Crimes Of Paris Lyrics - Blood & Chocolate - Elvis Costello

I thought it was you and your optimist's view of the clock 

And how it's always another day 

Just after twelve o'clock's struck 

You said "now I only want you so I don't have to promise" 

But tiny children in grown-up clothes whispered all the crimes of paris 

Chorus: you're not the girl next-door or a girl from france 

Or the cigarette-girl in the sizzle hot-pants 

All the words of love seem cruel and crass 

When you're tough and transparent as armoured glass 

You're everywhere girl in an everyday mess 

Who'll pay for the crimes of paris 

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I heard that you fell for the "hell or to hammersmith blues" 

In the tiny torn up pieces of his mind he's irresistible too 

Now it's hard to say now if he's only stupid or smart 

When he crawled through the door 

And poured out more of his creeping-jesus heart 

Chorus 

And it's all here and now 

She hit him with that paper-weight eiffel tower 

And I tried to hold on to you but I don't know how 

And I find it hard to swallow good advice 

Like going down three times to only come up twice 

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She's so convenient, he's always stiff as hair-lacquer 

It's hard to discover now he's in love with her 

It was her way of getting her own back 

You never did anything she couldn't do on her own 

You're as good as your word and that's no good to her 

You'd better leave that kitten alone 

Chorus