Elvis Costello Needle Time song lyrics

One, two, three, four

I wish that I didn't hate you

Least not as much as I do

And squander all my contempt for

A little nothing like you

Liars like you are ten a penny

Women would slap you if you knew any

Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime

I've got this suitcase of phony wisdom to dispense

These twenty-seven or so years

How you'd think

I would have made them some cents

Now they want me fingerprinted

Like I was smuggling drugs

While the government does deals

With the most convenient thugs

Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime

It's needle time, it's needle time

It's needle time, it's needle time

I'm trying not to despise you

With a passion that's hard to extinguish

Or maybe I really love you

Although it's hard to distinguish

I wish I could be like a saint is

Forgiving those who trespass against us

Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime

I started talking nonsense just like I did to begin with

Around the time I tired of those sour English

Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime

It's needle time, it's needle time

It's needle time, it's needle time