Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Church Underground, artist - Elvis Costello. Album song National Ransom, in the genre Иностранный рок
Date of issue: 31.12.2009
Record label: Elvis Costello, Hear MusicTM, StarCon
Song language: English
Church Underground |
She stood spotlit in a plain print dress |
Came howling out of the wilderness |
There beat a cunning and murderous heart |
Beneath that calm exterior |
«You know my name |
You don’t know my mind |
Don’t doubt my eyes |
They betray the past |
And I’ve already forgotten |
Much more than you will ever know» |
And every word that I have spoken is true |
Except for those that were broken in two |
I’m trying to make peace after a long night of pretend |
I need a pawnbroker or moneylender |
Why do you do me down, Mister? |
Sing «Hallelujah,"Sister |
Turn up the volume, just to turn it down |
The trivial secrets buried with profound |
It’s enough to put a Church Underground |
Deflowered young and then ever since |
She’s tried to wash off his fingerprints |
So every charlatan and prince |
Was made to feel inferior |
She worked for tips in a 10-cent dance |
Said moving pictures might pay perchance |
10,000 one-way tickets to the sparkling coast |
From the blank interior |
Everybody’s either talking in code |
Or getting ready to explode |
Then she was singing with five-piece band |
But seems that no-one wants this sound |
Why do you do me down, Mister? |
Sing «Hallelujah,"Sister |
Turn up the volume, just to turn it down |
The trivial secrets buried with profound |
It’s enough to put a Church Underground |
The shaft of fanlight streaked with rain |
Poured through the glass, punched through the pain |
A holy picture hidden in the midden of that poisoned stitch |
Her lonely voice was just a ruin in these riches |
Must have been dreaming this all along |
Could she be redeeming herself in song? |
«I'm no-one's martyred, plaster saint |
Below the grease, beneath the paint» |
I’m rolling like barrel |
Swinging like a gallows |
I’m rising up fast like all hell and all hallows |
Why do you do me down, Mister? |
Sing «Hallelujah,"Sister |
I’ll be damned or purgatory bound |
Before those jokers ever understand |
It’s enough to put a Church Underground |