Elvis Costello - I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down lyrics

Date: Wed, 03 Mar 93 16:11:59 LCL

From: PA113718%UTKVM1.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu

Subject: Definitive(?) Can't Stand Up

The reason I'm so certain about these lyrics is that at a record show years

ago, I bought a battered copy of Sam and Dave's version. It's done in a

stately gospel style that Elvis later adopted for concert performances of the

song. Here goes: (minor correctios by Paul Hosken (rmcb@vm.op.dlr.de))

I'm the living result

Of a man who's been hurt a little too much

And I've tasted

The bitterness of my own tears

Sadness is all my lonely heart can feel

I can't stand up etc.

Simple though love is,

still it confused me

Why I'm not loved the way I should be

Now I've lived with heartaches

and I've roomed with fear

I've dealt with despair

And I've wrestled with tears

I can't stand up etc.

The vow that we made,

you broke it in two

but that don't stop me

from loving you

I can't stand up etc.