Suit Of Lights Lyrics - King Of America - Elvis Costello

While Nat King Cole sings "Welcome To My World" 

You request some song you hate you sentimental fool 

And it's the force of habit 

If it moves then you fuck it 

If it doesn't move you stab it 

And I thought I heard "The Working Man's Blues" 

He went out to work that night and wasted his breath 

Outside there was a public execution 

Inside he died a thousand deaths 

And they pulled him out of the cold cold ground 

And they pulled him out of the cold cold ground 

And they pulled him out of the cold cold ground 

And they put him in a suit of lights 

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In the perforated first editions 

Where they advocate the hangman's noose 

Then tell the sorry tale of the spent Princess 

Her uncouth escort looking down her dress 

Anyway they say that she wears the trousers 

And learnt everything that she does 

And doesn't know if she should tell him yes 

Or let him go 

And they pulled him out of the cold cold ground 

And they pulled him out of the cold cold ground 

And they pulled him out of the cold cold ground 

And they put him in a suit of lights 

Well it's a dog's life in a rope leash or a diamond collar 

It's enough to make you think right now 

But you don't bother 

For goodness sake as you cry and shake 

Let's keep you face down in the dirt where you belong 

And think of all the pleasure that it brings 

Though you know that it's wrong 

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And there's still life in your body 

But most of it's leaving 

Can't you give us all a break 

Can't you stop breathing 

And I thought I heard "The Working Man's Blues" 

I went to work that night and wasted my breath 

Outside they're painting tar on somebody 

It's the closest to a work of art that they will ever be 

And they pulled him out of the cold cold ground 

And they pulled him out of the cold cold ground 

And they pulled him out of the cold cold ground 

And they put him in a suit of lights 

And they put him in a suit of lights