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ELVIS COSTELLO lyrics : "Miss Macbeth"

All the children testified that Miss Macbeth
wore a fishbone slide in her cobweb tresses
Her eyes were black like first foot coal, clutched

as white as chalk-dust
Her fingers sweated india-ink and poison-pen
letters

There is a hungry hanging tree, just below your
bedroom window
You can hear her take a broom to beat out a

tattoo on the ceiling
Her bloodless face ran red inside but was she
really evil, was she only pantomime

Now the chalk on the wall says that somebody
saves, that somebody's face has just been
washed off the pavement

Into a puzzle where petrol will be poisoned by rain
Miss Macbeth saw her reflection
As confetti bled it's colours down the drain


[Chorus:]
And everyday she lives out another love song

It's a tearful lament of somebody done wrong
Well how can you miss what you've never
possessed

Miss Macbeth

Well we all should have known when the

children paraded
They portrayed her in their fairytales, sprinkling
Deadly Nightshade

And as they tormented her she rose to the bait
Even a scapegoat must have someone to hate


And everyday she lives out another love song
"You're up there enjoying yourself, and I know
it's wrong"


Well how can you miss what you've never
possessed

Miss Macbeth

Sometimes people are just what they appear to be

With no redemption at all
We try to walk upright when we can't even crawl


Miss Macbeth has a gollywog she chucks under
the chin and she whispers to it tenderly
Then sticks it on a pin

And It might be coincidence, but a boy down
the lane, that she said "went white as he could
do," then doubled over in pain


[Chorus]

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