Tears At The Birthday Party chords by Elvis Costello, Steve Nieve
Verse 1
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Dm
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Oh,
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it's so funny to be seeing you after so long, girl
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The way you look,
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I understand that you were not impressed
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I heard you let that little friend of mine
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take off your party dress
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I'm not gonna get too sentimental
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like those other stick -of
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-valentines
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Cause I don't know if
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you were lovin' somebody
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I only know that isn't mine
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Alison, I know this world
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is killing you
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Alison, my aim is true
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When I see you got a husband now
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You leave your pretty fingers
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like in the wedding cake
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You used to hold him right
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in your hand
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But it took everything
that he could take
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Sometimes I wish that I could
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stop you from talking
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When I hear the silly things that you say
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I think somebody better
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put out the big light
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Cause I can't stand to
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see you this way
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Allison
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Em
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I know this world is killing you
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Allison
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My aim is true.
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My aim is true.
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My aim is true.
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My aim is true.
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Laugh everyone at the clown,
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he's the best one in town
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But somewhere
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deep in his shell
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There's an ember of pride
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People say I'm the life of the party
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Cuz I tell a joke or two
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Although I may be laughing loud and hard
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Deep inside I'm blue
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So take a good look at my face
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You'll see my smile
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looks out of place
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If you look closer it's easy to trace
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The tracks of my tears
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The tracks of my tears
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Just like how that archer did
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I'm gonna keep my
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sadness hidden
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Though I'm smiling in the public eye
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In my lonely room I cry
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The tears of a clown
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The tears of a clown
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No sponge has the power
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To absorb the shower
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Of what pancake and powder
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Couldn't cover
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But today as I look in the mirror
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Am
I see things a whole lot clearer now
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No more tear -stained
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make -up for me
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No more tear -stained make
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-up for me me.
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Cloud time is over.
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Cloud time is over.
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Cloud time is over.
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It's over. It's over. It's over.
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It's over. over. It's over.
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Whoa, ho, ho
All right Steve Mullin with a Pell G'day
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Tears At The Birthday Party
Elvis Costello, Steve Nieve
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