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[foul mouthed girl yelling at Bill on the phone] 

[Bushwick Bill] 
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear 
Gotta start with the right

This is what you give me to work with
Well, honey, I've seen worse
We're going to turn this sow's ear
Into a silk purse

We'll have you washed

Honor to Us All

Disney

Disney on Ice: 100 Years of Magic

2004

This is what you give me to work with?
Well, honey, I've seen worse
We're going to turn this sow's ear
Into a silk purse

We'll have you
Washed

Honor to Us All

Marni Nixon

Mulan

1998

This is what you give me to work with
Well, honey, I've seen worse
We're going to turn this sow's ear
Into a silk purse

We'll have you washed

This is what you give me to work with?
Well, honey, I've seen worse.
We're gonna turn this sow's ear
Into a silk purse.

We'll have you washed

a sow's ear
In other words you can't shine no shit around here
And pass it off as the authentic like you own it when it's rented
They know when I pen it,

open out here
Can't make a silk purse, out of a sow's ear
And the fences we build 'round our hearts
Always seem to need mending, in the very same spots

for guys like you
So don't you ever doubt your know-how
cause you know how,
To make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
Don't worry

like you
So don't you ever doubt your know-how
cause you know how,
To make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
Don't worry

Tell the devil he can't have it
Never forget
We're the remnant

The time on the clock it was one thirty
Put my baby to sleep and then I got back

Peace is rainfall again
And I can't say we'd be the same as we were when we were friends
Shame shaped a sow's ear
Saved a silk purse for when there's

happen.

Pigs ears can be silk purses
Pigs ears can be silk purses.

Turning Pigs Ears Into Purses
This is what we do
Turning Pigs Ears Into Purses
We’re

Charm School

Elvis Costello & the Attractions

Punch the Clock [Ryko Bonus Tracks]

1983

that charm school

You and I as lovers
Were nothing but a farce
Trying to make a silk purse
Out of a sow's arse
Saying 'why don't you watch me'

Charm School

Elvis Costello

Riot Act '83

1992

that charm school

You and I as lovers
Were nothing but a farce
Trying to make a silk purse
Out of a sow's arse
Saying 'why don't you watch me'

When I Was King

Graham Parker

Struck by Lightning

1991

still trying to be a king
But putting the crown on is like putting a silk purse on a sow's ear
And if I want it to be like I want it to be
I'll have

ear mane tryna fuck my career
They saying the signs all around me that the ending the near 
Drugs can numb the pain mane but can’t mask up these tears

You can't get a silk purse from a sows ear
Wrestle with a pig & you both dirty... hear?
Words like this, jewels for my folks
Heard the truth in em I

(That can be missed out by God)
Maitho make monaga
(His eyes see)
Maria me hitho inii
(The hidden things)
Na matu make tii mahinge
(And His ears are not

the attention so how could you blame me (how)
I can’t trip over shit no cap
Never kiss but she give me the face
I been running this shit w no fade
Dugg betta

nor go let you go

Waiting my eyes don see O
Waiting my ear don hear eh eh heeeey
Waiting my heart Dey feel O
They make my head wan tear eh

Government

streak
Simple rhyme you can't see me
How many times have I heard that
Your best line ain't on my worst track
Knock it off like a purse snatched
Come

and goes
Everybody, put your hands in the
Air and act like you can manage your musical
Interests right here
But you can’t, that’s why you spiked
Hair, spiked

my friend
Yeah, sometimes attention could be a gift to the world
But fuck it, attention can also make us bleed for a word
I know you heard that shit,

Ethiopian Sons

Tony Rebel

Vibes of the Time

1993

(Featuring Garnet Silk)
-P. Barrett-

Garnet is long time we have something
To tell the world you know

So it was in the beginning
And a so it is