Elvis Costello - Do You Know What I'm Saying lyrics

The past prima donna In bu*tons and bells Was speaking what's left of her mind As the audience rebels Do you know what I'm saying? The lights they were dimmed The music by Strauss She entered on rollerskates Fetchingly tousled She dnced like an ambulance Talked like a cartoon mouse She took off her clothes And it brought down the house Do you know what I'm saying? Do you know what I'm saying? Why don't you come when I call? Do you know what I'm saying? Can you still hear me at all? The male counterpart: stupid, brutal and rich Lies under the arm of the world like an itch Do you know what I'm saying? Because he is such an attractive young lout Putting words in his mouth and then trying them out It doesn't much matter what they are about So long as he has something nasty to spout Do you know what I'm saying? Boys will be boys Blood must be spilt And nothing like showbusiness was ever built For letting your critical function wilt Under the weight of your liberal guilt Do you know what I'm saying? He's the genuine voice of his unlovely state And the first to complain When they start to investigate Under his criminal past and his polythene skin He's blowing his lines with his cheeks s**ed in Do you know what I'm saying? Hush now... He has something special to say... "Can you put your hands together this way?" Do you know what I'm saying