The Imposter tab - elvis costello

te: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 21:15:18 -0400
From: "D. W. Bennett" 
Subject: c/costello_elvis/the_imposter.crd

The Imposter
(Elvis Costello from the Album "Get Happy!" - Words and Music by Elvis
Costello)
Transcribed by D. W. Bennett

Intro: C  Em  Am  F x4

G
Trying to be too bad
C
Trying to talk too tough
G
Trying to jack the lad
F
You'd think he'd had enough
F                          G
But he's not the man you'd think that he can be
C                               F
I just don't know why you can't see
F          G          C    Em    Am    F
That he is only the imposter
C    Em    Am    F    C    Em    Am    F
That he is only the imposter

You've never been this far
You've always been too smart
And you know all our boys
Are really girls at heart

But he's not...

Am                             Em
When I said that I was lying I might have been lying
Am                    G                     C    Em   Am    F x4
Never let me hear you say you're not trying No!

This is your big decision
Hope you're not disappointed
He's got double vision
When you want him double jointed

And he's not...

He'll only bring you souvenirs
It's only gonna end in tears
And he is only the imposter

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Video The Imposter

Ovation TV | Elvis Costello & the Imposters: Club Date
Recorded in autumn 2004, this concert is the first in our Club Date series. It features songs from across Elvis Costello's glittering career, from Waiting For The End Of The World from his debut album, through The Delivery Man, the title track of his most recent. It includes hits such as Radio Radio, Alison, Peace, Love And Understanding and Pump It Up alongside classic album tracks and new songs. Highlights include three duets with the great Emmylou Harris on I Still Miss Someone, Wheels and Heart Shaped Bruise. With a mission to "Make Life Creative," Ovation TV is a multiplatform network focused on entertaining, inspiring and engaging the artist in all of us by offering original and acquired programming focused on art, culture and personal creativity. The network is distributed via cable, satellite and telco, and is complemented with its popular broadband website (www.OvationTV.com).

Elvis Costello & The Imposters - I Want You (Tim Festival)
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Monkey To Man
Hilarious music video by Elvis Costello from album, The Delivery Man - lotsa sexy bikini girls and people in gorilla suits and a lesson in evolution so if your not careful you might learn something before it's done, hmmmph!

Elvis Costello & The Imposters - Bedlam
I've got this phosphorescent portrait of gentle Jesus meek and mild I've got this harlot that I'm stuck with carrying another man's child The solitary star announcing vacancy burnt out as we arrived They'd throw us back across the border if they knew that we survived And they were surprised to see us So they greeted us with palms They asked for ammunition, acts of contrition and small alms I might recite a small prayer If I ever said them I lay down on an iron frame Found myself in bedlam I wish that I could take something for drowning out the noise Wailing echoes down the corridors I've got this imaginary radio, and I'm punching up the dial I've got the A.C. trained on the T.V. so it won't blow up in my eye And everything that I thought fanciful and mocked as too extreme Must be family entertainment here in the strange land of my dreams Now I'm practicing my likeness of St. Francis of Assisi For if I hold my hand outstretched A little bird comes to me I might recite a small prayer If I ever said them I lay down on an iron frame Found myself in bedlam Escaping from the fingers that were stretching through the bars Wailing echoes down the corridors The player piano picks out "Life Goes On" The ring tone rang out "Jerusalem" And in this pit of sadness Where the rank of wretched plunge We've buried all the innocents Now we must bury revenge They've got this scared and decorated girl strapped to the steel trunk of a mustang And then they drove her down a cypress grove where traitors hang and stars still spangle They dangled flags and other rags along a coloured thread of twine And then they dragged that bruised and purple heart along the road to Palestine Someone went off muttering, he mentioned thirty pieces Easter saw a slaughtering, each wrapped in bloodstained fleeces Then my thoughts returned to vengeance, but I put up no resistance Though I seemed a long way from my home It really was no distance And I might recite a small prayer If I ever said them I lay down on an iron frame Found myself in bedlam Bowing like an actor acknowledging applause Playing the Crusader who was conquering the Moors And he knew the consequences, but he won't accept the cause Wailing echoes down the corridors Bedlam, Bedlam, Bedlam

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