Elvis Costello The Crooked Line song lyrics

Life isn't a game

Won or tied, lost by either side

Then some people's idea

Of the straight and narrow

Didn't appeal to me

If you were my life's companion

As it seems you may turn out to be

I'm contemplating

How I hope I'll find you waiting

At the very end of this crooked line

Love isn't a trial of strength and weakness

Through light into darkness

While some people remark

The worthwhile fire never started

Without that spark

If you were my life's companion

As it seems you may turn out to be

I'm contemplating

How I hope I'll find you waiting

At the very end of this crooked line

If you were my life's companion

As it seems you may turn out to be

I'm contemplating

How I hope I'll find you waiting

At the very end of this crooked line

At the very end of this crooked line

At the very end of this crooked line