GIRLS TALK
Albums : Repeat When Necessary; Get Happy
(Composer : Elvis Costello)

Dave Edmunds - 1979
Elvis Costello - 1980


There are some things you can't cover up 
With lipstick and powder 
Thought I heard you mention my name 
Can't you talk any louder? 

Don't come any closer 
Don't come any nearer 
My vision of you 
Can't come any clearer 
Oh I just wanna hear girls talk 

Got a loaded imagination 
Bein' fired by girls talk 
It's a more or less situation 
Inspired by girls talk 

But I can't say 
The words you wanna hear 
I suppose you're gonna have to
Play it by ear, right here 

And now, girls talk 
And they wanna know how girls talk 
And they say it's not allowed, girls talk
If they say that it's so 
Don't they think that I'd know by now? 

Got the word up on everyone's lipstick 
That you're getting faded 
You may not be an old-fashioned girl 
But you're gonna get dated 

"Was it really murder?" 
"Were you just pretending?"
"Lately I've heard..." 
"You are the living end" 

Girls talk 
And they wanna know how girls talk 
And they say it's not allowed, girls talk 
And they think they know how girls talk 
If they say that it's so 
Don't they think that I'd now by now? 

But I can't say 
The words you wanna hear 
I suppose you're gonna have to 
Play it by ear, I hear 

There are some things you can't cover up 
With lipstick and powder
But I heard you mention my name 
Can't you talk any louder? 

Don't come any closer 
Don't come any nearer 
My vision of you 
Can't come any clearer



(Contributed by Sören Sjögren - April 2003)