Elvis Costello - ...This Town... Lyrics

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That Charlie Sedarka was a-playing the piano 
like he was pawing a dirty book 
He bit a hole in his big bottom lip and gave his 
very best little boy look 
It was a song with a topical verse which I'm 
afraid he then proceeded to sing 
Something about the moody doomed love of 
the Fish-Finger King 

You're nobody in this town 
You're nobody in this crowd 
You're nobody till everybody in this town 
thinks you're poison, 
Got your number knows it must be avoided 
You're nobody till everybody in this town 
thinks you're a bastard 

Mr. Getgood moved up to Self-Made Man Row 
Although he swears that he's the salt of the earth 
He's so proud of the "kick-me-hard" sign that 
they hung on his back at birth 
He said "I appreciate beauty, if I have one, then 
it's my fault" 
"Beauty is on my pillow, beauty is there in 
my vault" 

You're nobody in this town 
You're nobody in this crowd 
You're nobody till everybody in this town 
thinks you're poison, 
Got your number knows it must be avoided 
You're nobody till everybody in this town 
thinks you're a bastard 

The girl with the eternity rock went down on 
her bookie to buy some stock 
Now all her signs in the shopping arcades say 
"The corporation thief is The New Jesse James" 
Her clothes and her attention were scant, her 
eyes were everywhere, 
Her eyes were like abstinthe [sic] 
The little green figures that dance on his screen 
say everything you want to hear and nothing 
they mean 
They made love while she was changing her dress 
She wiped him off she wiped him out and then 
she made him confess 
A little amused by the belief in her power 
You must remember this it was the fetish of 
the hour 

You're nobody in this town 
You're nobody in this crowd 
You're nobody till everybody in this town 
thinks you're poison, 
Got your number knows it must be avoided 
You're nobody till everybody in this town 
thinks you're a bastard

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lyrics submitted on 04-07-2005
lyrics corrected on 04-07-2005