Invasion Hit Parade Lyrics by Elvis Costello

Invasion Hit Parade Lyrics

    Now that you set everybody free
    What are you going to do about me?
    Don't want to be treated like some poor grateful clown
    I'd rather go back to the sweet underground
    Where i can tell by the colour of my skin
    And i know my neighbour 'cos he's the one, yes he's the one
    Who always turns me in

    A woman works the tunnel in the middle of the night
    Picking up every lost object in sight
    Handbags, toupees, lost legs and fingernails
    The black market eats up all your failures
    Her transistor offers no salvation or regrets
    No pool, no pets, no cigarettes
    Just non-stop disco tex and the sex-o-lettes

    Chorus
    There's no name, no name for the place or pain we'll cause you
    Again and again
    If you do not co-operate with the invasion hit parade

    The liberation forces make movies of their own
    Playing their doors records and pretending to be stoned
    Drowning out a broadcast that wasn't authorised
    Incidentally the revolution will be televised
    With one head for business and another for good looks
    Until they started arriving with their rubber aprons and their
    Butcher's hooks

    Chorus

    They're hunting us down here with liberty's light
    A handshaking double talking procession of the mighty
    Pursued by a t.v. crew and coming after them
    A limousine of singing stars and their brotherhood anthem
    The former dictator was impeccably behaved
    They're mopping up all the stubborn ones who just refuse to be saved

    Chorus

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