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You won't take my love for tender
You can put your money where your mouth is
But you're so unsure
I could be a miser or a big spender
But you might get much more than you bargained for
Checking on a checkmate
Grassing on a classmate
So beautiful and fortunate
You're the one who hates to love
But he's the one who loves to hate
He can fix you all for good
Because he is the neighbourhood
You can get money for blood
Blood money for doing no good
Better tell me now, have you made your selection?
Are you ready for correction?
'Cause the wages of sin are an expensive infection
It'll make you bankrupt
Better pay up now, don't interrupt
So in love, I'm so sincere
Just like a well-known financier
You know I've never been corrupt
I'll pay you a compliment
And you'll think I am innocent
You can total up the balance sheet
And never know if I'm a counterfeit
You won't take my love for tender...
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Love For Tender |
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Written by | Elvis Costello |
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Performed by | Elvis Costello & The Attractions |
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Produced by | Nick Lowe |
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Musicians | Elvis Costello - vocals, guitar Steve Nieve - keyboards Bruce Thomas - bass Pete Thomas - drums |
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Recorded | October 1979, Wisseloord Studios, Hilversum, Netherlands and/or Eden Studios, London |
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Released | February 1980 |
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Albums | Get Happy!!, 1980 |
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Singles | High Fidelity, 1980 (France) |
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Promos | Get Happy!! (Promo Album), 1980 Eleven Years And Counting: Spring '94 Collection, 1994 Punch The Clock, Trust & Get Happy!! Sampler, 2003 |
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Videos | The Right Spectacle: The Very Best Of Elvis Costello - The Videos, 2005 |
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Length | 1:57 |
“‘Love For Tender’ (itself a re-working of the Armed Forces outtake ‘Clean Money’) made use of the same ‘You Can't Hurry Love’ riff that The Jam would take to the top of the UK charts three years later with the vastly superior song, ‘Town Called Malice’.” — Get Happy!! (Rhino/Edsel reissue) liner notes, 2003.
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Would-Be Train Robbers
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performed live, Costello Tribute, 2017-03-16, Harlow's Sacramento, CA
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2017
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