Needle Time Lyrics - Delivery Man - Elvis Costello

One, two, three, four 

I wish that I didn't hate you 

Least not as much as I do 

And squander all my contempt for 

A little nothing like you 

Liars like you are ten a penny 

Women would slap you if you knew any 

Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime 

I've got this suitcase of phony wisdom to dispense 

These twenty-seven or so years 

How you'd think 

I would have made them some cents 

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Now they want me fingerprinted 

Like I was smuggling drugs 

While the government does deals 

With the most convenient thugs 

Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime 

It's needle time, it's needle time 

It's needle time, it's needle time 

I'm trying not to despise you 

With a passion that's hard to extinguish 

Or maybe I really love you 

Although it's hard to distinguish 

I wish I could be like a saint is 

Forgiving those who trespass against us 

Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime 

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I started talking nonsense just like I did to begin with 

Around the time I tired of those sour English 

Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime 

It's needle time, it's needle time 

It's needle time, it's needle time