Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Elvis Costello
Canonical path: /elvis-costello/shallow-graves
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Shallow Graves
Read Shallow Graves lyrics by Elvis Costello on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Shallow Graves
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When I fall in endless sleep
I hope that I'll be buried deep
Let me be the one that fortune favours
Even good children got shallow graves
Throw another clown to the lions
Throw another Joan on the blaze
Cast me away on the cruel calm ocean
and leave me for days and days and days and days and days
I won't lie in this poor shallow grave
I won't lie, I won't lie in this poor shallow grave
Dig me down deep where the dead men sleep
I won't lie in this poor shallow grave
Bless the poor 'cos like the rich
They all end up in a ditch
In this world of fools and knaves
Even good children got shallow graves
The tinker, the tailor, the fabulous five
Nobody gets out of this alive
refrão:
Dig me down deep where the dead men sleep
I won't lie in this poor shallow grave
Dig me down deep where the dead men sleep
I won't lie in this poor shallow grave
Dig me down, dig me down, dig me down deep
I won't lie in this poor shallow grave
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Elvis Costello performs "Shallow Graves", and this lyric page sits inside the Elvis Costello catalog on LyroVerse.
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