New Amsterdam Lyrics - Get Happy!! - Elvis Costello

You're sending me tulips mistaken for lilies 

You give me your lip after punching me silly 

You turned my head till it rolled down the brain drain 

If I had any sense now I wouldn't want it back again 

New Amsterdam it's become much too much 

Till I have the possession of everything she touches 

Till I step on the brakes to get out of her clutches 

Till I speak double dutch to a real double duchess 

Down on the mainspring, listen to the tick tock 

Clock all the faces that move in on your block 

Twice shy and dog tired because you've been bitten 

Everything you say now sounds like it was ghost-written 

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New Amsterdam it's become much too much 

Till I have the possession of everything she touches 

Till I step on the brakes to get out of her clutches 

Till I speak double dutch to a real double duchess 

Back in London they'll take you to heart 

After a little while 

Though I look right at home 

I still feel like an exile 

Somehow I found myself down at the dockside 

Thinkin' of the old days of Liverpool and Rotherhithe 

The transparent people who live on the other side 

Living a life that is almost like suicide 

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New Amsterdam it's become much too much 

Till I have the possession of everything she touches 

Till I step on the brakes to get out of her clutches 

Till I speak double dutch to a real double duchess