Dust 2... Lyrics - Elvis Costello

If dust could only talk 

What would we hear it say? 

Before it's brushed aside 

Just as it's swept away 

It's just the evidence 

It's of no consequence 

It's only flesh and bone 

Why don't you leave it alone? 

If dust could only speak 

Caught in a falling beam 

If dust could only cry 

If dust could only scream 

For it's the single witness that might testify 

Could I spit out the truth? 

Or would you rather just swallow a lie? 

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But dust is always caught behind a coat of paint 

Beneath the marble fingernails of kings and saints 

And in the theatre curtain where they hang a drape 

Or in the ticket pocket where your hands escape 

Before they start to wander 

Or they start to shrink 

You rub your eye a little and appear to blink 

And then she caught you staring 

She knows just what you're thinking 

What got into you was not a ghost as such 

It was just dust 

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Here comes the juggernaut 

Here come The Poisoners 

They choke the life and land 

And rob the joy from us 

Why do they taste of sugar 

Oh, when they're made of money 

Here comes the lamb of God 

And the butcher's boy, Sonny 

Well I believe we just 

Become a speck of dust...