
Date of issue: 31.12.2006
Record label: Elvis Costello
Song language: English
Man Out Of Time |
So this is where he came to hide |
When he ran from you |
In a private detectives overcoat |
And dirty dead mans shoes |
The pretty things of knightsbridge |
Lying for a minister of state |
Is a far cry from the nod and wink |
Here at traitors gate |
cause the high heel he used to be has been ground down |
And he listens for the footsteps that would follow him around |
To murder my love is a crime |
But will you still love |
A man out of time |
Theres a tuppeny hapenny millionaire |
Looking for a fourpenny one |
With a tight grip on the short hairs |
Of the public imagination |
But for his private wife and kids somehow |
Real life becomes a rumour |
Days of dutch courage |
Just three french letters and a german sense of humour |
Hes got a mind like a sewer and a heart like a fridge |
He stands to be insulted and he pays for the privilege |
The biggest wheels of industry |
Retire sharp and short |
And the after dinner overtures |
Are nothing but an after thought |
Somebodys creeping in the kitchen |
Theres a reputation to be made |
Whose nerves are always on a knifes edge |
Whos up late polishing the blade |
Love is always scarpering or cowering or fawning |
You drink yourself insensitive and hate yourself in the morning |
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