Squeeze: Labelled With Love

She unscrews the top of a new whiskey bottle And shuffles about in her candle lit hovel, Like some kind of witch with blue fingers in mittens She smells like the cat and the neighbours she sickens, The black and white t.v. has long seen a picture The cross on the wall is a permanent fixture, The postman delivers the final reminders She sells off her silver and poodles in China. Chorus: Drinks to remember, I me and myself And winds up the clock And knocks dust from the shelf Home is a love that I miss very much So the past has been bottled and labelled with love. During the war time an American pilot Made every air raid a time of excitement, She moved to his prairie and married the Texan She learnt from a distance how love was a lesson, He became drinker and she became mother She knew that one day she'd be one or the other, He ate himself older, drunk himself dizzy Proud of her features, she kept herself pretty. (Chorus) He like a cowboy died drunk in his slumber Out on the porch in the middle of summer, She crossed the ocean back home to her family But they had retired to roads that were sandy, She moved home alone without friends or relations Lived in a world full of age reservation, On moth eaten armchairs she'd say that she'd sod all The friends who had left her to drink from the bottle. (Chorus) x 2 The past has been bottled and labelled with love. The past has been bottled and labelled with love.

Labelled With Love Written by Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook Performed by Squeeze Produced by Elvis Costello and Roger Bechirian Musicians Squeeze Released 1981 Albums East Side Story, 1981 Singles Labelled With Love, 1981 Collections Squeeze: Singles - 45's And Under (EU), 1982 Squeeze: Greatest Hits, 1994 Squeeze: Squeeze, 1997 Squeeze: Big Squeeze, 2002 Squeeze: Essential Squeeze, 2007 Various Artists collections Charthits 81 Volume 2, 1981 A Kick Up The Eighties Vol. 1, 1990 Totally 80s Vol. 3, 1994 A Kick Up The Eighties, 1997 Now That's What I Call Music 1981 - The Millennium Series, 1999 The Love Songs Album, 2000 A Kick Up The 80s, 2001 Music Of The Year: 1981, 2001 Friends Reunited: 42 Classroom Classics from the 80's, 2003 Friends Reunited: Music of the Year 1981, 2004 Easyacoustic, 2005 Music for Lovers, 2005 True Drivetime, 2006 True Eighties, 2006 Story Songs, 2008 100 Eighties Classics, 2008 Greatest Ever! Acoustic, 2008 Greatest Ever! Chillout, 2008 The Ultimate Collection 100 Hits: Eighties, 2008 The Ultimate Collection 100 Hits: Love, 2008 Top of the Pops 1981, 2008 Top of the Pops: Love, 2009 Length 4:35 Internal links Lyrics External links squeezefan.com  •  AllMusic  •  Wikipedia