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Watching The Detectives Lyrics

Artist: Elvis Costello
Album: My Aim Is True

Nice girls, not one with a defect
Cellophane shrink-wrapped, so correct
Red dogs under illegal legs
She looks so good that he gets down and begs

(CHORUS) She is watching the detectives
"Ooh, he's so cute"
She is watching the detectives
When they shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot
They beat him up until the teardrops start
But he can't be wounded 'cause he's got no heart

Long shot at that jumping sign
Invisible shivers running down my spine
Cut to baby taking off her clothes
Close-up of the sign that says "We never close"
He snatches at you and you match his cigarette
She pulls the eyes out with a face like a magnet
I don't know how much more of this I can take
She's filing her nails while they're dragging the lake

(REPEAT CHORUS)

You think you're alone until you realize you're in it
Now fear is here to stay, love is here for a visit
They call it instant justice when it's past the legal limit
Someone's scratching at the window, I wonder who is it?
The detectives come to check if you belong to the parents
Who are ready to hear the worst about their daughter's disappearance
Though it nearly took a miracle to get you to stay
It only took my little fingers to blow you away

Just like watching the detectives
Don't get cute
It's just like watching the detectives
I get so angry when the teardrops start
But he can't be wounded 'cause he's got no heart

Watching the detectives
It's just like watching the detectives
Watching the detectives
Watching the detectives
(REPEAT AND FADE)

Comments/Interpretations
by Alan on 11/20/2008 9:56pm She looks so good he gets down and begs... Says it all, really.
by john on 12/13/2008 12:39am i like cake
by Bendo on 1/27/2009 7:30pm So do eye!
by Mark on 1/29/2009 8:15am PIE!!!
by Paul on 3/3/2009 10:02pm I like Turtles!!!!!!!!
by john on 3/21/2009 7:25pm I like pie too, or is it pi I like? 3.14....
by willow on 3/30/2009 3:02pm what the hell? i never heard this song b4
by Aisley on 4/8/2009 8:53pm I just found out that it is an Elvis Costello's song. I just knew it from the PBS show History Detectives.
by Leon on 5/31/2009 10:28pm "Watching The Detectives" is from Costello's 1977 debut album, "My Aim is True". It's a great track by one of pop music's most gifted tunesmiths. Listen and learn!
by larry on 7/1/2009 7:37pm One of the best! The music is so weird and distorted - listen to the drums.
by Michelle on 8/18/2009 7:48pm What is the song about/from???
by Eric on 8/23/2009 11:51pm This is one of the best songs on one of the best albums of all time.
by sf.dawg on 9/2/2009 9:33pm "It only took my little finger to blow you away" One of the greatest Rock and Roll lines since. "put in yer earplugs, put on yer eyeshades, you know where to put the cork."
by Willow on 10/5/2009 7:43pm All hail to Elvis Costello!!! He IS a God...but WHO is using my name??? I am the only 'Willow' in the United States! What gives?!
by angela on 10/16/2009 4:01am I think the song is about a serial killer watching a girl through her window as she watches a detective film. After watching her for a while he cant control himself any longer, he abducts and kills her but then detectives catch and interview him.
by farkenel on 10/22/2009 9:24am Sorry guys. It's about a girl who just watches tv...

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