| Song | The Other Side Of Summer |
| Artist | Elvis Costello |
| Album | The Very Best of Elvis Costello |
| 作词 : MacManus | |
| The sun struggles up another beautiful day | |
| And I felt glad in my own suspicious way | |
| Despite the contradiction and confusion | |
| Felt tragic without reason | |
| There's malice and there's magic in every season | |
| [Chorus:] | |
| From the foaming breakers of the poisonous surf | |
| The other side of Summer | |
| To the burning forests in the hills of Astroturf | |
| The other side of Summer | |
| The automatic gates close up between the shanties and the palace | |
| The blowtorch amusements, the voodoo chalice | |
| The pale pathetic promises that everybody swallows | |
| A teenage girl is crying 'cos she don't look like a million dollars | |
| So help her if you can | |
| 'Cos she don't seem to have the attention span | |
| [Chorus] | |
| Was it a millionaire who said "imagine no possessions"? | |
| A poor little schoolboy who said "we don't need no lessons"? | |
| The rabid rebel dogs ransack the shampoo shop | |
| The pop princess is downtown shooting up | |
| And if that goddess if fit for burning | |
| The sun will struggle up the world will still keep turning | |
| Madman standing by the side of the road saying | |
| "Look at my eyes, look at my eyes, look at my eyes, look at my eyes" | |
| Now you can't afford to fake all the drugs your parents used to take | |
| Because of their mistakes you'd better be wide awake | |
| [Chorus] | |
| The mightiest rose | |
| The absence of perfume | |
| The casual killers | |
| The military curfew | |
| The cardboard city | |
| An unwanted birthday | |
| The other side of summer | |
| The dancing was desperate, the music was worse | |
| They bury your dreams and dig up the worthless | |
| Goodnight | |
| God bless | |
| And kiss "goodbye" to the earth | |
| The other side of summer |
| zuò cí : MacManus | |
| The sun struggles up another beautiful day | |
| And I felt glad in my own suspicious way | |
| Despite the contradiction and confusion | |
| Felt tragic without reason | |
| There' s malice and there' s magic in every season | |
| Chorus: | |
| From the foaming breakers of the poisonous surf | |
| The other side of Summer | |
| To the burning forests in the hills of Astroturf | |
| The other side of Summer | |
| The automatic gates close up between the shanties and the palace | |
| The blowtorch amusements, the voodoo chalice | |
| The pale pathetic promises that everybody swallows | |
| A teenage girl is crying ' cos she don' t look like a million dollars | |
| So help her if you can | |
| ' Cos she don' t seem to have the attention span | |
| Chorus | |
| Was it a millionaire who said " imagine no possessions"? | |
| A poor little schoolboy who said " we don' t need no lessons"? | |
| The rabid rebel dogs ransack the shampoo shop | |
| The pop princess is downtown shooting up | |
| And if that goddess if fit for burning | |
| The sun will struggle up the world will still keep turning | |
| Madman standing by the side of the road saying | |
| " Look at my eyes, look at my eyes, look at my eyes, look at my eyes" | |
| Now you can' t afford to fake all the drugs your parents used to take | |
| Because of their mistakes you' d better be wide awake | |
| Chorus | |
| The mightiest rose | |
| The absence of perfume | |
| The casual killers | |
| The military curfew | |
| The cardboard city | |
| An unwanted birthday | |
| The other side of summer | |
| The dancing was desperate, the music was worse | |
| They bury your dreams and dig up the worthless | |
| Goodnight | |
| God bless | |
| And kiss " goodbye" to the earth | |
| The other side of summer |