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