The Delivery Man de Elvis Costello

Listado de Canciones

Disco 1

1. Button My Lip4:54

   Letra

   Don't want to talk about the government Don't want to talk about some incident Don't want to talk about some peppermint gum Don't want to talk about the time to come Button my lip 'Til I'm smart enough Don't raise your hand 'Cos I'm not offering It serves you right Now you are suffering Give me a chance To see it though It all depends on what you hold is true Button my lip With your kiss Don't want to hear some little sniveling You just don't get what I'm delivering Maybe you want me But you know you can't I'd say, 'I want you? But you know I don't Button my lip 'Til I'm old enough 'Til I'm smart enough 'Til I'm? Button my lip Don't want to come at your beckoning For any day they'll be a reckoning Don't want to hear what is impossible Baby, you've become invisible Button my lip I've seen those clowns vacant and insolent I stand accused but I am innocent I am the mighty and magnificent
2. Country Darkness3:57

   Letra

   This tattered document A mystery you can solve Some burnt out filament Flies still buzzing around the bulb Country Darkness He thought of traveling Heard an approaching train Drown out his desperate pulse A song with no refrain Country Darkness She daydreams of forbidden sins There must be something more The prison she lives in The one with the open door The veil is covering A glistening and cruel blade Suffer little children Repent, unfaithful maid Country Darkness
3. There's A Story In Your Voice3:42
4. Either Side Of The Same Town3:59

   Letra

   Nothing can ever be the same All of the promises we made seem hollow But there's still some streets in this town Oh, they're marked, they're marked with your shadow So if you see me, look surprised Well, well, well, if you don't Oh, just pass me by And I may, I may even brush your sleeve Oh, as you turn around, turn around and leave Now it's hard to act like strangers When we used to be so strong Everything is changing And most of it is wrong What do we know of anything Two fools of some renown Either side, either side of the same town Somewhere there's a light Oh, I can sense it Though I may fall back again Oh, I know, yes, I know it's a fight Oh, but I must, Lord, I must Withstand the strain Now it's hard to keep ignoring Someone you recognise And if I seem contented Well, that's only my disguise What do we know of anything Two fools of some renown Either side, either side of the same town Oh, yeah, either side, either side of the same town
5. Bedlam4:48

   Letra

   I've got this phosphorescent portrait of gentle Jesus meek and mild I've got this harlot that I'm stuck with carrying another man's child The solitary star announcing vacancy burnt out as we arrived They'd throw us back across the border if they knew that we survived And they were surprised to see us So they greeted us with palms They asked for ammunition, acts of contrition and small alms I might recite a small prayer If I ever said them I lay down on an iron frame Found myself in bedlam I wish that I could take something for drowning out the noise Wailing echoes down the corridors I've got this imaginary radio, and I'm punching up the dial I've got the A.C. trained on the T.V. so it won't blow up in my eye And everything that I thought fanciful and mocked as too extreme Must be family entertainment here in the strange land of my dreams Now I'm practicing my likeness of St. Francis of Assisi For if I hold my hand outstretched A little bird comes to me I might recite a small prayer If I ever said them I lay down on an iron frame Found myself in bedlam Escaping from the fingers that were stretching through the bars Wailing echoes down the corridors The player piano picks out "Life Goes On" Ring tone rang out "Jerusalem" And in this pit of sadness Where the rank of wretched plunge We've buried all the innocents Now we must bury revenge They've got this scared and decorated girl strapped to the steel trunk of a mustang And then they drove her down a cypress grove where traitors hang and stars still spangle They dangled flags and other rags along a coloured thread of twine And then they dragged that bruised and purple heart along the road to Palestine Someone went off muttering, he mentioned thirty pieces Easter saw a slaughtering, each wrapped in bloodstained fleeces Then my thoughts returned to vengeance, but I put up no resistance Though I seemed a long way from my home It really was no distance And I might recite a small prayer If I ever said them I lay down on an iron frame Found myself in bedlam Bowing like an actor acknowledging applause Playing the Crusader who was conquering the Moors And he knew the consequences, but he won't accept the cause Wailing echoes down the corridors
6. The Delivery Man4:38

   Letra

   "Abel was able," so Vivian said Her shoulders flung forward Her lips in a purse She talks like the beauty that she never was Of the fabulous wild nights that she never has In a certain light he looked like Elvis In a certain way he feels like Jesus Everyone dreams of him just as they can But he's only the humble Delivery Man Geraldine blushes and brushes away The cigarette ashes that Vivian scatters Stares out of the window at the things that she says While gossip within her competes with the widow Ever since he's gone, she feels like crying all the time She knows for sure Vivian is lying Now she has a daughter to raise as she can She just wouldn't trust that Delivery Man Ivy puts down the ghost story she's reading Looks up at that face on the wall Thinking about how her father lay bleeding Shot in the back 'cos orders were misleading And how a flag and a medal don't have any meaning On the 5th of July as they tore down the fair And he'd seen all the local girls who were worth kissing With the smell of the gunpowder still in the air They noticed that Abel and Ivy were missing In a certain light he looked like Elvis In a certain way he seemed like Jesus He said "Why can't we be kind to me like you were meant to be? When they let me out, I had a brand new identity. Now everyone dreams of me just as they can. I want to be your Delivery Man."
7. Monkey To Man4:28

   Letra

   A long time ago, our point of view Was broadcast by Mr. Bartholomew And now the world is full of sorrow and pain And it's time for us to speak up again You're slack and sorry Such an arrogant brood The only purpose you serve is to bring us our food We sit here staring at your pomp and pout Outside the bars we use for keeping you out You've taken everything that you wanted Broke it up and plundered it and hunted Ever since we said it You went and took the credit It's been headed this way since the world began When a vicious creature took the jump from Monkey to Man Monkey to Man Every time man struggles and fails He makes up some kind of fairytales After all of the misery that he has caused He denies he's descended from the dinosaurs Points up to heaven with cathedral spires All the time indulging in his base desires Ever since we said it He went and took the credit It's been headed this way since the world began When a vicious creature took the jump from Monkey to Man Monkey to Man Big and useless as he has become With his crying statues and his flying bomb Goes 'round acting like the chosen one Excuse us if we treat him like our idiot cousin He hangs up flowers and bells and rhymes Hoping to hell someone's forgiven his crimes Fills up the air with his pride and praise He's a big disgrace to our beastly ways In the fashionable nightclubs and finer precincts Man uses words to dress up his vile instincts Ever since we said it He went and took the credit It's been headed this way since the world began When a vicious creature took the jump from Monkey to Man
8. Nothing Clings Like Ivy4:17

   Letra

   Nothing clings like Ivy Frightened by the dark Though she cuts deep It never leaves a mark No one quite like Ivy Ever gets it straight What she believes She won't negotiate All the words of tenderness That never quite got through She said "You know how young girls are From my contempt for you." Outside in the hollow She may dare herself For there may be A serpent in the grass Nothing clings like Ivy Trying to scare herself And it may strike or Wait for her to pass All the words of tenderness That she never possessed "So what's the use of promises? I had my fingers crossed." All the words of tenderness That never quite got through She said, "I laughed behind your back When I told them to you." Nothing clings like Ivy Frightened by the dark Though she cuts deep It never leaves a mark
9. The Name Of This Thing Is Not Love2:50

   Letra

   There's a part of this feeling that I just cannot kill But the name of this thing is not love And I can't take a potion, and I won't take a pill So it tortures me still But the name of this thing is not love Then you start entertaining such a terrible thought Life is so very short And the name of this thing is not love There's a bruise on her arm And some blood on the floor But the name of this thing is not love And they're taunting some girl That they claim to adore She can't take anymore But the name of this thing is not love Who in the world do you think that you are? That you pushed me this far But the name of this thing is not love He thinks of her still Although you'd never guess He's trying so to forget her The occasional moments that he'll always bless Watching her dress For worse or better He watched her pick over her broken playthings What played on his mind is not love The cast aside tokens and discarded rings Over one of his flings But the name of this thing is not love Then he threw something down in the wild rushing river And won't ever recover But the name of this thing is not love Then you start out pretending that you're so very tough Life is not short enough But the name of this thing is not love
10. Heart Shaped Bruise4:07

    Letra

    Tell me now Or are you only teasing? I felt the cold hard facts of life Five degrees from freezing Does it amuse you to always hurt me so? I try my best it's not enough Should I give up and let you? What more is there to take from me? There's nothing else to give you, dear There's nothing more that I can lose Except this Heart Shaped Bruise It will fade From purple to violet It will fade Just as the day dissolves into twilight Tell me now Or am I only dreaming? You said that you'd be mine for life And now you say you're leaving If I could hold you once more before you go When I approach you just lash out Should I give up and let you? What more is there to take from me? There's nothing else to give you, dear There's nothing more that I can lose Accept this Heart Shaped Bruise It will fade from purple to violet It will fade? She's pulling out the pin
11. She's Pulling Out The Pin
12. Needle Time5:05

    Letra

    I wish that I didn't hate you Least not as much as I do And squander all my contempt for A little nothing like you Liars like you are ten-a-penny Women would slap you, if you knew any Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime I've got this suitcase of phony wisdom to dispense These twenty-seven or so years You'd think I (would have) made them some cents Now they want me fingerprinted Like I was smuggling drugs While the government does deals with the most convenient thugs Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime It's Needle Time I'm trying not to despise you with a passion that is hard to extinguish Or maybe I really love you Although it's hard to distinguish I wish I could be A little more like a saint is Forgiving those who trespass against us Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime I started talking nonsense, just like I did to begin with Around the time I tired of those sour English Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime It's Needle Time
13. The Judgement3:59

    Letra

    The accused will rise to be torn in two Guilty of nothing but loving you This is the judgement And I'm willing to plead How you don't want me Hoping this torment will cease Will I be released? There'll be lies, there'll be tears A jury of your peers With a pitiful lack of experience Hand down the judgement And if I done wrong And loved you too long Stand up and just testify How can I deny? Objection overruled I wait for my reprieve With the trust of the deceived The wisdom of the fool It's his sorrowful face Too heavy for his head Cos he bowed it as something come over him It was the judgement He falls to his knees Have mercy on me He clings to the hem of her gown She says, "Just take him down."
14. The Scarlet Tide2:26

    Letra

    Well I recall his parting words Must I accept his fate? Or take myself far from this place I thought I heard a black bell toll A little bird did sing Man has no choice When he wants everything [Chorus:] We'll rise above the scarlet tide That trickles down through the mountain And separates the widow from the bride Man goes beyond his own decision Gets caught up in the mechanism Of swindlers who act like kings And brokers who break everything The dark of night was swiftly fading Close to the dawn of the day Why would I want him Just to lose him again [Chorus 2x]
15. Bonus Video of Bedlam

Disco 2

1. The Monkey
2. Country Darkness3:57

   Letra

   This tattered document A mystery you can solve Some burnt out filament Flies still buzzing around the bulb Country Darkness He thought of traveling Heard an approaching train Drown out his desperate pulse A song with no refrain Country Darkness She daydreams of forbidden sins There must be something more The prison she lives in The one with the open door The veil is covering A glistening and cruel blade Suffer little children Repent, unfaithful maid Country Darkness
3. Needle Time5:05

   Letra

   I wish that I didn't hate you Least not as much as I do And squander all my contempt for A little nothing like you Liars like you are ten-a-penny Women would slap you, if you knew any Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime I've got this suitcase of phony wisdom to dispense These twenty-seven or so years You'd think I (would have) made them some cents Now they want me fingerprinted Like I was smuggling drugs While the government does deals with the most convenient thugs Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime It's Needle Time I'm trying not to despise you with a passion that is hard to extinguish Or maybe I really love you Although it's hard to distinguish I wish I could be A little more like a saint is Forgiving those who trespass against us Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime I started talking nonsense, just like I did to begin with Around the time I tired of those sour English Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime It's Needle Time
4. The Scarlet Tide2:26

   Letra

   Well I recall his parting words Must I accept his fate? Or take myself far from this place I thought I heard a black bell toll A little bird did sing Man has no choice When he wants everything [Chorus:] We'll rise above the scarlet tide That trickles down through the mountain And separates the widow from the bride Man goes beyond his own decision Gets caught up in the mechanism Of swindlers who act like kings And brokers who break everything The dark of night was swiftly fading Close to the dawn of the day Why would I want him Just to lose him again [Chorus 2x]
5. In Another Room
6. The Delivery Man4:38

   Letra

   "Abel was able," so Vivian said Her shoulders flung forward Her lips in a purse She talks like the beauty that she never was Of the fabulous wild nights that she never has In a certain light he looked like Elvis In a certain way he feels like Jesus Everyone dreams of him just as they can But he's only the humble Delivery Man Geraldine blushes and brushes away The cigarette ashes that Vivian scatters Stares out of the window at the things that she says While gossip within her competes with the widow Ever since he's gone, she feels like crying all the time She knows for sure Vivian is lying Now she has a daughter to raise as she can She just wouldn't trust that Delivery Man Ivy puts down the ghost story she's reading Looks up at that face on the wall Thinking about how her father lay bleeding Shot in the back 'cos orders were misleading And how a flag and a medal don't have any meaning On the 5th of July as they tore down the fair And he'd seen all the local girls who were worth kissing With the smell of the gunpowder still in the air They noticed that Abel and Ivy were missing In a certain light he looked like Elvis In a certain way he seemed like Jesus He said "Why can't we be kind to me like you were meant to be? When they let me out, I had a brand new identity. Now everyone dreams of me just as they can. I want to be your Delivery Man."
7. Dark End Of The Street