Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Elvis Costello
Canonical path: /elvis-costello/clowntime-is-over
Related lyric paths: 6
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Clowntime Is Over
Read Clowntime Is Over lyrics by Elvis Costello on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Clowntime Is Over
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Tears on your blackmail
Written to ransom
A point of the fingernail
Says that he's handsome
Clowntime is over
Time to take cover
While others just talk and talk
Somebody's watching where the others don't walk
Clowntime is over
A voice in the shadows
Says that his men know
He don't step back as expected
He's otherwise and unprotected
Chorus
Almost too good to be true
Who do you? why do you? what do you do?
While everybody's hiding under covers
Who's making lover's lane safe again for lovers?
Chorus
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Elvis Costello performs "Clowntime Is Over", and this lyric page sits inside the Elvis Costello catalog on LyroVerse.
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