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All This Useless Beauty

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"All This Useless Beauty" (2006)
Sáng tác bởi DECLAN MACMANUS.
Sản xuất bởi Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group.

"All This Useless Beauty" Videos

Elvis Costello - All This Useless Beauty
Elvis Costello - All This Useless Beauty
Elvis Costello - All This Useless Beauty (2 Meter Sessies, 14/04/1996)
Elvis Costello - All This Useless Beauty (2 Meter Sessies, 14/04/1996)
All This Useless Beauty - Elvis Costello & The Attractions
All This Useless Beauty - Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Elvis Costello - All This Useless Beauty
Elvis Costello - All This Useless Beauty
Elvis Costello - Complicated Shadows
Elvis Costello - Complicated Shadows
Elvis Costello & The Attractions -  All These Useless Re-mixes (HQ Audio Only)
Elvis Costello & The Attractions - All These Useless Re-mixes (HQ Audio Only)
Lush - All This Useless Beauty
Lush - All This Useless Beauty
Elvis Costello and The Attractions "All This Useless Beauty"
Elvis Costello and The Attractions "All This Useless Beauty"
Elvis Costello (w / L.A Philharmonic) - All This Useless Beauty (Hollywood Bowl, L.A CA /9/5/14)
Elvis Costello (w / L.A Philharmonic) - All This Useless Beauty (Hollywood Bowl, L.A CA /9/5/14)
Favourite Elvis Costello (in album order)
Favourite Elvis Costello (in album order)
Elvis Costello - All This Useless Beauty (Live)
Elvis Costello - All This Useless Beauty (Live)
Elvis Costello - All This Useless Beauty
Elvis Costello - All This Useless Beauty
Elvis Costello - All This Useless Beauty 2012
Elvis Costello - All This Useless Beauty 2012
Marilyn Monroe - All This Useless Beauty - Elvis Costello
Marilyn Monroe - All This Useless Beauty - Elvis Costello
JUNE TABOR - All This Useless Beauty
JUNE TABOR - All This Useless Beauty
Elvis Costello - All This Useless Beauty
Elvis Costello - All This Useless Beauty
Elvis Costello - All This Useless Beauty (2012-06-04 - Zurich)
Elvis Costello - All This Useless Beauty (2012-06-04 - Zurich)
Elvis Costello & Steve Nieve with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra  - All This Useless Beauty
Elvis Costello & Steve Nieve with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra - All This Useless Beauty
Elvis Costello and Steve Nieve with the Los Angeles Philharmonic - All This Useless Beauty
Elvis Costello and Steve Nieve with the Los Angeles Philharmonic - All This Useless Beauty
Elvis Costello - All this useless beauty
Elvis Costello - All this useless beauty

Lyrics

It's at times such as this, she'd be tempted to spit
If she wasn't so ladylike
She imagines how she might have lived
Back when legends and history collide

So she looks to her prince, finding he's so charmingly
Slumped at her side
Those days are recalled on the gallery wall
And she's waiting for passion or humor to strike

What shall we do, what shall we do with all this useless beauty?
All this useless beauty

Good Friday arrived, the sky darkened on time
Till he almost began to negotiate
She held his head like a baby and said "it's okay if you cry"
Now he wants her to dress as if you couldn't guess
He desires to impress his associates
But he's part ugly beast and Hellenic deceased
So she finds that the mixture is hard to deny

What shall we do, what shall we do with all this useless beauty?
All this useless beauty

She won't practice the looks from the great tragic books
That were later disgraced to face celluloid
It won't even make sense, but you can bet
If she isn't a sweetheart or plaything or pet
The film turns her into an unveiled threat

Nonsense prevails, modesty fails
Grace and virtue turn into stupidity
While the calendar fades almost all barricades to a pale compromise
And our leaders have feasts on the backsides of beasts
They still think they're the gods of antiquity
If something you missed didn't even exist
It was just an ideal, is it such a surprise?

What shall we do, what shall we do with all this useless beauty?
All this useless beauty

What shall we do, what shall we do with all this useless beauty?
All this useless beauty


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