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Lyrics for Sleep Of The Just by Elvis Costello:
| | | Artist: | Elvis Costello |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Sleep Of The Just | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 88 | | | | Lyrics: | The soldier asked my name and did I come here very often
Well I thought that he was asking me
to dance
In my holy coat and hat and him in his red bonnet
We'd have made a lovely couple
but we never had the chance
[chorus]
And now you say that you've got to go
Well if
you must you must
I suppose that you need the sleep of the just
Well it was a
powerful day and there were black crows in the road
And I kept my strong opinions to my chest
I suppose I should have told them that I was on fire for you
When the bus burst into
flames outside some place, 'The Poet's Rest'
[chorus]
A girl woke up in a naked
light and said "Oh no not again"
He even looked like her brother in the army but she never
mentions him
He'll be tucked up in his bed tonight with his dirty-pictures girl
Saying,
'You're some mother's daughter you know or is it
immaterial girl?'
Now she's pinned
up upon the barracks wall in her home town
All the soldiers taking turns with their attentions
And as they speculate what she'd look like beneath that thin nightgown
His family pride
was rising up as he cast his eyes down | | | |  Reddit | X / Twitter | Facebook | Copy link |
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