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Artist: Elvis Costello
Canonical path: /elvis-costello/human-touch
Related lyric paths: 6
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Human Touch
Read Human Touch lyrics by Elvis Costello on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Human Touch
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I know I've just gotta get out of this place
I can't stand any more of that mechanical grace
Though you say it's only industrial squeeze
It looks like luxury and feels like a disease
Oh give it to me, give it to me
I don't want to know much about much
Give it to me, give it to me
I need, I need, I need the human touch
Left with just a house to hold
Drinking your way to drydock
It's easy to break up a model citizen
Living in the state of shock
I just can't believe I am responsible for this
What the makeup hides can't be hidden with a kiss
When I'm talking in tongues I go where you lead
I don't make you plead, oh I need you
How I'd like to fix her in a picture of rage
How I'd like to catch her when she's acting her age
But when she's laying stretched out on the floor
It's no mystery to me anymore
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Elvis Costello performs "Human Touch", and this lyric page sits inside the Elvis Costello catalog on LyroVerse.
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