Complicated Shadows Lyrics by Elvis Costello

Complicated Shadows Lyrics

    Well you know your time has come and you're sorry for what you've done
    You should've never have been playing with a gun
    In those complicated shadows
    Well there's a line that you must toe
    And it'll soon be time to go
    But it's darker than you know in those complicated shadows

    All you gangsters and rude clowns
    Who were shooting up the town
    When you should have found someone to put the blame on
    Though the fury's hot and hard
    I still see that cold graveyard
    There's a solitary stone that's got your name on

    You don't have to take it from me
    But i know what i spake
    You think you're like iron and steel
    But iron and steel will bend and break
    In those complicated shadows

    Go!

    Sometimes justice you will find
    Is just dumb not colour-blind
    And your poor shattered mind can't take it all in
    All those phantoms and those shades
    Should jump up on judgement day
    And say to the almighty "i'm still stinking of sin"

    But the jury was dismissed
    Took his neck and they give it a twist
    So you see you won't be missed in those complicated shadows

    You can say just what you like in a voice like a john ford film
    Take the law into your hands
    You will soon get tired of killing
    In those complicated shadows
    Complicated shadows
    Complicated shadows
    Complicated shadows

    Go!

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