Elvis Costello & The Brodsky Quartet
Elvis Costello & The Brodsky Quartet
Elvis Costello & The Brodsky Quartet
Elvis Costello & The Brodsky Quartet
Elvis Costello & The Brodsky Quartet
Elvis Costello & The Brodsky Quartet
Elvis Costello & The Brodsky Quartet
Elvis Costello & The Brodsky Quartet
Elvis Costello & The Brodsky Quartet
Elvis Costello & The Brodsky Quartet
Elvis Costello & The Brodsky Quartet
Elvis Costello & The Brodsky Quartet
Elvis Costello & The Brodsky Quartet
Elvis Costello & The Brodsky Quartet
Elvis Costello & The Brodsky Quartet
Elvis Costello & The Brodsky Quartet
Elvis Costello & The Brodsky Quartet
Elvis Costello & The Brodsky Quartet
Elvis Costello & The Brodsky Quartet
Elvis Costello & The Brodsky Quartet
Elvis Costello
Dear sweet filthy world, my wife, or whoever reads this
I think that I've lived too long
With all of my promise unfulfilled
But there is a veil drawn over all of that
I know you'll probably say, "Spare us the melodrama"
"I don't know how he chose the pills or the stupid revolver"
I'm out of luck
I'm not that strong
My hands, your neck
I might have wrung
Don't try to find me
I'm not worth anything anymore
I am not leaving you with all of your problems
'Cause the biggest one is me
Life is dark
And cold as the sea
Embrace me in my anguish
Put seaweed in my hair and vow that you won't cry because I've gone
I can't go on, I can't go on, I can't go on
I must close now
Dear Sweet Filthy World was written by Elvis Costello & Ian Belton & Marina Thomas.
Dear Sweet Filthy World was produced by Kevin Killen & Elvis Costello & The Brodsky Quartet.
Elvis Costello released Dear Sweet Filthy World on Tue Jan 19 1993.
From Elvis Costello’s liner notes:
The text of ‘Dear Sweet Filthy World’ is a suicide note that turns from blasé and bored with life to desperate, and is finally lost in a dream.