Track Title: God Give Me Strength Album Title: The Very Best Of Elvis Costello - Disc 2 Prime Artist: Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick Aloysius Macmanus) Written by: Burt Bacharach Written by: Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick Aloysius Macmanus) Lyrics: Now I have nothing, so God give me strength 'Cause I'm weak in her wake And if I'm strong I might still break And I don't have anything to share That I won't throw away into the air That song is sung out This bell is rung out She was the light that I'd bless She took my last chance at happiness So God give me strength, God give me strength I can't hold onto her, God give me strength When the phone doesn't ring And I'm lost in imagining Everything that kind of love is worth As I tumble back down to the earth That song is sung out This bell is rung out She was the light that I'd bless She took my last chance at happiness So God give me strength, God if she'd grant me her indulgence and decline I might as well wipe her from my memory Fracture the spell as she becomes my enemy Maybe I was washed out like a lip-print on his shirt See, I'm only human, I want him to hurt I want him I want him to hurt [instrumental] Since I lost the power to pretend That there could ever be a happy ending That song is sung out This bell is rung out She was the light that I'd bless She took my last chance at happiness So God give me strength, God give me strength |