Elvis Costello - Man Out of Time

Imperial Bedroom / 1994-08-30 1. ...And in Every Home 2. Almost Blue 3. Beyond Belief 4. Boy With a Problem 5. From Head To Toe 6. Human Hands 7. Imperial Bedroom 8. I Turn Around 9. Kid About it 10. Little Savage 11. Man Out of Time 12. Night Time 13. Pidgin English 14. Really Mystified 15. Seconds Of Pleasure 16. Shabby Doll 17. Tears Before Bedtime 18. The Long Honeymoon 19. The Loved Ones 20. The Stamping Ground 21. The World Of Broken Hearts 22. Town Cryer 23. You Little Fool

Man Out of Time

So this is where he came to hide
When he ran from you
In a private detective's overcoat
And dirty dead man's shoes

The pretty things of Knightsbridge
Lying for a minister of state
Is a far cry from the nod and wink
Here at traitor's gate

'Cause the high heel he used to be has been ground down
And he listens for the footsteps that would follow him around

To murder my love is a crime
But will you still love
A man out of time

There's a tuppeny hapenny millionaire
Looking for a fourpenny one
With a tight grip on the short hairs
Of the public imagination

But for his private wife and kids somehow
Real life becomes a rumour
Days of dutch courage
Just three French letters and a German sense of humour

He's got a mind like a sewer and a heart like a fridge
He stands to be insulted and he pays for the privilege

(chorus)

The biggest wheels of industry
Retire sharp and short
And the after dinner overtures
Are nothing but an after thought
Somebody's creeping in the kitchen
There's a reputation to be made
Whose nerves are always on a knife's edge
Who's up late polishing the blade

Love is always scarpering or cowering or fawning
You drink yourself insensitive and hate yourself in the morning

(chorus)