... 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 rights and be working on the sequel ... // And I'm giving you a longing look / Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book

ein wenig überschlau, zugegeben, wie Costello ja fast immer, aber als pop-song doch sehr hübsch und erstaunlich funktionierend. projekt: literaturpop. alle popsongs suchen, in denen es um schreiben/lesen geht. "paperback writer" von den beatles usw.