Photographs Can Lie

by Elvis Costello & The Imposters

From the album: Look Now

Track 8 of 16 on Look Now (2018).

Duration: 3:37

Look Now cover art

Lyrics for Photographs Can Lie

He was wild, dynamite And she was rare as treasure That's not the kind of story you deny In a frame under glass They'll always be together and so in love But photographs can lie Now they say That I have the gaze That must recall my father Sayin' he's my knight My bright morning sun Now I am mourning everyone See him now, know he cheats Why can't she see through him? He used to be more valiant than they Put him on a pedestal And it's a long way down there I'll never be his little girl again Now they say That I have the gaze That must recall my father Sayin' he's my knight My bright morning sun Now I am mourned in everyone Someone else will look at me And think he is my lover Developing the image in his eye In a frame under glass We'll always be together and so in love But photographs can lie

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  2. Don't Look Now
  3. Burnt Sugar Is So Bitter
  4. Stripping Paper
  5. Unwanted Number
  6. I Let The Sun Go Down
  7. Mr. & Mrs. Hush
  8. Photographs Can Lie
  9. Dishonor The Stars
  10. Suspect My Tears
  11. Why Won't Heaven Help Me?
  12. He's Given Me Things
  13. Isabelle In Tears
  14. Adieu Paris (L'Envie Des Etoiles)
  15. The Final Mrs. Curtain
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