Starting To Come To Me Lyrics - Elvis Costello

It's started to come to me 

Your new career would probably end like this 

All that professional lipstick pressed into an amateur kiss 

Farewell to the studied lines and carefully broken hearts 

The overpowering perfume and the glimpse of her garter 

Mingling with the sweet smoldering scent of the martyr 

Well, it's starting to come to me 

(Come to me, come to me) 

Starting to come to me 

So you began to recognize the well-dressed man 

That everybody loves 

It started when you chopped off all the fingers 

Of those pony skin gloves 

Then you cut a hole out where the love light used to shine 

Your tears of pleasure equal measure crocodile and brine 

You try to laugh it off saying, "I knew all the time" 

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But it's starting to come to me 

(Come to me, come to me) 

Starting to come to me 

Sometimes you bring me down to play reluctant confidant 

You say you may reward him if he gives you what you want 

But these are days to treasure and to hold 

They are much too precious to be sold 

You'd probably play the pirate 

If you weren't so busy digging up the gold 

Now you could tell him, wanted you 'cause 

You could almost taste it on his breath 

But you always cheated life 

Just like the bold dare-devil cheated death 

Incidentally late last night your understudy 

Finally got what you deserve 

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In private she's seductive but in public 

She's prim, porcelain and nervous 

Afraid someone will recognize the shame in her eyes 

You've still got your dignity or the next best disguise 

You never know when to say no and when to compromise 

But it's starting to come to me 

(Come to me, come to me) 

Starting to come to me 

(Come to me, come to me) 

Starting to come to me