For The Stars
- No Wonder (Elvis Costello)
- Baby Plays Around (O'Riordan/MacManus)
- Go Leave (Kate McGarringle)
- Rope (Music: Fleshquartet, words:
Elvis Costello)
- Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder) (Brian Wilson
& Tony Asher)
- Broken Bicycles/Junk (Tom Waits/Paul McCartney)
- The Other Woman (Jessie Mae Robinson)
- Like An Angel Passing Through My Room (Benny Andersson
& Bjorn Ulvaeus)
- Green Song (Music: Svante Henryson/
Words: Elvis Costello)
- April After All (Ron Sexsmith)
- You Still Believe In Me (Brian Wilson & Tony Asher)
- I Want To Vanish
(Elvis Costello)
- For No One (Lennon/McCartney)
- Shamed Into Love (Declan
MacManus & Ruben Blades)
- Just A Curio (Music: Fleshquartet,
words: Elvis Costello)
- This House Is Empty
Now (Bacharach/Costello)
- Take It With Me (Tom Wait & sKathleen Brennan)
- For The Stars (Elvis Costello)
No Wonder
I stole a glance at my reflection,
Though these days I tend to hurry by.
How pale the rose of my complexion,
How strange the knowing look that's in my eye.
But when the springtime was ablaze,
You took my hand, you held my gaze.
There is no wonder there,
I learned my lesson well,
No need to wonder where that girl has gone.
There is a secret no one knows,
I set my face, I changed my clothes
I dreamed I stood as you were passing,
Just as the horse-drawn carriage sped away.
Of petticoats in puddles dragging,
And my highbutton boots were splashed with clay.
But when the summer was in flame,
You broke your word, denied my name.
There is no wonder there, etc.
But as the winter drags along,
It blurs your sense of right and wrong.
There is no wonder there, etc.
Publisher: c 2001 Sideways Songs,
Administered by BMG MUSIC Publishing Ltd., London
Baby Plays Around
It's not open to discussion any more.
He's out again tonight
And I'm alone once more.
He's all I have worth waiting for,
But baby plays around.
And so it seems I've always been the last to know.
To hold on to that boy
I had to let him go.
I wish to God I didn't love him so,
`Cos baby plays around.
I try to be strong, to hold onto my pride.
He doesn't even know it's wrong,
How much I hurt inside.
And heaven knows I've tried -
But baby plays around.
Just a plaything.
It's hard to reconcile the facts I'm facing.
It's not open to discussion anymore,
He walks those shiny streets,
I walk the worn-out floor.
He's all I have worth living for,
Baby plays,
Baby plays around.
Publisher: c 1998, 1989 Sideways Songs,
Administered by Plangent Visions Music Ltd., London
Rope
Down by the harbourside
A boat is fastened by a length of rope.
It was a perfect match,
Dreaming of escape,
Feeling almost detached.
Look beneath the waves -
The seabirds diving down into black water.
The morning bells begin,
Schoolchildren chant and spin.
A length of rope
Below a hanging tree,
Like cruel secrets some of us turn out to be.
Should our love increase,
We are all released like statues from marble.
While in a prison yard,
They're taking turns to guard
A length of rope.
Are you too weak to fight?
Picking up a thread and then stretching it tight.
Look beneath the waves -
The seabirds diving down into black water.
Still our love increased,
We are all released like statues from marble.
Publishers: 0 2001 Air Chrysalis Scandinavia, Stockholm / Sideways
Songs,
Administered by BMG Music Publishing Ltd., London
Green Song
Fine rain was falling on the gravel and glades.
The last rays of September bejewelled broken blades.
But there's someone that I long for.
Oh, where have you been?
As the red earth lies under a covering of green.
Do you trip on the city's golden gutters and kerbs?
As the seasons grow wild and the ground undisturbed.
`Till you find what you are now
Is less than you've been;
As the red earth lies under a covering of green.
Is patience exhausted?
Are your pockets picked clean?
I was lost in the next world
Or somewhere in between.
And it's much as predicted,
They go down that same track.
They say they'll return
But they never come back.
Fine rain was falling on the gravel and glades.
The lest rays of September bejewelled broken blades.
Are you still restless'
Or are you serene?
As the red earth lies under just a covering of green.
Publisher: c 2001 Sideways Songs,
Administered by BMG Music Publishing Ltd., London
Shamed Into Love
I fear, my dear,
We've forgotten the things strangers do,
If we could look back
To the terrible thrill that we knew.
Am I imagining a world without you,
Must we be shamed into love?
What can I say,
WiII you pardon my stupid embrace?
Sometimes I'm desperate
While you're wiping the smile from your face
Am I surrendering, or am I replaced,
Must we be shamed into love?
Shamed into love, etc.
But then, my darling,
I've forbidden myself to confess.
I've looked around,
But I always return to your face.
In a world where everything I once cursed, I bless.
It must be you who shamed me into love.
Must we be shamed into love.
Publisher: c 1988 Sideways Songs,
Administered by Plangent Visions Music Ltd., London/RB Productions,
Inc.
Just A Curio
In the cold pale sunlight that was slanting down, I spied
Frost reflecting on the glass and in the air outside,
Fond relations mouthing words of love and tragedy.
Though it's cold there's vapour rising from a moving stream.
In a narrow, shallow bed of fine linen and starch,
Where her long hair tumbled once upon her graceful arch,
Lace hung on the counters and the walnut cabinets,
Teeth ware chattering like schoolgirls clicking castanets.
There will be no light to guide as you ascend the stairs.
There may be a candle as you kneel and say your prayers.
Throw the window wide and open, keep this mark from me,
Just the letter "T" and its most dread companion "B".
How in heaven? Hadn't it been conquered long ago?
How did it come back again? It's just a curio.
Publishers: c 2001 Air Chrysalis Scandinavia, Stockholm / Sideways
Songs,
Administered by BMG MUSIC Publishing Ltd., London
For The Stars
The stars were so much brighter then,
They dim and die,
So why pretend
The sky goes on forever:
But if they fade as science teaches,
Poets lose the power of speech.
Waste paper, ink and feather.
If I'd taken up the trumpet
As I should have done,
Then I wouldn't be
Always losing sleep,
While I'm trying to make this rhyme.
For the stars
Were so much,
They were so much brighter then.
If I couldn't put a price on your head,
What's the use of me trying
For the stars?
The morning comes, the days are
Just the time between
Until the dusk,
When we can be together,
If I'd taken up the drums
And I could play in time,
If I had the power,
Would I be wond'ring how,
I'm ever going to write this down.
For the stars
Were so much,
They were so much brighter then.
If I couldn't put a price on your head,
Then what's the use of me trying
For the stars?
Publisher: c 2001 Sideways Songs.
Administered by BMG Music Publishing Ltd., London
