Álbum When I Was Cruel de Elvis Costello - Canciones

When I Was Cruel

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  1. 45Ver letra 3:33

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    Bells are chiming for victory
    There's a page back in history
    45
    They came back to the world that they fought for
    Didn't turn out just like they thought
    45

    Here is a song to sing to do the measuring
    What do you lose, what do you gain, what do you win?

    Nine years later a child is born
    There's a record, so you put it on
    45
    Nine years more, if we're lucky now
    Nine-year-old puts his money down
    45
    Every scratch. every click, every heartbeat
    Every breath that I held for you
    45
    There's a stack of shellac and vinyl
    Which is yours now and which is mine?
    45

    Repeat chorus

    Bass and treble heal every hurt
    There's a rebel in a nylon shirt
    But the words are a mystery, I've heard
    'Til you turn it down to 33 and 1/3
    'Cos it helps with the elocution
    Corporations turn revolutions
    45

    So don't just weep and shed
    Just change your name instead
    What do you lose when it all goes to your head?

    I heard something peculiar said:
    "Perhaps he's got a shot and now he's dead"
    45

    Bells are chiming and tears are falling
    It creeps up on you without a warning
    45
    Every scratch, every click, every heartbeat
    Every breath that I bless
    I'd be lost, I confess
    45

  2. Spooky GirlfriendVer letra 4:22

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    I want a girl to make a mess
    To do no wrong she must confess
    And then perhaps hitch up her dress
    'Cos when the flashbulbs explode
    She's such a sensitive soul...

    I want a girl who is helpless and frail
    Who won't pull on my ponytail
    I want a girl who has no past
    She's made up now
    But that won't last
    'Cos when she sits on my knee
    And then she whispers to me

    "Can't you see
    I could be
    I could be
    Your spooky girlfriend"

    The broken toys are all scattered in the attic
    Newspapers play with the words of the fanatic
    While the greeting cards are your most poetic lyric
    And the flat champagne is sweet sugar syrup

    I want to paint you with glitter and with dirt
    Picture you wit innocence and hurt
    The shutter closes
    Exposes the shot
    she says, "Are you looking up my skirt?"
    When you say "No"
    She says "Why not?"

    I want a girl to turn my screw
    To wind my watch, to buckle my shoe
    And if she won't her mother will do
    But when she does as she's told
    We'll all turn platinum and gold

    But when she sits on my knee
    I hear her whispers to me
    "Can't you see?
    "I could be your spooky girlfriend"

  3. Tear Off Your Own Head (It's A Doll Revolution)
  4. When I Was Cruel No. 2Ver letra 7:06

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    letra de When I Was Cruel No. 2

    I exit through the spotlight glare
    I stepped out into thin air
    Into a perfume so rarefied
    "Here comes the bride"

    Not quite aside, they snide, "She's number four"
    "There's number three just by the door"
    Those in the know, don't even flatter her,
    they go one better
    "She was selling speedboats in a tradeshow in Atlanta"

    Look at her now
    She's starting to yawn
    She looks like she was born to it
    But it was so much easier
    When I was cruel

    She reaches out her arms to me
    Imploring: "Another melody?"
    So she can dance her husband out on the floor
    The captains of industry just lie there where they fall

    In eau-de-nil and pale carnation creation
    A satin sash and velvet elevation
    She straightens the tipsy head-dress of her spouse
    While hers recalls a honey house

    There'll be no sorrows left to drown
    Early in the morning in your evening gown
    But it was so much easier
    When I was cruel

    The entrance hall was arranged with hostesses and ushers
    Who turned out to be the younger wives nursing schoolgirl crushes
    Parting the waves of those few feint friends
    Fingers once offered are now too heavy to extend

    The ghostly first wife glides up on stage whispering to raucous talkers
    Spilling family secrets out to flunkeys and castrato walkers
    See that girl,
    Watch that scene
    Digging the "Dancing Queen"

    Two newspaper editors like playground sneaks
    Running a book on which of them is going to last the week
    One of them calls to me
    And he says, "I know you"
    "You gave me this tattoo back in '82"
    "You were a spoilt child then with a record to plug"
    "And I was a shaven headed seaside thug"
    "Things haven't really changed that much"
    "One of us is still getting paid too much"

    There are some things I can't report
    The memory of his last retort
    But it was so much easier
    When I was cruel

    Look at me now
    She's starting to yawn
    She looks like she was born to it
    Ah, but it was so much easier
    When I was cruel

    Músicos invitados: Bill Ware (Vibraphone)
  5. Soul For HireVer letra 3:55

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    letra de Soul For Hire

    Hang my head and shut my eyes
    What kind of justice is this?
    Fool I was, I thought that you fought fire with fire
    Got to be more than just a soul for hire

    Speaking for myself I wouldn't take the fame,
    the fees, the glory
    For whoring in the practice of the law
    I make my case stop and stutter
    Soul comes unglued from the uppers
    Blood is seeping in the hole
    A mother's eye is weeping

    I see every human kind
    And still the truth is distant
    I see every evil men do and desire
    Got to be more than just a soul for hire

    When it's time to give protection
    To the ones who need it most, who are desperate
    I get distracted from my job
    Streams of ink and piles of paper
    What are the breaks?
    Jump out the window? Parole? Escape?
    Blood is seeping in the hole
    A mother's eye is weeping

    Hang my head and shut my eyes
    I can't see justice twisted
    I see every evil men do and desire
    Got to be more than just a soul for hire

    When it's time to give protection
    To the ones who need it most, who are desperate
    I get distracted from my job
    Streams of ink and piles of paper
    To hand them over to dopers and kiddie-rapers
    corrupt in every twisted grudge
    And that is just the judge

    Hang my head and shut my eyes
    What kind of justice is this?

  6. 15 PetalsVer letra

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    15 Petals
    One for every year I spent with you
    Jewels and precious metals will never do

    I love you twisted
    And I love you straight
    I'd write it down but I can't concentrate
    Words won't obey they do as they please
    And all I am left with are these...

    15 Petals
    One for every year I spent with you
    Jewels and precious metals will never do

    The thorn is blunted
    The perfume will fade
    I stand where sun is set
    I crave the shade
    Down in the tavern with Mary and Jane
    Palms reached for alms as they throw

    15 Petals...
    One for every hour that we're apart
    Tears and useless battles
    I'll never start

    Mussolini highway
    There's a frankincense tree
    I picked some up there to carry with me
    You take me to places where I'd never go
    I love you more than you know

    15 Petals
    Scattered in the path where you will tread
    15 Petals
    Of vivid red

    One wine-bar vamp with the polythene face
    Ein Panzer Kommander with no hair in place
    The crowded battallions drilled holes in the square

  7. TartVer letra 4:03

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    Hear silver trumpets will trill in the Arabic streets of Seville
    Oranges roll in the gutter
    And you pick them up
    And peel back the skin
    To the red fruit within

    But the flavour is..
    Tart
    And the flavour is...
    Tart

    Is it something you crave
    And you say that you only feel bitterness
    When you know it's a lie, lie, lie?

    Wild with a blackberry bush
    there were blossoms of cherries to crush
    There, at the edge of the asphalt tempting fingertips
    They stain your hands, press too hard
    They'll color your lips...

    But the flavour is..
    Tart
    And the flavour is...
    Tart

    Is it something you crave
    'Cos you say that you only feel bitterness
    Would it kill you to show us a little sweetness?

    Repeat chorus

    Odd, where nothing else grows
    It was something like love that she chose
    Always a creature of habit
    When pity would do
    She wore down that heel with no feeling
    She kept on her shoes

    Repeat chorus

    Nylon was hung from a peg
    And a kohl black seam ran down her leg
    Fishermen look for their nets
    And send their regrets
    But the bug lay there broken
    She spoke, "Is this some kind of joke?"

    but the flavour is...
    Tart

  8. Dust 2...Ver letra 3:21

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    letra de Dust 2...

    If dust could only talk
    What would we hear it say?
    Before it's brushed aside
    Just as it's swept away

    It's just the evidence
    It's of no consequence
    It's only flesh and bone
    Why don't you leave it alone?

    If dust could only speak
    Caught in a falling beam
    If dust could only cry
    If dust could only scream
    For it's the single witness that might testify
    Could I spit out the truth?
    Or would you rather just swallow a lie?

    But dust is always caught behind a coat of paint
    Beneath the marble fingernails of kings and saints
    And in the theatre curtain where they hang a drape
    Or in the ticket pocket where your hands escape

    Before they start to wander
    Or they start to shrink
    You rub your eye a little and appear to blink
    And then she caught you staring
    She knows just what you're thinking
    What got into you was not a ghost as such
    It was just dust

    Here comes the juggernaut
    Here come The Poisoners
    They choke the life and land
    And rob the joy from us
    Why do they taste of sugar
    Oh, when they're made of money
    Here comes the lamb of God
    And the butcher's boy, Sonny

    Well I believe we just
    Become a speck of dust...

  9. DissolveVer letra 2:23

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    Sugar cube drop into a yellow cup
    What makes the world just waking up
    Resolve?
    Dissolve
    Who knows where on earth it's going to stop?
    I can't hear you 'cos we're breaking up
    Dissolve

    And the stones in the track make work for the mechanic
    The birds all fly from the branches in a panic
    And a back-fire echoes down the hillside
    As the last headline report dies
    Dissolve

    Ice is melting at the distant Pole
    The gin and tonic glasses overflow
    Dissolve
    The precious little else that I could say
    Your stupid tears of laughter washed away
    Dissolve

    While the poisonous light pours from the picture palace
    And it flickers on, tries so hard to be scandalous
    A child keeps beating on a toy drum
    And the tablets dropped on your tongue
    Dissolve

    "So salute me in moving frame"
    "I might not be there when you look again"
    The mourning border card behind the clock
    The hour that he passed, unwound and stopped
    Dissolve

  10. AlibiVer letra 6:42

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    letra de Alibi

    You did it, 'cause you wanted
    Alibi, alibi
    And you took it, 'cause you needed
    Alibi, alibi

    But if I've done something wrong
    There's no ifs and buts
    'Cause I love you just as much
    As I hate your guts
    Alibi, alibi, alibi

    And you don't need anybody
    Alibi, alibi
    But you are the only one who knows this
    Alibi, alibi
    You deserve it, 'cause you're special
    Alibi, alibi
    Maybe Jesus wants you for a sunbeam
    Alibi, alibi

    But if I've left something out I apologize
    But if you look in my eyes
    Then I'm sure you'll see
    Alibis, alibis, alibis

    Sometimes I'm so forgiving oh oh
    Everything seems bad to me oh oh
    But I can't go on living oh oh
    With this
    Alibi, alibi, alibi, alibi

    Insane, but I'm mundane
    Alibi, alibi
    And you only wanted to be famous
    Alibi, alibi
    Sorry that your mommy doesn't love you
    Alibi, alibi
    Stop me if you've heard this
    Alibi, alibi

    But if I've done something right
    Then they'll be surprised
    There're soldiers who will kill
    But refuse to die

    But if I've done something wrong
    There's no ifs and buts
    'Cause I love you just as much
    As I hate your guts
    Alibi, alibi, alibi

    You were weak, ill
    You couldn't help it
    Alibi, alibi
    But you never had an opponent
    Alibi, alibi

    But if I've left something out I apologize
    But if you look in my eyes
    Then I'm sure you'll see
    Alibis, alibis, alibis

    And you are such a people person
    Alibi, alibi
    And I will be true to you forever
    Alibi, alibi
    But you're stupid and you're lazy
    Alibi, alibi
    And maybe we can make the future better
    Alibi, alibi

    But if I've done something wrong
    There's no ifs and buts
    'Cause I love you just as much
    As I hate your guts
    Alibi, alibi, alibi

    Sometimes I'm so forgiving oh oh
    Everything seems bad to me oh oh
    But I can't go on living oh oh
    With this
    Alibi, alibi, alibi

    You were happy
    You were poor
    And more honest
    And that's your
    Alibi, alibi

    Sister is a whore
    Brother isn't sure
    Alibi, alibi
    You don't fit the body that you're trapped in
    Alibi, alibi
    Papa's got a brand new
    Alibi, alibi

    But if I've done something wrong
    There're no ifs and buts
    'Cause I love you just as much
    As I hate your guts

    But if I've left something out I apologize
    But if you look in my eyes
    Then I'm sure you'll see
    Alibis, alibis, alibis, alibis

  11. ...DustVer letra 3:04

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    letra de ...Dust

    If dust could only talk
    What would we hear it say?
    before it's brushed aside
    Just as it's swept away

    It's just the evidence
    It's of no consequence
    It's only flesh and bone
    Why don't you leave it alone?

    If dust could only gather into lines of chalk
    Around a silhouette detective fiction walks
    For it's the only witness that can testify
    Can I spit out the truth
    Or would you rather just swallow a lie?

    Why did they dam the land?
    How did they flood the plain?
    Did they erase the name?
    And wipe away the stain
    You kept your mouth well shut
    Appeared to turn your coat
    Now there's a name for you but it's stuck in my throat

    If dust could only mutter
    Or in laughter trill
    If it could warn and whisper from the windowsill
    For it's the only witness that can testify
    Can I spit out the truth?
    Or would you rather just swallow a lie?

    Here comes the juggernaut
    Here come The Poisoners
    They choke the life and land
    And rob the joy from us
    Why do they taste of sugar
    When they are made of money
    Here come the Lamb of God
    And the butcher's boy, Sonny

    If dust could only gather in a needle track
    Then it would skip a beat and it would jump right back
    If dust could only gather in a needle track
    Then it would skip a beat
    And all the sense I lack

  12. Daddy Can I Turn This?Ver letra 3:41

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    letra de Daddy Can I Turn This?

    There is a button and there's a switch
    There is a needle and there's a dial
    There is a lever I want to lift
    And still you treat me like I'm a child
    Daddy can I turn this?
    Daddy can I turn this?

    Will it be very dangerous?
    Or will it taste nice?
    You wash your hands with perfume and spice
    I'll tell you when I want your advise
    Daddy can I turn this?
    Daddy can I turn this?

    Is anybody acting your age?
    You got a girl you keep in a cage
    You give her presents after a while
    A birthday cake containing a file
    Daddy can I turn this?
    Daddy can I turn this?

    The flashing lights go running 'round and 'round
    It spits out money
    It tastes like honey
    So drink it down

    It leaves the slightest chemical taste
    It could be most unfortunate
    Earrings that jangle before they're seen
    She slaps your face like a tambourine
    Daddy can I turn this?
    Daddy can I turn this?
    Daddy can I turn this?
    Daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy...

  13. My Little Blue WindowVer letra

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    This is a calling card
    Maybe it will be a farewell note
    The poison fountain pen now requires the antidote
    But if I avert your gaze
    And I should become a shrinking flower
    Just punch me on the arm
    This could be our finest hour

    'Til now this was my view
    But I'm counting on you
    How am I ever going to make you see?
    Nothing in this ugly world comes easily
    I want you to be...

    My lovely hooligan
    Come by and smash my pane
    'Til I can see right through
    My little blue window

    This is a fingerprint
    Maybe you will feel a fond caress
    But when you start to speak
    Are you tempted to confess?

    Well, I was a gloomy soul
    Never thought I'd see a brighter day
    The dark interior
    Blows those silver clouds away

    'Til now this was my view
    But I'm counting on you
    How am I ever going to make you see?
    Nothing in this ugly world comes easily
    I want you to be...

    My lovely hooligan
    Come by and smash my pane
    'Til I can see right through
    My little blue window

  14. Episode of BlondeVer letra 5:03

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    letra de Episode of Blonde

    I spy for the "spirit of curiousity"
    All the scandals of each vain monstrosity
    I gossip and i pry and i insinuate
    If the failure is great
    Then it tends to fascinate

    A tornado dropped a funnel cloud with twenty tons of rain
    Though she had the attention span of warm cellophane
    Her lovers fell like skittles in a 10-pin bowling lane
    But nothing could compare with that explosion of fame

    So you jumped back with alarm
    Every elvis has his army
    Every rattlesnake its charm
    Can you still hear me?
    Am i coming through just fine?
    Your memory was buried in a simple box of pine

    Did her green eyes seduce you and make you get so weak?
    Was there fire engine red that she left upon your cheek?
    It's such a shame you had to break the heart
    You could have counted on but the last thing you need is another
    ...episode of blonde

    Revolving like a jeweller's figure on a music box
    Spangled curtain parted and a night-club scene unlocks
    Pinned and fixed and fastened in a follow spot
    Arms thrown out to everyone, she's giving all she's got
    To the last gasp of a wounded bandeon
    Tiny man imploring to the ceiling fan
    This stolen feeling
    Amplified up through a busted speaker
    Blaring, blasting, advertising, distorted beyond reason
    Into the street where petty crime-coats shadow panic drunkards,
    Half out of the taxi cab the barker seized my elbow
    He thought i was another lonely, likely pilgrim looking for st. telmo

    Repeat chorus

    I tried to keep a straight face but you know it never pays
    He would stare into those eyes and then vacation in her gaze
    She was a cute little ruin that he pulled out of the rubble
    Now they are both living in a soft soap bubble

    The film producer's contemplating, entertaining suicide
    The picture crumpled in his fist, his runaway child bride
    The timepiece stretched across a wrist
    She couldn't care less cast aside
    The scent that so repelled him that he swore: "insecticide"
    And there's a farewell note to mother
    That will conclude "your loving son"
    "oh, tell your other children not to do as i have done."

    Chorus

    So an artist drags a toothbrush across the first thing that he sees
    And names the painting "christ's last exit into purgatory"
    Receiving secret messages from an alien intelligence
    Paying off his stalker it's a legitimate expense
    So paste up pictures of those shrill and hollow girls
    With puckered lips
    She's a trophy on your arm
    A magnet for your money clip
    The moral of this story is the sorry tale to say
    They're pieced with links of chains so they can never run away

  15. Radio SilenceVer letra 4:58

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    letra de Radio Silence

    Signal fading, listen to what I'm saying
    Testing, testing
    This better be worth all of the breath I'm wasting
    Maintaining radio silence from now on

    Barricaded in the talk radio station
    Hostage taken
    The red "On-Air" light shines on
    Something cheaper that passes for free speech
    Will have to do

    Hear him coming through loud and clear
    Trickling in your ear
    He'll tell you anything you want to hear

    The tape starts running
    He's going to tell you something
    The strings start strumming
    Another humdrum conundrum
    Signing off now
    Maintaining radio silence from now on

    But there's one thing I should have said
    "The hostage will end up dead"
    It's just a comedy
    The hostage is me

    So pay the ransom
    Beyond the run-out grove
    Get my wife down here
    A helicopter on the roof
    No police marksman
    Maintaining radio silence from now on

    Mystery voices
    Drowned out by too much choice
    That's not to mention
    The sad waste of this wonderful invention
    Maintaining radio silence from now on

    Libraries filled up with failed ideas
    There's nothing more for me there
    I trust in tender ink and gentle airs

    Do those drug dealer still polish women made of wax?
    Gangster and world leaders
    Require the same protection from attack
    From this distance it's hard to tell the difference
    Between a king and jack
    Between a poet and hack
    Maintaining radio silence from now on

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