Lyrics Unwanted Number - Elvis Costello & The Imposters

You should hear the things that they say about me
They're saying: She's no better than she needed to be
They don't know that he was kind and strong and tender
And now I'll never be another Unwanted Number
Unwanted Number
How can I tell them?
How can I express?
How it felt to step out of this life and into his embrace
How can I tell them?
How can I explain?
All the love that I never had I found in him
There may be a stain on the family name
And if my father was here I think I know who he'd blame
Mama says that he just doesn't care to remember
And all he thinks of me is another Unwanted Number
Unwanted Number
How can she tell me
What can I expect
Of all the painful lesson she learned she never earned respect
How can she tell me
How can I confess
Every night he came to my room
And helped me to undress
There's a local game where they whisper my shame
They say: he gave her his child
He wouldn't give her his name"
They will torture me from January till September
And soon there's going to be another Unwanted Number
Unwanted Number
Unwanted Number
I will give my love to another unwanted number
Unwanted Number
Unwanted Number
And I will give my love
I will give my love
And I will give my love
I will give my love to another unwanted number
Unwanted number
Unwanted number
And I will give my love
I will give my love
And I will give my love
I will give my love to another unwanted number
Unwanted number
Unwanted number
Unwanted number