Living in paradise
by Elvis Costello
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I don´t like those other guys looking at your curves
I don´t like you walking round with physical jerks
Everything they say and do is getting on my nerves
Soon they will be lucky to be picking up the perks
´Cause when they pull the shutters down
and throw up in the dark,
they´ll find that all the dogs outside
bite much worse than they bark.
Here we are living in paradise,
living in luxury.
Oh, the thrill is here but it won´t last long
You better have your fun before it moves along
And you´re already looking for another,
fool like me.
I call you Betty Felon ´cause you are a pretty villain
And I think that I should tell them that you´d
make a pretty killing
´Cause meanwhile up in heaven they are waiting at the gate
saying ´We´d always knew you´d make it,
didn´t think you´d come this late´.
And now it´s much too dangerous to stop what you´ve begun
When everyone in paradise carries a gun
Here we are living in paradise,
living in luxury.
Oh, the thrill is here but it won´t last long
You better have your fun before it moves along
And you´re already looking for another,
fool like me.
Later in the evening when arrangements are made,
I´ll be at the keyhole outside your bedroom door.
´Cause I´m the first to know whenever the plans are laid
that never go further than floor to floor.
You think that I don´t know the boy that you´re touching,
but I´ll be at the video and I will be watching
Here we are living in paradise,
living in luxury.
Oh, the thrill is here but it won´t last long
You better have your fun before it moves along
And you´re already looking for another,
fool like me.
I don´t like you walking round with physical jerks
Everything they say and do is getting on my nerves
Soon they will be lucky to be picking up the perks
´Cause when they pull the shutters down
and throw up in the dark,
they´ll find that all the dogs outside
bite much worse than they bark.
Here we are living in paradise,
living in luxury.
Oh, the thrill is here but it won´t last long
You better have your fun before it moves along
And you´re already looking for another,
fool like me.
I call you Betty Felon ´cause you are a pretty villain
And I think that I should tell them that you´d
make a pretty killing
´Cause meanwhile up in heaven they are waiting at the gate
saying ´We´d always knew you´d make it,
didn´t think you´d come this late´.
And now it´s much too dangerous to stop what you´ve begun
When everyone in paradise carries a gun
Here we are living in paradise,
living in luxury.
Oh, the thrill is here but it won´t last long
You better have your fun before it moves along
And you´re already looking for another,
fool like me.
Later in the evening when arrangements are made,
I´ll be at the keyhole outside your bedroom door.
´Cause I´m the first to know whenever the plans are laid
that never go further than floor to floor.
You think that I don´t know the boy that you´re touching,
but I´ll be at the video and I will be watching
Here we are living in paradise,
living in luxury.
Oh, the thrill is here but it won´t last long
You better have your fun before it moves along
And you´re already looking for another,
fool like me.