Elvis Costello – New Amsterdam Lyrics  Share

From Elvis Costello's album: Get Happy!!

You^,re sending me tulips mistaken for lilies
You give me your lip after punching me silly
You turned my head till it rolled down the brain drain
If I had any sense now I wouldn^,t want it back again

[Chorus:]
New Amsterdam it^,s become much too much
Till I have the possession of everything she touches
Till I step on the brakes to get out of her clutches
Till I speak double dutch to a real double duchess

Down on the mainspring, listen to the tick tock
Clock all the faces that move in on your block
Twice shy and dog tired because you^,ve been bitten
Everything you say now sounds like it was ghost-written
[ New Amsterdam lyrics from
http://www.musiclyricsnow.net/e/elvis-costello/new-amsterdam/ ]

[Chorus]

Back in London they^,ll take you to heart after a little while
Though I look right at home I still feel like an exile

Somehow I found myself down at the dockside
Thinking of the old days of Liverpool and Rotherhide
The transparent people who live on the other side
Living a life that is almost like suicide

[Chorus]
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