A Voice In The Dark Lyrics - National Ransom - Elvis Costello

You can read right through a book of matches 

But that won't make you smart 

You can laugh in the face of watches 

But time will only break your heart 

Kings reign beneath umbrellas 

Hide pennies down in cellars 

And money pours down and yet 

No everyone gets soaking wet 

When bores and bullies conspire 

To stamp out your spark 

Listen for... 

A Voice In The Dark 

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Not a moment too soon as we blue the moon 

And a wolf begins to howl in tune 

I announced for all mankind 

A boon 

Stand aside you big baboon 

Now I'm the a prize invention 

You're the image of yourself 

Forget your cares 

And disapproving stares 

I'm not here to try to jump your borders 

Just ask your nieces and daughters 

I'm flat as sole, I'm happy as a clam 

But they don't know the kind of man I am 

Little fish swimming in a jealous shoal 

Now my net is overflowing 

And I suddenly seem to be all seeing and all knowing 

I've got something right there 

Photos 

They you need to hear 

But have no fear 

Lend a hand 

Lend an ear 

If your rent-money is in arrears 

We'll be striking up a symphony bandstand 

Long of hair and loose of tooth 

There'll be pirouettes and startling handstands 

And who but acrobats know how to tell the truth 

When is said that then redundant 

They gallivant in peg-leg pants 

I'll be your servant 

You'll be my pal 

I'll be ever faithful you know I shall 

There's no fool like an old fool 

Who blames it all upon his youth 

When times are tough and you find you're down 

Without a star to wish upon 

Just listen for... 

A Voice In The Dark 

I was striking through a box of matches 

Hoping that one would spark 

I heard somebody calling to me 

A voice in the dark 

A sound both wild and gentle 

Daring and confidential 

I thought there was music playing 

But it was all and only talk 

When liars and bullies conspire to stamp out spark 

Fill up that empty space in your heart 

Listen up, when the herald says, "Hark" 

Believe in just a voice in the dark...