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Lyrics for The Letter Home by Elvis Costello:
| | | Artist: | Elvis Costello |
| | Album: | The Juliet Letter | | Track: | The Letter Home | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 72 | | | | Lyrics: | Words: Mac Manus/Cassidy
Music: Belton/Mac Manus (3:11)
c/0 St. Ignatus House,
Willoughby Drive, Parrametta,
New South Wales
This fifth day of July, in the year of Our
Lord nineteen
hundred and thirty five
Why must I apologize everytime that I sit down
to write
Through my own fault I may find
You're no longer living at this
address
Please excuse the lack of news
The feeling of strange privilage
for the hour
of trial, in these times of distress
Mean more than years imprisoned by etiquette.
I
can remember when we were children
Though I could never imagine this day
Your brother told
me we'd live forever
"I'll go one better," I heard myself say
And it seems so strange, now
that he's gone to recall all these
games
While the years have divided us
Friendships
have strained and broken
Oh, by the way, how's that girl that you wed
I hated you
then, but I'm over the worst of it
I can't come home, I might as well say, life is short
I
shall not write again
SONG@: Jacksons, Monk and Rowe
Words: M. Thomas/J. Thomas/Mac
Manus
Music: M. Thomas
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 nowhere for you to go
So you'll just have to come out and face
the music
Jacksons, Monk and Rowe
Long ago when we were kids and we cut your hair to
bits
As we carried off like spoils the heads we'd smash right off
your dolls
But the
wind is changing you know
Are you sure of your friends and your foe
Have you got what it
takes to carry it off
Jacksons, Monk and Rowe
As the sun beats down and life begins
to complicate
Will we both incinerate
If we touch that brass name-plate
Messrs.
All, noble Sirs
Highly paid solicitors
Find enclosed my signed divorce
Sad
proceedings you endorse
The burden of pity will show
In the people we used to
know
Have you got enough strength to carry it off
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