Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song TRIPWIRE , by - Elvis Costello. Release date: 31.12.2012
Song language: English
TRIPWIRE |
| Just because you don’t speak the language |
| Doesn’t mean that you can’t understand |
| Just because you don’t speak the language |
| Doesn’t mean that you can’t understand |
| The twist in the script of the insult |
| Scrawled on the back of your hand |
| Torn from the pages of scripture |
| Sprayed on the wall in the frays of a flag |
| Kisses forbidden on lips |
| And all of your fine clothes worn into rags |
| Tripwire, tripwire, tripwire, tripwire |
| There’s a tripwire |
| Tripwire, tripwire, tripwire |
| Don’t open the door ‘cos they’re coming |
| Don’t open the door ‘cos they’re here |
| Above there’s an ominous humming |
| Below there’s a murmur of prayer |
| Torn from the pages of scandal |
| Sprayed on a wall in the frays of the flag |
| Kisses forbidden on lips |
| And all of your fine clothes blown into rags |
| Tripwire, tripwire, tripwire, tripwire |
| There’s a tripwire |
| Tripwire, tripwire, tripwire |
| There’s a cross in the line there’s a circus |
| There’s a voice that you might overhear |
| There’s a lens making the picture perfect |
| They say you have nothing to fear |
| Torn from the pages of pamphlets |
| Thrown in the air like confetti in church |
| Far, far away there’s a target |
| And the sound of an army just starting to march |
| Tripwire, tripwire, tripwire, tripwire |
| There’s a tripwire |
| Tripwire, tripwire, tripwire |
| Just because I don’t read the language |
| Doesn’t mean that I’m blind to the threat |
| Though I thought there was more to forgiveness |
| Than all we conveniently forget |
| Torn from the pages of history |
| Repeated again and again and again |
| You’re either for or against us |
| And that is how the hatred begins |
| Tripwire, tripwire, tripwire, tripwire |
| There’s a tripwire |
| Tripwire, tripwire, tripwire |