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Video for "Green Shirt" from the "Armed Forces" album. High quality sound.
This is off of a VHS tape from 1985 called "The Best of Elvis Costello & the Attractions".
The 'video' is a montage of scenes pirated from other Elvis videos. The only original feature are the squiggly, 80's-style cartoons and captions in the frame. Which are lovely.
Enjoy!
There's a smart young woman
on a light blue screen
Who comes into my house
every night.
She takes all the red,
yellow, orange and green
And she turns them into
black and white.
But you tease,
and you flirt,
And you shine all the buttons on your green shirt.
You can please yourself but somebody's gonna get it
Better cut off all identifying labels
Before they put you on the torture table
'Cause somewhere in the "Quisling Clinic"
There's a shorthand typist taking seconds over minutes.
She's listening in to the Venus line
She's picking out names
I hope none of them are mine.
But you tease, and you flirt...
Never said I was a stool pigeon
I never said I was a diplomat
Everybody is under suspicion
But you don't wanna hear about that
'Cause you tease, and you flirt...
Better send a begging letter
to the big investigation
Who put these fingerprints
on my imagination?
You tease, and you flirt...
You can please yourself
but somebody's gonna get it.
You can please yourself
but somebody's gonna get it.
This is off of a VHS tape from 1985 called "The Best of Elvis Costello & the Attractions".
The 'video' is a montage of scenes pirated from other Elvis videos. The only original feature are the squiggly, 80's-style cartoons and captions in the frame. Which are lovely.
Enjoy!
There's a smart young woman
on a light blue screen
Who comes into my house
every night.
She takes all the red,
yellow, orange and green
And she turns them into
black and white.
But you tease,
and you flirt,
And you shine all the buttons on your green shirt.
You can please yourself but somebody's gonna get it
Better cut off all identifying labels
Before they put you on the torture table
'Cause somewhere in the "Quisling Clinic"
There's a shorthand typist taking seconds over minutes.
She's listening in to the Venus line
She's picking out names
I hope none of them are mine.
But you tease, and you flirt...
Never said I was a stool pigeon
I never said I was a diplomat
Everybody is under suspicion
But you don't wanna hear about that
'Cause you tease, and you flirt...
Better send a begging letter
to the big investigation
Who put these fingerprints
on my imagination?
You tease, and you flirt...
You can please yourself
but somebody's gonna get it.
You can please yourself
but somebody's gonna get it.