Dissolve

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Sugar cube drop into a yellow cup
What makes the world just waking up
Revolve?
Dissolve
Who knows where on earth it's going to stop?
I can't hear you 'cos we're breaking up
Dissolve
Dissolve

And the stones in the track make work for the mechanic
The birds all fly from the branches in a panic
And a back-fire echoes down the hillside
As the last headline report dies
Dissolve
Dissolve

Ice is melting a the distant Pole
The gin and tonic glasses overflow
Dissolve
The precious little else that I could say
Your stupid tears of laughter washed away
Dissolve
Dissolve

While the poisonous light pours from the picture palace
And it flickers on, tries so hard to be scandalous
A child keeps beating on a toy drum
And the tablets dropped on your tongue
Dissolve
Dissolve
Dissolve
Dissolve

"So salute me in a moving frame"
"I might not be there when you look again"
The mourning border guard behind the clock
The hour that he passed, unwound and stopped
Dissolve

Dissolve
Written byElvis Costello
Performed byElvis Costello (& The Imposters)
Produced byThe Imposter: Elvis Costello, Ciaran Cahill, Leo Pearson & Kieran Lynch
MusiciansElvis Costello - vocals, Silvertone guitar, Hofner fuzz bass, harmonica
Davey Faragher - Fender Precision bass
Pete Thomas - drums
Steve Nieve - melodica
Recorded2001, Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin
ReleasedApril 15, 2002
AlbumsWhen I Was Cruel, 2002
Length2:23

First known performance:
May 30, 2002, Los Angeles, CA
Last known performance:
May 16, 2007, New York, NY
     (15 known performances)


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Erich Sellheim home studio production, sung in German 2021 YouTube

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