The Invisible Man

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Elvis Costello

Elvis Costello (born Declan Patrick MacManus, 25 August 1954) is an English singer-songwriter. He began his career as part of London's pub rock scene in the early 1970s and later became associated with the first wave of the British punk/New Wave movement of the mid-to-late 1970s. Steeped in word play, the vocabulary of Costello's lyrics is broader than that of most popular songs. His music has drawn on many diverse genres; one critic described him as a "pop encyclopaedia", able to "reinvent the past in his own image". more »

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1983

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I was committed to life and then commuted to the outskirts 
With all the love in the world 
Living for thirty minutes at a time with a break in the middle for adverts 
But it's a wonderful world within these cinema walls 
Where a shower of affection becomes Niagara Falls 
And you wish she could step down from the screen to your seat in the stalls 
But if stars are only painted on the ceiling above 
Then who can you turn to and who do you love 
I want to get out while I still can 
I want to be like Harry Houdini 
Now I'm the invisible man 
My head is spinning round faster and faster 
Here I stand on the edge of disaster 
I'm shattered like a piece of crystal porcelain or alabaster 
Crowds surround loudspeakers hanging from the lampposts 
Listening to the murder mystery 
Meanwhile someone's hiding in the classroom 
Forging books of history 
Never mind there's a good film showing tonight 
Where they hang everyone everybody who can read and write 
Oh that could never happen here but then again it might

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