Everyday I Write The Book

Elvis Costello

Everyday I Write The Book

Dont tell me you dont know what love is

When youre old enough to know better

When you find strange hands in your sweater

When your dreamboat turns out to be a footnote

Im a man with a mission in two or three editions

And Im giving you a longing look

Everyday

Everyday

Everyday

Everyday I write the book

Chapter One we didnt really get along

Chapter Two I think I fell in love with you

You said youd stand by me in the middle of Chapter Three

But you were up to your old tricks in Chapters Four, Five and Six

And Im giving you a longing look

Everyday

Everyday

Everyday

Everyday I write the book

The way you walk

The way you talk, and try to kiss me, and laugh

In four or five paragraphs

All your compliments and your cutting remarks

Are captured here in my quotation marks

And Im giving you a longing look

Everyday

Everyday

Everyday

[01:56]Everyday I write the book

Dont tell me you dont know the difference

Between a lover and a fighter

With my pen and my electric typewriter

Even in a perfect world where everyone was equal

Id still own the film rights and be working on the sequel

And Im giving you a longing look

Everyday

Everyday

Everyday

Everyday I write the book

Everyday (everyday)

Everyday

Everyday i write the book

Everyday

Everyday

Everyday i write the book

Everyday

Everyday

Everyday

Everyday i write the book

Im giving you a longing look

Everyday i write the book

Im giving you a longing look

Everyday i write the book

Im giving you a longing look

Everyday i write the book