Elvis Costello Pony St. Lyrics

Pony St. Lyrics

She lives on Pony St. and they should scatter flowers at her feet

But when they come calling, I think it's appalling

They're sober and they're polite

They're deeply respectful when I would expect them

To keep her out all night



That little martinet will get her own way

Yet, if you need instruction in mindless destruction

I'll show you a thing or two

You used to adore me but now my life flashes before me for you to view



Oh mother, oh mother, sometimes you are so mortifying

From the hole in your leopard skin tights, I can tell, you've been spying

But your generation confesses before it transgresses

Those 'Super-8' movies of daddy in your disco dresses



If you're going out tonight, I won't wait up

Reading 'Das Kapital', watching 'Home shopping club'

While you're flogging a dead horse, all the way down Pony St.

Where you live after a fashion, all the way down Pony St.



The life and the soul of every indiscretion

That lives on, that lives on, that lives on

Pony St.



Daughter, oh daughter, you know I will love you forever

But spare me the white ankle socks with the lace and the leather

For you and your cartoon threat, do no good to resist me

For I am the genuine thing, but for you, it's just history



If you're going out tonight, how can you be sure

Where you lay your pretty head, mother may have been before

So you're flogging a dead horse, all the way down Pony St.

Where you live after a fashion, all the way down Pony St.



The life and the soul of every indiscretion

That lives on, that lives on

That lives on, that lives on

That lives on



She lives on Pony St.

She lives on Pony St.



She lives on, she lives on

She lives on, she lives on