Pay It Back Lyrics by Elvis Costello

Pay It Back Lyrics

    Stop thief! You're gonna come to grief

    If you don't take a little more care

    You're gonna get more than the family plan

    From this one shoestring affair

    I may be crazy buy I can't contemplate

    Being trapped between the doctor and the magistrate



    (CHORUS) Once of these days I'm gonna pay it back

    Pay it back one of these days

    Once of these days I'm gonna pay it back

    Pay it back one of these days



    And then they told me I could be somebody

    If I didn't let too much get in my way

    And I tried so hard just to be myself

    But I keep on fading away

    And then the lights went out, I didn't know what to do

    If I could fool myself, then maybe I'd fool you



    (REPEAT CHORUS)



    I wouldn't say that I was raised on romance

    Let's not get stuck in the past

    I love you more than everything in the world

    I don't expect that will last

    They told me everything was guaranteed

    Somebody somewhere must've lied to me



    (REPEAT CHORUS AND FADE)

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