Green Shirt

Elvis Costello

Score: 40
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Played: 200

Album:

Girls Girls Girls

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Lyrics:

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[Verse 1] 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 [Chorus] 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 [Post-Chorus 1] Better cut off all identifying labels Before they put you on the torture table [Verse 2] '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 [Chorus] 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 [Bridge] Never said I was a stool pigeon I never said I was a diplomat Everybody is under suspicion But you don't want to hear about that [Chorus] 'Cause 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 [Post-Chorus 2] Better send a begging letter to the big investigation Who put these fingerprints on my imagination? [Chorus] 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 [Outro] You can please yourself but somebody's gonna get it You can please yourself but somebody's gonna get it