Elvis Costello & Metropole Orkest
Elvis Costello & Metropole Orkest
Elvis Costello & Metropole Orkest
Elvis Costello & Metropole Orkest
Elvis Costello & Metropole Orkest
Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello & Metropole Orkest
Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello & Metropole Orkest
Elvis Costello & Metropole Orkest
Elvis Costello & Metropole Orkest
Elvis Costello & Metropole Orkest
Elvis Costello & Metropole Orkest
Elvis Costello & Metropole Orkest
Elvis Costello
From the My Flame Burns Blue liner notes by Elvis Costello:
One of a set of songs entitled Three Distracted Women, this number was first written for a concert tour by Anne Sofie von Otter and the Brodsky Quartet and performed by them in Paris, London, Madrid and Bologna.
The songs portray a trio o...
[Verse 1]
Speak darkly, my angel, or do i have to plead?
The sweetness has gone out of it
And all that's left is bitter barren greed
A needy lover with her almost vanished liar
Entangled as the gloom is strangled by the clinging briar
That ventures out to gather in the gloom
[Bridge]
That perfect mouth is ruined now
For as you turn down the corners of your smile
And cloud your dim corrupted eyes
Just before the concertina wrecks your noble brow
The fatal flaw i can't allow
[Verse 2]
Depart now, my angel, the jailer of my youth
Sends fifty thousand reasons why i never ever try to tell the truth
The season's over and it's time for either one of us to go
Stand by the window
But don't lean so temptingly into the drop that calls below
For if you tumble back
I look so good in black
Speak Darkly My Angel was written by Elvis Costello.
Speak Darkly My Angel was produced by Elvis Costello.
Elvis Costello released Speak Darkly My Angel on Tue Feb 28 2006.