Everyday I Write The Book Lyrics by Elvis Costello

Everyday I Write The Book Lyrics

    don't tell me you don't know what love is
    When you're old enough to know better
    When you find strange hands in your sweater
    When your dreamboat turns out to be a footnote
    I'm a man with a mission in two or three editions

    And i'm giving you a longing look
    Everyday, everyday, everyday i write the book

    Chapter one we didn't really get along
    Chapter two i think i fell in love with you
    You said you'd stand by me in the middle of chapter
    Three
    But you were up to your old tricks in chapters
    Four, five and six

    The way you walk
    The way you talk, and try to kiss me, and laugh
    In four or five paragraphs
    All your compliments and your cutting remarks
    Are captured here in my quotation marks

    Don't tell me you don't know the difference
    Between a lover and a writer
    With my pen and my electric typewriter
    Even in a perfect world where everyone was equal
    I'd still own the film rights and be working on the
    Sequel

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