Elvis Costello - Lesson in Cruelty текст песни

(words: costello, music: nieve)

Heres a thought to dwell upon,

Daddys girl is almost gone

Now theres just a vain princess

her ruthlessness

Tearing up the nursery

Stars more used to glittering

Pictured in the guttering

Faces caught about to laugh

Torn in half

Slipping through your fingers

See them scatter

Maybe it doesnt matter

But I still really want to pick pieces up

You cant fool me

With this lesson in cruelty

Its not as if I was asking time to stop

In violent blue

Like roses red

She laughed as she tore off his head

The hours she gazed on her former champion

Now its just a frame of sellotape and torn wallpaper

As she rips his pretty face to bits

-chorus

Its too much too soon or so it seems

To put away these childish dreams

Youll find out soon enough that worship can be tough

Love is just a name to celebrate a vision

Or confetti littered with regrets.

See it scatter...

Dear heart to good to waste

But if some hot-head should claim it

Dont rush to his embrace

And it remains to say...

Ill love you just the same, whatever your decision

As you put the paper to the flame

(its a lesson in cruelty)