Little Palaces-Elvis Costello

[ti:Little Palaces] [ar:Elvis Costello] [al:The Costello Show: King Of America] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Little Palaces - Elvis Costello (埃尔维斯 科斯特洛) [00:06.02]Written by：Declan MacManus [00:12.04]In Chocolate Town all the trains are painted brown [00:16.13]On the silver paper of the wrapper [00:20.47] [00:21.80]There's a dapper little man [00:23.43] [00:23.97]And he wears a wax mustache [00:25.93] [00:26.50]That he twists with nicotine fingers [00:28.54]As he drops his cigarette ash [00:31.14] [00:31.81]Someone comes and sleeps with it [00:34.42]Then he doffs his cap [00:35.81] [00:36.72]There's a rat in someone's bedroom [00:39.17]They're shutting someone's trap [00:41.21] [00:41.95]They'll soon be pulling down the little palaces [00:46.21] [00:49.60]And the doors swing back and forward from [00:52.29]The past into the present [00:54.54]And the bedside crucifixion turns from wood to phosphorescent [00:59.30] [00:59.88]And they're moving problem families from [01:02.63]The South up to the North [01:04.42] [01:05.64]Mother's crying over some soft soap opera divorce [01:09.62] [01:10.14]And you say you didn't do it but [01:12.87]You know you did of course [01:15.20]And they'll soon be pulling down the little palaces [01:19.91] [01:23.38]It's like shouting in a matchbox [01:25.49]Filled with plasterboard and hope [01:27.82] [01:28.35]Like a picture of Prince William in [01:31.07]The arms of John the Pope [01:33.01] [01:33.70]There's a world of good intentions and pity in their eyes [01:38.49]The sedated homes of England theirs to vandalize [01:43.53] [01:44.08]So you knock the kids about a bit because [01:47.35]They've got your name [01:49.12]And you knock the kids about a bit until [01:52.36]They feel the same [01:54.23]And they feel like knocking down the little palaces [01:58.32] [02:23.96]You're the twinkle in your daddy's eye [02:26.54]A name you spray and scribble [02:28.99] [02:30.09]You made the girls all turn their heads and in turn [02:34.15]They made you miserable [02:36.46] [02:37.64]To be the heir apparent to the kingdom of the invisible [02:42.99] [02:44.14]So you knock the kids about a bit because [02:47.45]They've got your name [02:48.95] [02:49.47]And you knock the kids about a bit until [02:52.86]They feel the same [02:54.56] [02:55.20]And they feel like knocking down the little palaces