Elvis Costello - The Bridge I Burned Lyrics
I'm walking down Times Square in the Electric Daylight
The sailors on shore leave stand out in their perfect white.
I'm up here with my spying glass at the window up above
For better or for worse - it's a perverse universe, my love.
Now I know, I should have never walked over the bridge I burned
"And remember to free faraway from the unbridled, and the impudent,
the malicious, and the unlucky.
For these being full of bad demons or rays are maleficent,
and like lepers and people striken with plague,
they harm not only by touch but even by proximity and by sight." (Dig it!)
[Quote from Marsilio Ficino, Italian philosopher (1433-1499)]
You mutter underneath your breath - IT ECHOES ROUND THE WORLD
Everybody comes from nowhere.
Now I know, I should have never walked over the bridge I burned
Now I know, somehow I don't feel so alone.
You said I used to be handsome if you screwed up your eyes
Professors and vampires drank up all the tears I cried.
Now there's a bird at my window, he feeds upon the pane (pain)
and sometimes he sings to me - a mocking bird in the twilight of infamy.
Now I know, I should have never walked over the bridge I burned
Now I know, somehow I don't feel so alone.
Now I know, I should have never walked over the bridge I burned
Now I know, they've burned one sinner and the others are sadly following
(set to follow?)
Now I know.
Now I know.
Now I know.
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Elvis Costello The Bridge I Burned Comments
Dig it!
Thank You from the bottom of my heart
This song reminds me of the sacrifice I made for my biological father. I became the eternal henpecked husband so that he could move on to a new life.
This song makes me trip without drugs!
Hell Yeah this song is a trip, Brian Eno produced
No he didn't.
did they put his million dollar check in someone else's box??????????????
Pop life is one of my fave Prince joints.. This is aight but it's no Pop life
life it aint real funky, unless its got that POP