[00:00.000] 作词 : Elvis Costello[00:01.000] 作曲 : Elvis Costello[00:06.357]History repeats the old conceits[00:09.106]The glib replies the same defeats[00:11.861]Keep your finger on important issues[00:14.356]With crocodile tears and a pocketful of tissues[00:17.605]Im just the oily slick[00:19.360]On the windup world of the nervous tick[00:22.356]In a very fashionable hovel[00:28.100]I hang around dying to be tortured[00:30.355]Youll never be alone in the bone orchard[00:33.349]This battle with the bottle is nothing so novel[00:38.608]So in this almost empty gin palace[00:43.358]Through a two-way looking glass[00:45.854]You see your alice[00:49.348]You know she has no sense[00:51.856]For all your jealousy[00:55.106]In a sense she still smiles very sweetly[00:58.358]Charged with insults and flattery[01:02.107]Her body moves with malice[01:05.359]Do you have to be so cruel to be callous[01:10.105]And now you find you fit this identikit completely[01:15.355]You say you have no secrets[01:18.849]And then leave discreetly[01:20.359]I might make it californias fault[01:22.355]Be locked in genevas deepest vault[01:24.852]Just like the canals of mars and the great barrier reef[01:28.359]I come to you beyond belief[01:35.101][01:37.856]My hands were clammy and cunning[01:41.104]Shes been suitably stunning[01:46.354]But I know theres not a hope in hades[01:51.357]All the laddies cat call and wolf whistle[01:53.107]So-called gentlemen and ladies[01:55.606]Dog fight like rose and thistle[01:57.359]Ive got a feeling[01:59.357]Im going to get a lot of grief[02:01.607]Once this seemed so appealing[02:03.604]Now I am beyond belief