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Elvis Costello - Battered Old Bird Lyrics

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  • The landladys husband came up to town today
  • Since he left them both ten years ago to serve the ministry
  • The dark down road of his approach in constant rain was drenched
  • The tenants boy said how dya do then swore in french
  • Did you teach this little child these curses on my soul
  • You should both be shut down in the coal-hole
  • Thats the way to treat a child who cries out in the night
  • And a woman who teaches wrong from right
  • Chorus: hes a battered old bird
  • And hes living up there
  • Theres a place where time stands still
  • If you keep taking those little pink pills
  • Hush your mouth you hypocrite
  • His humour cut her deep
  • The tight lipped leer of judgement
  • That had seen her love desert her just like sleep
  • Filthy words on childrens lips are better, my dear spouse
  • Then if I were to speak my mind about this house
  • Chorus
  • On the first floor there are two old maids
  • Each one wishing that the other was afraid
  • And next door to them is a man so mild
  • til he chopped off the head of a visitors child
  • He danced upon the bonfire
  • Swallowed sleeping pills like dreams
  • With a bottle of sweet sherry that everything redeems
  • Chorus
  • And on the second floor is the macintosh man
  • Hes in his overcoats more than out of them
  • And the typewriters rattling all through the night
  • Hes burgundy for breakfast tight
  • He says one day Ill throw away all of my cares
  • And it is always christmas in a cupboard at the top of the stairs
  • Chorus
  • Well heres a boy if ever there was
  • Whos going to do big things
  • Thats what they all say and thats how the trouble begins
  • Ive seen them rise and fall
  • Been through their big deals and smalls
  • Hed better have a dream that goes beyond four walls
  • You think he should be sent outside playing with the traffic
  • When pieces of him are already scattered in the attic

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