Elvis Costello - National Ransom
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Release date: 02 November 2010
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- National Ransom
- Jimmie Standing In The Rain
- Stations Of The Cross
- A Slow Drag With Josephine
- Five Small Words
- Church Underground
- You Hung The Moon
- Bullets For The New-Born King
- I Lost You
- Dr. Watson, I Presume
- One Bell Ringing
- The Spell That You Cast
- That's Not The Part Of Him You're Leaving
- My Lovely Jezebel
- All These Strangers
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This record is equivalent to the grisly trophies serial killers strip from their victims - kidneys for a nice fry-up, some pickled liver, a finger bone.
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Elvis Costello - National Ransom Lyrics
Elvis Costello - National Ransom Lyrics
Runnin' pell-mell and harum-scarum
Runnin' as hot as they do or dare
Stick out your tongue and drink down all the venom
Off Cut-Throat Cuthbert and Millicent St.Cy
Elvis Costello - Jimmie Standing In The Rain Lyrics
Third-Class ticket in his pocket
Punching out the shadows underneath the sockets
Tweed coat turned up against the fog
Elvis Costello - Stations Of The Cross Lyrics
Tempest blows up from a squall
Past the Cape of Bad Conscience into the Gulf of the Cauldron
Roars over the coastline to batter and flatten
Exposing the roots like in the dyed hair of slattern
Elvis Costello - A Slow Drag With Josephine Lyrics
The snitch, the snoop, the tattletale lead a threadbare up the stairs
Adieu, my little ballyhoo, you broke my heart in two
And now I haunt the bars and scent those trite affairs
She went home to gather her comb and caught him unawares
Elvis Costello - Five Small Words Lyrics
Maybe you'll recognize in time
Maybe one day you will discover
All the pain that lies behind
You and your unfortunate love
Elvis Costello - Church Underground Lyrics
She stood spot lit in a plain print dress
Came howling out of the wilderness
There beat a cunning and murderous heart
Beneath that calm exterior
Elvis Costello - You Hung The Moon Lyrics
The homecoming fanfare is echoing still
Now tapping on tables and sensing a chill
Poor families expecting a loved one's return
Only son and some charlatan specter, oh, when will they learn?
Elvis Costello - Bullets For The New-Born King Lyrics
No one looks in this place for motive or any hope
But for the dead shot of an amber glass, the blue light of a votive
Rain obscured the window as the pain was dulled by the grains
Absolved by spoons in flames and fear in time dissolving
Elvis Costello - I Lost You Lyrics
I lost you, I lost you
You slipped from your costume
Like an actress in this tragedy
You're just an apparition in this haunting mystery
Elvis Costello - Dr.Watson, I Presume Lyrics
I sat in a motel room with the doctor
Just before we were supposed to sing
He said regarding this guardian wing
This black and clipped misshapen thing
Elvis Costello - One Bell Ringing Lyrics
Raining slapping on the window pane
An hour or more of teeming
Storm punching like a hurricane
That tore him out of dreaming
Elvis Costello - The Spell That You Cast Lyrics
The spell that you cast
Seems to be wearing off fast
(The spell that you cast)
Come back baby, cos I don't know if I can last
Elvis Costello - That's Not The Part Of Him You're Leaving Lyrics
I have a friend
She's just a friend
I tried to comfort and defend
I gave her what you might call advice
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Elvis Costello - My Lovely Jezebel Lyrics
She attracts dark rumours
Travels in blue and other humours
Each time she walks in the room
Brings in much more than you'd assume
Elvis Costello - All These Strangers Lyrics
Mistreat me darling, and I might just disappear
Upon freighter running dark out of Algiers
Put tiny grains in children tears
While taking twenty five percent
Elvis Costello - A Voice In The Dark Lyrics
You can read right through a book of matches
But that won't make you smart
You can laugh in the face of watches
But time will only break your heart
