Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Dust, artist - Elvis Costello. Album song Cruel Smile, in the genre Иностранный рок
Date of issue: 31.12.2001
Record label: The Island Def Jam
Song language: English
Dust |
If dust could only talk |
What would we hear it say? |
Before it’s brushed aside |
Just as it’s swept away |
It’s just the evidence |
It’s of no consequence |
It’s only flesh and bone |
Why don’t you leave it alone? |
If dust could only gather into lines of chalk |
Around a silhouette detective fiction walks |
For it’s the only witness that can testify |
Can I spit out the truth |
Or would you rather just swallow a lie? |
Why did they dam the land? |
How did they flood the plain? |
Did they erase the name? |
And wipe away the stain |
You kept your mouth well shut |
Appeared to turn your coat |
Now there’s a name for you but it’s stuck in my throat |
If dust could only mutter |
Or in laughter trill |
If it could warn and whisper from the windowsill |
For it’s the only witness that can testify |
Can I spit out the truth? |
Or would you rather just swallow a lie? |
Here comes the juggernaut |
Here come The Poisoners |
They choke the life and land |
And rob the joy from us |
Why do they taste of sugar |
When they are made of money |
Here come the Lamb of God |
And the butcher’s boy, Sonny |
If dust could only gather in a needle track |
Then it would skip a beat and it would jump right back |
If dust could only gather in a needle track |
Then it would skip a beat |
And all the sense I lack |