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Lyrics for All This Useless Beauty by Elvis Costello:
| | | Artist: | Elvis Costello |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | All This Useless Beauty | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 60 | | | | Lyrics: | Its at times such as this shed be tempted to spit
If she wasnt so ladylike
She imagines how
she might have lived
Back when legends and history collide
So she looks to her prince
finding hes so charmingly
Slumped at her side
Those days are recalled on the gallery
wall
And shes waiting for passion or humour to strike
What shall we do, what shall we
do with all this useless beauty?
All this useless beauty
Good Friday arrived, the sky
darkened on time
Til he almost began to negotiate
She held his head like a baby and said Its
okay if you cry
Now he wants her to dress as if you couldnt guess
He desires to impress his
associates
But hes part ugly beast and Hellenic deceased
So she finds that the mixture is
hard to deny
Chorus
She wont practice the looks from the great tragic
books
That were later disgraced to face celluloid
It wont even make sense but you can
bet
If she isnt a sweetheart or plaything or pet
The film turns her into an unveiled
threat
Nonsense prevails, modesty fails
Grace and virtue turn into stupidity
While
the calendar fades almost all barricades to a pale compromise
And our leaders have feasts on the
backsides of beasts
They still think theyre the gods of antiquity
If something you missed
didnt even exist
It was just an ideal -- is it such a surprise?
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