Lyrics to
Poison Moon

This version of Poison Moon was released by Elvis Costello in 1977.

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Cut loose in a nightmare, cast off in my dreams
If home is anywhere that I can hang my hat
Then it’s coming apart at the seams
My luck is hanging upside down
I try to hold on tight
But money’s rolling out of town
And love slips right out of sight
And these bones, they don’t look so good to me
Jokers talk and they all disagree
One day soon, I will laugh right in the face of the poison moon

You look in the mirror
I’m sorry, but it can’t be replaced
You’re thrown straight out in that cruel parade
Buttoned down and laced
It starts like fascination, it ends up like a trance
You’ve gotta use your imagination on some of that magazine romance

And these bones – they don’t look so good to me
Jokers talk and they all disagree
One day soon, I will laugh right in the face of the poison moon
One day soon, I will laugh right in the face of the poison moon

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Elvis Costello has released many songs over the years besides Poison Moon. Elvis Costello released songs from 1977 to 2004 spanning across albums like My Aim Is True, This Year's Model, Armed Forces, Get Happy!!, Trust, Almost Blue, Imperial Bedroom, Punch The Clock, Goodbye Cruel World, Blood And Chocolate, King Of America, Spike, Mighty Like A Rose, The Juliet Letters, Brutal Youth, Kojak Variety, Deep Dead Blue, All This Useless Beauty, Painted From Memory, For The Stars, When I Was Cruel, North, and The Delivery Man. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Elvis Costello.

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About Lyrics and Poison Moon by Elvis Costello

When you decide to study the lyrics to Poison Moon, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1977 song by Elvis Costello. Some of the lyrics to Poison Moon 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 Poison Moon 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 Poison Moon" means the words set to the music of Poison Moon, 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 Poison Moon and the lyrics to Poison Moon 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 Poison Moon, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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