Elvis Costello - Secret, Profane and Sugarcane
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Release date: 29 May 2009
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- Down Among the Wines and Spirits
- Complicated Shadows
- I Felt the Chill Before the Winter Came
- My All Time Doll
- Hidden Shame
- She Handed Me a Mirror
- I Dreamed of My Old Lover
- How Deep Is the Red
- She Was No Good
- Sulphur to Sugarcane
- Red Cotton
- The Crooked Line
- Changing Partners
- Femme Fatale
- What Lewis Did Last
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Elvis Costello - Secret, Profane and Sugarcane: Wikipedia Album Entry
Costello himself describes this album as Elvis Costello songs, played by an expert string band and not the bluegrass album, per se, that it has been billed as. It includes four songs written for a commissioned opera based on the dark life of Hans Christian Anderson.
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Elvis Costello - Secret, Profane and Sugarcane Lyrics
Elvis Costello - Complicated Shadows Lyrics
Well, you know your time has come
And you're sorry for what you've done
You should've never been playing with a gun
In those complicated shadows
Elvis Costello - Red Cotton Lyrics
I'm cutting up her pure white dress
That I dyed red, that I dyed red
I'm putting scraps in cheap tin lockets
What time erases and memory mocks
Elvis Costello - How Deep Is the Red Lyrics
Is this is not a pretty tale? Is this not a riddle?
A bow shoots arrows through the air
A bow drags notes from a fiddle
But who is the beau of a young girl's heart?
Elvis Costello - My All Time Doll Lyrics
When I was away, I needed you so
Now coming I'm home to stay
I won't wake in the night and reach for you
And turn on the light and to my dismay
Elvis Costello - Down Among the Wines and Spirits Lyrics
Down among the wines and spirits
Where a man gets what he merits
Once he was written in letters of nine feet tall
And now he finds how far he's fallen
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Elvis Costello - Sulphur to Sugarcane Lyrics
It's not very far from Sulphur to Sugarcane
Everywhere I travel the pretty girls call my name
I give them a squeeze and they shoot me a wink
I buy their hard-headed husbands a long cool drink
Elvis Costello - I Felt the Chill Before the Winter Came Lyrics
Well, there's a difference in the way that you kissed me
And there's a sadness in your eyes that you can't hide
Why do you tremble when I hold you?
I wonder if you feel the same
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Elvis Costello - I Dreamed of My Old Lover Lyrics
I dreamed of my old lover last night
I wondered if I spoke out loud
And if by chance my husband overheard
He'd put my face back in the crowd
Elvis Costello - She Handed Me a Mirror Lyrics
She handed me a mirror
That she had gazed upon
The glass still held an image
The glass still held an image
Elvis Costello - The Crooked Line Lyrics
Life isn't a game
Won or tied, lost by either side
Then some people's idea
Of the straight and narrow
Elvis Costello - She Was No Good Lyrics
She could be no good, I'm telling you
Gather 'round boys for a tale that is tragic and true
On the Mississippi riverboat, Magnolia
No one onboard was smelling too sweet
Elvis Costello - Hidden Shame Lyrics
I'm sorry to say that you don't know me
In many ways you never understood
Each time I try to tell the ugly truth
You always let it pass you by
Elvis Costello - Changing Partners Lyrics
We were dancing together
To a dreamy melody
When they called out, "Change partners"
And you waltzed away from me
