Painted From Memory Lyrics

We're gonna drink enough tonight to drown the average army By New Year's Day the next door neighbour will be goin' barmy The milkman arrives at midday with his usual wisecrack Who ...Read Full Lyrics

(Steve Nieve/Elvis Costello) Obscure the late afternoon with a drape Don't let him follow her latest escape Or the fanfare of taxis that needlessly played As a forty watt bulb bur...Read Full Lyrics

Let's go out on the town tonight My pockets are heavy with loot And get drunk and blasted (And loud in your dress of blue) I've been living from hand to mouth It must be three or f...Read Full Lyrics

As I walk through This wicked world Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity. I ask myself Is all hope lost? Is there only pain and hatred, and misery? And each time I fee...Read Full Lyrics

Out of the aeroplane stepped Chamberlain with a condemned man's stare But we all cheered wildly, a photograph was taken, As he waved a piece of paper in the air Now the Disco Machi...Read Full Lyrics

There's a young girl with her old man who's too sick to mention She'll be turning twenty seven as she draws her widow's pension But he couldn't catch a common cold he couldn't get ...Read Full Lyrics

Cut loose in a nightmare, cast off in my dreams If home is anywhere that I can hang my hat Then it's coming apart at the seams My luck is hanging upside down I try to hold on tight...Read Full Lyrics

You had your own way one too many times and now You're going to find out what it's like Just what it's like, now you're a mess You wanted something you could never possess You went...Read Full Lyrics

He's out in the woods with his squirrel gun To try to recapture his anger He's screaming some words at the top of his lungs Until he begins to feel younger But back at his desk in ...Read Full Lyrics

The poisoned rose That you gave to me It left me half alive And half in ecstasy But if half of your love Is all I can win Give me just a fraction But no more medicine The poisoned...Read Full Lyrics