Little Goody Two Shoes

Elvis Costello · Out Of Our Idiot [1987]

You can take a powder

You can take a drink.

You can keep the shrink

And the kitchen sink

Can write my name in heaven in invisible ink.

Just leave it, baby, when there's no time to think.



Little goody two shoes is here to clinch.

You can miss me by a mile or you can miss by an inch.

Don't move a muscle, baby, don't even flinch

Or little goody two shoes will feel the pinch.



You can take me over

You can give me a lip

You can take me over

You can give me the slip

You can take off everything or tear me off a strip

With a bullet in the chamber and another in the clip



Little goody two shoes is here to clinch.

You can miss me by a mile or you can miss by an inch.

Don't move a muscle, baby, don't even flinch

Or little goody two shoes will feel the pinch.



Just when you thought you got what you deserved

Just when it's time to stop trying

A voice says, "Boy, have you got a nerve

Why do you have to keep crying and crying?"



You can take me outside

You can take me apart

You can take me upstairs

You can take me to heart

You can take the decision that it's time to depart

Don't try to stop me when you told me to start



Little goody two shoes is here to clinch.

You can miss me by a mile or you can miss by an inch.

Don't move a muscle, baby, don't even flinch

Or little goody two shoes will feel the pinch.