Lyrics Complicated Shadows - Elvis Costello, The Attractions

Complicated Shadows

Well you know your time has come and youЂ™re sorry for what youЂ™ve done
You shouldЂ™ve never have been playing with a gun
In those complicated shadows
Well thereЂ™s a line that you must toe
And itЂ™ll soon be time to go
But itЂ™s darker than you know in those complicated shadows
All you gangsters and rude clowns
Who were shooting up the town
When you should have found someone to put the blame on
Though the furyЂ™s hot and hard
I still see that cold graveyard
ThereЂ™s a solitary stone thatЂ™s got your name on
You donЂ™t have to take it from me
But I know what I spake
You think youЂ™re like iron and steel
But iron and steel will bend and break
In those complicated shadows
Go!
Sometimes justice you will find
Is just dumb not colour-blind
And your poor shattered mind canЂ™t take it all in
All those phantoms and those shades
Should jump up on judgement day
And say to the almighty IЂ™m still stinking of sin
But the jury was dismissed
Took his neck and they give it a twist
So you see you wonЂ™t be missed in those complicated shadows
You can say just what you like in a voice like a john ford film
Take the law into your hands
You will soon get tired of killing
In those complicated shadows
Complicated shadows
Complicated shadows
Complicated shadows
Go!