Belle And Sebastian A Century Of Elvis Lyrics

A Century Of Elvis Lyrics

We were sitting in the living room on the sofa, the wrong way round, looking out
the window. It was quiet, and then in the car park across the road we saw Elvis
- look, there beside the postman's van, and he was walking round the postman's
van, looking in the open door. He looked as if he was thinking about getting
in, but then the postman came back, and he swaggered off, walked past the
window and down the stairs, and then at the bottom of the stairs right by the
caretaker's office, he started licking the pavement. Every night now since we
moved in that new house there's this noise outside the door at just about half
seven or eight o' clock every night. And if we go and look outside the door,
Elvis'll be standing there waiting to be let in. And then he wanders into the
living room, maybe sits down on one of the chairs or even lies down on the
floor. He doesn't say much, he just stays there for an hour or two, watching
the TV. We talk to him a bit, and then around ten o' clock, he'll go away
again, and not co
me back until the next night. There's a lot of lanes and stuff around here,
around the house - although it's right in the middle of the city it seems quite
like the country, it's dead hidden - safe I suppose, made for night living.
There's a lot of squirrels and birds, and Stuart says he's seen about nine
foxes there when he's jumped over the fence on his way to Prior's Road.
Sometimes you can go out walking, and when you've been out for a wee while even
you don't know where you are anymore, so it would be pretty hard for anyone else
to find you. I suppose that's why he spends so much time there, that's why he's
come to live there, or maybe it's just the squirrels. I read about somewhere
that he likes squirrels quite a lot. There's these two videos that we got for
wedding presents - called the e-files, e-files one and e-files two about how
Elvis is supposed to be still alive. And one time when he came round we were
watching one of those, but he didn't say anything he just sat on the armchair.
He was playing w
ith his collar a bit, and we watched it right through and then when it finished
he just got up and walked off into the mist and didn't say anything. the first
few times he came round I didn't speak to him at all, I wasn't really sure what
to say. And Karen spoke to him quite a lot - she seemed to know what to do more
than I do. He had quite a strange manner though, he'd go into your stuff and
look through it, then he'd maybe pick something up and play with it for a wee
while, but he'd never make any comment about any of it. Seemed pretty rude to
me. I just watched whatever Karen did, and listened to how she talked to him
and then, after a while I started to copy that, and tell him a few things, not
really bothered about whether he responded or said anything back or not. I
think the first time I spoke to him we were sitting up on the mezzanine and I
said that I would tell him about me and wee Karen, and how it was that we'd
come to be living there. I thought he probably liked the fact that we were
living there
because he came round so much, so I thought he might want to know how it was
that it came about. We did it all over backwards, I told him. First of all we
got to know each other, and then a while after that we met, and when we'd known
each other for about seven years we decided to have an anniversary, and that
went quite well, so after the anniversary we had a honeymoon, and that went
well too, so after that we decided that we would get married. That's why we're
living there now. I used to think my dad was Elvis, but I haven't told him that
yet. I haven't told my dad either...