Another song I love! This music video features a couple who look like Prince Charles and Princess Diana (Charles & Diana married just two years before). In this scenario, Diana doesn't seem all that interested in Charles, but he tries to do all these crazy things to try to endear himself to her. But in real life, he never loved her even though she genuinely loved him which gives this music video a sad and wistfull tone (if only whoever developed the concept for this music video knew the reality of Charles & Diana's relationship). It's still a sweet song though with cute lyrics!
-=<♥ Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Everyday I Write The Book ♥>=-
(1983)
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 on 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.
And I'm giving you a longing look
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.
And I'm giving you a longing look
Everyday I write the book
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
Everyday
Everyday
Everyday
Everyday I write the book
❧