Elvis Costello Unwanted Number Lyrics

Unwanted Number Lyrics

You should hear the things that they say about me 
They`re saying "She`s no better than she needed to be" 
They don`t know that he was kind and strong and tender 
And now I`ll never be another Unwanted Number 
Unwanted Number 
How can I tell them? 
How can I express? 
How it felt to step out of this life and into his embrace 

How can I tell them? 
How can I explain? 
All the love that I never had I found in him 

There may be a stain on the family name 
And if my father was here I think I know who he`d blame 
Mama says that he just doesn`t care to remember 
And all he thinks of me is another Unwanted Number 
Unwanted Number 

(How can I tell her? 
How can I express? 
How it felt when he came to my room 
And helped me to undress 
What can she tell me? 
How can I believe 
That she really didn`t hear me cry 
When he wouldn`t leave?) 

There`s a local game where they whisper my shame 
They say "He gave her his child 
He wouldn`t give her his name" 

They will torture me from January till September 
And soon there`s going to be another Unwanted Number 
Unwanted Number 
Unwanted number 

And I will give my love to another Unwanted Number 
Unwanted Number 
Unwanted Number