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Costello Elvis Painted From Memory

I have to say that we should finish it now Before we weaken ?cause we already know this is wrong I could give in, sometimes I think that I will Despite

On a hot city day, when your white shirt turns to gray That's when she'll arrive When you look how you feel, someone steps upon your heel That's when

same every year Seems that I remember it as something more But you know how children can grow So strange, I still adore you What if we never learn from

All through the night you telephoned I saw the light blinking red Beside the cradle But you don't know how far I've gone Now I must live with the lie

you? Oh, if I could just become forgetful When night seems endless Does the extinguished candle Care about the darkness? It's funny how my memory Will

When I go to sleep, you become my thief Why don't you steal, what you can keep? But you won't let me be, you break into my dreams And everyday seems different

Vertaling: Elvis Costello. Painted From Memory.

light that I'd bless She took my last chance of happiness So God give me strength God if she'd grant me her indulgence and decline I might as well Wipe her from my memory

light enough for me to find my way But I only have to tell myself that by now You could be with someone else Is there light beneath your door and Laughter from