# Your favorite Elvis Costello song

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A couple more I don’t think have been mentioned … Brilliant Mistake:

“She said that she was working for the ABC news  
It was as much of the alphabet that she new how to use.”

I love the alternating lines and drum fills in the choruses.

The other I really dig is Tokyo Storm Warning.

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