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10 Cool Elvis Costello lines
Old Declan had a way with a phrase. Whatever happened to that guy?
Lipstick Vogue
“Sometimes I think that love is just a tumour;
you’ve got to cut it out”
Big Sister
“Sheep to the slaughter
Oh, this must be love “
Accidents Will Happen
“And it’s the damage that we do
And never know
It’s the words that we don’t say
That scare me so”
Tramp The Dirt Down
“Because there’s one thing I know, I’d like to live
long enough to savour
That’s when they finally put you in the ground
I’ll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down
“When England was the whore of the world
Margaret was her madam
And the future looked as bright and as clear as
the black tarmacadam”
Big Boys
“We can talk but she’ll get to you
After you’ve been loved and hated
By the ones you’ve watched and waited
Found that they were overrated”
Watching The Detectives
“They beat him up until the teardrops start,
but he can’t be wounded ‘cause he’s got no heart.”
Radio Radio
“I wanna bite the hand that feeds me.
I wanna bite that hand so badly.
I want to make them wish they’d never seen me.”
“Don’t tell me you don’t know what love is
When you’re old enough to know better
When you find strange hands inside your sweater”
Mystery Dance
“Well I remember when the lights went out
and I was tryin’ to make it look like it was never in doubt.
She thought that I knew, and I thought that she knew,
so both of us were willing, but we didn’t know how to do it.”
Red Shoes
“Oh I used to be disgusted
and now I try to be amused.”
