Girls Talk

Album: Repeat When Necessary (1979)
Charted: 4 65
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  • This song's called Girls Talk

    There are some things you can't cover up
    With lipstick and powder
    Thought I heard you mention my name
    Can't you talk any louder?

    Don't come any closer
    Don't come any nearer
    My vision of you
    Can't come any clearer
    Oh, I just want to hear girls talk

    Got a loaded imagination
    Bein' fired by girls talk
    It's a more or less situation
    Inspired by girls talk

    But I can't say
    The words you want to hear
    I suppose you're gonna have to play it by ear
    Right here

    And now, girls talk
    But they want to know how girls talk
    They say it's not allowed, girls talk
    If they say that it's so
    Don't they think that I'd know by now?

    Got the word up on everyone's lipstick
    That you're dedicated
    You may not be an old-fashioned girl
    But you're gonna get dated

    Was it really murder?
    Were you just pretending?
    Lately, I have heard
    You are the living end

    But they want to know how girls talk
    They say it's not allowed, girls talk
    They think they know how girls talk
    If they say that it's so
    Don't they think that I'd know by now?

    But I can't say
    The words you want to hear
    I suppose you're gonna have to play it by ear
    Right here

    There are some things you can't cover up
    With lipstick and powder
    Thought I heard you mention my name
    Can't you talk any louder?

    Don't come any closer
    Don't come any nearer
    My vision of you
    Can't come any clearer

    Oh, how girls talk
    But they want to know how girls talk
    They say it's not allowed, girls talk
    Girls talk, girls talk
    Girls talk, girls talk
    Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, girls talk
    Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, girls talk
    Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, girls talk Writer/s: Elvis Costello
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Billy from MkNope. 'But the word upon everyone’s lips is that you're dedicated'.
    Makes far more sense. Listen to Elvis' version.
  • I_am_warthogThe lyric is not "Got the word up on everyone's lipstick that you're getting faded" it is "But the word up on everyone's lipstick that you're dedicated".
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