Elvis Costello - Beyond Belief lyrics

History repeats the old conceits<br>The glib replies the same defeats<br>Keep your finger on important issues<br>With crocodile tears and a pocketful of tissues<br><br>I'm just the oily slick<br>On the windup world of the nervous tick<br>In a very fashionable hovel<br><br>I hang around dying to be tortured<br>You'll never be alone in the bone orchard<br>This battle with the bottle is nothing so novel<br><br>So in this almost empty gin palace<br>Through a two-way looking glass<br>You see your alice<br><br>You know she has no sense<br>For all your jealousy<br>In a sense she still smiles very sweetly<br><br>Charged with insults and flattery<br>Her body moves with malice<br>Do you have to be so cruel to be callous<br><br>And now you find you fit this identikit completely<br>You say you have no secrets<br>And then leave discreetly<br><br>I might make it california's fault<br>Be locked in geneva's deepest vault<br>Just like the canals of mars and the great barrier reef<br>I come to you beyond belief<br><br>My hands were clammy and cunning<br>She's been suitably stunning<br>But I know there's not a hope in hades<br>All the laddies cat call and wolf whistle<br>So-called gentlemen and ladies<br>Dog fight like rose and thistle<br><br>I've got a feeling<br>I'm going to get a lot of grief<br>Once this seemed so appealing<br>Now I am beyond belief<br><br>(repeat chorus)