Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Edith and the Kingpin, artist - Elvis Costello. Date of issue: 14.04.2007
Song language: English
Edith and the Kingpin |
| The big man arrives |
| Disco dancers greet him |
| Plainclothes cops greet him |
| Small town, big man, fresh lipstick glistening |
| Sophomore jive |
| From victims of typewriters |
| The band sounds like typewriters |
| The big man he’s not listening |
| His eyes hold edith |
| His left hand holds his right |
| What does that hand desire |
| That he grips it so tight |
| Edith in the ring |
| The passed-over girls are conferring |
| The man with the diamond ring is purring |
| All claws for now withdrawn |
| One by one they bring |
| His renegade stories to her |
| His crimes and his glories to her |
| In challenge they look on Women he has wanted grow old too soon |
| He tilts their tired faces |
| Gently to the spoon |
| Edith in his bed |
| A plane in the rain is humming |
| The wires in the walls are humming |
| Some song-some mysterious song |
| Bars in her head |
| Beating frantic and snowblind |
| Romantic and snowblind |
| She says-his crime belongs |
| Edith and the kingpin |
| Each with charm to sway |
| Are staring eye to eye |
| They dare not look away |
| You know they dare not look away |