Lyrics - God Give Me Strength by Elvis Costello

(words sung by the character in the movie given in brackets)
Now
I have nothing, so
God give me strength’cause
I’m weak in her [his] 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 [this belle is wrung out][he] she was the light that
I’d bless[he] she took my last chance at happiness
So
God give me strength,
God give me strength
I can’t hold onto [him] 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[he] she was the light that
I’d bless[he] she took my last chance at happiness
So
God give me strength,
God if [he’d] she’d grant me [his] her indulgence and decline
I might as well wipe [him] her from my memory
Fracture the spell as [he] 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[he] she was the light that
I’d bless[he] she took my last chance at happiness
So
God give me strength,
God give me strength

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