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Elvis Costello - Sleep Of The Just Lyrics

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  • The soldier asked my name and did I come here very often
  • Well I thought that he was asking me to dance
  • In my holy coat and hat and him in his red bonnet
  • Wed have made a lovely couple but we never had the chance
  • [chorus]
  • And now you say that youve got to go
  • Well if you must you must
  • I suppose that you need the sleep of the just
  • Well it was a powerful day and there were black crows in the road
  • And I kept my strong opinions to my chest
  • I suppose I should have told them that I was on fire for you
  • When the bus burst into flames outside some place, the poets rest
  • [chorus]
  • A girl woke up in a ***** light and said oh no not again
  • He even looked like her brother in the army but she never mentions him
  • Hell be tucked up in his bed tonight with his dirty-pictures girl
  • Saying, youre some mothers daughter you know or is it
  • Immaterial girl?
  • Now shes pinned up upon the barracks wall in her home town
  • All the soldiers taking turns with their attentions
  • And as they speculate what shed look like beneath that thin nightgown
  • His family pride was rising up as he cast his eyes down

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