Lyrics for Almost Blue as interpreted by Mopnugget

Almost Blue Lyrics
Almost blue
Almost doing things we used to do
There's a girl here and she's almost you
Almost all the things that your eyes once promised
I see in hers too
Now your eyes are red from crying
Almost blue
Flirting with this disaster became me
It named me as the fool who only aimed to be

Almost blue
It's almost touching it will almost do
There's a part of me that's always true...always
Not all good things come to an end now it is only a chosen few
I've seen such an unhappy couple

Almost me
Almost you
Almost blue

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v1m
05-13-2002

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An exquisite song, Costello at his best as a writer and performer. Catch, if you can, the haunting performance by Chet Baker.

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VintageCutie
10-13-2005

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the gwen stephani version is awesome as well

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sklegg
09-14-2006

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Gwen Stefani? Really?

Anyway... this song reminds me of his album North.

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Addie Mae
08-06-2007

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Love this song.

It's about two people in a relationship who have grown apart. "There's a girl here and she's almost you..." refers to his current love, but because they've grown apart, she's just not the same.

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foreverdrone
06-17-2008

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thanx addie. silly me, i was too literal and thought he was comparing a current lover to an ex-lover...which doesn't make much sense, as they'd both have to be present for him to see into two pairs of eyes. somehow I didn't reach the obvious conclusion.

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foreverdrone
06-17-2008

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the wordplay on imperial bedroom is astounding, even by the high standards set by elvis' past work. you could write a book on the lyrical complexity of songs like "beyond belief" or "man out of time"...in terms of meter, rhyme, prosody/phrasing, meaning, subtext, running themes (within the album or throughout his career), etc.

here he uses a device (hardly original, but rarely done as well) exploiting the ambiguity of a word which fits into both one line and the next:

There's a girl here and she's almost you...almost
All the things that your eyes once promised

[which is how he sings it...but it also works this way]

There's a girl here and she's almost you
Almost all the things that your eyes once promised

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