Green Shirt - Live At Pinkpop, 1979
by Elvis Costello & The Attractions
From the album: Armed Forces
Duration: 2:49
Lyrics for Green Shirt - Live At Pinkpop, 1979
There's a smart young woman on a light blue screen Who comes into my house every night She takes all the red, yellow, orange and green And she turns them into black and white But you tease and you flirt Shine all the buttons on your green shirt You can please yourself but somebody's gonna get it Better cut out all identifying labels Before they put you on the torture table Somewhere in the Quisling clinic There's a sharp-tongued tiger sticking suckers over words She's listening in to the Venus line She's picking that mental out of her mind But you tease and you flirt Shine all the buttons on your green shirt You can please yourself but somebody's gonna get it Never said I was a school pigeon I never said I was a diplomat Everybody has earned a suspicion But you don't want to hear about that 'Cause you tease and you flirt Shine all the buttons on your green shirt You can please yourself but somebody's gonna get it Better send the bank and let it do the bigger investigation Who put these fingerprints on my imagination? But you tease and you flirt Shine all the buttons on your green shirt You can please yourself but somebody's gonna get it You can please yourself but somebody's gonna get it You can please yourself but somebody's gonna get it