Elvis Costello - Two Little Hitlers Lyrics






Why are we racing to be so old?
I'm up late pacing the floor
I won't be told
You have your reservations
I'm bought and sold

I'll face the music
I'll face the facts
Even when we walk in polka dots and chequer slacks

Bowing and squawking
Running after titbits
Bobbing and squinting
Just like a nitwit

[Chorus:]
Two little Hitlers will fight it out until
One little Hitler does the other one's will
I will return
I will not burn
Down in the basement

I need my head examined
I need my eyes excited
I'd like to join the party
But I was not invited
You make a member of me
I'll be delighted

I wouldn't cry for lost souls, you might drown
Dirty words for dirty minds
Written in a toilet town

Dial me a Valentine
She's a smooth operator
It's all so calculated
She's got a calculator
She's my soft touch typewriter
And I'm the great dictator

[Chorus]

A simple game of self-respect
You flick a switch and the world goes off
Nobody jumps as you expect
I would have thought you would have had enough by now

You call selective dating
For some effective mating
I thought I'd let you down, dear
But you were just deflating

I knew right from the start
We'd end up hating
Pictures of the merchandise
Plastered on the wall
We can look so long as we don't have to talk at all

You say you'll never know him
He's an unnatural man
He doesn't want your pleasure
He wants as no one can
He wants to know the names of
All those he's better than

[Chorus]

I will return
I will not burn
[Repeats]





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  1. a.... w....

    Why we racing to be so old

  2. K.... S....

    Boy was Elvis fantastic at making these sweet and sour lollipop turd songs! The music just bounces along in a herky-jerky motion so lovingly but underneath the lyrics are full of Menace and selfishness. The master at the top of his game well he kept getting better

  3. W.... M....

    She's my soft-touch typewriter/
    And I'm The Great Dictator

    The elusive triple entendre

  4. A.... R....

    I don't think I realized until now how much Elvis Costello took from music hall and the Vaudeville......so kool

    A.... R....

    That's to a significant degree due to the masterful keyboardist, Steve Nieve.

  5. A.... R....

    i think he was a prophet! with insight! based on having lived through post war England when Hitler was still on everyone's mind, combined with 70s era nihilism and 80s cocaine lurve and 90s cuddle piles

    A.... R....

    "Dirty words with Dirty Minds, written for a terlot town"

    A.... R....

    thought this was a Nick Lowe toon?

  6. M.... B....

    incredible lyrics

  7. d.... d....

    Like it.