A Century of Elvis

Artist：belle and sebastian

Songs Title：a century of elvis

We were sitting in the living room on the sofa the wrong way round looking out the window

It was quiet and then in the car park across the road we saw Elvis - look there beside the postman's van

And he was walking round the postman's van looking in the open door

He looked as if he was thinking about getting in but then the postman came back and he swaggered off

Walked past the window and down the stairs and then at the bottom of the stairs right by the caretaker's office

He started licking the pavement

Every night now since we moved in that new house there's this noise outside the door at just about half seven or eight o' clock every night

And if we go and look outside the door Elvis'll be standing there waiting to be let in

And then he wanders into the living room maybe sits down on one of the chairs or even lies down on the floor

He doesn't say much he just stays there for an hour or two watching the TV

We talk to him a bit and then around ten o' clock he'll go away again and not come back until the next night

There's a lot of lanes and stuff around here around the house - although it's right in the middle of the city

It seems quite like the country it's dead hidden - safe I suppose made for night living

There's a lot of squirrels and birds and Stuart says he's seen about nine foxes there

When he's jumped over the fence on his way to Prior's Road

Sometimes you can go out walking and when you've been out for a wee while even you don't know where you are anymore

So it would be pretty hard for anyone else to find you

I suppose that's why he spends so much time there that's why he's come to live there or maybe it's just the squirrels

I read about somewhere that he likes squirrels quite a lot

There's these two videos that we got for wedding presents - called the e-files

E-files one and e-files two about how Elvis is supposed to be still alive

And one time when he came round we were watching one of those but he didn't say anything he just sat on the armchair

He was playing with his collar a bit and we watched it right through and then when it finished

He just got up and walked off into the mist and didn't say anything

The first few times he came round I didn't speak to him at all I wasn't really sure what to say

And Karen spoke to him quite a lot - she seemed to know what to do more than I do

He had quite a strange manner though he'd go into your stuff and look through it

Then he'd maybe pick something up and play with it for a wee while but he'd never make any comment about any of it

Seemed pretty rude to me

I just watched whatever Karen did and listened to how she talked to him and then

After a while I started to copy that and tell him a few things

Not really bothered about whether he responded or said anything back or not

I think the first time I spoke to him we were sitting up on the mezzanine and I said that I would tell him about me and wee Karen

And how it was that we'd come to be living there

I thought he probably liked the fact that we were living there because he came round so much

So I thought he might want to know how it was that it came about

We did it all over backwards I told him

First of all we got to know each other and then a while after that we met

And when we'd known each other for about seven years we decided to have an anniversary

And that went quite well so after the anniversary we had a honeymoon and that went well too

So after that we decided that we would get married

That's why we're living there now I used to think my dad was Elvis but I haven't told him that yet

I haven't told my dad either