Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Dust, artist - Elvis Costello. Album song Costello: My Flame Burns Blue, in the genre ДжазDate of issue: 31.12.2004
Record label: Deutsche Grammophon
Song language: English
Dust |
| If dust could only talk |
| What would we hear it say? |
| Before it’s brushed aside |
| Just as it’s swept away |
| It’s just the evidence |
| It’s of no consequence |
| It’s only flesh and bone |
| Why don’t you leave it alone? |
| If dust could only gather into lines of chalk |
| Around a silhouette detective fiction walks |
| For it’s the only witness that can testify |
| Can I spit out the truth |
| Or would you rather just swallow a lie? |
| Why did they dam the land? |
| How did they flood the plain? |
| Did they erase the name? |
| And wipe away the stain |
| You kept your mouth well shut |
| Appeared to turn your coat |
| Now there’s a name for you but it’s stuck in my throat |
| If dust could only mutter |
| Or in laughter trill |
| If it could warn and whisper from the windowsill |
| For it’s the only witness that can testify |
| Can I spit out the truth? |
| Or would you rather just swallow a lie? |
| Here comes the juggernaut |
| Here come The Poisoners |
| They choke the life and land |
| And rob the joy from us |
| Why do they taste of sugar |
| When they are made of money |
| Here come the Lamb of God |
| And the butcher’s boy, Sonny |
| If dust could only gather in a needle track |
| Then it would skip a beat and it would jump right back |
| If dust could only gather in a needle track |
| Then it would skip a beat |
| And all the sense I lack |