Elvis Costello - Needle Time

The Delivery Man / 2004-09-20 1. Button My Lip 2. Country Darkness 3. There's A Story In Your Voice 4. Either Side Of The Same Town 5. Bedlam 6. Delivery Man 7. Monkey To Man 8. Nothing Clings Like Ivy 9. The Name Of This Thing Is Not Love 10. Heart Shaped Bruise 11. She’s Pulling Out The Pin 12. Needle Time 13. The Judgement 14. The Scarlet Tide

Needle Time

I wish that I didn't hate you
Least not as much as I do
And squander all my contempt for
A little nothing like you
Liars like you are ten-a-penny
Women would slap you, if you knew any

Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime

I've got this suitcase of phony wisdom to dispense
These twenty-seven or so years
You'd think I (would have) made them some cents
Now they want me fingerprinted
Like I was smuggling drugs
While the government does deals with the most convenient thugs

Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime
It's Needle Time

I'm trying not to despise you with a passion that is hard to extinguish
Or maybe I really love you
Although it's hard to distinguish

I wish I could be
A little more like a saint is
Forgiving those who trespass against us

Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime

I started talking nonsense, just like I did to begin with
Around the time I tired of those sour English

Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime
It's Needle Time