Shipbuilding letra

Is it worth it?
A new winter coat and shoes for the wife
And a bicycle on the boy's birthday
It's just a rumor that was spread around town
By the women and children
Soon we'll be shipbuilding

Well I ask you
The boy said: Dad they're going to take me to task
But I'll be back by Christmas
It's just a rumor that was spread around town
Somebody said that someone got filled in
For saying that people get killed in
The result of this shipbuilding

With all the will in the world
Diving for dear life
When we could be diving for pearls

It's just a rumor that was spread around town
A telegram or a picture postcard
Within weeks they'll be re-opening the shipyard
And notifying the next of kin
Once again

It's all we're skilled in
We will be shipbuilding
With all the will in the world
Diving for dear life
When we could be diving for pearls

It's all we're skilled in
We will be shipbuilding
With all the will in the world
Diving for dear life
When we could be diving for pearls
When we could be diving for pearls
When we could be diving for pearls

Elvis Costello - Letras

• ...and In Every Home
• ...Dust
• (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea
• (the Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes
• (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love And Understanding
• 13 Steps Lead Down
• 15 Petals
• 20% Amnesia
• 45
• 5ive Gears In Reverse
• A Popsong Saved My Life
• A Slow Drag With Josephine
• A Town Called Big Nothing
• A Town Called Big Nothing (really Big Nothing)
• A Voice In The Dark
• Abandoned Masquerade
• Accidents Will Happen
• After The Fall
• Alibi
• Alibi Factory
• Alison
• Alison
• All Grown Up
• All The Rage
• All These Strangers
• All This Useless Beauty
• Almost Blue
• Almost Ideal Eyes
• American Without Tears
• American Without Tears #2 (twilight Version)
• An Open Letter
• And in Every Home
• Angels Wanna Wear My Red Shoes
• Any King's Shilling
• Armed Forces
• B Movie
• Baby It's You
• Baby Plays Around
• Baby's Got a Brand New Hairdo
• Back On My Feet
• Bama Lama Bama Loo
• Basement Kiss
• Battered Old Bird
• Beaten To The Punch
• Beautiful
• Bedlam
• Beyond Belief
• Big Boys
• Big Sister
• Big Sister's Clothes
• Big Tears
• Black And White World
• Black Sails In The Sunset
• Blame It On Cain
• Blue Chair
• Boy With a Problem
• Boy With a Problem (Demo)
• Bright Blue Times
• Brilliant Disguise
• Brilliant Mistake
• Broken
• Brown To Blue
• Bullets For The New-born King
• Burnt Sugar Is So Bitter
• Busy Bodies
• Button My Lip
• Can You Be True?
• Changing Partners
• Charm School
• Cheap Reward
• Chemistry Class
• Chewing Gum
• Church Underground
• Clean Money
• Clown Strike
• Clowntime Is Over
• Clowntime Is Over No. 2
• Clubland
• Coal Train Robberies
• Colour Of The Blues
• Come Away, Death
• Complicated Shadows
• Couldn't Call It Unexpected
• Couldn't Call It Unexpected No.4
• Couldn't You Keep That To Yourself
• Country Darkness
• Crawling to the U.S.A.
• Crimes of Paris
• Crucifix
• Cry Like A Rainstorm
• Cry, cry, cry
• Daddy can I turn this?
• Damnation's Cellar
• Dancing In The Moonlight
• Darling, You Know I Wouldn't Lie
• Darling,You Know I Wouldn't Lie
• Days
• Dear Sweet Filthy World
• Deep Dark Truthful Mirror
• Deep Dead Blue
• Deportee
• Different Finger
• Dirty Rotten Shame
• Disconnected
• Dissolve
• Distorted Angel
• Don't Be Careless Love
• Don't Cry For Me Argentina
• Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
• Down Among the Wines and Spirits
• Dr. Luther's Assistant
• Dr. Watson, I Presume
• Dust 2...
• Edith And The Kingpin
• Eisenhower Blues
• Either Side Of The Same Town
• Episode Of Blonde
• Everybody's Crying Mercy
• Everyday I Write The Book
• Everyday I Write The Book (Live)
• Expert Rites
• Fake Tin Star
• Fallen
• Fashion
• Favourite Hour
• Fire Suite 1
• Fire Suite 3
• Fire Suite Reprise
• Fish 'n' Chip Paper
• Five Gears In Reverse
• For Other Eyes
• For The Stars
• Forgive Her Anything
• Forty-Five
• From a whisper to a scream
• From head to toe
• Game Show Host
• Genre Casting
• Georgie and her rival
• Get Yourself Another Fool
• Getting Mighty Crowded
• Ghost Train
• Gigi
• Girls Talk
• Glitter Gulch
• Gloomy Sunday
• God Give Me Strength
• God's Comic
• Good Year For The Roses
• Goodbye Cruel World
• Goon Squad
• Green Shirt
• Green Song
• Hand in Hand
• Harpies Bizarre
• He's Got You
• Heart Shaped Bruise
• Heathen Town
• Hidden Charms
• Hidden Shame
• High Fidelity
• Home is Anywhere
• Home Is Anywhere You Hang Your Head
• Home Truth
• Honey Hush
• Honey, Are You Straight
• Honey, Are You Straight Or Are You Blind?
• Hoover Factory
• How Deep Is the Red
• How Much I Lied
• How To Be Dumb
• Hudson Ny
• Human Hands
• Human Touch
• Hurry Down Doomsday
• I Almost Had a Weakness
• I Can't Stand Up (For Falling Down)
• I Can't Stand Up For
• I Dreamed Of My Old Lover Last Night
• I Felt the Chill Before the Winter Came
• I Hope You're Happy Now
• I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself
• I Lost You
• I Stand Accused
• I Still Have That Other Girl
• I Thought I'd Write To Juliet
• I Threw It All Away
• I Throw My Toys Around
• I Turn Around
• I Wanna Be Loved
• I Want to Vanish
• I Want You
• I'll Never Fall In Love Again
• I'll Still Love You
• I'll wear it proudly
• I'm In The Mood Again
• I'm Not Angry
• I'm your toy
• I've been wrong before
• Imagination (Is a Powerful Deceiver)
• Impatience
• Imperial bedroom
• In The Darkest Place
• Inch by inch
• Indoor Fireworks
• Invasion hit parade
• It tears me up
• It's Time
• Jack of all parades
• Jacksons, monk and rowe
• Jimmie Standing In The Rain
• Joe porterhouse
• Jump up
• Just A Curio
• Just a memory
• Just about glad
• Kid about it
• Kinder Murder
• King horse
• King Of Confidence
• King of thieves
• Last boat leaving
• Leave my kitten alone
• Less Than Zero
• Less Than Zero (Dallas Version)
• Lesson In Cruelty
• Let him dangle
• Let Me Tell You About Her
• Let Them All Talk
• Let's Misbehave
• Life Shrinks
• Lip service
• Lipstick Vogue
• Little Atoms
• Little goody two shoes
• Little palaces
• Little savage
• Little Triggers
• Living in Paradise
• London's brilliant parade
• Long Journey Home
• Lost In The Stars
• Lovable
• Love field
• Love for sale
• Love for tender
• Love went mad
• Lover's walk
• Lovers That Never Were
• Luxembourg
• Man Out Of Time
• Men called uncle
• Middle Of The Road
• Miracle Man
• Mischievous Ghost
• Miss Macbeth
• Miss Mary
• Mistress And Maid
• Monkey To Man
• Moods for moderns
• Motel matches
• Mouth Almighty
• Mr. Feathers
• Mr.Feathers
• Must you throw dirt in my face
• My All Time Doll
• My Brave Face
• My Dark Life
• My funny valentine
• My little blue window
• My Lovely Jezebel
• My Mood Swings
• My science fiction twin
• My shoes keep walking back to you
• My Thief
• My Three Sons
• Mysterious Ways
• Mystery Dance
• Mystery dance (acoustic)
• Mystery Dance(Acoustic w/ Extra Verse)
• National Ransom
• Needle Time
• New
• New Amsterdam
• New Lace Sleeves
• Next time 'round
• Night Rally
• Night time
• No Action
• No dancing
• No Hiding Place
• No Wonder
• North
• Nothing Clings Like Ivy
• O, Mistress Mine
• Oh Well
• Oliver's Army
• One Bell Ringing
• Opportunity
• Our Little Angel
• Painted From Memory
• Party girl
• Party Party
• Passionate Fight
• Pay It Back
• Payday
• Peace in our time
• Pidgin English
• Pills and soap
• Playboy to a man
• Please (cover)
• Please stay
• Poison Moon
• Poisoned rose
• Pony street
• Poor Fractured Atlas
• Poor Napoleon
• Possession
• Pouring water on a drowning man
• Pretty words
• Psycho
• Pump It Up
• Punch the Clock
• Punishing Kiss
• Put Your Big Toe In The Milk Of Human Kindness
• Radio Radio
• Radio Silence
• Radio Sweetheart
• Really mystified
• Red Cotton
• Remove this doubt
• Riot act
• Rocking horse road
• Romeo's séance
• Room with no number
• Rope
• Running Out of Angels
• Running out of fools
• Sad about girls
• Same
• Satellite
• Secondary modern
• Seconds of pleasure
• Senior service
• Seven day weekend
• Shabby doll
• Shadow and Jimmy
• Shallow Graves
• Shamed Into Love
• Shatterproof
• She
• She
• She Handed Me a Mirror
• She Was No Good
• She's Pulling Out The Pin
• Shipbuilding
• Shoes without heels
• Shot with his own gun
• Sittin' and thinkin'
• Sleep of the just
• Sleepless Nights
• Sleepless nights (live)
• Smile
• Sneaky Feelings
• So like candy
• So young
• Some Took The Words Away
• Someone Took The Words Away
• Soul for hire
• Sour milk-cow blues
• Spooky girlfriend
• St. Stephen's Day Murders
• Stalin Malone (instrumental)
• Stalin Malone(Instrumental)
• Starting to come to me
• Stations Of The Cross
• Step Inside Love
• Sticks And Stones
• Still
• Still too soon to know
• Strange
• Stranger In The House
• Strict time
• Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of (fea.t Bono and The Edge)
• Success
• Such Unlikely Lovers
• Suffering face
• Suit of lights
• Sulky girl
• Sulphur to Sugarcane
• Sunday's Best
• Suspect My Tears
• Sweet dreams
• Sweet Janelle
• Sweet pear
• Swine
• Taking my life in your hands
• Talk Of The Town
• Talking in the dark
• Tart
• Tear off your own head (it's a doll revolution)
• Tears At The Birthday Party
• Tears before bedtime
• Teenager Of The Year
• Temptation
• That Day Is Done
• Thats Not The Part Of Him You're Leaving
• The Beat
• The Big Light
• The Birds Will Still Be Singing
• The bridge I burned
• The Comedians
• The Crooked Line
• The Days Take Care of Everything
• The Delivery Man
• The deportees club
• The element within her
• The Fall Of The World's Own Optimist
• The first to leave
• The flirting kind
• The great unknown
• The Greatest Thing
• The imposter
• The Invisible Man
• The Judgement
• The King Of The Unknown Sea
• The Letter Home
• The Long Division
• The Long Honeymoon
• The Loved Ones
• The Name Of This Thing Is Not Love
• The Name Of This Things Is Not Love
• The Night Before Larry Was Stretched
• The Only Daddy That'll
• The Only Daddy That'll Walk The Line
• The Only Flame In Town
• The Other End (of the Telescope)
• The Other Side Of Summer
• The People's Limousine
• The Scarlet Tide
• The Spell That You Cast
• The Stamping Ground
• The Sweetest Punch
• The Unfailing Welcome to The Voice
• The Very Thought Of You
• The World And His Wife
• The World and His Wife (Live)
• The World Of Broken Hearts
• There Won't Be Anymore
• There's A Story In Your Voice
• They'll Never Take Her
• They'll Never Take Her Love From Me
• This House Is Empty Now
• This is hell
• This Offer Is Unrepeatable
• This Sad Burlesque
• This town ...
• This Year's Girl
• Tiny Steps
• TKO (boxing day)
• Tokyo Storm Warning
• Toledo
• Tommy's Coming Home
• Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down
• Too Blue
• Too Far Gone
• Town Crier
• Town Cryer
• Town Where Time Stood Still
• Tramp The Dirt Down
• Trust
• Turning The Town Red
• Twenty-Five Fingers
• Twenty-five To Twelve
• Two little Hitler's
• Uncomplicated
• Unwanted Number
• Upon A Veil Of Midnight Blue
• Veronica
• Waiting For The End Of The World
• Walk Us Uptown
• Walking on thin ice
• Watch Your Step
• Watching The Detectives
• Watching the Detectives (LIVE)
• Wave a White Flag
• Wednesday week
• Weird Nightmare
• Welcome to the working week
• What Do I Do Now?
• What's Her Name Today?
• When Did I Stop Dreaming?
• When Green Eyes Turn Blue
• When I was cruel no. 2
• When It Sings
• When That I Was And A Little Tiny Boy
• White Knuckles
• Who do You Think You Are?
• Why Can't A Man Stand Alone?
• Why Don't You Love Me (like You Used To Do)?
• Why?
• Wild Horses
• Withered And Died
• Worthless Thing
• You Belong to Me
• You Bowed Down
• You Hung The Moon
• You Left Me In The Dark
• You Little Fool
• You Stole My Bell
• You Tripped At Every Step
• You Turned To Me
• You Want Her Too
• You'll Never Be a Man
• You're No Good
• Your Angel Steps Out Of Heaven
• Your Mind Is On Vacation
• Your Mind Is On Vacation (Your Funeral, My Trial)