Elvis Costello - The Scarlet Tide

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

The Scarlet Tide

Well I recall his parting words
Must I accept his fate?
Or take myself far from this place
I thought I heard a black bell toll
A little bird did sing
Man has no choice
When he wants everything

[Chorus:]
We'll rise above the scarlet tide
That trickles down through the mountain
And separates the widow from the bride

Man goes beyond his own decision
Gets caught up in the mechanism
Of swindlers who act like kings
And brokers who break everything
The dark of night was swiftly fading
Close to the dawn of the day
Why would I want him
Just to lose him again

[Chorus 2x]