Unwanted Number Lyrics by Elvis Costello

Unwanted Number Lyrics

    You should hear the things that they say about me
    They're saying "she's no better than she needed to be"
    They don't know that he was kind and strong and tender
    And now i'll never be another unwanted number
    Unwanted number
    How can i tell them?
    How can i express?
    How it felt to step out of this life and into his embrace

    How can i tell them?
    How can i explain?
    All the love that i never had i found in him

    There may be a stain on the family name
    And if my father was here i think i know who he'd blame
    Mama says that he just doesn't care to remember
    And all he thinks of me is another unwanted number
    Unwanted number

    (how can i tell her?
    How can i express?
    How it felt when he came to my room
    And helped me to undress
    What can she tell me?
    How can i believe
    That she really didn't hear me cry
    When he wouldn't leave?)

    There's a local game where they whisper my shame
    They say "he gave her his child
    He wouldn't give her his name"

    They will torture me from january till september
    And soon there's going to be another unwanted number
    Unwanted number
    Unwanted number

    And i will give my love to another unwanted number
    Unwanted number
    Unwanted number


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