Lyrics




She looked like she learned to dance
From a series of still pictures
She's madly excited now
She throws her hands up like a Tulip
She looks like an illustration of a cocktail party
Where cartoon bubbles burst in the air
Champagne rolls off her tongue
Like a second language
And it should have been her biggest night
The satellite looks down on her as she begins to cry
All over the world at the very same time
People sharing the same sorrow
As the satellite looks down
Her darkest hour is somebody's bright tomorrow
He pulled on a cigarette
In the crook of his first finger
Felt the static electric charge
Of her perfect hour-glass figure
As he undressed her with his eyes
Her weakness was his talent
How could she know as she stepped through the lights
That her dress would become transparent
And with his face pressed to the screen
He muttered words he'd never dare to say if she could see him
All over the world at the very same time
People sharing the same cheap sensation
The thrill of watching somebody watching
Those forbidden things we never mention
The satellite looks down, right now and forever
What it has pulled apart let no man tether
His own body to his dream
His dream to someone else
Oh no, oh no
She went back to a pitiful compromise
He'd go back to his family
But for the matter of a thousand miles
That separated them entirely
In the hot unloving spotlight
With the secrets it arouses
Now they both know what it's like
Inside a pornographer's trousers
And in a funny way it's anonymous, the satellite
It blesses us and makes these dreams come true
All over the world at the very same time
All over the world
The satellite looks down, right now and forever
What it has pulled apart let no man tether
His own body to his dream
His dream to someone else
Oh no, oh no
Oh no, oh no



Writer(s): D.p.a. Macmanus


Elvis Costello - Original Album Series
Album Original Album Series
date of release
11-06-2012

1   Stalin Malone
2   Pony St.
3   Interlude: Couldn't Call It Unexpected No. 2 - Instrumental
4   ...This Town...
5   Let Him Dangle
6   Deep Dark Truthful Mirror
7   Veronica
8   God's Comic
9   Chewing Gum
10   Tramp The Dirt Down
11   Satellite
12   Pads, Paws And Claws
13   Baby Plays Around
14   Miss Macbeth
15   Any King’s Shilling
16   Coal-Train Robberies
17   Last Boat Leaving
18   The Other Side Of Summer
19   Hurry Down Doomsday [The Bugs Are Taking Over]
20   How To Be Dumb
21   All Grown Up
22   Invasion Hit Parade
23   Harpies Bizarre
24   After The Fall
25   Georgie And Her Rival
26   So Like Candy
27   Playboy To A Man
28   Sweet Pear
29   Broken
30   Couldn't Call It Unexpected No. 4
31   Kinder Murder
32   13 Steps Lead Down
33   This Is Hell
34   Clown Strike
35   You Tripped At Every Step
36   Still Too Soon To Know
37   20% Amnesia
38   Sulky Girl
39   London's Brilliant Parade
40   My Science Fiction Twin
41   Rocking Horse Road
42   Just About Glad
43   All The Rage
44   Favourite Hour
45   Strange
46   Hidden Charms
47   Remove This Doubt
48   I Threw It All Away
49   Leave My Kitten Alone
50   Everybody's Crying Mercy
51   I've Been Wrong Before
52   Bama Lama Bama Loo
53   Must You Throw Dirt In My Face
54   Pouring Water On A Drowning Man
55   The Very Thought Of You
56   Payday
57   Please Stay
58   Running Out Of Fools
59   Days
60   The Other End of the Telescope
61   Little Atoms
62   All This Useless Beauty
63   Complicated Shadows
64   Why Can’t a Man Stand Alone?
65   Distorted Angel
66   Shallow Grave
67   Poor Fractured Atlas
68   Starting to Come to Me
69   You Bowed Down
70   It’s Time
71   I Want to Vanish




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