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Tripwire Lyrics

Just because you don't speak the language
Doesn't mean that you can't understand
Just because you don't speak the language
Doesn't mean that you can't understand
The twist in the script of the insult
Scrawled on the back of your hand
Torn from the pages of scripture
Sprayed on a wall in the frays of a flag
Kisses forbidden on lips
And all of your fine clothes worn into rags
Tripwire,
tripwire,
tripwire,
tripwire
There's a tripwireTripwire, tripwire, tripwire
Don't open the door 'cos they're coming
Don't open the door 'cos they're here
Above there's an ominous humming
Below there's a murmur of prayer
Torn from the pages of scandal
Sprayed on a wall in the frays of a flag
Kisses forbidden on lips
And all of your fine clothes blown into rags
Tripwire,
tripwire,
tripwire,
tripwire
There's a tripwire
Tripwire,
tripwire,
tripwire
There's a cross in the line of the circuit
There's a voice that you might overhear
There's a lens making the picture perfect
They say you have nothing to fear
Torn from the pages of pamphlets
Thrown in the air like confetti in church
Far, far away there's a target
And the sound of an army just starting to march
Tripwire,
tripwire,
tripwire,
tripwire
There's a tripwire
Tripwire,
tripwire,
tripwire
Just because I don't read the language
Doesn't mean that I'm blind to the threat
Though I thought there was more to forgiveness
Than all we conveniently forget
Torn from the pages of history
Repeated again and again and again
You're either for or against us
And that is how the hatred begins
Tripwire,
tripwire,
tripwire,
tripwire
There's a tripwire

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A collaboration between Elvis Costello and The Roots, who released Wise Up Ghost on 16th September 2013.

Produced by Costello with Roots drummer Questlove and the band’s longtime associate Steven Mandel, ‘Ghost’ was first revealed in a January 2013 interview with Questlove, who told Billboard that the Roots’ gig as the house band for ‘Late Night With Jimmy Fallon‘ had given them the opportunity to back up Costello a number of times. He described the relationship as “love at first sight.”

Initially slated to cover just a few songs, the ‘Wise Up Ghost’ sessions quickly turned into something more when, as Questlove recalled, “We had 13 or 14 songs, but then we said, ‘Ooh! Wait a minute! Let’s replace four of these songs with four better songs! And now we have the tightest 12-14 song collection out of about 20 songs that we made.”

Costello shared Questlove’s enthusiasm in typically cryptic fashion, describing the record in a press release as “the shortest distance between here and there” and containing “both rhythm and what is read.” Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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