The Very Best of Elvis Costello

We play these parlour games We play at make believe When we get to the part where I say that I'm going to leave Everybody loves a happy ending but we don't even try We go straight past pretending To the part where everybody loves to cry [Chorus:] Ind

Is it worth it A new winter coat and shoes for the wife And a bicycle on the boys birthday Its just a rumour that was spread around town By the women and children Soon well be shipbuilding Well I ask you The boy said dad they're going to take me to t

As i walk through This wicked world Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity. I ask myself Is all hope lost? Is there only pain and hatred, and misery? And each time i feel like this inside, There's one thing i wanna know: What's so funny 'bou

I'm the living result I'm a man who's been hurt a little too much And I've tasted the bitterness of my own tears Sadness is all my lonely heart can feel I can't stand up for falling down I can't stand up for falling down Simple though love is Still i

I can hardly bear the sight of lipstick on the cigarettes there in the ashtray Lyin cold the way you left em, but at least your lips caressed them while You packed Or the lip-print on a half-filled cup of coffee that you poured and didn't drink But a

Don't start me talking I could talk all night My mind goes sleepwalking While I'm putting the world to right Called careers information Have you got yourself an occupation? [Chorus:] Oliver's army is here to stay Oliver's army are on their way And I

Photographs of fancy tricks to get your kicks at sixty-six He thinks of all the lips that he licks And all the girls that he's going to fix She gave a little flirt, gave herself a little cuddle But there's no place here for the mini-skirt waddle Capi

So this is where he came to hide When he ran from you In a private detective's overcoat And dirty dead man's shoes The pretty things of Knightsbridge Lying for a minister of state Are a far cry from the nod and wink Here at traitor's gate 'Cause the