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Elvis Costello Lyrics for Song: King Of Confidence
 Lyrics for Album: King of America [1986]
 
 
 
 19954>She had her mind made up just like her face
 
 She painted in the lines and shadows
 
 She shaded color in that would express
 
 The lonely mood that follows
 
 Love, short and painful and tidy lies in self-defense
 
 She just told a thing or two to the King of Confidence
 
 
 
 You said that he could tell her anything
 
 She even held him when he was crying
 
 And made her feel she was the only one
 
 You knew that he was lying when he said he was lying
 
 
 
 Love is short and painful, that she finally made sense
 
 Of the love he had for the one and only King of Confidence
 
 
 
 It's hard enough to be your lover and alone your confidant
 
 You say you know what I need but you don't know who I want
 
 It's just another tawdry morning now
 
 another tarnished farewell
 
 Your body's tired and complaining now
 
 But you're too tore down to tell
 
 
 
 Love is short and painful, all you kind ladies and gents
 
 I spent years and a couple of days as the King of Confidence
 
 
 
 It's hard enough to be your lover and alone your confidant
 
 You say you know what I need but you don't know who I want
 
 It's just another tawdry morning now
 
 another tarnished farewell
 
 Your body's tired and complaining now
 
 But you're too tore down to tell
 
 
 
 Love is short and painful, all you kind ladies and gents
 
 I spent years and a couple of days as the King of Confidence (x2)
 
 19954>
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| Album Lyrics: King of America [1986] |  
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  Elvis Costello
 "King of America [1986]"
 
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