Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song WAKE Me Up , by - Elvis Costello. Song from the album Wise Up Ghost, in the genre АльтернативаRelease date: 31.12.2012
Record label: Elvis Costello
Song language: English
WAKE Me Up |
| I’ve got this phosphorescent portrait of gentle Jesus meek and mild |
| I’ve got this harlot that I’m stuck with carrying another man’s child |
| The solitary star announcing vacancy burnt out as we arrived |
| They’d throw us back across the border if they knew that we survived |
| And they were surprised to see us |
| So they greeted us with palms |
| And they asked for ammunition |
| Acts of contrition and small alms |
| Wake me up, wake me up |
| Wake me up, wake me up |
| Wake me up with a slap or a kiss |
| Wake me up, wake me up |
| Wake me up, wake me up |
| Wake me up, there must be something better than this |
| I’ve got this imaginary radio, and I’m punching up the dial |
| I’ve got the A.C. trained on the T.V. so it won’t blow up in my eye |
| And everything that I thought fanciful or mocked as too extreme |
| Must be family entertainment here in the strange land of my dreams |
| And I’m practicing my likeness |
| Of St. Francis of Assisi |
| And if I hold my hand outstretched |
| A little bird comes to me |
| And I might recite a small prayer |
| If I ever said them |
| I lay down on an iron frame |
| And found myself in Bedlam |
| Stepping on the fingers that were stretching through the bars |
| Wailing echoes down the corridors |
| Wake me up, wake me up |
| Wake me up, wake me up |
| Wake me up with a slap or a kiss |
| Wake me up, wake me up |
| Wake me up, wake me up |
| Wake me up, there must be something better than this |
| They’ve got this scared and decorated girl strapped to the steel trunk of a |
| Mustang |
| They drove her down a cypress grove where traitors hang and stars still spangle |
| They dangled flags and other rags along a colored thread of twine |
| They dragged that bruised and purple heart along the road to Palestine |
| Someone went off muttering, he mentioned thirty pieces |
| Easter saw a slaughtering, each wrapped in bloodstained fleeces |
| My thoughts returned to vengeance but I put up no resistance |
| Though I seemed a long way from my home |
| It really was no distance |
| Wake me up, wake me up |
| Wake me up, wake me up |
| Wake me up with a slap or a kiss |
| Wake me up, wake me up |
| Wake me up, wake me up |
| Wake me up, there must be something better than this |
| And the player piano picks out «Life Goes On» |
| The Ringtone rang out «Jerusalem» |
| Into the pit of sadness |
| Where the wretched plunge |
| We’ve buried all the Innocents |
| We must bury revenge |
| Wake me up, wake me up, wake me up, wake me up, wake me up |
| There must be something better than this |
| There must be something better than this |
| There must be something better than this |
| In the name of the Father and the Son |
| In the name of Gasoline and a Gun |
| Wake me up, wake me up |
| Wake me up, wake me up |
| Wake me up |