Dear Sweet Filthy World Lyrics - Elvis Costello

Dear sweet filthy world, my wife or whoever reads this, 

I think that I've lived too long 

With all of my promise unfulfilled 

But there is a veil drawn over all of that 

I know you'll probably say, "Spare us the melodrama" 

"I don't know how he chose the pills or the stupid revolver" 

I'm out of luck 

I'm not that strong 

My hands, your neck 

I might have wrung 

Don't try to find me 

I'm not worth anything anymore 

I am not leaving you with all of your problems 

'Cause the biggest one is me 

Life is dark and cold as the sea 

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Embrace me in my anguish 

Put seaweed in my hair 

And vow that you won't cry because I've gone 

I can't go on, I can't go on, I can't go on 

I must close now 

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