This Town [DVD]

Elvis Costello

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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 »


Year:
2005
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That Charlie Sedarka was a-playing the piano
Like he was pawing a dirty book
He bit a hole in his big bottom lip and gave his
Very best little boy look
It was a song with a topical verse which I'm
Afraid he then proceeded to sing
Something about the moody doomed love of
The fish-finger king

[Chorus]
You're nobody in this town
You're nobody in this crowd
You're nobody 'til everybody in this town
Thinks you're poison,
Got your number knows it must be avoided
You're nobody 'til everybody in this town
Thinks you're a bastard

Mr. get-good moved up to self-made man row
Although he swears that he's the salt of the earth
He's so proud of the 'kick-me-hard' sign that
They hung on his back at birth
He said 'I appreciate beauty, if I have one, then
It's my fault'
'beauty is on my pillow, beauty is there in
My vault'

[Chorus]

The girl with the eternity rock went down on
Her bookie to buy some stock
Now all her signs in the shopping arcades say
'the corporation thief is the new Jesse James'
Her clothes and her attention were scant, her
Eyes were everywhere,
Her eyes were like absinthe
The little green figures that dance on his screen
Say everything you want to hear and nothing
They mean
They made love while she was changing her dress
She wiped him off she wiped him out and then She made him confess
A little amused by the belief in her power
You must remember this it was the fetish of The hour

[Chorus]

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Written by: Elvis Costello

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