Elvis Costello - Everyday I Write The Book (Live)

Punch The Clock / 1983-03-01 1. Charm School 2. Everyday I Write The Book (Live) 3. Heathen Town 4. King Of Thieves 5. Let Them All Talk 6. Love Went Mad 7. Mouth Almighty 8. Pills And Soap 9. Shatterproof 10. Shipbuilding 11. The Element Within Her 12. The Flirting Kind 13. The Greatest Thing 14. The Invisible Man 15. The World And His Wife 16. The World and His Wife (Live) 17. TKO (Boxing Day) 18. Town Where Time Stood Still 19. Walking On Thin Ice

Everyday I Write The Book (Live)

Don't tell me you don't know what love is
When you're old enough to know better
WHEN YOU FIND STRANGE HANDS IN YOUR SWEATER
When your dreamboat turns out to be a footnote
I'm a man on a mission in two or three editions

And I'm giving you a longing look
Everyday, everyday, everyday...Everyday I write the book

Chapter One we didn't really get along
Chapter Two I think I fell in love with you
You said you'd stand by me in the middle of Chapter
Three
But you were up to your old tricks in Chapters
Four, Five and Six

The way you walk
The way you talk, and try to kiss me, and laugh
In four or five paragraphs
All your compliments and your cutting remarks
Are captured here in my quotation marks

And I'm giving you a longing look
Everyday, everyday, everyday...Everyday I write the book
Everyday I write the book

Don't tell me you don't know the difference
Between a lover and a FIGHTER
With my pen and my electric typewriter
Even in a perfect world where everyone was equal
I'd still own the film rights and be working on the
sequel

And I'm giving you a longing look
Everyday, everyday, everyday...Everyday I write the book
Everyday, everyday...Everyday I write the book
Everyday, everyday...Everyday I write the book...Everyday I write the book