Lyrics to
Little Triggers

This version of Little Triggers was released by Elvis Costello in 1978.

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Little triggers that you pull with your tongue.
Little triggers. I don’t wanna be hung up, strung up,
when you don’t call up.
Little sniggers on your lips.
Little triggers in your grip.
Little triggers. My hand on your hip.

Thinkin’ all about those censored sequences,
worryin’ about the consequences,
waiting until I come to my senses.
Better put it all in present tenses.

Worryin’ about the common decency
when it is only a question of frequency
when you say O.K. But I gotta cheek to be
sayin’ you’re tired of me when you don’t even weaken these

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About Lyrics and Little Triggers by Elvis Costello

When you decide to study the lyrics to Little Triggers, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1978 song by Elvis Costello. Some of the lyrics to Little Triggers have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Elvis Costello and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Little Triggers if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Little Triggers" means the words set to the music of Little Triggers, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Elvis Costello. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Little Triggers and the lyrics to Little Triggers are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Elvis Costello who came here looking just for the lyrics to Little Triggers, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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