Green Shirt Lyrics - Elvis Costello

There's a smart young woman on a light blue screen 

Who comes into my house every night 

She takes all the red, yellow, orange and green 

And she turns them into black and white 

But you tease and you flirt 

And you shine all the buttons on your green shirt 

You can please yourself but somebody's gonna get it 

Better cut off all identifying labels 

Before they put you on the torture table 

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'Cause somewhere in the 'Quisling Clinic' 

There's a shorthand typist taking seconds over minutes 

She's listening in to the Venus line 

She's picking out names, I hope none of them are mine 

But you tease and you flirt 

And you shine all the buttons on your green shirt 

You can please yourself but somebody's gonna get it 

Never said, I was a stool pigeon 

I never said, I was a diplomat 

Everybody is under suspicion 

But you don't wanna hear about that 

'Cause you tease and you flirt 

And you shine all the buttons on your green shirt 

You can please yourself but somebody's gonna get it 

Better send a begging letter to the big investigation 

Who put these fingerprints on my imagination? 

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You tease and you flirt 

And you shine all the buttons on your green shirt 

You can please yourself but somebody's gonna get it 

You can please yourself but somebody's gonna get it 

You can please yourself but somebody's gonna get it