Hurry Down Doomsday (Bugs Are Taking Over)

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Elvis Costello

Elvis Costello (born Declan Patrick MacManus, 25 August 1954) is an English singer-songwriter. He began his career as part of London's pub rock scene in the early 1970s and later became associated with the first wave of the British punk/New Wave movement of the mid-to-late 1970s. Steeped in word play, the vocabulary of Costello's lyrics is broader than that of most popular songs. His music has drawn on many diverse genres; one critic described him as a "pop encyclopaedia", able to "reinvent the past in his own image". more »

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1991

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The man in the corner of this picture has a sinister purpose 
In the teeming Temple of the Railroad Kings 
He's planting a trashy paperback book for accidental purchase 
Containing all the secrets of life and other useless things 
But I can't bring myself to look 
Wake up Zombie write yourself another book 
You want to scream and shout my little flaxen lout 
Hurry down Doomsday the bugs are taking over 
She sleeps with the shirt of a late, great country singer 
Stretched out on her poor jealous husband's pillow 
In time you can turn these obsessions into careers 
While the parents of those kidnapped children start the bidding 
for their tears 
But I can't bring myself to look 
Wake up Zombie 
Get yourself off the book 
You want to scream and shout my little waxen lout 
Hurry down Doomsday the bugs are taking over 
Forget about Beethoven, Rembrandt and rock and roll 
Forget about Mickey Mouse, Marlboro and Coca Cola 
Forget about Cadillac, Mercedes and Toyota 
Forget about Buddha, Allah, Jesus and Jehovah 
Hurry down Doomsday the bugs are taking over 
Any day now a giant insect mutation 
Will swoop down and devour the white man's burden 
Starting out with all of the sensitive ones 
Better make like a fly if you don't want to die 
Look out there goes Gordon 
But I can't bring myself to think 
Wake up Zombie 
Kick up a big stink 
You want to scream and shout my little Saxon lout 
Hurry down Doomsday the bugs are taking over

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