You Bowed Down-Elvis Costello

[ti:You Bowed Down] [ar:Elvis Costello] [al:All This Useless Beauty] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]You Bowed Down - Elvis Costello (埃尔维斯 科斯特洛) [00:16.53]I expect you're entitled to know why I'm [00:20.30]Making contact [00:24.07]With acquaintances scattered all over the land [00:29.23] [00:31.91]I'd promise you now and again that I'd [00:34.97] [00:35.48]Honour the contract [00:39.49]If it hadn't crumbled away in my hand [00:44.72] [00:46.99]So we broke that vow independently now [00:53.92] [00:54.70]But I don't know why you absolutely deny [01:00.63]You bowed down you bowed down [01:04.56]You bowed down [01:06.37]You bowed down you bowed down [01:09.68]You bowed down [01:12.33] [01:20.98]When you first looked away [01:22.55]I might say it was really a kindness [01:29.07]It must have hurt you to see how dreams sour [01:34.00] [01:36.40]They say that justice [01:38.28]And love are the next things to blindness [01:44.03]Well you're getting plenty of both of them now [01:48.96] [01:51.58]And so you parade [01:54.97]Where appointments are made [01:58.69]And never meant to be kept [02:02.12] [02:02.96]Unless you accept [02:05.12]You bowed down you bowed down you bowed down [02:10.96]You bowed down you bowed down you bowed down [02:16.76] [02:18.22]You value the burnt amber of falling leaves [02:22.39]And you long to delay [02:26.10] [02:27.19]As you feel their breath as they whisper [02:31.39]It won't hurt you now to betray [02:35.85]If you just bow down [02:40.99] [02:44.67]And now every time that we meet on the edge of hysteria [02:51.58] [02:52.34]You're helping them sell off some new party line [02:57.16] [02:59.61]I remember a time when you would have seemed so superior [03:07.26]Now you say will you please meet this good friend of mine [03:12.10] [03:14.98]So you're in demand [03:18.39]As long as you kiss their hand [03:22.03] [03:22.62]But all the applause [03:26.09]Is for their name not yours [03:28.67]You bowed down you bowed down you bowed down [03:34.23] [03:34.77]You bowed down you bowed down you bowed down [03:39.92]You bowed down you bowed down you bowed down [03:45.69]You bowed down you bowed down you bowed down [03:51.40]You bowed down [03:55.63] [03:58.84]You bowed down [04:03.36] [04:06.62]You bowed down [04:11.28] [04:14.11]You bowed down