Deportee [Alternate Take; Previously Unreleased Track; Bonus Track]

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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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In the Arrivederci Roma nightclub, bar and grill 
Standing in the fiberglass ruins watching time stand still 
All your troubles you confess to another faceless, backless dress 
Schnapps, chianti, porter and ouzo 
Pernod, vodka, sambuca--I love you so 
Deportee 

There's a tatty beauty talking in riddles 
Rome burns down and everybody fiddles 
Deportee 
But a thousand dollars won't buy you a Yank, you wife, alas 
There's a thousand years of history ground in this chaser glass 
And how I wish that she was mine 
I could have been the King in six eight time 
Deportee 

Oh, it's a brittle charm, but she's had enough 
Still she wrote her name upon his paper cuff 
And you don't where to start or where to stop 
All this pillow talk is nothing more than finally talking shop 

When I came here tonight my pockets were overflowing 
They took my return ticket without me even knowing 
Well, I pray to the saints and all the martyrs 
For the secret life of Frank Sinatra 
But none of these things have come to pass 
In America the law is a piece of ass 
Deportee 

So it's Schnapps, chianti, porter and ouzo 
Pernod, vodka, sambuca I love you so 
Deportee 
Deportee 
Poor deportee

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