Elvis Costello

Dissolve

Elvis Costello


Sugar cube drop into a yellow cup 
What makes the world just waking up 
Resolve? 
Dissolve 
Who knows where on earth it's going to stop? 
I can't hear you 'cos we're breaking up 
Dissolve 

And the stones in the track make work for the mechanic 
The birds all fly from the branches in a panic 
And a back-fire echoes down the hillside 
As the last headline report dies 
Dissolve 

Ice is melting at the distant Pole 
The gin and tonic glasses overflow 
Dissolve 
The precious little else that I could say 
Your stupid tears of laughter washed away 
Dissolve 

While the poisonous light pours from the picture palace 
And it flickers on, tries so hard to be scandalous 
A child keeps beating on a toy drum 
And the tablets dropped on your tongue 
Dissolve 

"So salute me in moving frame" 
"I might not be there when you look again" 
The mourning border card behind the clock 
The hour that he passed, unwound and stopped 
Dissolve