness He thought of traveling Heard an ap...

I thought I would go to the sea and shrink down very tiny And slide inside the telephone wire that runs under the briny Till I found there is a way of crawling ...

I thought it was you and your optimist's view of the clock And how it's always another day Just after twelve o'clock's struck You said "Now I only want you so I...

You wear that crucifix Like a dead man wears a scar Whenever people stop to stare I swear your eyes light up with stars Pre-Chorus You're Twice the man that I ...

life isn't easy, love never lasts you just carry on and keep moving fast I pulled off the highway and rolled into town I'm just fancy free baby and I travel 'ro...

There is a button and there's a switch There is a needle and there's a dial There is a lever I want to lift And still you treat me like I'm a child Daddy can I ...

Did anybody notice, over marmalade and eggs In between the princess legs What with wars and floods and beggars Not to mention stocks and shares If you have a mo...

Here I am late again for the last time And like I promised, I just told her goodbye Please believe me 'cause this time, it's really over And darling, you know I...

Thank you for the days Those endless days those sacred days you gave me I'm thinking of the days I won't forget a single day believe me I bless the light I bles...

Dear sweet filthy world, my wife or whoever reads this I think that I've lived too long With all of my promise unfulfilled But there is a veil drawn over all of...

"Abel was able," so Vivian said Her shoulders flung forward Her lips in a purse She talks like the beauty that she never was Of the fabulous wild nights that sh...

In the Arrivederci Roma nightclub, bar and grill Standing in the fiberglass ruins watching time stand still All your troubles you confess to another faceless, b...

"I'm sorry" I never want to hear that again You faked it You never meant a word that you said You lost it The whole thing went down in flames Screaming, Screami...

Sugar cube drop into a yellow cup What makes the world just waking up Resolve? Dissolve Who knows where on earth it's going to stop? I can't hear you 'cos we're...

Strange things seem to occur, somewhere behind the nursery door Though I was just a bit of a kid, it was the bit that she was looking for Now I don't know where...

(McCartney/MacManus) Burn the midnight lamp Down until the dawn I'll keep watch Until I'm sure you're coming home Shadows play And flicker on the bedroom wall ...

Baby can you understand me now Sometimes I feel a little mad Don't you know that no one alive can always be an angel When things go wrong I seem to be mad [Cho...

Burn the midnight lamp Down until the dawn I'll keep watch Until I'm sure you're coming home Shadows play And flicker on the bedroom wall They turn into a bad d...

Baby can you understand me now Sometimes I feel a little mad Don't you know that no one alive can always be an angel When things go wrong I seem to be mad (Chor...

Down among the wines and spirits Where a man gets what he merits Once he was written in letters of nine feet tall And now he finds how far he's fallen Since he...

Everything seems so tranquil Home movies with no subtitles Don't you wish you knew what they were sayin' When the film keeps playin', playin' ? Oh, he's Doctor ...

If only dust could talk What would we hear it say? Before it's brushed aside Just as it's swept away It's just the evidence It's of no consequence It's only fl...

The big man arrives Disco dancers greet him Plainclothes cops greet him Small town, big man, fresh lipstick glistening Sophomore jive From victims of typewriter...

Hey everybody I'm a talking to you I ain't telling you jealous It's just the natural truth Oh oh oh I got the Eisenhower Blues Thinking about me and you and wha...

Nothing can ever be the same All of the promises we made seem hollow But there's still some streets in this town Oh, they're marked, they're marked with your sh...

I spy for the "Spirit of Curiousity" All the scandals of each vain monstrosity I gossip and I pry and I insinuate If the failure is great Then it tends to fasci...

Don't tell me you don't know what love is When you're old enough to know better When you find strange hands in your sweater When your dreamboat turns out to be ...

I can't believe the things I've seen I wonder bout some things I've heard Everybody's crying mercy When they don't know the meaning of the word A bad enough sit...

I marvel at the wonder of it in our souless age Fast flow the tears upon the page Don?t be alarmed I am her friend Will I be excused if I presume It?s more than...

(Krall/Costello) Things these days are better by far, A horse can out run a motor car, If the wheels are rubber and the rails are steel That beast can outrun a...

There's no charity in you And that surprises me I guess I thought you were a golden idol 'Cause I called you majesty On the balustrade You watched me hunt for...

Educate me And tell me what to wear It's what I need For me to feel Almost like a man I can't afford to Chorus To just say no Just say no to fashion Now I know...

Figure hanging on a leather band Cog consults the watch he cups in his hand Bejewelled movement measures lost and vanished time Pray for the boy who makes his b...

I remember that dance On the roof of my car When St Lucy's mad torch Took away our best bar Say we drank And we prayed Some just sat like a choir Came the smok...

That all could gather That we could marry Still Faces absent That she could see this As if time hovered That he'd caress him That jars and lads and Carol Ann we...

When Sunday morning dandruff turns out to be confetti And the cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty The girl in your dreams would have y...

I don't know what I would do If this letter should fall into Other hands than it should pass through For other eyes He said, "It was nothing...it's over and don...

The stars were so much brighter then, They dim and die, So why pretend The sky goes on forever: But if they fade as science teaches, Poets lose the power of spe...

Oh, a TV went off like three day old milk That shook this town down better than most And it always was less of an idea and more of a boast Oh, you're burning in...

Oh, a TV went off like three day old milk That shook this town down better than most And it always was less of an idea and more of a boast Oh, you're burning i...

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 - 45 H...

Sometimes when we were together I felt kind of complicated Almost like an entertainer Sometimes I felt obligated I thought maybe you should know That I am not ...

What is this shocking teenager madness It's this week's stunning new sensation Well groomed young men in matching tracksuits Well groomed young men pretend to c...

Georgie grew to hate her name It sounded like a tiny man And the one she had said, "I can't see you But I'll call you whenever I can" Sometimes the phone would...

At last I've awakened to see what you've done. All I can do is pack up and run. Now I know the rules. Find yourself another fool. You said that you loved me. I ...

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 he...

Gigi Am I a fool without a mind? Or have I nearly been too blind to realize Oh, gigi While you?ve been growing up before my eyes Gigi You?re not all that funny...