Five Small Words Lyrics - National Ransom - Elvis Costello

Maybe you'll recognize in time 

Maybe one day you will discover 

All the pain that lies behind 

You and your unfortunate love 

Somebody might be more 

Unsuitable and strange 

With eyes that offer everything 

That are capable of danger 

My mind turns over lies you told 

Things said to your other lover 

As sweet as they had been to me 

You lay there telling them to each other 

Now I stand outside the door 

My head is filled phrases 

Inside someone's calling out 

Their voices rise in praises 

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Five small words 

Don't you want me anymore? 

Five small words 

Well, who is keeping score? 

Coward that you are 

You would faithlessly implore 

"Baby, please don't leave me 

Why don't you believe me?" 

Why did you deceive me? 

Didn't take some shiny dagger 

Tattooed fingers grip and hone 

I walked under stone dark ladder 

I heard your final loving moan 

All your indiscretions are 

So merciful and brief 

Genteel poison sprinkled on 

Your Spanish handkerchief 

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Five small words 

Don't you want me anymore? 

Five small words 

Well, who is keeping score? 

The coward that you are 

You would faithlessly implore 

"Baby, please don't leave me 

Why don't you believe me?" 

Why did you deceive me? 

Maybe in time you'll want me more 

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