ELVIS COSTELLO - Everyday I Write The Book lyrics

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Don't tell me you don't know what love is<br>When you're old enough to know better<br>When you find strange hands in your sweater<br>When your dreamboat turns out to be a footnote<br>I'm a man with a mission in two or three editions<br><br>And I'm giving you a longing look<br>Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book<br><br>Chapter one we didn't really get along<br>Chapter two I think I fell in love with you<br>You said you'd stand by me in the middle of chapter<br>Three<br>But you were up to your old tricks in chapters<br>Four, five and six<br><br>The way you walk<br>The way you talk, and try to kiss me, and laugh<br>In four or five paragraphs<br>All your compliments and your cutting remarks<br>Are captured here in my quotation marks<br><br>Don't tell me you don't know the difference<br>Between a lover and a writer<br>With my pen and my electric typewriter<br>Even in a perfect world where everyone was equal<br>I'd still own the film rights and be working on the<br>Sequel