Twenty-five To Twelve Lyrics - Elvis Costello

You say you don't desire me 

You only tire me 

Now you'll hire me 

Expensive care is meaningless 

Feeling nothing and caring less 

Cut off at the pass 

She knows where you're headed 

She wants double time 

Or a temporary wedding 

And the lucky girl leads a life of leisure 

With 45 years for seconds of pleasure 

The hands on the clock move so precisely 

And I only kiss but once or twice 

I can't help you now, 

I can't help myself 

'cause the time's running out 

And it's twenty-five to twelve 

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Crowds surround loudspeakers 

On the lampposts 

Listening to the murder mystery 

Meanwhile someone's in the classroom 

Busy forging books on history 

Wouldn't give that man my hand 

He'd steal my fingers 

So the sleuth ends up in stitches 

And your urges turn to itches 

And the lucky girl leads a life of leisure 

With 45 years for seconds of pleasure 

The hands on the clock move so precisely 

And I only kiss but once or twice 

I can't help you now, 

I can't help myself 

'cause the time's running out 

And it's twenty-five to twelve 

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I was committed to life 

And then commuted to the outskirts 

I was living with thirty minutes at a time 

With a break in the middle for adverts 

See the human furniture 

But it's only for show 

Now you can look all that you like 

But they only let you touch and go 

And the lucky girl leads a life of leisure 

With 45 years for seconds of pleasure 

The hands on the clock move so precisely 

And I only kiss but once or twice 

I can't help you now, 

I can't help myself 

'cause the time's running out 

And it's twenty-five to twelve