Elvis Costello - I Want to Vanish

Bespoke Songs Lost Dogs Detour / 1998-05-19 1. All Grown Up 2. Almost Blue 3. Deep Dead Blue 4. Dirty Rotten Shame 5. Girls Talk 6. Hidden Shame 7. Indoor Fireworks 8. I Want to Vanish 9. Miss Mary 10. My Brave Face 11. Punishing Kiss 12. Shadow and Jimmy 13. Shamed Into Love 14. Shatterproof 15. Shipbuilding 16. The Birds Will Still Be Singing 17. The Comedians 18. The Deportees Club 19. The Other End (of the Telescope) 20. Unwanted Number 21. Upon A Veil Of Midnight Blue

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