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Elvis Costello Lyrics for Song: Stations Of The Cross
 Lyrics for Album: National Ransom [2010]
 
 
 
 6488>The tempest blows up from a squall
 
 Past the Cape of Bad Conscience
 
 Into the Gulf of the Cauldron
 
 Roars over the coastline to batter and flatten
 
 Exposing the roots like the dyed hair of slattern
 
 
 
 Scrapper and mauler in a rope ring this small
 
 Outside the wind is punching
 
 There's no one left to hear it
 
 No one hears the bell ring
 
 Except the one who comes to fear it
 
 And they continue to brawl
 
 
 
 He's buying his way into heaven I suppose
 
 He weeps at the blows
 
 But down in a location that we cannot disclose
 
 He turns the dial slowly
 
 Through the Stations of the Cross
 
 
 
 Crowd done up dandy
 
 In diamonds and finery
 
 Baying and howling
 
 All bloodlusty calling
 
 Fists like pistons
 
 Faces like meat spoiling
 
 Haul, boys, haul, bully-boys haul
 
 
 
 Later that evening
 
 Molly and her gunman
 
 Go down the stairs to a dive like a dungeon
 
 Meanwhile in the backroom there's a girl like a sponge
 
 Saying, "Bring him in long as a constable's truncheon"
 
 
 
 The gunman wants Molly to kingdom come
 
 Then blows them all to the hereafter
 
 Who's scuttling away now and hidden from our view?
 
 Who tightened the tourniquet, turning her blue?
 
 
 
 They're hurling themselves into heaven I suppose
 
 Before the gates are closed
 
 But down in a location that we cannot disclose
 
 They'll turn the dial slowly through the Stations of the Cross
 
 
 
 The gale of hale laughter
 
 Scales up the ivory
 
 The black keys of her fine whine descend into the minor
 
 Die away breathless
 
 Diminishing behind her
 
 Haul boys haul, bully-boys haul
 
 
 
 The water came up to the eaves
 
 You'd think someone had opened a valve
 
 It's too soon to stay now and too late to leave
 
 So spare your remorse all the way up to Calvary
 
 
 
 They're hurling themselves into heaven I suppose
 
 Before the gates are closed
 
 But down in a location that we cannot disclose
 
 I'm turning the dial slowly through the Stations of the Cross
 
 
 
 Thanks to razvan
 
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| Album Lyrics: National Ransom [2010] |  
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  Elvis Costello
 "National Ransom [2010]"
 
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