Blood and Chocolate de Elvis Costello

Listado de Canciones

Disco 1

1. Uncomplicated

   Letra

   Blood and Chocolate I hope you're satisfied what you have done You think it's over now But we've only just begun I asked for water And they gave me rose' wine A horse that knows arithmetic And a dog that tells your fortune Chorus: It's in your eyes Uncomplicated I want to buy you A big blue Diamel Cheap white plastic shoes That don't walk out and don't let in I want to show you How I love you When you're over me There's no-one above you Chorus You think it's over now But this is only the beginning Chorus
2. I Hope You're Happy Now
3. Tokyo Storm Warning

   Letra

   The sky fell over cheap korean monster-movie scenery And spilled into the reservoir of the crushed capsule hotel Between the disney abattoir and the chemical refinery And i knew i was in trouble but i thought i was in hell So you look around the tiny room and you wonder where the hell you are While the k.k.k. convention are all stranded in the bar They wear hoods and carry shotguns in the main streets of montgomery But they're helpless here as babies 'cause they're only here on holiday Chorus: What do we care if the world is a joke (tokyo storm warning) We'll give it a big kiss We'll give it a poke (tokyo storm warning) Death wears a big hat 'cause he's a big bloke (tokyo storm warning) We're only living this instant The black sand stuck beneath her feet in a warm sorrento sunrise A barefoot girl from naples or was it a barcelona hi-rise Whistles out the tuneless theme song on a hundred cheap suggestions And a million false seductions and all those eternal questions Chorus So they flew the super-constellation all the way from rimini And feasted them on fish and chips from a newspaper facsimile Now dead italian tourists bodies litter up the broadway Some people can't be told you know they have to learn the hard way Holidays are dirt-cheap in the costa del malvinas In the hotel argentina they can hardly tell between us For teresa is a waitress though she's now known as juanita In a tango bar in stanley or in puerto margarita She's the sweetest and the sauciest The loveliest and the naughtiest She's miss buenos aires in a world of lacy lingerie Chorus Japanese god-jesus robots telling teenage fortunes For all we know and all we care they might as well be martians They say gold paint on the palace gates comes from the teeth of pensioners They're so tired of shooting protest singers That they hardly mention us While fountains fill with second-hand perfume And sodden trading stamps They'll hang the bullies and the louts that dampen down the day Chorus We braved the cold november air and the undertaker's curses Saying "take me to the folies bergere and please don't spare the hearses" For he always had a dream of that revolver in your purse How you loved him 'til you hated him and made him cry for mercy He said "don't ever mention my name there or talk of all the nights you cried We've always been like worlds apart now you're seeing two nightmares collide" Chorus
4. Home Is Anywhere You Hang Your Head

   Letra

   Here comes Mr. Misery He's tearing out his hair again He's crying over her again He's standing in the super-market shouting at the customers Here comes Mr. Misery He'll never be any good with a mouth full of gold and blood He's contemplating murder again He must be in love Chorus: But you know she doesn't want But you can't seem to get it in your head Oh and you can't sleep at night And she haunts you when you go to bed When you're tired of talking and you can't drink it down So you hang around and drown instead Home isn't where it used to be Home is anywhere you hang your head You hang your head Home is anywhere You hang your head Home is anywhere You hang your head Home is anywhere you hang your head Here comes Mr. Misery Looking for a place for his mouth to shoot Saying "You'd look cute in your birthday suit" You tore him out and screwed him up Like a bad page in a naughty picture book They day ended as it began As he was seconds older than the man he was this morning And the world has wiped it's mouth since then Or maybe it was yawning Chorus
5. I Want You

   Letra

   Oh my baby baby I love you more than I can tell I don't think I can live without you And I know that I never will Oh my baby baby I want you so it scares me to death I can't say anymore than "I love you" Everything else is a waste of breath I want you You've had your fun you don't get well no more I want you Your fingernails go dragging down the wall Be careful darling you might fall I want you I woke up and one of us was crying I want you You said "Young man I do believe you're dying" I want you If you need a second opinion as you seem to do these days I want you You can look in my eyes and you can count the ways I want you Did you mean to tell me but seem to forget I want you Since when were you so generous and inarticulate I want you It's the stupid details that my heart is breaking for It's the way your shoulders shake and what they're shaking for I want you It's knowing that he knows you now after only guessing It's the thought of him undressing you or you undressing I want you He tossed some tatty compliment your way I want you And you were fool enough to love it when he said "I want you" I want you The truth can't hurt you it's just like the dark It scares you witless But in time you see things clear and stark I want you Go on and hurt me then we'll let it drop I want you I'm afraid I won't know where to stop I want you I'm not ashamed to say I cried for you I want you I want to know the things you did that we do too I want you I want to hear he pleases you more than I do I want you I might as well be useless for all it means to you I want you Did you call his name out as he held you down I want you Oh no my darling not with that clown I want you I want you You've had your fun you don't get well no more I want you No-one who wants you could want you more I want you I want you I want you Every night when I go off to bed and when I wake up I want you I'm going to say it once again 'til I instill it I know I'm going to feel this way until you kill it I want you I want you I want you
6. Honey, Are You Straight Or Are You Blind?

   Letra

   Who do you see when you turn your eyes down? Who do you see when I'm not seeing you? The news is out all over town and all these girls Are taking turns at being you Chorus: Well, well, well You'd better make up your mind Honey, are you straight or are you blind? She's coming in between us you know that she is I'm not holding on to her but one of us is My hands are in my pocket, my face is in a book She could walk 'round naked and I wouldn't sneak a look Chorus Honey are you straight or are you blind? She walked in and your eyes flew out the door You squeezed my hand 'til the circulation ceases She's just a doll like so many more She's the kind of doll that you'd like to pull to pieces Chorus Well, well, well You'd better make up your mind Honey are you straight or are you blind?
7. Blue Chair

   Letra

   Now it's just you and me, my blue friend And you say that it's you that she's thinking of And our affair must end But if it's you that she's thinking of I think my broken heart might mend Chorus: Now it's my turn to talk and your turn to think Your turn to buy and my turn to drink Your turn to cry and my turn to sink down in the Blue Chair Down in the Blue Chair Now I've made up my mind I've made my mistake And I know that she cries for you When she's barely awake Well she's going to bend your mind Well I hope it don't break Chorus Down in the Blue Chair We can watch our troubles rise Like smoke into the air And drift up to the ceiling Down in the Blue Chair You can feel just like a boy or a man And next minute you can find yourself kneeling Down in the Blue Chair They're boasting of loving the daylights right out of her in the small hours Down in the Blue Chair You say that your love lasts forever when you know the night just hours And still I want her right now Not any minute, hour or day And wherever she is tonight I want her anyway I suppose she never said to you, You were just in the way Chorus Down in the Blue Chair Down in the blue Blue becomes you Down in the Blue Chair
8. Battered Old Bird

   Letra

   The landlady's husband came up to town today Since he left them both ten years ago to serve the ministry The dark down road of his approach in constant rain was drenched The tenant's boy said "How d'ya do" then swore in French Did you teach this little child these curses on my soul You should both be shut down in the coal-hole That's the way to treat a child who cries out in the night And a woman who teaches wrong from right Chorus: He's a Battered Old Bird And he's living up there There's a place where time stands still If you keep taking those little pink pills "Hush your mouth you hypocrite" His humour cut her deep The tight lipped leer of judgement That had seen her love desert her just like sleep "Filthy words on children's lips are better, my dear spouse Then if I were to speak my mind about this house" Chorus On the first floor there are two old maids Each one wishing that the other was afraid And next door to them is a man so mild 'Til he chopped off the head of a visitor's child He danced upon the bonfire Swallowed sleeping pills like dreams With a bottle of sweet sherry that everything redeems Chorus And on the second floor is the Macintosh Man He's in his overcoats more than out of them And the typewriter's rattling all through the night He's burgundy for breakfast tight He says "One day I'll throw away all of my cares And it is always Christmas in a cupboard at the top of the stairs" Chorus "Well here's a boy if ever there was Who's going to do big things That's what they all say and that's how the trouble begins I've seen them rise and fall Been through their big deals and smalls He'd better have a dream that goes beyond four walls" You think he should be sent outside playing with the traffic When pieces of him are already scattered in the attic
9. Crimes Of Paris

   Letra

   I thought it was you and your optimist's view of the clock And how it's always another day Just after twelve o'clock's struck You said "Now I only want you so I don't have to promise" But tiny children in grown-up clothes whispered all the Crimes of Paris Chorus: You're not the girl next-door or a girl from France Or the cigarette-girl in the sizzle hot-pants All the words of love seem cruel and crass When you're tough and transparent as armoured glass You're everywhere girl in an everyday mess Who'll pay for the Crimes of Paris I heard that you fell for the "Hell or to Hammersmith Blues" In the tiny torn up pieces of his mind he's irresistible too Now it's hard to say now if he's only stupid or smart When he crawled through the door And poured out more of his creeping-Jesus heart Chorus And it's all here and now She hit him with that paper-weight Eiffel Tower And I tried to hold on to you but I don't know how And I find it hard to swallow good advice Like going down three times to only come up twice She's so convenient, he's always stiff as hair-lacquer It's hard to discover now he's in love with her It was her way of getting her own back You never did anything she couldn't do on her own You're as good as your word and that's no good to her You'd better leave that kitten alone Chorus
10. Poor Napoleon

    Letra

    I can't lie on this bed anymore it burns my skin You can take the truthful things you've said to me And put them on the head of a pin Poor Napoleon You always look so disappointed when I take my stockings off Don't you know the facts of life, boy Don't you know what these things cost She was selling stolen kisses to travelling salesmen and minstrel singers You put a penny in the slot She called you her Magic Fingers Poor Napoleon I bet she isn't all that's advertised I bet that isn't all she fakes Just like that place where they take your spine And turn it into soapflakes so good night little school boy, you'd better learn some self control did you mess up your hairstyle, pour scorn in your begging bowl Bare wires from the socket to the bed where you embraced that girl Did you ever think there's far too many people in the world? One day they'll probably make a movie out of all of this There won't even have to be a murder just a slow dissolving kiss
11. Next Time Round

Disco 2

1. Leave My Kitten Alone

   Letra

   You better leave my kitten all alone You better leave my kitten all alone Well I tell you big bad bulldog Well, you better leave her alone Don't you know My kitten isn't dead Don't you know My kitten isn't dead So get your hands off of her Cause I'm her lovin' man Well mister dog I'm gonna hit you On the top of your head That girl's gonna miss you And you're gonna wish that you were dead You better leave my kitten all alone I love my little kitten Well, like you hounddogs love your bone Well mister dog I'm gonna hit you On the top of your head That girl's gonna miss you And you're gonna wish that you were dead You better leave my kitten all alone I tell you big bad bulldog Well, you better leave her I tell you big bad bulldog Well, you better leave her I tell you big bad bulldog Well, you better leave her alone You better leave You better leave You better leave My kitten all alone
2. New Rhythm Method
3. Forgive her Anything

   Letra

   Oh, a TV went off like three day old milk That shook this town down better than most And it always was less of idea and more of a boast Oh, you're burning in the bloom of life 'Til you're powder in the grave Or you're pounding in the counter beggin' for more 'Til you evaporate You'd forgive her anything If you look like you, my pretty Miss I wonder where you are tonight And this place becomes pityless Oh, I couldn't sleep, but I can't complain Oh, this won't hurt a bit, oh, this won't hurt again When the roof comes down and the walls move in Oh, he didn't know it could feel like that And your face turned away and the day turned black And the rain fell like a curtain Oh, it's my turn to begin To forgive her anything You'd forgive her anything If you knew what I know You'd forgive her anything So where did all my pride go? Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh, you'd forgive her anything If you knew what I know You'd forgive her anything So where did all my pride go?
4. Crimes Of Paris

   Letra

   I thought it was you and your optimist's view of the clock And how it's always another day Just after twelve o'clock's struck You said "Now I only want you so I don't have to promise" But tiny children in grown-up clothes whispered all the Crimes of Paris Chorus: You're not the girl next-door or a girl from France Or the cigarette-girl in the sizzle hot-pants All the words of love seem cruel and crass When you're tough and transparent as armoured glass You're everywhere girl in an everyday mess Who'll pay for the Crimes of Paris I heard that you fell for the "Hell or to Hammersmith Blues" In the tiny torn up pieces of his mind he's irresistible too Now it's hard to say now if he's only stupid or smart When he crawled through the door And poured out more of his creeping-Jesus heart Chorus And it's all here and now She hit him with that paper-weight Eiffel Tower And I tried to hold on to you but I don't know how And I find it hard to swallow good advice Like going down three times to only come up twice She's so convenient, he's always stiff as hair-lacquer It's hard to discover now he's in love with her It was her way of getting her own back You never did anything she couldn't do on her own You're as good as your word and that's no good to her You'd better leave that kitten alone Chorus
5. Uncomplicated

   Letra

   Blood and Chocolate I hope you're satisfied what you have done You think it's over now But we've only just begun I asked for water And they gave me rose' wine A horse that knows arithmetic And a dog that tells your fortune Chorus: It's in your eyes Uncomplicated I want to buy you A big blue Diamel Cheap white plastic shoes That don't walk out and don't let in I want to show you How I love you When you're over me There's no-one above you Chorus You think it's over now But this is only the beginning Chorus
6. Battered Old Bird

   Letra

   The landlady's husband came up to town today Since he left them both ten years ago to serve the ministry The dark down road of his approach in constant rain was drenched The tenant's boy said "How d'ya do" then swore in French Did you teach this little child these curses on my soul You should both be shut down in the coal-hole That's the way to treat a child who cries out in the night And a woman who teaches wrong from right Chorus: He's a Battered Old Bird And he's living up there There's a place where time stands still If you keep taking those little pink pills "Hush your mouth you hypocrite" His humour cut her deep The tight lipped leer of judgement That had seen her love desert her just like sleep "Filthy words on children's lips are better, my dear spouse Then if I were to speak my mind about this house" Chorus On the first floor there are two old maids Each one wishing that the other was afraid And next door to them is a man so mild 'Til he chopped off the head of a visitor's child He danced upon the bonfire Swallowed sleeping pills like dreams With a bottle of sweet sherry that everything redeems Chorus And on the second floor is the Macintosh Man He's in his overcoats more than out of them And the typewriter's rattling all through the night He's burgundy for breakfast tight He says "One day I'll throw away all of my cares And it is always Christmas in a cupboard at the top of the stairs" Chorus "Well here's a boy if ever there was Who's going to do big things That's what they all say and that's how the trouble begins I've seen them rise and fall Been through their big deals and smalls He'd better have a dream that goes beyond four walls" You think he should be sent outside playing with the traffic When pieces of him are already scattered in the attic
7. Seven Day Weekend

   Letra

   One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Monday's calling you too early when you're sound asleep Bells are ringing by your bedside and out in the street Usually Monday's long enough, but this is just the start Tuesday's just the same as Monday without the surprising part Wednesday's point of no return When you've squandered all you've earned 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, seven day weekend. (2x) This is all I'm thinking about as the days go by Spend your life on holiday and even when I die There could be but one inscription: "This was not his day" If it isn't Thursday anymore, it must be Friday I can't wait until I maybe Get off work and see my baby 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, seven day weekend. (2x) I can't wait until I maybe Get off work and see my baby 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, seven day weekend. (8x)
8. Blue Chair

   Letra

   Now it's just you and me, my blue friend And you say that it's you that she's thinking of And our affair must end But if it's you that she's thinking of I think my broken heart might mend Chorus: Now it's my turn to talk and your turn to think Your turn to buy and my turn to drink Your turn to cry and my turn to sink down in the Blue Chair Down in the Blue Chair Now I've made up my mind I've made my mistake And I know that she cries for you When she's barely awake Well she's going to bend your mind Well I hope it don't break Chorus Down in the Blue Chair We can watch our troubles rise Like smoke into the air And drift up to the ceiling Down in the Blue Chair You can feel just like a boy or a man And next minute you can find yourself kneeling Down in the Blue Chair They're boasting of loving the daylights right out of her in the small hours Down in the Blue Chair You say that your love lasts forever when you know the night just hours And still I want her right now Not any minute, hour or day And wherever she is tonight I want her anyway I suppose she never said to you, You were just in the way Chorus Down in the Blue Chair Down in the blue Blue becomes you Down in the Blue Chair
9. Baby's Got A Brand New Hairdo
10. American Without Tears No. 2
11. All These Things
12. Pouring Water On A Drowning Man

    Letra

    You push me when I'm falling And then you put me down I guess I missed my calling I should have been a clown How much more How much more can I stand You're pouring water On a drowning man You put me on the right track And then you put me down You stab me in the back Everytime I turn around Criticize my lovin' When I'm doing the very best I can You're pouring water On a drowning man You're pouring water On a drowning man You treat me like The fool that I am You bet that I like everything you do Put salt in my wounds It's sad but it's true You warm me with your kisses Then you leave me in the cold How can I know your wishes When I've never been told Won't you please forgive me Just try and understand You're pouring water On a drowning man You're pouring water On a drowning man You treat me like The fool that I am You bet that I like everything you do Put salt in my wounds It's sad but it's true You warm me with your kisses Then you leave me in the cold How can I know your wishes When I've never been told Won't you please forgive me Just try and understand You're pouring water On a poor drowning man I got tears in my eyes Oh, I'm a drowning man I got tears in my eyes You're pouring water On a drowing man You're pouring water On a poor drowning man
13. Running Out Of Fools

    Letra

    Sure you haven't got the wrong number Sure it's me you want to talk to tonight Everyone in town's got your number Everyone in town's got you pegged just right Is that why you got in touch with me I guess you must be running out of fools Even when you left me there crying Your goodbye was even colder than ice You didn't care that you left me there crying Now you wanna break my heart twice Is that why you got in touch with me I guess you must be running out of fools I guess you got back to my name in your little black book Hey guess what I bet you forgot how I even look So go ahead with all your sweet talking Go ahead for all the good it will do Have yourself a dime's worth of talking Then I'm gonna hang right up on you Cause this time you're not getting through to me I guess you must be running out of fools Even fools like me Even fools like me I guess you're running out of fools Even fools like me
14. Tell Mr Right Now
15. Lonely Blue Boy