The Delivery Man Lyrics - Delivery Man - Elvis Costello

"Abel was able," so Vivian said 

Her shoulders flung forward, her lips in a purse 

She talks like the beauty that she never was 

Of the fabulous wild nights that she never has 

In a certain light he looked like Elvis 

In a certain way he feels like Jesus 

Everyone dreams of him just as they can 

But he's only the humble delivery man 

Geraldine blushes and brushes away 

The cigarette ashes that Vivian scatters 

Stares out of the window at the things that she says 

While the gossip within her competes with the widow 

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Ever since he's gone, she feels like crying all the time 

She knows for sure Vivian is lying 

Now she has a daughter to raise as she can 

But she just wouldn't trust that delivery man 

Ivy puts down the ghost story she's reading 

Looks up at that face on the wall 

Thinking about how her father lay bleeding 

Shot in the back 'cause orders were misleading 

How a flag and a medal don't have any meaning 

On the 5th of July as they tore down the fair 

And he'd seen all the local girls who were worth kissing 

With the smell of the gunpowder still in the air 

They noticed that Abel and Ivy were missing 

In a certain light he looked like Elvis 

In a certain way he seemed like Jesus 

He said "Why can't you be kind to me like you were meant to be?" 

When they let me out I had a brand new identity 

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Now everyone dreams of me just as they can 

I want to be your delivery man 

In a certain light he looked like Elvis 

In a certain way he seemed like Jesus 

In a certain light he looked like Elvis 

In a certain way he seemed like Jesus 

In a certain light he looked like Elvis 

In a certain way he felt like Jesus