Lyrics to
Talking In The Dark

This version of Talking In The Dark was released by Elvis Costello in 1979.

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I tried in vain to drive myself insane
I talk to myself but I don’t listen
I found out what I was missing
I miss talking in the dark
Without you, I’m not conversational
Without the sense of the occasional
Without you, I miss talking in the dark
When the barking and the biting is through
We can talk like we’re in love or talk like we’re above it
We can talk and talk until we talk ourselves out of it

I look for the news, somebody to abuse
I look at myself but it’s so chancy
I see things that I don’t fancy

I miss talking in the dark
Without you, I’m not conversational
Without the sense of the occasional
Without you, I miss talking in the dark
Without you, I miss talking in the dark

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About Lyrics and Talking In The Dark by Elvis Costello

The lyrics for Talking In The Dark are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1979 song by Elvis Costello. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Talking In The Dark have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Talking In The Dark - Elvis Costello and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Talking In The Dark by Elvis Costello in multiple ways. 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 Talking In The Dark" means the words set to the music of Talking In The Dark, 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 Talking In The Dark and the lyrics to Talking In The Dark 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 Talking In The Dark, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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