Elvis Costello - I Want to Vanish

Extreme Honey-Very Best Of The Warner Brothers Years / 1997-10-21 1. 13 Steps Lead Down 2. All the Rage 3. All This Useless Beauty 4. Couldn't Call It Unexpected No.4 5. Deep Dark Truthful Mirror 6. Hurry Down Doomsday 7. I Want to Vanish 8. Kinder Murder 9. London's Brilliant Parade 10. My Dark Life 11. Poor Fractured Atlas 12. So Like Candy 13. Sulky Girl 14. The Birds Will Still Be Singing 15. The Bridge I Burned 16. The Other Side of Summer 17. Tramp The Dirt Down 18. Veronica

I Want to Vanish

I want to vanish
This is my fondest wish
To go where I cannot be captured
Laid on a decorated dish
Even in splendor this curious fate
Is more than I care to surrender
Now it's too late

Whether in wonder or indecent haste
You arrange the mirrors and the spools
To snare the rare and precious jewels
That were only made of paste

If you should stumble upon my last remark
I'm crying in the wilderness
I'm trying my best to make it dark
How can I tell you I'm rarer than most
I'm certain as a lost dog
Pondering a sign post

Chorus

I want to vanish
This is my last request
I've given you the awful truth
Now give me my rest