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Artist/Band: Elvis Costello
Lyrics for Song: Everyday I Write the Book
Lyrics for Album: The Return Of The Spectacular Spinning Songbook [2007]



Don't tell me you don't know what love is

When you're old enough to know better

When you find strange hands in your sweater

When your dreamboat turns out to be a footnote

I'm a man with a mission in two or three editions



And I'm giving you a longing look

Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book



Chapter One we didn't really get along

Chapter Two I think I fell in love with you

You said you'd stand by me in the middle of Chapter Three

But you were up to your old tricks in Chapters Four, Five and Six



And I'm giving you a longing look

Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book



The way you walk

The way you talk, and try to kiss me, and laugh

In four or five paragraphs

All your compliments and your cutting remarks

Are captured here in my quotation marks



And I'm giving you a longing look

Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book



Don't tell me you don't know the difference

Between a lover and a fighter

With my pen and my electric typewriter

Even in a perfect world where everyone was equal

I'd still own the film rights and be working on the sequel



And I'm giving you a longing look

Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book


Album Lyrics: The Return Of The Spectacular Spinning Songbook [2007]


Elvis Costello
"The Return Of The Spectacular Spinning Songbook [2007]"


1. Everyday I Write the Book
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3. Stella Hurt