Music World
 
Find Artists:
 
 
 
Russian versionSwitch to Russian 
Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello


Background information
Birth name Declan Patrick MacManus
Born August 25, 1954
Born place Paddington, London, England
Genre(s) Pub Rock
New Wave
Years active 1970—present
Label(s) Island Records
Columbia Records
Mercury Records
Lost Highway Records
Verve Records
Deutsche Grammophon
Hip-O Records
Stiff Records
Associated acts Diana Krall
Burt Bacharach
Brodsky Quartet
Website Website



Music World  →  Lyrics  →  E  →  Elvis Costello  →  Lyrics  →  The Invisible Man

Elvis Costello Lyrics

"The Invisible Man" lyrics


i was commited to life and then commuted to the outskirts
With all the love in the world
Living for thirty minutes at a time with a break in the middle for adverts
But it's a wonderful world within these cinema walls
where a shower of affection becomes niagra falls
And you wish she could step down from the
screen to your seat in the stalls
but if stars are only painted on the ciling above
Then who can you turn to and who do you love
I want to get out while I still can
I want to be like Harry Houdini
Now I'm the invisible man

My head is spinning round faster and faster
Here I stand on the edge of disaster
I'm shattered like a piece of crystal porcelain or alabaster
Crowds surround loudspeakers hanging from the lampposts
Listening to the murder mystery
Meanwhile someone's hiding in the classroom
Forging books of history
never mind there's a good film showing tonight
where they hang everyone everybody who can read and write
oh that could never happen here but then again it might

blog comments powered by Disqus




© 2011 Music World. All rights reserved.