Veronica Elvis Costello

Lyrics: Veronica

Is it all in that pretty little head of yours?
What goes on in that place in the dark?
Well I used to know a girl and I could have sworn
that her name was Veronica
Well she used to have a carefree mind of her own
and a delicate look in her eye
These days I'm afraid she's not even sure if her
name is Veronica

Chorus:

Do you suppose, that waiting hands on eyes,
Veronica has gone to hide?
and all the time she laughs at those who shout
her name and steal her clothes.
Veronica, Veronica, Veronica


Did the days drag by? Did the favours wane?
Did he roam down the town all the while?
did you wake from your dream, with a wolf at
the door, reaching out for Veronica
Well it was all of sixty-five years ago
When the world was the street where she lived
And a young man sailed on a ship in the sea
With a picture of Veronica

On the "Empress of India"
And as she closed her eyes upon the world and
picked upon the bones of last week's news
She spoke his name out loud again

Chorus:

Do you suppose, that waiting hands on eyes,
Veronica has gone to hide?
and all the time she laughs at those who shout
her name and steal her clothes.
Veronica, Veronica, Veronica


Veronica sits in her favorite chair
She sits very quiet and still
And they call her a name that they never get right
and if they don't then nobody else will


But she used to have a carefree mind of her own
with a devilish look in her eye
saying you can call me anything you like
but my name is Veronica

Chorus:

Do you suppose, that waiting hands on eyes,
Veronica has gone to hide?
and all the time she laughs at those who shout
her name and steal her clothes.
Veronica, Veronica, Veronica


This Is The Official Video To Veronica, I DO NOT Own This Video, it Belongs To Elvis Costello, I'm Hoping that You Tube Will allow me to upload this... Just Want People to see the true music video, and what he can truly sound like.


No Voice Was Dubbed onto this, It is actually Elvis Costello' s voice That you hear, Its was done in the studio.

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• Elvis Costello
• Music
• Official Music Video
• Lyrics
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[The1CamBo]

This is the gayest song I have ever heard.

[michaeloneill1993]

@The1CamBo

And You say that why?

[kpboland1969]

If you listen you can hear him actually singing along with the track. The director liked it so much he kept his voice in the final edit. Listen you can hear it.

[michaeloneill1993]

@kpboland1969 Thank You!!!! Someone who Finally Realizes its elvis!!!

[LBjim]

I went to pay my cell phone bill today and the cute young girl who worked the counter name is Veronica. and I said like the Elvis Costello song..she said who?..That is when i knew I was OLD!!LOL!!..she immediately put it up on YOU TUBE and I think we may have gotten a new EC fan..just thought I'd pass it on!!! Peace

[joeltopgun]

My cousin is the little girl in this clip! I have my .5 second of fame at 1:10 also. Yay.

[rafkny]

I really cry every time I watch this video. I love how Elvis isn't singing over most of the playback. Even if the woman is an actress, the point gets across. I love this song and video so much!

[EZtalkman]

He is DEFINITELY talking about someone real that he knew in this. Veronica may be fiction, but the person he based her on is most certainly NOT.

[icanhazteehee]

Is it weird that I'm 11 and love Elvis Costello? :) Just wondering.

[kja427]

A far cry from his rambunctious period in The 70's. He mellowed out in The80's. Nice tune, Mr. Costello.

[Gravida12]

Great songwriters can do great songs about anything.

[alfredosgal]

Such a sad song. I think almost everyone can relate

[TheMazomi]

Just wondering, i don't think my mother has dementia, but she does go on about the past a lot, and she doesn't seem to grasp that i don't even know the people that she is talking about because i was like 3 years old at the time. Anyway, i hope she lives forever just because i love her

[veronicaenriquez]

It so sad to see my dad going through something similar, he slips from time to time he is a famous dr. with so many prices and how he tries to come back but with all the medication is hard for him to keep focous...... and to think that I may go like that in 30 years???? it also breaks my heart, we only can keep them alive thinking of them when they were THEMSELVES and not at the end of their lives, I understand what you are feeling merkinidgit sorry.

[merkinidgit]

My mom had been an advanced amateur classical pianist before crippling arthritis silenced her. Once, years later, she pounded out a spirited piece on the air above her hospital bed in a foggy mixture of dementia and narcotics. Although I loved this song as the teenager of a single mom in the '70s, it absolutely breaks my heart in my middle-aged 2012.