Pills And Soap

Lyrics - Credits - Discography - Covers - Bootlegs - Chords

Lyrics They talked to the sister, the father and the mother With a microphone in one hand and a chequebook in the other And the camera noses in to the tears on her face The tears on her face The tears on her face You can put them back together with your paper and paste But you can't put them back together You can't put them back together Chorus: What would you say? What would you do? Children and animals two by two Give me the needle Give me the rope We're going to melt them down for pills and soap Four and twenty crowbars jemmy your desire Out of the frying pan, into the fire The king is in the counting house Some folk have all the luck And all we get is pictures of Lord and Lady Muck They come from lovely people with a hard line in hypocrisy There are ashtrays of emotion for the fag ends of the aristocracy (Chorus) Give me the needle Give me the rope The sugar-coated pill is getting bitterer still You think your country needs you, but you know it never will So pack up your troubles in a stolen handbag Don't dilly-dally boys, rally 'round the flag Give us our daily bread in individual slices And something in the daily rag to cancel any crisis (Chorus) Give me the needle, give me the rope We're going to melt them down for pills and soap

Credits Written by: Elvis Costello Produced by: Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley Musicians: Elvis Costello - vocals and guitar Steve Nieve - keyboards Bruce Thomas - bass Pete Thomas - drums This section is incomplete. Discography Albums: Punch The Clock, 1983 Punch The Clock (reissue), Rykodisc/Demon, 1994 Punch The Clock (Deluxe Edition), Rhino, 2003 This section may be incomplete. Singles: This section may be incomplete. Collections: Album Name, Year This section may be incomplete. Alternate Versions: Pills And Soap (live at Meltdown Festival, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London 1995-06-28) with The Brodsky Quartet The Juliet Letters (Deluxe Edition), Rhino, 2006 Soundtracks: none Various Artists collections: none Covers Recorded by: none This section may be incomplete. Performed by: none This section may be incomplete. Bootlegs This section is incomplete.

Chords

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Internal links

• Elvis Costello Home Page: Punch The Clock | lyrics | chords | PTC info page 1
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External links

• Elvis Costello on Rhino Punch The Clock reissue page The Juliet Letters reissue page