[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:00.61]When I Was Cruel No 2 (Album Version) - Elvis Costello [00:44.79]I exit through the spotlight glare [00:50.45]I stepped out into thin air [00:56.17]Into a perfume so rarefied [01:02.31]Here comes the bride [01:07.75]Not quite aside they snide she's number four [01:13.52]There's number three just by the door [01:19.20]Those in the know don't even flatter her [01:22.35]They go one better [01:25.29]She was selling speedboats in a trade show when he met her [01:30.96]Look at her now [01:33.67]She's starting to yawn [01:36.65]She looks like she was born to it [01:42.44]But it was so much easier [01:47.85]When I was cruel [01:54.01]She reaches out her arms to me [01:59.81]Imploring another melody [02:05.47]So she can dance her husband out on the floor [02:11.33]The captains of industry just lie there where they fall [02:17.27]In eau-de-nil and pale carnation creation [02:22.89]A satin sash and velvet elevation [02:28.66]She straightens the tipsy head dress of her spouse [02:34.47]While her recalls a honey house [02:40.21]There'll be no sorrows left to drown [02:46.05]Early in the morning in your evening gown [02:51.94]But it was so much easier [02:57.25]When I was cruel [03:26.57]The entrance hall was arranged with hostesses and ushers [03:32.17]Who turned out to be the younger wives nursing schoolgirl crushes [03:38.19]Parting the waves of those few feint friends [03:43.51]Fingers once offered are now too heavy to extend [03:49.36]The ghostly first wife glides up stage whispering to raucous talkers [03:54.97]Spilling family secrets out to flunks and Castro walkers [04:00.91]See that girl [04:03.53]Watch that scene [04:05.83]Digging the dancing queen [04:41.61]Two newspaper editors like playground sneaks [04:47.04]Running the book on which of them is going to last the week [04:53.00]One of them calls to me [04:54.93]And he says I know you [04:58.66]You gave me this tattoo back in '82 [05:04.53]You were a spoil child then with a record to plug [05:10.52]And I was a shaven headed seaside thug [05:16.28]Things haven't really changed that much [05:20.89]One of us is still getting paid too much [05:27.73]There are some things I can't report [05:33.87]The memory of his last retort [05:39.63]But it was so much easier [05:44.84]When I was cruel [06:14.30]Look at her now [06:17.19]She's starting to yawn [06:20.60]She looks like she was born to it [06:26.44]But it was so much easier [06:31.04]When I was cruel