โหลดเพลง mp3 Stella Hurt (Live At The Wiltern, Los Angeles, CA/2011) - Elvis Costello

Stella Hurt - Elvis Costello
You should wear your red galoshes
Walking o'er the city pride

Streets are paved with
heaven's pennies

Gutters full of suicides

Teddy steadily fell from grace
Somewhere near Arcadia

Once she overheard a voice
That she didn't hear on the radio

Velvet gloves and country clubs
Were never going to hold her

Ringing the necks of silly
southern belles

Who wanted to scold her

Don't bring me down

I'm trouble bound

Blue song, red alert
Who made Stella hurt?

Teddy soon dropped out of sight
Turned up in another town

Changed her name for the spotlight

Singing like a blue bird
in a sequin gown

She finally fell and married well

But I knew it wouldn't last
Reversing back into the limelight

No one ever saw her
even half plastered

Don't bring me down

I'm trouble bound

Blue song, red alert

Who made Stella hurt?

Then she saw those soldier boys
Throw their bonnets in the air

Self made men would
pledge their fortunes

And dream of her

and dream of her

Generals in the commissary

Opened up a case of wine

Checked the perfume of the cork

Said, "Made in 1929"

They used her up,
to raise morale
For money and Old Glory

Her voice was shot beyond repair
But this is not the last
act of this story

The night is black as cracked shellac
Abandoned in an attic

Stella is silent as the grave
Until the needle drags her

through the static

Don't bring me down

I'm trouble bound

Blue song, red alert
Who made Stella hurt?