Your Mind Is on Vacation/Your Funeral My Trial [Live][*]

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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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1986

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I see you laughin' 
Right in my face 
I guess I'm gonna have to 
Put you in your place 

Because if silence was golden 
You couldn't raise a dime 
Because your mind is on vacation 
And your mouth is working overtime 

You're quoting figures 
And dropping names 
You're tellin' stories 
About the dames 
You're over-laughin' 
When things ain't funny 
You're tryin' to sound 
Like you're the big money, honey 

If talk was criminal 
You'd lead a life of crime 
Because your mind is on vacation 
And your mouth is working overtime 

Life is short, talk is cheap 
Don't go makin' promises that you can't keep 
If you don't like this little song I'm singin' 
Just grin and bear it 
All I can say is if the rich shoe fits, wear it 

If you must keep talkin', please try to make it rhyme 
Because your mind is on vacation 
And your mouth is working overtime 

Well, I recall when we first met 
It was on a Friday night 
We spent two lovely hours together 
And the world seemed all right 
I'm beggin' you, baby, please stop that off-the-wall jive 
'Cause if you don't treat me no better 
It's gonna be your funeral and my trial 

Well, the Lord made the world and everything that's in it 
The way my baby loves me, it's a sign that it's it [?] 
She can love to heal the sick, she can love to raise the dead 
You might think that I'm jokin', you better believe what I said 

I'm beggin' you, babe, please stop that off-the-wall jive 
Oh, if you don't treat me no better 
It's gonna be your funeral and my trial

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