There are some things you can't cover up with lipstick and powder I thought I heard you mention my name, can't you talk any louder ? Don't come any closer, don...

Enter Madam X painted in a shocking pink spangled dress Her teeth are perfect but her mouth is loose Rubbing their hands together she persuades them that it's b...

Sunday is gloomy, my hours are slumberless Dearest, the shadows I live with are numberless Little white flowers will never awaken you Not when the black coach o...

(words sung by the character in the movie given in brackets) Now I have nothing, so God give me strength Cause Im weak in her [his] wake And if Im strong I mig...

I wish you'd known me when I was alive, I was a funny feller The crowd would hoot and holler for more I wore a drunk's red nose for applause Oh yes I was a comi...

Why must I be so lonely? When so many people pass me by I've been waiting for oh so long now And yet I'm unable to answer why I can't be made to give up now Can...

Mother, Father, I'm here in the zoo I can't come home 'cause I've grown up too soon I got my sentence I got my command They said they'd make me major if I met a...

He selects the plainest face form a spiteful row of girls Elegant insulted women, a flaw of cultured pearls He drops a name or two, she fails to catch At last h...

I got the picture that you gave to me And it's signed with love, just like it used to be The only thing different, the only thing new I got the picture, he's go...

Tell me now Or are you only teasing? I felt the cold hard facts of life Five degrees from freezing Does it amuse you to always hurt me so? I try my best it's no...

I got the picture that you gave to me And it's signed with love, just like it used to be The only thing different, the only thing new I got the picture, he's go...

Her lips are sweet Her legs are big Her looks can make you Dance the jig Her touch is so soft Her heart is so warm What knocks me out Is your hidden charms Her...

I'm sorry to say that you don't know me I'm sad in ways you never understood Each time I try to tell the ugly truth You always let it pass you by You said I 'd ...

Some things you never get used to Even though you're feeling like another man There's nothing that he can do for you To shut me away as you walk through Lovers ...

Here comes Mr Misery He's tearing out his hair again He's crying over her again He's standing in the super-market shouting at the customers Here comes Mr Miser...

I hung up the phone tonight Just as you said I love you Once this would have been coincidence Now these things start to bother me You still close your eyes when...

Who do you see when you turn your eyes down? Who do you see when I'm not seeing you? The news is out all over town and all these girls Are taking turns at being...

Come into this house and stop that yakity yak 'Cause your sugar-daddy don't want no talkin' back You keep on babblin', talkin' 'bout this and that I got news fo...

Siren is bending, the radio humming, Sun is breaking through and the storm is coming The score is obscure, the melody fractured It went by my window Refused to ...

Is this is not a pretty tale? Is this not a riddle? A bow shoots arrows through the air A bow drags notes from a fiddle But who is the beau of a young girl's he...

Darling, there is one thing I must tell you, you must know It's so hard to say the words I feel This fancy that I'm on's been going on too long It's time to sto...

I was hell-bent on destroying my powers of concentration While you were living like a saint And all the time the very one you trusted was washing off somebody e...

You can find the truth in late night television You just gotta use the eyes that you were given Yes you can It can help you find the things that you were missi...

I know I've just gotta get out of this place I can't stand any more of that mechanical grace Though you say it's only industrial squeeze It looks like luxury an...

The man in the corner of this picture has a sinister purpose In the teeming Temple of the Railroad Kings He's planting a trashy paperback book for accidental pu...

(H Banks & A Jones) I'm the living result I'm a man who's been hurt a little too much And I've tasted the bitterness of my own tears Sadness is all my lonely h...

Date: Wed, 03 Mar 93 16:11:59 LCL Subject: Definitive(?) Can't Stand Up The reason I'm so certain about these lyrics is that at a record show yea...

I'm the living result I'm a man who's been hurt a little too much And I've tasted the bitterness of my own tears Sadness is all my lonely heart can feel I can'...

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...

I dreamed of my old lover last night I wondered if I spoke out loud And if by chance my husband overheard He'd put my face back in the crowd His eyes were clea...

It's easy to do, it's not so easy to say I was talking to you when you took my tongue away I hear a melody and I feel so ashamed I got nothing you'd need and yo...

He's a fine figure of a man and handsome too With his eyes upon the secret places he'd like to undo Still he knows who knows who and where and how And I hope yo...

(Burt Bacharach/Hal David) I just don't know what to do with myself I just don't know what to do with myself I'm so used to doing everything with you Planning ...

Title : I Stand Accused Artist : Elvis Costello Album : Get Happy (WRITTEN BY T COLTON & R SMITH) girl I stand accused people say I love you yeah, I stand acc...

I thought I'd write to Juliet, for she would understand And when someone is already dead they can no longer let you down Instead I find myself talking to you, a...

I once held her In my arms She said she would always stay But I was cruel And I treated her like a fool I threw it all away Once I had mountains In the palm of ...

I want to vanish This is my fondest wish To go where I cannot be captured Laid on a decorated dish Even in splendor this curious fate Is more than I care to sur...

I want you Oh my baby baby I love you more than I can tell I don't think I can live without you And I know that I never will Oh my baby baby I want you so it s...

(Burt Bacharach/Hal David) What do you get when you fall in love? A guy with a pin to burst your bubble That's what you get for all your trouble I'll never fal...

I hate these flaming curtains they're not the color of your hair I hate these striplights they're not so undoing as your stare I hate the buttons on your shirt ...

Hail to the taxis They go where I go Farewell the newspapers that know more than I know Flung under a street-lamp still burning at dawn I'm in the mood again I...

You're upstairs with the boyfriend while I'm left here to listen I hear you calling his name, I hear the stutter of ignition I could hear you whispering as I cr...

You may be sweet and nice That won't keep you warm at night 'Cause I'm the one who taught you how To do the things you're doing now He may feel all your charms ...

The night we met The night that I won't forget You've seen what I've been waiting for But baby, I've been wrong before You held me tight And everything seemed j...

Hail to the taxis They go where I go Farewell the newspapers that know more than I know Flung under a street-lamp still burning at dawn I'm in the mood again I...

You're upstairs with the boyfriend while I'm left here to listen I hear you calling his name, I hear the stutter of ignition I could hear you whispering as I cr...

You may be sweet and nice That won't keep you warm at night 'Cause I'm the one who taught you how To do the things you're doing now He may feel all your charms ...

So you're trying to make connection, you heard whispers in the hall She'll be out again this evening, when you come around to call So, you dodge the lady-killer...

How long do I have to wait? Before I can tell you the things I've been wanting to say How long must I hesitate? I know it makes sense but it's hard for me to s...

You can take a powder You can take a drink You can keep the shrink And the kitchen sink Write my name in heaven in invisible ink I just woke up from dreaming, I...

We play these parlour games We play at make believe When we get to the part where I say that I'm going to leave Everybody loves a happy ending but we don't even...

Now that you set everybody free What are you going to do about me? Don't want to be treated like some poor grateful clown I'd rather go back to the sweet underg...

I see you walk with him I see you talk to him It tears me up, oh, it tears me up And I can't stop crying Oh, baby, I can't stop crying I see you kiss his lips ...

The party's over Your time is up You've had your last pointless teardrop Washed down in that broken coffee cup This magic moment concludes when that cigarette e...

The night we met The night that I wont forget Youve seen what Ive been waiting for But baby, Ive been wrong before You held me tight And everything seemed just...

Sister 4 and Brothers 3 Hanging off the family tree Practising for getting old Do you want your fortune told They're looking for you high and low Now there's no...

Layin' about, lyin' in bed Maybe it was something that I thought I'd said With the tempo of today and the temptation of tomorrow I don't know if I could give yo...

I'm just about glad that I knew you once And it was more than just a passing acquaintance I'm just about glad that it was a memory That doesn't need constant ma...

She had her mind made up just like her face She painted in the lines and shadows She shaded color in that would express The lonely mood that follows Love, short...

I wasn't very indiscreet and yet That is a notion that I might as well forget Friends look at me these days with fond surprise But when I start to speak they ro...

You could have a great career And you should, yes, you should Only one thing stops you dear You're too good, way too good If you want a future, darlin' Why don...

I would have waited all my life Just to make love out of something other than spite But the beauty is the beast you're baiting Should really be worth the waitin...

Little triggers that you pull with your tongue. Little triggers. I don't wanna be hung up, strung up, when you don't call up. Little sniggers on your lips. Litt...

I don't like those other guys looking at your curves I don't like you walking round with physical jerks Everything they say and do is getting on my nerves Soon ...

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 s...

(composed: elvis costello/paddy moloney) If on every ocean the ship is a throne And for each mast cut down another sapling is grown Then I could believe that I...

Before Lord God made the sea and the land He held all the stars in the palm of his hand And they ran through his fingers like grains of sand And one little star...

[Chorus:] It's going round the town It's going round the town It's going round the town You're so lovable My baby gave me notice to quit I just can't get used ...

When the only sound on the empty street Is the heavy tread of the heavy feet That belong to a lonesome cop I open shop When the moon so long has been gazing dow...

You won't take my love for tender You can put your money where your mouth is But you're so unsure I could be a miser or a big spender But you might get much mor...

I've looked at it every way I can From under and above And every chance I've had My love went mad Love went mad love went mad You you feel like I feel? Do you h...

I won't walk with my head bowed (Be on) Beyond caution where lovers walk My love walks where three's a crowd Beyond caution where lovers walk Lovers walk, lover...

now those newsprints all over your face well maybe that's why I can read you like a book just when I thought I was getting my taste a bite I go and lose my appe...

So this is where he came to hide When he ran from you In a private detective's overcoat And dirty dead man's shoes The pretty things of Knightsbridge Lying for...

So, this is where he came to hide When he ran from you? In a private detective's overcoat And dirty dead man's shoes [Incomprehensible] Knightsbridge For a mi...

the middle of the road is trying to find me I'm standing in the middle of life with my past behind me but I got a smile for everyone I meet as long as you don't...

You never asked me what I wanted. you only asked me why. I never thought that so much trouble was restin on my reply, I could say it was the nights when I was l...

She came dancing right before my eyes She said she?d came to warn me Before it dawned on me I went walking on the blank hillside Where the sunset falls Where th...

(McCartney/MacManus) She said, "Come in, my dear, You're looking tired tonight Your bath is drawn, let me loosen your tie And fix you your usual drink" He set...

A long time ago, our point of view Was broadcast by Mr Bartholomew Now the world is full of sorrow and pain It's time for us to speak up again You're slack and...

Moods for moderns [x4] I get hit looking for a miss I never thought that it would come to this Moods for moderns [x4] Though we may never be the same again I ...

Somewhere in the distance I can hear "who shot sam? " This is my conviction, that I am an innocent man Though you say I?m unkind I?m being as nice as I can Boy...

This town belongs to you and your tricks of confidence All the pavements for miles around are littered with your footprints Now every girl I get close to seems ...

They looked At her this way Every since She was a girl Mr Feathers Mr Feathers The echo In every smile That would curl Into a leer Oh, my dear (Oh, my dear) Mr ...

What is it that brings you to this part of town Curiosity, conscience or fate I know it's not love Cause I once gave you love And all you showed me was the gate...

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...

As the last light glimmers And the evening hours dim Maybe I'm too proud to utter it out loud Even though my flame burns blue As the night's descending Once ag...

My funny valentine, sweet comic valentine You make me smile with my heart Your looks are laughable, unphotographable But you?re my favourite work of art Is your...

This is a calling card Maybe it will be a farewell note The poison fountain pen now requires the antidote But if I avert your gaze And I should become a shrinki...

She was smitten from the first By a curious fellow She said I love the way you talk And with a a flounce she announces I love the way that you pronounce it: "ma...

When I go to sleep, you become my thief Why don't you steal what you can keep? But you won't let me be You break into my dreams And every day seems different So...

Day is dawning Almost sounded like a warning Wind was rushing through the trees almost falling I never thought that I'd become The proud father of my three sons...

Romeo was restless, he was ready to kill He jumped out the window 'cause he couldn't sit still 'N' to Juliet was waiting with a safety net He said "Don't bury m...

I wish that I didn't hate you Least not as much as I do And squander all my contempt for A little nothing like you Liars like you are ten-a-penny Women would sl...

You're sending me tulips mistaken for lilies You give me your lip after punching me silly You turned my head till it rolled down the brain drain If I had any se...

As I stepped out upon the landing my heart was already down the stairs She's in the bedroom with that boy of hers Though her face is creased and her eyes seem s...

I would send out for assistance but there's someone on the signal wire And the corporation logo is flashing on and off in the sky They're putting all your names...

I don't wanna kiss you. I don't wanna touch. I don't wanna see you cause I don't miss you that much. Im not a telephone junkie. I told you that we were just goo...

Oh I know that she Has made a fool of him Like girls have done so many nights before Time and time again Life is so strange I don't know why But somebody, someb...

In the not very distant future When everything will be free There won't be any cute secrets Let alone any novelty You can say anything you want to In your fetc...