Pony St. Lyrics - Elvis Costello

She lives on Pony St. and they should scatter flowers at her feet 

But when they come calling, I think it? s appalling 

They? re sober and they? re polite 

They? re deeply respectful when I would expect them 

To keep her out all night 

That little martinet will get her own way 

Yet, if you need instruction in mindless destruction 

I? ll show you a thing or two 

You used to adore me but now my life flashes before me for you to view 

Oh mother, oh mother, sometimes you are so mortifying 

From the hole in your leopard skin tights, I can tell, you? ve been spying 

But your generation confesses before it transgresses 

Those 'Super-8' movies of daddy in your disco dresses 

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If you? re going out tonight, I won? t wait up 

Reading 'Das Kapital', watching 'Home shopping club' 

While you? re flogging a dead horse, all the way down Pony St. 

Where you live after a fashion, all the way down Pony St. 

The life and the soul of every indiscretion 

That lives on, that lives on, that lives on 

Pony St. 

Daughter, oh daughter, you know I will love you forever 

But spare me the white ankle socks with the lace and the leather 

For you and your cartoon threat, do no good to resist me 

For I am the genuine thing, but for you, it? s just history 

If you? re going out tonight, how can you be sure 

Where you lay your pretty head, mother may have been before 

So you? re flogging a dead horse, all the way down Pony St. 

Where you live after a fashion, all the way down Pony St. 

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The life and the soul of every indiscretion 

That lives on, that lives on 

That lives on, that lives on 

That lives on 

She lives on Pony St. 

She lives on Pony St. 

She lives on, she lives on 

She lives on, she lives on