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Elvis Costello - Crimes of Paris lyrics with translation (on click)

Crimes of Paris - Elvis Costello

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I thought it was you and your optimist's view of the clock

And how it's always another day

Just after twelve o'clock's struck

You said "Now I only want you so I don't have to promise"

But tiny children in grown-up clothes whispered all the Crimes of Paris

You're not the girl next-door or a girl from France

Or the cigarette-girl in the sizzle hot-pants

All the words of love seem cruel and crass

When you're tough and transparent as armoured glass

You're everywhere girl in an everyday mess

Who'll pay for the Crimes of Paris

I heard that you fell for the "Hell or to Hammersmith Blues"

In the tiny torn up pieces of his mind he's irresistible too

Now it's hard to say now if he's only stupid or smart

When he crawled through the door