Shallow Grave

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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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When I fall in endless sleep 
I hope that I'll be buried deep 
Let me be the one that fortune favors 
Even good children got shallow graves 
Throw another clown to the lions 
Throw another Joan on the blaze 
Cast me away on the cruel calm ocean 
and leave me for days and days and days and days and days 
I won't lie in this poor shallow grave 
I won't lie, I won't lie in this poor shallow grave 
Dig me down deep where the dead men sleep 
I won't lie in this poor shallow grave 

Bless the poor ''cause like the rich 
They all end up in a ditch 
In this world of fools and knaves 
Even good children got shallow graves 
The tinker, the tailor, the fabulous five 
Nobody gets out of this alive 

Chorus 
Dig me down deep where the dead men sleep 
I won't lie in this poor shallow grave 
Dig me down deep where the dead men sleep 
I won't lie in this poor shallow grave 
Dig me down, dig me down, dig me down deep 
I won't lie in this poor shallow grave

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