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Lyrics for Twenty-Five To Twelve by Elvis Costello:
| | | Artist: | Elvis Costello |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Twenty-Five To Twelve | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 68 | | | | Lyrics: | You say you don't desire me
You only tire me
Now you'll hire me
Expensive care is
meaningless
Feeling nothing and caring less
Cut off at the pass
She knows where you're
headed
She wants double time
Or a temporary wedding
Chorus:
And the lucky girl
leads a life of leisure
With 45 years for seconds of pleasure
The hands on the clock move so
precisely
And I only kiss but once or twice
I can't help you now,
I can't help
myself
'Cause the time's running out
And it's twenty-five to twelve
Crowds surround
loudspeakers
On the lampposts
Listening to the murder mystery
Meanwhile someone's in the
classroom
Busy forging books on history
Wouldn't give that man my hand
He'd steal my
fingers
So the sleuth ends up in stitches
And your urges turn to itches
Chorus
I was committed to life
And then commuted to the outskirts
I was living with
thirty minutes at a time
With a break in the middle for adverts
See the human
furniture
But its only for show
Now you can look all that you like
But they only let you
touch and go
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