You Tripped At Every Step Lyrics - Elvis Costello

Take your tiny feet out of your mother's shoes 

Or there is going to be a terrible scene 

It's not just the lipstick drawn on crooked 

When they find how wicked we are 

How wicked we have been, how I've been tempted 

How you tripped at every step 

You tripped at every step 

You tripped at every step, oh 

How you tripped at every step 

There's a merry tune that starts in I 

And ends in you, like many famous pop songs do 

And you would sing along with little tell tale staggers 

While balancing on daggers 

Though they were killing you, you looked so deadly 

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As you tripped at every step 

You tripped at every step 

You tripped at every step, oh 

As you tripped at every step 

And I would run to catch you anytime you call 

Only you drank that potion and went out of control 

There's nothing to stop you, so how can you fall? 

Let me take your hand, put down that frying pan 

Darkness would become me underneath the table 

As the fury raged around the house 

Your despairing tread was angry and unstable 

You never suspected 

Just as that cartoon mouse went undetected 

So you tripped at every step 

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In another world of gin and cigarettes 

Those cocktail cabinets put mud in your eye 

Maybe that is why you find it hard to see me 

And if you don't believe me 

Before you start to cry, "Don't ever leave me" 

As you start to lose your grip 

(Once you start losing your grip) 

You will stumble as you slip 

(And you will stumble and slip) 

As you tripped at every step 

You tripped at every step 

You tripped at every step, oh 

As you tripped at every step 

You tripped at every step 

You tripped at every step, oh 

As you tripped at every 

(As you tripped at every) 

As you tripped at every 

(As you tripped at every) 

You tripped at every step 

You tripped at every step, oh 

As you tripped at every 

As you tripped at every step, woo