《I Can’t Turn It Off》歌词

[00:00:00] I Can't Turn It Off - Elvis Costello

[00:00:08] Basement babies strangling saxophones

[00:00:12] They got twisted motives they got eyes of stone

[00:00:17] But it's a terminal condition

[00:00:19] That is tattered through and through

[00:00:22] It's not that they don't need you

[00:00:24] They're too mixed up to choose

[00:00:28] Broken noses hung up hang on the wall

[00:00:33] Back slapping drinkers cheer the championship brawl

[00:00:38] But they're so punch drunk

[00:00:39] They don't understand the word defeat

[00:00:42] They can take you out and shoot you

[00:00:44] They can't confiscate that beat

[00:00:48] Steam engineer breaks down in the newsreel

[00:00:53] He's seen the future of the diesel wheel

[00:00:58] Listen to the hammers falling in the breaker's yard

[00:01:07] When you're used to the glamour it

[00:01:10] Comes at you twice as hard

[00:01:18] Sometimes I think that I have had enough

[00:01:23] Sometimes I scare myself I get enough

[00:01:27] Oh you know that I can't turn it off

[00:01:38] Young girl rehearses all her blackmail faces

[00:01:43] She's looking for a love that lasts

[00:01:48] She'd never break the heart of any aces

[00:01:52] But she's learning pretty fast

[00:01:58] I've seen those clowns running all over town

[00:02:02] The trying satisfy all of their carnival desires

[00:02:08] You start out looking for your own melody

[00:02:12] They end up in the closing time choirs

[00:02:17] All you lucky people crying in your beer

[00:02:22] When it comes down to silence not even tears

[00:02:28] You're in real trouble between the two

[00:02:32] When it comes down to me

[00:02:35] When it comes down to you

[00:02:38] But it must be something you're allowed to keep

[00:02:43] In between the longest pantomimes

[00:02:48] 'Cos it's very easy to let love fall asleep

[00:02:52] When you are worrying about hard times

[00:02:58] Sometimes I think that I have had enough

[00:03:04] Sometimes I scare myself I get enough

[00:03:07] But you know that I can't turn it off

[00:03:18] But you know that I can't turn it off