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Elvis Costello Lyrics for Song: Complicated Shadows
 Lyrics for Album: On Stage [2012]
 
 
 
 18641>Well you know your time has come and you're sorry for what you've done
 
 You should've never have been playing with a gun
 
 In those Complicated Shadows
 
 Well there's a line that you must toe
 
 and it'll soon be time to go
 
 but it's darker than you know in those Complicated Shadows
 
 All you gangsters and rude clowns
 
 Who were shooting up the town
 
 When you should have found someone to put the blame on
 
 Though the fury's hot and hard
 
 I still see that cold graveyard
 
 There's a solitary stone that's got your name on
 
 
 
 You don't have to take it from me
 
 But I know what I spake
 
 You think you're like iron and steel
 
 But iron and steel will bend and break
 
 In those Complicated Shadows
 
 
 
 Go!
 
 
 
 Sometimes justice you will find
 
 Is just dumb not colour-blind
 
 And your poor shattered mind can't take it all in
 
 All those phantoms and those shades
 
 Should Jump up on Judgement Day
 
 And say to the Almighty "I'm still stinking of sin"
 
 
 
 But the jury was dismissed
 
 Took his neck and they give it a twist
 
 So you see you won't be missed in those Complicated Shadows
 
 
 
 You can say just what you like in a voice like a John Ford film
 
 Take the law into your hands
 
 You will soon get tired of killing
 
 In those Complicated Shadows
 
 Complicated Shadows (x3)
 
 
 
 Go!
 
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