Needle Time

Lyrics

I wish that I didn't hate you

Least not as much as I do

And squander all my contempt for

A little nothing like you

Liars like you are ten-a-penny

Women would slap you, if you knew any

Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime

I've got this suitcase of phony wisdom to dispense

These twenty-seven or so years

You'd think I would have made them some cents

Now they want me fingerprinted like I was smuggling drugs

While the government does deals with the most convenient thugs

Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime

It's Needle Time

I'm trying not to despise you with a passion that's hard to extinguish

Or maybe I really love you although it's hard to distinguish

I wish I could be more like a saint is

Forgiving those who trespass against us

Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime

I started talking nonsense, just like I did to begin with

Around the time I tired of those sour English

Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime

It's Needle Time

Credits

• Written by: Elvis Costello
• Produced by: Dennis Herring and Elvis Costello
• Musicians:

Elvis Costello - vocals, guitars and tambourine

Steve Nieve - piano, Vox Continental, organ and "kay" melodica

Davey Faragher - bass

Pete Thomas - drums and maracas

Discography

Albums:

• The Delivery Man, 2004
• The Delivery Man (Deluxe Edition), 2005

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Soundtracks:

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Various Artists collections:

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Covers

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Performed by:

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