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Sour Milk-Cow Blues

Released by Elvis Costello in 1984
From the Album: Goodbye Cruel World |

This version of Sour Milk-Cow Blues was released by Elvis Costello in 1984.

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You like coffee and you like tea
Much more than you like me
And everybody says watch out yeah
For the sour milk-cow blues
You like your coffee just a little too sweet
Without your sugar life is incomplete
And everybody says watch out yeah
For the sour milk-cow blues
I think about you everyday
Something about you is not the same
Something about the things you say
Sounds like a different woman with a different name
Sour milk-cow blues

You wear a different size and style of shoe
I think that someone must be poisoning you
To replace you with a living double
Get out of my life right now and save them all of the trouble
They changed your complexion and your personality
Somebody’s putting ideas in your head
They took the girl of my dreams and left you here instead
Sour milk-cow blues

You take your place in this parade of pleas
You dial a number and they offer relief
All alone with just your own device
They give you something and it isn’t advice
To break the hearts of a million listeners
Start out as lovers and you end up as prisoners
Somebody’s suffering from the things that you do
Somebody’s suffering but you’re glad it isn’t you
Put your fingertips up to the screen
Repeat after me, wake at the count of three
Now I don’t know which is worse
What they’re doing to you or what you’re doing to me
Sour milk-cow blues


Elvis Costello has released many songs over the years besides Sour Milk-Cow Blues. 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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