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Song
Suffering Face
by Elvis Costello
From "The King of America" Reissue
Transcribed by Denis O'Connell (denis@natural.com)
There's an old man's fantasy put in a young girl's mouth
like cheap pink lipstick smeared on a wedding dress
Will you look what you've done to her,
will you look at this disgrace.
Oh, it's all over your suffering face.
If we were chrome we would be rusted,
if we were thirst we would be quenched.
You don't need the same old rivet gun,
you need a brand new wrench.
Someone to pull you down on the ground
and cover you with kisses.
Once I was the jewel of your heart,
now I'm only semi-precious.
But if I seem so preoccupied,
it's just my alibi, I'm all broken up inside.
Even the words of love, seem cruel and crass,
when you're tough and transparent as armored glass.
I prepared a bed for you, then I sprayed perfume
upon the wilted roses that I'd scattered 'round the room.
You came in gentle as a lamb,
and turned into a terror.
and you left your "love another" threats in the steam
fading on my bathroom mirror.
But it's an old man's fantasy put in a young girl's mouth
like cheap pink lipstick smeared on a wedding dress.
Will you look what you've done to me,
now you've put me in my place.
and it's all over,
it's all over,
it's all over
your suffering face.
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