Elvis Costello - Seconds Of Pleasure

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

Seconds Of Pleasure

You say you don't desire me,
You only tire me. Now you hire me.
Inexpensive care is meaningless,
Feeling nothing and caring less.
Cut off at the pass, she knows where you were headed,
She wants double-time or a temporary wedding.
And the lucky girl leads a life of leisure,
Though she might have do (?) with forty-five years
For seconds of pleasure.
Crowds surround loudspeakers on the lampposts
Listening to the murder mystery.
Meanwhile someoneт