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Lyrics for When I Was Cruel No. 2 by Elvis Costello:
| | | Artist: | Elvis Costello |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | When I Was Cruel No. 2 | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 78 | | | | Lyrics: | I exit through the spotlight glare
I stepped out into thin air
Into a perfume so
rarefied
"Here comes the bride"
Not quite aside, they snide "She's number
four"
"There's number three just by the door"
Those in the know, don't even flatter
her,
They go one better
"She was selling speedboats in a tradeshow when he met
her"
Look at her now
She's starting to yawn
She looks like she was born to
it
But it was so much easier
When I was cruel
She reaches out her arms to
me
Imploring: "Another melody?"
So she can dance her husband out on the floor
The
captains of industry just lie there where they fall
In eau-de-nil and pale carnation
creation
A satin sash and velvet elevation
She straightens the tipsy head-dress of her
spouse
While her recalls a honey house
There'll be no sorrows left to drown
Early
in the morning in your evening gown
But it was so much easier
When I was cruel
The
entrance hall was arranged with hostesses and ushers
Who turned out to be the younger wives
nursing schoolgirl crushes
Parting the waves of those few feint friends
Fingers once offered
are now too heavy to extend
The ghostly first wife glides up stage whispering to raucous
talkers
Spilling family secrets out to flunkeys and castrato walkers
See that girl
Watch
that scene
Digging the "Dancing Queen"
Two newspaper editors like playground
sneaks
Running the book on which of them is going to last the week
One of them calls to
me
And he says, "I know you"
"You gave me this tattoo back in '82"
"You were a spoilt
child then with a record to plug"
"And I was a shaven headed seaside thug"
"Things haven't
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