This Is Hell-Elvis Costello

[ti:This Is Hell] [ar:Elvis Costello] [al:Brutal Youth] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]This Is Hell - Elvis Costello (埃尔维斯 科斯特洛) [00:03.68]This is hell this is hell [00:06.85]I am sorry to tell you [00:10.50] [00:11.20]It never gets better or worse [00:15.99] [00:18.00]But you get used to it after a spell [00:23.45] [00:24.00]For heaven is hell in reverse [00:30.45] [00:31.09]The bruiser spun a hula hoop [00:34.10]As all the barmen preen and pout [00:36.68] [00:37.28]The neon I of nightclub flickers on and off [00:42.50]And finally blew out [00:45.06]The irritating jingle [00:47.26] [00:47.89]Of the belly dancing phoney Turkish girls [00:52.42]The eerie glare of ultra violet [00:55.91]Perfect dental work [00:58.02] [00:59.12]This is hell this is hell [01:01.44]I am sorry to tell you [01:03.92] [01:04.44]It never gets better or worse [01:09.34] [01:10.73]But you get used to it after a spell [01:17.52]For heaven is hell in reverse [01:23.71] [01:24.48]The failed don Juan in the big bow tie [01:27.30]Is very sorry that he spoke [01:30.21] [01:31.28]For he's mislaid his punchline [01:33.88]More than halfway through a very tasteless joke [01:38.69]The Fraulein caught him peeking down her gown [01:42.82]He's yelling in her ear [01:45.55]And all at once the music stopped [01:48.78]As he was intimately bellowing my dear [01:54.14] [01:54.64]This is hell this is hell [01:57.59]I am sorry to tell you [02:01.26]It never gets better or worse [02:06.75] [02:08.88]But you get used to it after a spell [02:14.39] [02:14.96]For heaven is hell in reverse [02:21.13] [02:21.96]The shirt you wore with courage [02:24.91]And the violent nylon suit [02:27.61] [02:28.52]Reappear upon your back [02:30.89] [02:31.41]And undermine the polished line you try to shoot [02:36.05]It's not the torment of the flames [02:39.51]That finally see your flesh corrupted [02:42.91]It's the small humiliations that your memory piles up [02:49.90]This is hell this is hell this is hell [02:52.28] [03:02.29]My favourite things are playing [03:05.09]Again and again [03:08.51] [03:09.06]But it's by Julie Andrews [03:12.59]And not by John Coltrane [03:15.52] [03:16.48]Endless balmy breezes and perfect sunsets framed [03:22.89] [03:23.45]Vintage wine for breakfast [03:26.61]And naked starlets floating in champagne [03:30.74] [03:31.55]All the passions of your youth [03:34.32] [03:35.28]Are tranquillised and tamed [03:38.24]You may think it looks familiar [03:41.57] [03:42.16]Though you may know it by another name [03:46.61] [03:47.16]This is hell this is hell [03:50.27]I am sorry to tell you [03:53.29] [03:53.79]It never gets better or worse [03:58.17] [04:01.32]But you get used to it after a spell [04:06.54] [04:07.49]For heaven is hell in reverse [04:11.65]This is hell this is hell