ELVIS COSTELLO - Veronica lyrics

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Is it all in that pretty little head of yours? <br>What goes on in that place in the dark? <br>Well I used to know a girl and I would have<br>Sworn that her name was veronica<br>Well she used to have a carefree mind of her<br>Own and a delicate look in her eye<br>These days I'm afraid she's not even sure if her name is veronica<br><br>Chorus:<br><br>Do you suppose, that waiting hands on eyes,<br>Veronica has gone to hide? <br>And all the time she laughs at those who shout her name and steal her clothes<br>Veronica<br>Veronica<br><br>Did the days drag by? did the favours wane? <br>Did he roam down the town all the time? <br>Will you wake from your dream, with a wolf at<br>The door, reaching out for veronica<br>Well it was all of sixty-five years ago<br>When the world was the street where she lived<br>And a young man sailed on a ship in the sea<br>With a picture of veronica<br><br>On the empress of india<br>And as she closed her eyes upon the world and<br>Picked upon the bones of last week's news<br>She spoke his name outloud again<br><br>Chorus<br><br>Veronica sits in her favourite chair and she sits<br>Very quiet and still<br>And they call her a name that they never get<br>Right and if they don't then nobody else will<br>But she used to have a carefree mind of her<br>Own, with devilish look in her eye<br>Saying you can call me anything you like, but<br>My name is veronica<br><br>Chorus