Elvis Costello - My Brave Face

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

My Brave Face

(McCartney/MacManus)
My brave, my brave, my brave face

I've been living in style
Unaccustomed as I am
To the luxury life
I've been hitting the town
And it didn't hit back
I've been doing the rounds
Unaccustomed as I am
To the time on my hands
Now I don't have to tell anybody
When I'm gonna get back
Ever since you went away I've had the sentimental inclination not to change a single thing
As I pull the sheet back on the bed I want to go bury my head in your pillow

Now that I'm alone again
I can't stop breaking down again
The simplest things set me off again
Take me to that place
Where I can find my brave face
Where I can find my brave face
My brave, my brave, my brave face

I've been living a lie
Unaccustomed as I am
To the work of a housewife
I been breaking up dirty dishes
And been throwing them away
Ever since you left I have been trying to compose a "Baby, would you please come home" note meant for you
As I clear away another untouched TV dinner from the table I made for two

Now that I'm alone again
I can't stop breaking down again
The simplest things set me off again
Take me to that place
Where I can find my brave face
Where I can find my brave face
My brave, my brave, my brave face