ELVIS COSTELLO - New Amsterdam lyrics

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You're sending me tulips mistaken for lilies<br>You give me your lip after punching me silly<br>You turned my head till it rolled down the brain drain<br>If I had any sense now I wouldn't want it back again<br><br>New amsterdam it's become much too much<br>Till I have the possession of everything she touches<br>Till I step on the brakes to get out of her clutches<br>Till I speak double dutch to a real double duchess<br><br>Down on the mainspring, listen to the tick tock<br>Clock all the faces that move in on your block<br>Twice shy and dog tired because you've been bitten<br>Everything you say now sounds like it was ghost-written<br><br>Chorus<br><br>Back in london they'll take you to heart after a little while<br>Though I look right at home I still feel like an exile<br><br>Somehow I found myself down at the dockside<br>Thinking of the old days of liverpool and rotherhithe<br>The transparent people who live on the other side<br>Living a life that is almost like suicide<br><br>Chorus