The Bridge I Burned

Lyrics

I'm walking in Times Square in the Electric Daylight

The sailors on shore leave stand out in their perfect white

I'm up here with my spying glass at the window up above

For better or for worse - it's a perverse universe, my love

Now I know, I should have never walked over the bridge I burned

Now I know, somehow I don't feel so alone

"And remember to flee far away from the unbridled,

and the impudent, the malicious, and the unlucky.

For these being full of bad demons or rays are maleficent,

and like lepers and people stricken with plague,

they harm not only by touch but even by proximity and by sight." (Dig it!)

(Quote from Marsilio Ficino, Italian philosopher [1433-1499])

You mutter underneath your breath - IT ECHOES ROUND THE WORLD

Everybody comes from nowhere

There is hope, it loops up in the air

Now I know, I should have never walked over the bridge I burned

Now I know, somehow I don't feel so alone

You said I used to be handsome if you screwed up your eyes

Professors and vampires drank up all the tears I cried

Now there's a bird at my window, he feeds upon the pane

And sometimes he sings to me - a mocking bird in the twilight of infamy

Now I know, I should have never walked over the bridge I burned

Now I know, somehow I don't feel so alone

Now I know, I should have never walked over the bridge I burned

Now I know, they've burned one sinner and the others are selling firewood

Now I know

Now I know

Now I know

Credits

• Written by: Elvis Costello
• Produced by: D.P.A. MacManus and Matt MacManus (MacManus Pére et Fils)
• Musicians:

Elvis Costello - vocals, Hofner bass, keyboards, guitar

Matt MacManus - Fender bass, drum loop

Danny Goffey - drums

Ned Douglas - sample control

Discography

Albums:

• All This Useless Beauty (Deluxe Edition), Rhino, 2001
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Singles:

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Collections:

• Extreme Honey: The Very Best of Warner Brothers Years, 1997
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Alternate Versions:

• The Bridge I Burned (edit)
• The Bridge I Burned (Facino mix)
• The Bridge I Burned (Pop Lie mix)
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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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