Lyrics Clowntime Is Over - Elvis Costello, The Attractions

Clowntime Is Over

Tears on your blackmail
Written to ransom
A point of the fingernail
Says it’s so handsome
Clown time is over
Time to take cover
While others just talk and talk
Somebody’s watching where the others don’t walk
Clown time is over
A voice in the shadows
Says that his men know
He don’t step back as expected
He’s otherwise and unprotected
Clown time is over
Time to take cover
While others just talk and talk
Somebody’s watching where the others don’t walk
Clown time is over
Almost too good to be true
Who do you?
Why do you?
What do you do?
Everybody’s hiding under covers
Who’s making lover’s lane safe again for lovers?
Clown time is over
Time to take cover
While others just talk and talk
Somebody’s watching where the others don’t walk
Clown time is over