Look Up Again

3am Then as you look up again Hands that keep score Circle the wall And it's 2:04 Look up again And the glass fills right up the brim Amid the din of midnight Revels begin It's light out Unaware As you're descending the stairs Who in that room Whispers the rumours of wild affairs Look up again As the car that you ride won't arrive May won't regret December You can't forget There's nothing to remember Oh please Look up again Now and not then Look up again As the pen drinks the ink from the page Those farewell lines will vanish Who were they meant to punish? Oh please Look up again I can't go on pretending Times at an end Or is it never ending? Oh please Look up again Now and not when Look up again

Look Up Again Written by Burt Bacharach & Elvis Costello Performed by Elvis Costello Produced by Burt Bacharach & Elvis Costello Arranged by Vince Mendoza Musicians Elvis Costello - vocals Jim Cox - piano, keys Paul Jackson Jr. - guitar Will Lee - bass Peter Erskine - drums Bruce Dukov, Joel Derouin, Eun-Mee Ahn, Charlie Bisharat, Mark Cargill, Daphne Chen, David Ewart, Pam Gates, Tamara Hatwan, Songa Lee, Natalie Leggett, Phil Levy, Maya Magub, Stephanie Matthews, Helen Nightengale, Alyssa Park, Carol Pool, Irina Voloshina - violins Andrew Duckles, Zach Dellinger, Leah Katz, Luke Mauer, David Walther, Rodney Wirtz - violas Steve Erdody, Jacob Braun, Vanessa Freebairn-Smith, Dennis Karmazyn, Timothy Loo - cellos Lara Wickes - oboe Mike Valerio, Trey Henry - basses Steve Becknell, Laura Brenes - horns Recorded September 2021, Capitol Studios, Los Angeles April 2022, Power Station, BerkleeNYC (additional vocals) Released March 3, 2023 Albums The Songs Of Bacharach & Costello, 2023 Length 5:17 Only known performance:  February 19, 2023, New York, NY      (3 known performance) Herb Alpert version Performed by Herb Alpert Produced by Herb Alpert & Bill Cantos Released September 30, 2016 Albums Herb Alpert: Human Nature, 2016 Length 4:04 Note The first released recording is this instrumental version.

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