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Lyrics for My Dark Life by Elvis Costello:
| | | Artist: | Elvis Costello |
| | Album: | Songs In The Key Of X | | Track: | My Dark Life | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 77 | | | | Lyrics: | 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 can watch it all crumbling
She came off like light and so
softly she spoke:
"You don't know, no 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 your dark life
Now
that you tear your dreams from consumptive ballerinas
She'd stand on tiptoes 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
Robber 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
There are remnants of red army bandsmen
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