My Dark Life-Elvis Costello/Steve Nieve

[ti:My Dark Life] [ar:Elvis Costello/Steve Nieve] [al:Extreme Honey: The Very Best Of The Warner Brothers Years] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]My Dark Life (我的黑暗生活) - Elvis Costello (埃尔维斯 科斯特洛)/Steve Nieve [00:25.87]She says nobody wants to believe [00:30.83] [00:33.71]You're the same as everyone [00:37.25] [00:38.41]What makes me unique [00:43.14] [00:45.68]My dark life [00:50.42] [00:53.00]There was a kink in the world [00:56.52] [00:57.54]Sent that statue tumbling [01:01.12] [01:02.17]An invitation east [01:08.19] [01:09.59]So we can watch it all crumbling [01:13.77]She came off like light and so softly she spoke [01:22.75] [01:24.11]You don't know [01:26.91]No you don't know about my dark life [01:31.87] [01:33.05]And you think you're a guest [01:37.90]You're a tourist at best [01:42.02] [01:43.19]Peering into the corners of your dark life [01:51.41] [01:52.43]Now that you tear your dreams [01:57.01]From consumptive ballerinas [02:02.31]She'd stand on tiptoes for you [02:06.66]In a grey and tattered tutu [02:11.64]She stays where she is because of voyeurs like these [02:20.57] [02:21.75]With an accusative look that says [02:27.12]My dark life [02:29.95] [02:33.72]Robber men await you then in each beguiling alley [02:41.96] [02:45.33]To shake you and to pierce you and remind you of [02:52.66] [02:55.36]My dark life [02:59.61] [03:07.27]Enter the pious elite [03:12.21]In their preening finery [03:15.39] [03:16.43]And bang the tambourine [03:21.59] [03:23.82]They're dining on rice paper scenery [03:27.55] [03:28.71]See how the villain attracts envious glances from everyone [03:37.05] [03:38.01]She's waitressing by day [03:42.81] [03:45.61]It doesn't bring in much money now [03:48.93] [03:49.75]And his strong concealed arms set off bells and alarms [03:59.23] [03:59.99]In the strangest locations of [04:05.41]My dark life [04:08.08] [04:09.08]But the fantasy slipped as he tipped her in cigarettes [04:17.91] [04:19.11]She tries to smile very graciously [04:23.99] [04:24.62]When she wants to kill him [04:28.21]Now the victory is sweet [04:32.06] [04:33.02]You'll get down on your knees [04:37.41] [04:38.36]It's the perfect position for kissing western leather [04:47.66] [04:50.38]So they came from Ugly Texas [04:55.20]And from Nameless Tennessee [04:59.44] [05:02.48]From Peculiar Missouri and from places closer to me [05:11.98] [05:14.48]All the cream of heartless England [05:18.58] [05:19.11]Cheered the carnival is over [05:23.61] [05:26.13]There are remnants of red army bandsmen [05:30.50] [05:31.32]Played America The Beautiful