Elvis Costello - Everyday I Write The Book (Very Best Of-1977-86)

Don't tell me you don't know what love is
When you're old enough to know better
When you find strange hands in your sweater
When your dreamboat turns out to be a footnote
I'm a man with a mission in two or three editions

And I'm giving you a longing look
Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book

Chapter One we didn't really get along
Chapter Two I think I fell in love with you
You said you'd stand by me in the middle of Chapter Three
But you were up to your old tricks in Chapters Four, Five and Six

And I'm giving you a longing look
Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book

The way you walk
The way you talk, and try to kiss me, and laugh
In four or five paragraphs
All your compliments and your cutting remarks
Are captured here in my quotation marks

And I'm giving you a longing look
Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book

Don't tell me you don't know the difference
Between a lover and a fighter
With my pen and my electric typewriter
Even in a perfect world where everyone was equal
I'd still own the film rights and be working on the sequel

And I'm giving you a longing look
Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book

Elvis Costello Everyday I Write the Book (03:46)
Elvis and the Attractions featuring the TKO horns and Afrodiziak live on Channel 4's Switch 1983.

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Cheap Reward
Im Not Angry



Comments:

1
I play it every couple of weeks!! It was the first track I heard by him, and it remains one of the best yet the first four albums are amazing!
Author: castertunes1967 - 4 months, 2 weeks ago
2
TIMELESS!
Author: mystikflight - 3 months, 3 weeks ago
3
Sperm donor.
Author: GodIsAPigFaggot - 1 month, 1 week ago
4
Here's MY Miss Claudia along with Caron (Wheeler/from 'Soul To Soul') doin background vocals for Elvis...released just before she signed with me full time...doin a FIERCE track of his that i love!!
Author: TheMrMaz - 5 months, 3 weeks ago
5
Thanks for posting this. Elvis is one of the best songwriters/performers ever.
Author: DogFace69 - 2 months, 2 weeks ago
6
Godispigfaggot are you wishing for a piece of him? As the the young generation say 'what a Ledge!
Author: patc161 - 1 month ago
7
love this song
Author: sanddocon - 1 month, 3 weeks ago
8
This was in "The Wedding Singer." Laugh out loud!
Author: 601lowkey - 5 months, 2 weeks ago
9
Great to see a real LIVE version of this. What a superb song...
Author: Burnzy1976 - 3 months ago
10
This song always makes me feel good and has for 26 years.
Author: ReniesDad - 3 months ago


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