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Stick Out Your Tongue
Elvis Costello & The Roots

They talked to the sister, the father and the mother

With a microphone in one hand and a chequebook in the other

And the camera noses in to the tears on her face

The tears on her face

The tears on her face

You can put them back together with your paper and paste


Stick out your tongue

Drink down the venom


She sleeps with the shirt of a late, great country singer

Stretched out upon her poor jealous husband's pillow

In time you can turn these obsessions into careers

While the parents of those kidnapped children start the bidding for their tears


What would you say?

What would you do?

Children and animals two by two

Give me the needle

Give me the rope

We're going to melt them down for pills and soap


Four and twenty crowbars, jemmy your desire

Out of the frying pan into the fire

The king is in the counting house

Some folk have all the might

And majesty will run on Bombay Gin and German spite

They come from lovely people

(They come from lovely people)

With a hard line in hypocrisy

There are tears of mediocrity

For the fag ends of the aristocracy


What would you say?


What would you do?

Children and animals two by two

Give me the needle

Give me the rope

We're going to melt them down for pills and soap


Stick out your tongue

Stick out your tongue

Drink down the venom


The sugar-coated pill is getting bitterer still

You think your country needs you but you know it never will

So pack up your troubles in a stolen handbag

Don't dilly dally boys rally 'round the flag

Give us our daily bread in individual slices

And something in the daily rag to cancel any crisis


What would you say?

What would you do?

(Did you find out how to lie?)

Children and animals two by two

(Did you find out how to cheat?)

Give me the needle

(The elite bleat, they're obsolete)

We're going to melt them down

Stick out your tongue

(We're going to melt them down for pills and soap)

Now if you'd only genuflect

Stick out your tongue

Now if you'd only genuflect

Stick out your tongue


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