Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Radio Is Everything, artist - Elvis Costello. Album song Hey Clockface, in the genre Иностранный рок
Date of issue: 29.10.2020
Record label: Elvis Costello
Song language: English
Radio Is Everything |
I’m sitting here wondering if this matchbox will hold my dreams |
Will the red head in my arms go up in flames? |
Or dissolve mighty regimes with her screams, or so it seems |
She dragged my face from the eye to my lip on the rough side of the striking |
strip |
To the port side of a sinking ship |
Staring in a compact mirror |
A siren calling from another era |
While you made faces and then blew kisses |
Drowned in a pool that hypnotized Narcissus |
They say I have a perfect face for radio |
And a trumpet for listening |
A cheek to turn to you |
An eye for glistening |
Tear that tear from me |
Hold it in your memory |
Pull away the powder and pain painted dream |
Of this and that disgrace |
A silver band of marching soles |
A button of brass an epaulet of gold |
That lenten light, that slight fanfare that consoles |
That trivial, sniveling rosary, that ring-a-ding rosemary |
Condemned a man, alas, at last, at requiem mass |
I sound much better than I look |
Like a hero in a book |
Now there is too much at stake |
But perhaps you mistook my mistake |
For the tip in the print you dusted for |
From the hand you forgot to shake |
Tumbledown Dick said to King Oliver |
«I don’t shrink down at the thought of you |
Give the people back their ringlet Prince just like you ought to do |
Journey far from here like Gulliver |
To lands at the edge of everywhere |
That we have still to discover |
Where there’s a sole of a jackboot in a broken brace |
Poised above a human face forever and ever» |
You don’t need to see my face |
Radio Is Everything |
You don’t need to know my name |
Radio Is Everything |
The lie that I tell |
It just doesn’t matter |
If I should deceive you |
Or if I should flatter |
If your bankroll gets thin while some kitty gets fatter |
Radio Is Everything |
From the straight to the narrow to the broadcast from within |
Radio Is Everything |