Unwanted Number

Lyrics

You should hear the things that they say about me

They're saying "She's no better than she needed to be"

They don't know that he was kind and strong and tender

And now I'll never be another Unwanted Number

Unwanted Number

How can I tell them?

How can I express?

How it felt to step out of this life and into his embrace

How can I tell them?

How can I explain?

All the love that I never had I found in him

There may be a stain on the family name

And if my father was here I think I know who he'd blame

Mama says that he just doesn't care to remember

And all he thinks of me is another Unwanted Number

Unwanted Number

How can I tell her?

How can I express?

How it felt when he came to my room

And helped me to undress

What can she tell me?

How can I believe

That she really didn't hear me cry

When he wouldn't leave?

There's a local game where they whisper my shame

They say "He gave her his child

He wouldn't give her his name"

They will torture me from January till September

And soon there's going to be another Unwanted Number

Unwanted Number

Unwanted Number

And I will give my love to another Unwanted Number

Unwanted Number

Unwanted Number

Soon there's going to be, soon there's going to be

Another, another, another Unwanted Number

Unwanted Number

Soon there's going to be, soon there's going to be

Another, another, another Unwanted Number

Unwanted Number

Unwanted Number

Unwanted Number

Soon there's going to be, soon there's going to be

Another, another, another Unwanted Number

Credits

• Written by: Elvis Costello

Discography

• unreleased by Elvis Costello

Covers

Recorded by:

• For Real, on Grace Of My Heart Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, 1996
  

also available on Songs Of Elvis Costello: Bespoke Songs, Lost Dogs, Detours & Rendezvous, 1998

Bootlegs

• none
• This section may be incomplete.