Things I've Been Telling Myself For Years letra

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

Elbow - Letras

• A Mexican Standoff
• A Regret
• About Time
• Adriana Again
• All Disco
• An Audience With The Pope
• An Imagined Affair
• Any Day Now
• Any Day Now (my Little Eye Soundtrack)
• Asleep In The Back
• Back to Black (cover)
• Bitten By The Tail-fly
• Bitten By The Tailfly
• Brave New Shave
• Buffalo Ghosts
• Buttons And Zips
• Can't Stop
• Charge
• Colour Fields
• Colour Fiels
• Coming Second
• Crawling With Idiot
• Dear Friends
• Don't Mix Your Drinks
• Fallen Angel
• Firebrand & Angel
• Fly Boy Blue/ Lunette
• Flying Dream 143
• Forget Myself
• Friend Of Ours
• Fugitive Motel
• Gentle As
• Gentle Storm
• George Lassoes The Moon
• Grace Under Pressure
• Great Expectations
• Grounds For Divorce
• Head for Supplies
• High Ideals
• Honey Sun
• Hotel Istanbul
• I've Got Your Number
• Independent Women, Part 1
• Jesus Is A Rochdale Girl
• K2
• Kindling
• Lay Down Your Cross
• Leaders of the Free World
• Lippy Kids
• Little Beast
• Little Fictions
• Long War Shuffle
• Loss
• Lost Worker Bee
• Love Blown Down
• Lucky With Disease
• Lullaby
• Magnificent (She Says)
• McGreggor
• Mexican Standoff
• Mirrorball
• Montparnasse
• My Sad Captains
• My Very Best
• Neat Little Rows
• New York Morning
• Newborn
• None One
• Not A Job
• One Day Like This
• One Thing That Was Bothering
• Open Arms
• Open Arrms
• Our Little Boat
• Picky Bastard
• Picky Bugger
• Powder Blue
• Presuming Ed
• Presuming Ed (Rest Easy)
• Puncture Repair
• Real Life (Angel)
• Red
• Ribcage
• Running To Stand Still
• Scattered Black & Whites
• Scattered Black And Whites
• Snooks
• Snowball
• Some Riot
• Something In The Air
• Starlings
• Station Approach
• Stumble
• Suffer
• Switching Off
• Teardrop
• The Birds
• The Birds (reprise)
• The Blanket Of Night
• The Bones Of You
• The Crow
• The Drunken Engineer
• The Everthere
• The Fix
• The God Day
• The Loneliness Of A Tower Crane Driver
• The Night Will Always Win
• The River
• The Stops
• The Take Off and Landing of Everything
• Things I've Been Telling Myself For Years
• This Blue World
• Trust the Sun
• Waving From Windows
• Weather To Fly
• Whisper Grass
• With Love