Just A Curio
by Anne Sofie von Otter & Elvis Costello
From the album: For the Stars
Track 15 of 18 on For the Stars (2001).
Duration: 4:17
Lyrics for Just A Curio
In the cold pale sunlight that was slanting down I spied Frost reflecting on the glass and in the air outside Fond relations mouthing words of love and tragedy Though it's cold there's vapour rising from a moving stream In a narrow shallow bed of fine inanimate starch Where her long hair tumbled once upon her graceful arch Lace hung on the counters and the walnut cabinets Teeth were chattering like schoolgirls clicking castanets There will be no light to guide as you ascend the stairs There may be a candle as you kneel and say your prayers Through the window wide and open peep the spark from me Just the letter T and its most dread companion B How in heaven hadn't it been conquered long ago? How did it come back again? It's just a curio
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