ELVIS COSTELLO - Green Shirt lyrics

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There's a smart young woman on a light blue screen<br>Who comes into my house every night.<br>And she takes all the red, yellow, orange and green<br>And she turns them into black and white.<br><br>But you tease, and you flirt<br>And you shine all the buttons on your green shirt<br>You can please yourself but somebody's gonna get it<br><br>Better cut off all identifying labels<br>Before they put you on the torture table<br><br>'cause somewhere in the quisling clinic<br>There's a shorthand typist taking seconds over minutes<br>She's listening in to the venus line<br>She's picking out names<br>I hope none of them are mine<br><br>But you tease, and you flirt...<br><br>Never said I was a stool pigeon<br>I never said I was a diplomat<br>Everybody is under suspicion<br>But you don't wanna hear about that<br><br>'cause you tease, and you flirt...<br><br>Better send a begging letter to the big investigation<br>Who put these fingerprints on my imagination? <br><br>You tease, and you flirt...<br><br>You can please yourself but somebody's gonna get it<br>You can please yourself but somebody's gonna get it