Couldn't Call It Unexpected No. 4 - Elvis Costello

作词：D.P.A. Mac Manus/D.P.A. McManus

作曲：D.P.A. Mac Manus

I saw a girl who'd found her consolation

She said One day my Prince of Peace will come

Above her head a portrait of her father

The wilted favour that he gave

her still fastened to the frame

They've got his bones and everything he owns

I've got his name

Well you can laugh at this sentimental story

But in time you'll have to make amends

The sudden chill where lovers

doubt their immortality

As the clouds cover the sky the evening ends

Describing a picture of eyes finally closing

As you sometimes glimpse

terrible faces in the fire

We'll I'm the lucky goon

Who composed this tune

From birds arranged on the high wire

Who on earth is tapping at the window

Does that face still linger at the pane

I saw you shiver though the room

was like a furnace

A shadow of regret

across a young mother's face

So toll the bell or rock the cradle

Please don't let me fear anything

I cannot explain

I can't believe I'll never

believe in anything again