All This Useless Beauty

All This Useless Beauty Lyrics

Song All This Useless Beauty
Artist Elvis Costello
Album Extreme Honey: The Very Best Of The Warner Brothers Years
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[00:25.22] (player saying)
[01:05.23] Its at times such as this shed be tempted to spit
[01:10.51] If she wasnt so ladylike
[01:15.63] She imagines how she might have lived
[01:19.80] back when legends and history collide
[01:26.78] So she looks to her prince finding hes so charmingly
[01:32.84] slumped at her side
[01:37.98] Those days are recalled on the gallery wall
[01:43.53] And shes waiting for passion or humour to strike
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[05:20.56][04:59.46][01:52.54] What shall we do, what shall we do with all this useless beauty?
[05:31.87][05:10.83][02:00.62] All this useless beauty
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[02:19.11] Good Friday arrived, the sky darkened on time
[02:24.79] Til he almost began to negotiate
[02:31.08] She held his head like a baby and said "Its okay if you cry"
[02:42.11] Now he wants her to dress as if you couldnt guess
[02:47.53] He desires to impress his associates
[02:53.42] But hes part ugly beast and Hellenic deceased
[02:59.35] So she finds that the mixture is hard to deny
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[03:06.51] (player saying)
[03:07.27]
[03:37.57] She wont practice the looks from the great tragic books
[03:43.61] That were later disgraced to face celluloid
[03:49.37] It wont even make sense but you can bet
[03:55.21] If she isnt a sweetheart or plaything or pet
[04:00.91] The film turns her into an unveiled threat
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[04:10.30] Nonsense prevails, modesty fails
[04:15.39] Grace and virtue turn into stupidity
[04:21.58] While the calendar fades almost all barricades to a pale compromise
[04:33.02] And our leaders have feasts on the backsides of beasts
[04:38.09] They still think theyre the gods of antiquity
[04:44.14] If something you missed didnt even exist
[04:49.72] It was just an ideal -- is it such a surprise?
[05:40.62] THE END
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