Elvis costello and the attractions everyday i write the book lyrics

Don't tell me you don't know what love is 

 When you're old enough to know better 

 WHEN YOU FIND STRANGE HANDS IN YOUR SWEATER 

 When your dreamboat turns out to be a footnote 

 I'm a man with a mission in two or three editions 

  

 And I'm giving you a longing look 

 Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book 

  

 Chapter One we didn't really get along 

 Chapter Two I think I fell in love with you 

 You said you'd stand by me in the middle of Chapter Three 

 But you were up to your old tricks in Chapters Four, Five and Six 

  

 The way you walk 

 The way you talk, and try to kiss me, and laugh 

 In four or five paragraphs 

 All your compliments and your cutting remarks 

 Are captured here in my quotation marks 

  

 Don't tell me you don't know the difference 

 Between a lover and a fighter 

 With my pen and my electric typewriter 

 Even in a perfect world where everyone was equal 

 I'd still own the film rightsand be working on the sequel