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                    Everyday I Write the Book
                          Elvis Costello
Intro (2x):
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Don't tell me you don't know what love is when you're old enough to
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know better.  When you find strange hands in your sweater, when
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your dreamboat turns out to be a footnote, I'm a man with a
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mission in two or three editions, andÉ
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I'm giving you a long look ev'ryday, ev'ryday,
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ev'ryday, ev'ryday I write the book.
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1st Verse:
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Chapter one, we didn't really get along, Chapter two, I think I
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fell in love with you.  you said you'd stand by me in the
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middle of Chapter three, but you were up to your old tricks in Chapters
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four, five, and six, andÉ
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I'm giving you a long look ev'ryday, ev'ryday,
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ev'ryday, ev'ryday I write the book.
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2nd verse:
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The way you walk, the way you talk and try to kiss me and laugh in four
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or five paragraphs.	  All your compliments and your
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cutting remarks are captured here in my quotation marks, andÉ
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I'm giving you a long look ev'ryday, ev'ryday,
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ev'ryday, ev'ryday I write the book. 	
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Don't tell me you don't know the diff'rence, between a lover and a
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fighter.  With my pen and my electric typewriter, even in a
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perfect world where ev'ryone was equal, I'd still own the film rights
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and be working on the sequel.
{coda}
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I'm giving you a long look ev'ryday, ev'ryday,
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ev'ryday, ev'ryday I write the book.
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Ev'ryday, ev'ryday, ev'ryday, ev'ryday I write the book.
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