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Elvis Costello - When I Was Cruel No. 2 Lyrics

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  • I exit through the spotlight glare
  • I stepped out into thin air
  • Into a perfume so rarefied
  • "Here comes the bride"
  • Not quite aside, they snide "She's number four"
  • "There's number three just by the door"
  • Those in the know, don't even flatter her,
  • They go one better
  • "She was selling speedboats in a tradeshow when he met her"
  • Look at her now
  • She's starting to yawn
  • She looks like she was born to it
  • But it was so much easier
  • When I was cruel
  • She reaches out her arms to me
  • Imploring: "Another melody?"
  • So she can dance her husband out on the floor
  • The captains of industry just lie there where they fall
  • In eau-de-nil and pale carnation creation
  • A satin sash and velvet elevation
  • She straightens the tipsy head-dress of her spouse
  • While her recalls a honey house
  • There'll be no sorrows left to drown
  • Early in the morning in your evening gown
  • But it was so much easier
  • When I was cruel
  • The entrance hall was arranged with hostesses and ushers
  • Who turned out to be the younger wives nursing schoolgirl crushes
  • Parting the waves of those few feint friends
  • Fingers once offered are now too heavy to extend
  • The ghostly first wife glides up stage whispering to raucous talkers
  • Spilling family secrets out to flunkeys and castrato walkers
  • See that girl
  • Watch that scene
  • Digging the "Dancing Queen"
  • Two newspaper editors like playground sneaks
  • Running the book on which of them is going to last the week
  • One of them calls to me
  • And he says, "I know you"
  • "You gave me this tattoo back in '82"
  • "You were a spoilt child then with a record to plug"
  • "And I was a shaven headed seaside thug"
  • "Things haven't really chang

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