ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS - EVERYDAY I WRITE THE BOOK

EVERYDAY I WRITE THE BOOK

ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS

Composer:

Album: Punch the clock

Label: Columbia records

Genre: new wave

Year: 1983

Punch the Clock is an album released in 1983 by Elvis Costello and the Attractions. It was Costello's eighth album, his seventh with the Attractions since 1978. The album featured Costello's first US Top 40 hit, "Everyday I Write the Book." It as produced by Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley, who also produced Costello's following album, Goodbye Cruel World (Elvis Costello album).

In 2014, NME ranked it at number 345 in its list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

"Everyday I Write the Book" is a song written by Elvis Costello, from Punch the Clock, an album released in 1983 by Elvis Costello and the Attractions. It peaked at 28 on the UK Singles Chart and was their first hit single in the US (33 on the Billboard Top 40).

Yeah, don't tell me you don't know what love is

When you're old enough to know better

When you find strange hands in your sweater

When your dreamboat turns out to be a footnote

I'm a man with a mission in two or three editions

And I'm giving you a longing look

Everyday, everyday, everyday, everyday, everyday

Everyday I write the book

Chapter one we didn't really get along

Chapter two I think I fell in love with you

You said you'd stand by me in the middle of chapter three

But you were up to your old tricks in

Chapters four, five and six

And I'm giving you a longing look

Everyday, everyday, everyday, everyday, everyday

Everyday I write the book

The way you walk, the way you talk and try to kiss me

And laugh in four or five paragraphs

All your compliments and your cutting remarks

Are captured here in my quotation marks

I'm giving you a longing look

Everyday, everyday, everyday, everyday, everyday

Everyday I write the book

Everyday I write the book

Don't tell me you don't know the difference

Between a lover and a fighter

With my pen and my electric typewriter

Even in a perfect world where everyone was equal

I'd still own the film rights and be working on the sequel

I'm giving you a longing look

Everyday, everyday, everyday, everyday, everyday

Everyday I write the book

Everyday, everyday, everyday

Everyday I write the book

Everyday, everyday, everyday

Everyday I write the book, yeah

Everyday, everyday, everyday

Everyday I write the book

Everyday, everyday

Everyday I write the book

Everyday, everyday

Everyday I write the book

Everyday, everyday

Everyday I write the book