Satellite Lyrics by Elvis Costello

Satellite Lyrics

    She looked like she learned to dance from a series of still pictures
    She's madly excited now, she throws her hands up like a tulip

    She looks like an illustration of a cocktail party
    Where cartoon bubbles burst in the air,
    Champagne rolls off her tongue like a second language
    And it should have been her biggest night
    The satellite looks down on her as she begins to cry

    All over the world at the very same time people sharing the same sorrow
    As the satellite looks down her darkest hour is somebody's bright tomorrow

    He pulled on a cigarette, in the crook of his first finger
    Felt the static electric charge of her perfect hour-glass figure
    As he undressed her with his eyes her weakness was his talent
    How could she know as she stepped through the lights, that her dress would become transparent
    And with his face pressed to the screen,
    He muttered words he'd never dare to say if she could see him

    All over the world at the very same time
    People sharing the same cheap sensation the
    Thrill of watching somebody watching those
    Forbidden things we never mention

    Chorus:

    The satellite looks down right now and forever
    What it has pulled apart let no man tether his own body to his dream,
    His dream to someone else
    Oh no, oh no.

    She went back to a pitiful compromise, he'd go back to his family
    But for the matter of a thousand miles that separated them entirely
    In the hot unloving spotlight, with secrets it arouses
    Now they both know what it's like inside a pornographer's trousers
    And in a funny way it's anonymous, the satellite
    It blesses us and makes these dreams come
    True... all over the world

    Chorus


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