Elvis Costello Button My Lip Lyrics

Button My Lip Lyrics

Go, go



Don't want to talk about the government

Don't want to talk about some incident

Don't want to talk about some pe-pe-peppermint gum

Don't want to talk about the time to come



Button my lip

'Til I'm a smart enough



Don't raise your hand, 'cause I'm not offering

It serves you right, now you are suffering

Give me the chance to see it through

It all depends on what you hold is true



Button my lip

With your kiss



Don't want to hear some little sniveling

You just don't get what I'm delivering

Maybe you want me, but you know you can't

I'd say, I want you, but you know I don't



Button my lip

'Til I'm old enough

'Til I'm smart enough, 'til I'm

Button my lip



Don't want to come at your beckoning

For any day they'll be a reckoning

Don't want to hear what is impossible

B-b-baby, you've become invisible



Button my lip



I've seen those clowns, vacant and insolent

I stand accused, but I am innocent

I am the mighty and the magnificent

I am the mighty and the magnificent

I am the mighty and the magnificent