Five Small Words - Elvis Costello

Maybe you’ll recognize in time

Maybe one day you will discover

All the pain that lies behind

You and your unfortunate love

Somebody might be more

Unsuitable and strange

With eyes that offer everything

That are capable of danger

My mind turns over lies you told

Things said to your other lover

As sweet as they had been to me You lay there telling them to each other

Now I stand outside the door

My head is filled phrases

Inside someone’s calling out

Their voices rise in praises

Five small words

Don’t you want me anymore?

Five small words

Well, who is keeping score?

Coward that you are

You would faithlessly implore

«Baby, please don’t leave me Why don’t you believe me?»

Why did you deceive me?

Didn’t take some shiny dagger

Tattooed fingers grip and hone

I walked under stone dark ladder

I heard your final loving moan

All your indiscretions are

So merciful and brief

Genteel poison sprinkled on Your Spanish handkerchief

Five small words

Don’t you want me anymore?

Five small words

Well, who is keeping score?

The coward that you are

You would faithlessly implore

«Baby, please don’t leave me Why don’t you believe me?»

Why did you deceive me?

Maybe in time you’ll want me more

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