Mouth Almighty — текст песни (Elvis Costello)

This town belongs to you and your tricks of confidence

All the pavements for miles around are littered with your footprints

Now every girl I get close to seems to be wearing your perfume

And the clock strikes the letters of your name

Both midnight and noon



But I used to shoot my mouth off

Till youd had enough of me

Once or twice nightly

I know Ive got my faults

And among them I cant control my tongue

But if you didnt believe me

Why did you have to leave me

With my mouth almighty



Mouth almighty thats what Ive got

Mouth almighty telling you whats what

Mouth almighty

I wish Id never opened my mouth almighty



So I threw away the rose and held onto the thorn

Crawling round with my crooner cufflinks and my calling card cologne

But the realization of being replaced starts to tell tales across my face

Without a soul to talk to or a hair out of place