[00:02.40]Artist：belle and sebastian
[00:03.59]Songs Title：a century of elvis
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[00:17.31]We were sitting in the living room on the sofa, the wrong way round, looking out the window.
[00:21.44]It was quiet, and then in the car park across the road we saw Elvis - look, there beside the postman's van,
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[00:29.32]and he was walking round the postman's van, looking in the open door.
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[00:34.53]He looked as if he was thinking about getting in, but then the postman came back, and he swaggered off,
[00:38.97]
[00:40.40]walked past the window and down the stairs, and then at the bottom of the stairs right by the caretaker's office,
[00:45.91]he started licking the pavement.
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[00:49.52]Every night now since we moved in that new house there's this noise outside the door at just about half seven or eight o' clock every night.
[00:58.65]And if we go and look outside the door, Elvis'll be standing there waiting to be let in.
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[01:06.10]And then he wanders into the living room, maybe sits down on one of the chairs or even lies down on the floor.
[01:10.92]
[01:11.98]He doesn't say much, he just stays there for an hour or two, watching the TV.
[01:16.05]
[01:16.98]We talk to him a bit, and then around ten o' clock, he'll go away again, and not come back until the next night.
[01:23.62]
[01:30.18]There's a lot of lanes and stuff around here, around the house - although it's right in the middle of the city
[01:35.50]it seems quite like the country, it's dead hidden - safe I suppose, made for night living.
[01:40.56]
[01:42.25]There's a lot of squirrels and birds, and Stuart says he's seen about nine foxes there
[01:49.06]
[01:50.25]when he's jumped over the fence on his way to Prior's Road.
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[01:54.75]Sometimes you can go out walking, and when you've been out for a wee while even you don't know where you are anymore,
[01:59.44]so it would be pretty hard for anyone else to find you.
[02:02.63]
[02:03.58]I suppose that's why he spends so much time there, that's why he's come to live there, or maybe it's just the squirrels.
[02:10.27]I read about somewhere that he likes squirrels quite a lot.
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[02:16.85]There's these two videos that we got for wedding presents - called the e-files
[02:20.66]e-files one and e-files two about how Elvis is supposed to be still alive.
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[02:27.24]And one time when he came round we were watching one of those, but he didn't say anything he just sat on the armchair.
[02:32.07]He was playing with his collar a bit, and we watched it right through and then when it finished
[02:36.82]he just got up and walked off into the mist and didn't say anything.
[02:40.01]
[02:43.14]The first few times he came round I didn't speak to him at all, I wasn't really sure what to say.
[02:49.51]
[02:50.20]And Karen spoke to him quite a lot - she seemed to know what to do more than I do.
[02:54.45]He had quite a strange manner though, he'd go into your stuff and look through it,
[02:58.70]
[02:59.45]then he'd maybe pick something up and play with it for a wee while, but he'd never make any comment about any of it.
[03:04.92]Seemed pretty rude to me.
[03:06.42]
[03:07.16]I just watched whatever Karen did, and listened to how she talked to him and then,
[03:11.41]after a while I started to copy that, and tell him a few things,
[03:15.23]
[03:16.35]not really bothered about whether he responded or said anything back or not.
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[03:22.29]I think the first time I spoke to him we were sitting up on the mezzanine and I said that I would tell him about me and wee Karen,
[03:28.67]and how it was that we'd come to be living there.
[03:31.87]I thought he probably liked the fact that we were living there because he came round so much,
[03:35.77]so I thought he might want to know how it was that it came about.
[03:38.43]
[03:40.25]We did it all over backwards, I told him.
[03:42.18]
[03:42.75]First of all we got to know each other, and then a while after that we met,
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[03:47.50]and when we'd known each other for about seven years we decided to have an anniversary,
[03:50.64]
[03:52.33]and that went quite well, so after the anniversary we had a honeymoon, and that went well too,
[03:57.83]
[03:59.10]so after that we decided that we would get married.
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[04:02.29]That's why we're living there now. I used to think my dad was Elvis, but I haven't told him that yet.
[04:12.79]I haven't told my dad either...