There's A Story In Your Voice Lyrics - Delivery Man - Elvis Costello

Once upon another time, if you had the need 

I'd step right in the shoes that you've been walkin' 

'Cos someone put the hurt in you, for every one to see 

And you only have to speak to tell your fortune 

'Cos there's a story in your voice 

Both by damage and by choice 

It tells of promises and pleasure 

And a tale of wine and woe 

The uneasy time to come 

And the long way 'round we go to get there 

Once you told me fairy tales, everybody knows 

But I didn't care for their prediction 

Now you say you're leavin' me and packin' up your clothes 

I finally see you were a work of fiction 

There's a story in your walk 

Then you crumble just like chalk 

I could say that I was sorry 

But I wouldn't mean it much 

There are pages I can't touch 

And something that's been torn out of this chapter 

Far away, not far enough 'cos I can still recall 

How it felt when I read that last sentence 

Now I go inside some rooms with Gideon in them all 

And hide myself from all hope of repentance 

There's a story in your eyes 

Cheap sunglasses might disguise 

But when the bedroom light reveals 

All that bravado and that fright 

That you cover up in spite 

Attempts to strip away this fabrication 

There's a story in your voice 

Both by damage and by choice 

It tells of promises and pleasure 

And a tale of wine and woe 

The uneasy time to come 

And the long way 'round we go to get there 

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