Costello, Elvis - Tart Lyrics
Hear silver trumpets will trill in Arabic streets of Seville
Oranges roll in the gutter
And you pick them up
And peel back the skin
To the red fruit within
[Chorus:]
But the flavour is...
Tart
And the flavour is...
Tart
Is it something you crave?
And you say that you only feel bitterness
When you know it's a lie, lie, lie...
Wild with a blackberry bush
There, at the edge of the asphalt tempting fingertips
They stain your hand, press too hard
They'll colour your lips...
But the flavour is...
Tart
And the flavour is...
Tart
Is it something you crave?
'Cos you say that you only feel bitterness
Would it kill you to show us a little sweetness?
[Chorus]
Odd, where nothing else grows
It was something like love that she chose
Always a creature of habit
When pity would do
She wore down that heel with no feeling
She kept on her shoes
[Chorus]
Nylon was hung from a peg
And a kohl black seam ran down her leg
Fishermen look for their nets
And send their regrets
The bug lay there broken
She spoke, "Is this some kind of joke?"
But the flavour is...
Tart
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Costello, Elvis Tart Comments
To illsya. 2006.
the playlist is flawless
what is it ? about a half dozen ," come back " albums. Tarts he's met along the way keep him going.
Why should it be a "coneback" album. I don't think he's trying to too the charts. He's just making muaic. That's what he does, like a bee makes honey.
It's dream (or stream of consciousness) political commentary about HRC and lack of sweetness in U.S. culture maybe. There's conflict in this song: it's about sour and sweet. I look to E/ Costello for cultural advice. This is a partway 'loud song', but he has a Ballad going here that's a protest to cultural biases that relate to young tarts somehow, and it's like a cue that he got as some wierd dream and it's a warning maybe.
underrated album, for sure.
@meleva steiert one of his best and underrated. it just flows in every way
love it!