Things I've Been Telling Myself for Years

Things I've Been Telling Myself for Years - Elbow

Lyrics by：Craig Potter/Guy Garvey/Mark Potter/Pete Turner/Alex Reeves

Composed by：Craig Potter/Guy Garvey/Mark Potter/Pete Turner/Alex Reeves

Produced by：Craig Potter

Things I've been telling myself for years

I can read people yeah

Blushing peccadillos twisted bents and buried fears

Things I've been telling myself for years

I'm the dashboard hula girl of nodding self deception

Here's to never accepting slight adjustment or correction

Here's to a doting mother's voice assisting me in every choice

Saying chorister binman or barrister

So lucky son to have you

Here's to walking in every room like ascending for an Oscar

Kissing hands and shaking babies blackpool rock imposter

A cannon loosed a golden goose

Leo sayer of the unsaid sooths

I'll fix you with a cosmic stare

I'll fix your life go fix your hair I dare you

Of course I'll live to ninety six

And fix the welfare state

I'll build a house with these two hands

My face above the gate

I haven't paid for cabs or beers or met a cunt

In twenty years

Like all that outrun poverty

All I have was coming to me

Things I've been telling myself for years

All of these things I've been telling myself for years

Things I've been telling myself for years