Lyrics to
You Belong To Me

Released by Elvis Costello in 1978
From the Album: This Year's Model |

This version of You Belong To Me was released by Elvis Costello in 1978.

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What are you girls gonna tell your mother?
I don’t want to hear another word about young lovers
or hiding your boyfriend in the cupboard.
She’s been to see the doctor, so you hope that she recovers.
You act dumb.
You say you’re so numb.
You say you don’t come
under his thumb.

Don’t wanna be a goody-goody.
I don’t want just anybody.
No, I don’t want anybody
saying ‘You belong to me. You belong to me.’

Your eyes are absent, your mouth is silent;
pumping like a fire hydrant.
Things you see are getting hard to swallow.
You’re easily led, but you’re much too scared to follow.

You’ve been warned.
You’re going to get torn.
No uniform is gonna keep you warm.


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Elvis Costello has released many songs over the years besides You Belong To Me. 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 You Belong To Me by Elvis Costello

The lyrics to You Belong To Me are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Elvis Costello in 1978. Elements of the lyrics to You Belong To Me are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Elvis Costello and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for You Belong To Me back when it was created.

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Some people have an interest in the etymology behind words and phrases. You can take apart the lyrics to You Belong To Me by Elvis Costello in a number of 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 You Belong To Me" means the words set to the music of You Belong To Me, 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 You Belong To Me and the lyrics to You Belong To Me 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 You Belong To Me, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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