Are we rolling?
One, two, one, two, three, fourHere in my little spy movie
With my garter and dagger
And my gag and my cuff
And my gunslinger swaggerYou used to be my hand-painted villain
You used to be so thrillingIt's a switch that you're flicking
A fuse you're always tripping
A button that you're pressing
A number that you're pushingYou're always delaying
Denying
And betraying
Why don't you come back, baby?
Why don't you go away?Go Away, Go Away
Why don't you go away?
Why don't you come back, baby?
Why don't you go away?Budapest intrigue
Three hours of black and white
Squinting at subtitles
Through a telescopic sightHungarian melody
Repeating endlessly
Is this the end I see?
Approaching in front of meA switch that you're flicking
A fuse you're always tripping
A button that you're pressing
A number that you're pushing
You're always delaying
DenyingOr betraying
Why don't you come back, baby?
Why don't you go away?Go Away, Go Away
Why don't you go away?
Why don't you come back, baby?
Why don't you go away?In this hysterical epic
Secret passage of the palace
Powder from a hollow ring
Into the poisonous chaliceUnfrocked fondler
In a half moonlit gondola
Pampered hog in a ringlet wig
Gamboled a merry jigYou're always pursuing
But she won't need possessing
Just undoing and undressing
Please don't stop confessingYou're always delaying
Denying
Or betraying
Why don't you come back, baby?
Why don't you go away?Go Away, Go Away
Why don't you go away?
Why don't you come back, baby?
Why don't you go away?In my mystery caper
As I lower my lamp
On a fey little gunsel
Who dreamed of drilling that vampI'm walking the shade
Of this silent parade
With my pepper and mace
And my heartbroken faceRainy railway station
Drowns out a tearful parting
Last canister rolling
On our little melodramaIs a one-horse opera
A screwball comedy
Mistaken identity
Well, who do you want to be?A switch that you're flicking
A fuse you're always tripping
A button that you're pressing
A number that you're pushingYou're always delaying
Denying
Or betraying
Why don't you come back, baby?
Why don't you go away?Go Away, Go Away
Why don't you go away?
Why don't you come back, baby?
Why don't you go away?Hey hey
Why don't you
Go away
Why don't you go away?
Songwriters
COSTELLO, ELVISPublished by
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