Six-Fingered Man Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint

Six-fingered man Playing a seven-string guitar There are seven deadly sins Any one of them can do you in Take what you lost from what you win It's never enough Six-fingered man Always the first to blow

Ascension Day Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint

weeping Others shook their fists up at the skies And those who were left Seemed to be wearing disguises Now there's a queen in waiting Not enough loving and too much hating For the prince hidden within her man

Broken Promise Land Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint

Father and the Son In the name of gasoline and a gun It didn't turn out the way we planned Now I'm living in Broken promise land Broken promise land ------------- Lyrics Powered by LyricFind Written By TOUSSAINT

International Echo Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint

streets were deserted The house was dark Down in the basement there was the faintest spark Three boys hoping to make their mark International echo ------------- Lyrics Powered by LyricFind Written By TOUSSAINT

All These Things Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint

, it's alright As long as you're here every night Your love so warm and tender The thrill is so divine It is all these things that make you mine ------------- Lyrics Powered by LyricFind Written By TOUSSAINT

Wonder Woman Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint

for me Every now and then, yeah yeah I thank my maker for the shape I'm in (Make me feel so good) Early in the morning (I feel so good and thing) ------------- Lyrics Powered by LyricFind Written By TOUSSAINT

On Your Way Down Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint

little higher ground It's high time that you found The same people you walk on on your way up You might meet up On your way down On your way down ------------- Lyrics Powered by LyricFind Written By TOUSSAINT

The Sharpest Thorn Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint

sharpest thorn I wasn't born the sharpest thorn I wasn't born the sharpest thorn I wasn't born the sharpest thorn I wasn't born the sharpest thorn ------------- Lyrics Powered by LyricFind Written By TOUSSAINT

Southern Nights (2003 Remaster) Allen Toussaint

da da da da la da da da da da da da da Southern skies Have you ever noticed southern skies It's precious beauty lies just beyond the eye Goes running through your soul Like the stories told of old Old man

Everyday I Write The Book Elvis Costello

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 a footnote I'm a man with a mission in two

Miracle Man Elvis Costello

But don't you think that I know that walking on the water won't make me a miracle man? Baby's gotta have the things she wants. You know she's gotta have the things she loves.

Delivery Man Elvis Costello

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 she never has In a certain light he looked like Elvis

(I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea Elvis Costello

" (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea " 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

(I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea (Live At Hollywood High) Elvis Costello

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 flirt, gave herself a little cuddle But

(I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea (Live) Elvis Costello

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 flirt, gave herself a little cuddle But there's

The Delivery Man Elvis Costello

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 she never has In a certain light he looked like Elvis

Monkey To Man Elvis Costello

wanted Broke it up and plundered it and hunted Ever since we said it You went and took the credit It's been headed this way since the world began When a vicious creature took the jump from Monkey to Man

Roadette Song (Live) Elvis Costello

best to please Diction very bad, friction double rich Brazen little hussy, rock 'n' rolling bitch When it comes to business take off like a jet Rocking's her vocation, she's a very high roadette Young man

Edith And The Kingpin Elvis Costello

The big man arrives Disco dancers greet him Plainclothes cops greet him Small town, big man Fresh lipstick glistening Sophomore jive From victims Of typewriters The band sounds Like typewriters The big

Miracle Man (Live At Hollywood High) Elvis Costello

Miracle Man Elvis Costello My Aim is True (1977) You never asked me what I wanted. You only asked me why.

Dr. Watson, I Presume Elvis Costello

Watson, I presume One will follow Two unknown sorrow Three for laughter Four ever after Five-foot flood when the waters hit Six feet deep, the eternal pit Seven prayers and seven pleas To eight imagined

The Deportees Club Elvis Costello

in riddles Rome burns down everybody's on the fiddle Two thousand dollars for a wife and some class A thousand years drowned in a chaser glass How I wish that she was mine I could have been a King in Six

The Great Unknown Elvis Costello

he sinks just like a stone Footprints set in sentimental cement Now burden down his bones Lest we forget Here lies the Great unknown My my my Delilah Who's the butcher that you harbour Take the rich man

Sparkling Day Elvis Costello

now you can tell by the way I use my walk I'm a woman's man no time to talk Music loud and women warm I've been kicked around since I was born now it's all right it's OK And you may look the

Jimmie Standing In The Rain Elvis Costello

turned up against the fog Slow coaches rolling o'er the moor Between the very memory And approaches of war Stale bread curling on a luncheon counter Loose change lonely, not the right amount Forgotten man

That's How You Got Killed Before (Live) Elvis Costello

Well, you're standing on the corner, flagging all the girls you see Now do like EC and let those ladies be You know that's wrong, man, you know that's wrong Boy, you better get control, that's how you

The Scarlet Tide Elvis Costello

Well I recall his parting words must I accept his fate Or take myself far from this place I thought I heard a black bell toll A little bird did sing man has no choice when he wants everything We'll rise

Scarlet Tide Elvis Costello

Well I recall his parting words Must I accept his fate Or take myself far from this place I thought I heard a black bell toll A little bird did sing Man has no choice When he wants everything We'll rise

Can You Be True? Elvis Costello

I long to hear you whisper my name 'Til you tell me "My Darling, you may be my man.

Can You Be True? (Live) Elvis Costello

I long to hear you whisper my name 'Til you tell me "My Darling, you may be my man."

The Beat Elvis Costello

It takes two to tumble, it takes two to tango Speak up--don't mumble if you're in the combo On the beat, on the beat Till a man comes along and he says "Have you been a good boy, never played with

The Beat (LIve At Hollywood High) Elvis Costello

Till a man comes along and he says, 'Have you been a good boy, never played with your toy? Elvis Costello The Beat Lyrics Though you never enjoy, such pleasure to employ.'

Poor Fractured Atlas Elvis Costello

how the child in me planned it A woman wouldn't understand it" I believe there was something that I wanted to say Before I conclude this epistle But you would forgive me for holding my tongue 'Cause man

The Monkey Elvis Costello

monkey speaks his mind Now, three monkey sittin' in a coconut tree Discussin' things as they all say it to be Said one to the other, now, listen you two There's a certain rumor that can't be true That man

Peace In Our Time Elvis Costello

friends And I slip on my Italian dancing shoes As the evening descends And the bells take their toll Once again in a victory chime And we can thank God that we've finally got Peace in our time There's a man

I Wanna Be Loved Elvis Costello

why I can't be made to give up now Can you find room for me In your heart somehow I wanna be loved I just wanna be loved I guess I'm a victim of loneliness But why should this be my destiny A foolish man

All These Strangers Elvis Costello

Algiers Put tiny grains in children's tears While taking twenty five percent of all those flashbulbs and mementos From the mechanized divisions rolling over your frontiers I saw my baby talking to a man

But Not For Me Elvis Costello

"Old man sunshine listen you Never tell me dreams come true Just try it and I'll start a riot Beatrice Fairfax don't you dare Ever tell me he will care I'm certain it's the final curtain I never want to

Running Out Of Angels (Demo Ver.) Elvis Costello

they're bringing down a Hammer on anything that sells I suppose you're a winner Because they're running out of angels And all the lies upon the tongues of all the girls upon the rails Will ruin any man

My Lovely Jezebel Elvis Costello

suspects your sweet confection When you talk in contradictions Then she walks without detection Overrules all your objections Ooo, I looked in her eyes and through that window I fell She's my lovely Jezebel Man

Stranger In The House Elvis Costello

This never was one of the great romances But I thought you'd always have those young girl's eyes But now they look in tired and bitter glances At the ghost of a man who walks 'round in my disguise

Less Than Zero Elvis Costello

chorus A pistol was still smoking, a man lay on the floor. Mister Oswald said he had an understanding with the law. He said he heard about a couple living in the USA.

Hand In Hand Elvis Costello

No, don't ask me to apologize I won't ask you to forgive me If I'm gonna go down, you're gonna come with me You say, "Why don't you be a man about it Like they do in the grown-up movies?"

Stalin Malone Elvis Costello

poor wonders, 'til they want you alone Though they can't tell a cuckoo-clock from the squeals of saxophones That's when they'll fear my name Stalin Malone I'm telling you the day will come when this man

Blame It On Cain Elvis Costello

So if the man with the ticker tape, he tries to take it, well this is what I'm gonna say. Blame it on Cain. Don't blame it on me. Oh, oh, it's nobody's fault, but we need somebody to burn.

Home Is Anywhere You Hang Your Head Elvis Costello

"You'd look cute in your birthday suit" You tore him out and screwed him up Like a bad page in a naughty picture book They day ended as it began As he was seconds older than the man

I Lost You Elvis Costello

slipped from your costume Like an actress in this tragedy You're just an apparition in a haunting mystery I fear that you've passed over me And there's nothing I can do because I lost you Just like a rich man

A Slow Drag With Josephine Elvis Costello

threadbare up stairs Adieu, my little ballyhoo You broke my heart in two And now I haunt the bars and scent those trite affairs She went home to gather her comb And caught him unawares And there was her man

Coal-Train Robberies Elvis Costello

Of youth that drips and drips and drips They'll be sending him round from door to door, To sell you back what's already yours "so many good deeds, so little time" Say the advertising agency swine When man

She's Pulling Out The Pin Elvis Costello

starts to pull away And the lights begin to dim Is she thinking of me Or is she thinking of him She's pulling out the pin She's slipping off the hook Unbuttoning her dress There's just enough to make some man