Lyrics - I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down by Costello Elvis

Date:
Wed, 03
Mar 93 16:11:59
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Subject:
Definitive(?)
Can't
Stand
Up
The reason
I'm so certain about these lyrics is that at a record show yearsago,
I bought a battered copy of
Sam and
Dave's version.
It's done in astately gospel style that
Elvis later adopted for concert performances of thesong.
Here goes: (minor correctios by
Paul
Hosken (rmcb@vm.op.dlr.de))
I'm the living result
Of a man who's been hurt a little too much
And
I've tasted
The bitterness of my own tears
Sadness is all my lonely heart can feel
I can't stand up etc.
Simple though love is,still it confused me
Why
I'm not loved the way
I should be
Now
I've lived with heartachesand
I've roomed with fear
I've dealt with despair
And
I've wrestled with tears
I can't stand up etc.
The vow that we made,you broke it in twobut that don't stop mefrom loving you
I can't stand up etc.

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