Pony Street Lyrics by Elvis Costello

Pony Street Lyrics

    She lives on pony street
    And they should scatter flowers at her feet
    But when they come calling i think it's appalling
    They're sober and they're polite
    They're deeply respectful when i would expect them
    To keep her out all night

    That little martinet
    Will get her own way yet
    If you need instruction in mindless destruction
    I'll show you a thing or two
    You used to adore me but now my life flashes before me
    For you to view

    Oh mother, oh mother, sometimes you are so mortifying
    From the hole in your leopard skin tights i can tell you've been spying
    But your generation confesses before it transgresses
    Those super-8 movies of daddy in your disco dresses

    If you're going out tonight
    I won't wait up
    Reading "das kapital"
    Watching "home shopping club"
    While you're flogging a dead horse
    All the way down pony street
    Where you live after a fashion
    All the way down pony street
    The life and the soul of every indiscretion
    That lives on, that lives on, that lives on
    Pony street

    Daughter, oh daughter, you know i will love you forever
    But spare me the white ankle socks with the lace and the leather
    For you and your cartoon threat do no good to resist me
    For i am the genuine thing but for you it's just history

    If you're going out tonight
    How can you be sure
    Where you lay your pretty head
    Mother may have been before
    So you're flogging a dead horse
    All the way down pony street
    Where you live after a fashion
    All the way down pony street
    The life and the soul of every indiscretion
    That lives on [5x]
    She lives on pony street [2x]
    She lives on, she lives on [2x]

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