"Magnificent Hurt" lyrics - ELVIS COSTELLO

After talking in tongues
I began to preach
"What falls from the branch is an apple or peach"
Hold on to me
There's a Red Alert

It's the way you make me feel
Magnificent Hurt

I took a little walk
I took another stimulant
I shed a single tear
For my predicament
Don't act surprised or insolent

It's the way you make me feel
Magnificent Hurt

When we first me
I knew you were beautiful
You fit like the seat of a blue mohair suit
But the pain that I felt
Let me know I'm alive
And I opened my heart

To the way you make me feel
Magnificent Hurt

I speak low and intimate
Like a cardboard sophisticate
What if this is true love
Not some town-hall certificate

It's the way you make me feel
Magnificent Hurt

I stood at the door and
I almost went through with it
Tight as the angle of my "Amen"
And I swore there and then
As I feign and I flirt
I unbuttoned my shirt

To the way you make me feel
Magnificent
Hurt

To the way you make me feel
Magnificent
Hurt

[Guitar solo]

It's the way you make me feel
It's the way you make me feel
Magnificent