Green Shirt

Lyrics

There's a smart young woman on a light blue screen

Who comes into my house every night

And she takes all the red, yellow, orange and green

And she turns them into black and white

But you tease, and you flirt

And you shine all the buttons on your green shirt

You can please yourself but somebody's gonna get it

Better cut off all identifying labels

Before they put you on the torture table

'Cause somewhere in the "Quisling Clinic"

There's a shorthand typist taking seconds over minutes

She's listening in to the Venus line

She's picking out names

I hope none of them are mine

But you tease, and you flirt

And you shine all the buttons on your green shirt

You can please yourself but somebody's gonna get it

Never said I was a stool pigeon

I never said I was a diplomat

Everybody is under suspicion

But you don't wanna hear about that

'Cause you tease, and you flirt

And you shine all the buttons on your green shirt

You can please yourself but somebody's gonna get it

Better send a begging letter to the big investigation

Who put these fingerprints on my imagination?

You tease, and you flirt

And you shine all the buttons on your green shirt

You can please yourself but somebody's gonna get it

You can please yourself but somebody's gonna get it

You can please yourself but somebody's gonna get it

Additional Lyrics

Additional Verse from Greenshirt (demo):
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Credits

• Written by: Elvis Costello
• Produced by: Nick Lowe
• Musicians:

Elvis Costello - vocals, guitar

Steve Nieve - keyboards

Bruce Thomas - bass

Pete Thomas - drums

Discography

Albums:

• Armed Forces, 1979
• Armed Forces (reissue), Rykodisc/Demon, 1993
• Armed Forces (Deluxe Edition), Rhino, 2002

Singles:

• Green Shirt, 1985

Collections:

• 2½ Years, 1993
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Alternate Versions:

• Green Shirt (Extended Remix)

Green Shirt, 1985 (12" single)

• Greenshirt (demo)

This Year's Model (reissue), Rykodisc/Demon, 1993

This Year's Model (Deluxe Edition), Rhino, 2002

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Soundtracks:

• none

Various Artists collections:

• none

Covers

Recorded by:

• none
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Performed by:

• none
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Bootlegs

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