《When I Was Cruel No.2(Album Version)》歌词

[00:00:00] When I Was Cruel No 2 (Album Version) - Elvis Costello

[00:00:44] I exit through the spotlight glare

[00:00:50] I stepped out into thin air

[00:00:56] Into a perfume so rarefied

[00:01:02] Here comes the bride

[00:01:07] Not quite aside they snide she's number four

[00:01:13] There's number three just by the door

[00:01:19] Those in the know don't even flatter her

[00:01:22] They go one better

[00:01:25] She was selling speedboats in a trade show when he met her

[00:01:30] Look at her now

[00:01:33] She's starting to yawn

[00:01:36] She looks like she was born to it

[00:01:42] But it was so much easier

[00:01:47] When I was cruel

[00:01:54] She reaches out her arms to me

[00:01:59] Imploring another melody

[00:02:05] So she can dance her husband out on the floor

[00:02:11] The captains of industry just lie there where they fall

[00:02:17] In eau-de-nil and pale carnation creation

[00:02:22] A satin sash and velvet elevation

[00:02:28] She straightens the tipsy head dress of her spouse

[00:02:34] While her recalls a honey house

[00:02:40] There'll be no sorrows left to drown

[00:02:46] Early in the morning in your evening gown

[00:02:51] But it was so much easier

[00:02:57] When I was cruel

[00:03:26] The entrance hall was arranged with hostesses and ushers

[00:03:32] Who turned out to be the younger wives nursing schoolgirl crushes

[00:03:38] Parting the waves of those few feint friends

[00:03:43] Fingers once offered are now too heavy to extend

[00:03:49] The ghostly first wife glides up stage whispering to raucous talkers

[00:03:54] Spilling family secrets out to flunks and Castro walkers

[00:04:00] See that girl

[00:04:03] Watch that scene

[00:04:05] Digging the dancing queen

[00:04:41] Two newspaper editors like playground sneaks

[00:04:47] Running the book on which of them is going to last the week

[00:04:53] One of them calls to me

[00:04:54] And he says I know you

[00:04:58] You gave me this tattoo back in '82

[00:05:04] You were a spoil child then with a record to plug

[00:05:10] And I was a shaven headed seaside thug

[00:05:16] Things haven't really changed that much

[00:05:20] One of us is still getting paid too much

[00:05:27] There are some things I can't report

[00:05:33] The memory of his last retort

[00:05:39] But it was so much easier

[00:05:44] When I was cruel

[00:06:14] Look at her now

[00:06:17] She's starting to yawn

[00:06:20] She looks like she was born to it

[00:06:26] But it was so much easier

[00:06:31] When I was cruel