(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes - The Elvis Costello Wiki (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes From The Elvis Costello Wiki Oh I used to be disgusted and now I try to be amused. But since their wings have got rusted, you know, the angels wanna wear my red shoes. But when they told me 'bout their side of the bargain, that's when I knew that I could not refuse. And I won't get any older, now the angels wanna wear my red shoes. I was watching while you're dancing away. Our love got fractured in the echo and sway. How come everybody wants to be your friend? You know that it still hurts me just to say it. Oh, I know that she's disgusted (oh why's that) Cause she's feeling so abused. (oh that's too bad) She gets tired of the lust, (oh I'm so sad) but it's so hard to refuse. How can you say that I'm too old, when the angels have stolen my red shoes. Oh, I said "I'm so happy, I could die." She said "Drop dead," then left with another guy. That's what you get if you go chasing after vengeance.

Ever since you got me punctured this has been my sentence. Oh I used to be disgusted and now I try to be amused. But since their wings have got rusted, you know, the angels wanna wear my red shoes. Red shoes, the angels wanna wear my red shoes.

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2010 Allmusic • Amazon • Amazon.uk Chords Tabbed by William Vaughan Intro E A E Esus4 E Oh I used to be disgusted G#m and now I try to be amused. E But since their wings have got rusted, A B E you know, the angels wanna wear my red shoes. e f# g# A E But when they told me 'bout their side of the bargain, A E that's when I knew that I could not refuse. B A E Esus4 E And I won't get any older, now the angels wanna wear my red shoes. A B E I was watching while you're dancing away. B A E Our love got fractured in the echo and sway. A B E How come everybody wants to be your friend? G#m B You know that it still hurts me just to say it. E Oh, I know that she's disgusted (oh why's that) G#m Cause she's feeling so abused. (oh that's too bad) E She gets tired of the lust, (oh I'm so sad) B but it's so hard to refuse.

A How can you say that I'm too old, E B A E E Esus4 E when the angels have stolen my red shoes. A B E Oh, I said "I'm so happy, I could die." B A E She said "Drop dead," then left with another guy. A B E That's what you get if you go chasing after vengeance. G#m B Ever since you got me punctured this has been my sentence. *same as first four lines in first stanza and repeat on the chords for extra lines* Oh I used to be disgusted and now I try to be amused. But since their wings have got rusted, you know, the angels wanna wear my red shoes. Red shoes, the angels wanna wear my red shoes. Tabbed by Michael P McCullough Intro E B E B E E G#m Oh I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused. E7 But since their wings have got rusted, A B E you know, the angels wanna wear my red shoes. A E But when they told me 'bout their side of the bargain, A E that's when I knew that I could not refuse.

B A B A E And I won't get any older, now the angels wanna wear my red shoes. A B E Oh, I was watching while you're dancing away. B A E Our love got fractured in the echo and sway. A B E How come everybody wants to be your friend? G#m B You know that it still hurts me just to say it. E Oh, I know that she's disgusted (oh why's that) G#m Cause she's feeling so abused. (oh that's too bad) A She gets tired of the lust, (oh I'm so sad) B but it's so hard to refuse. A How can you say that I'm too old, E B A E when the angels have stolen my red shoes. A B E Oh, I said "I'm so happy, I could die." B A E She said "Drop dead," then left with another guy. A B E That's what you get if you go chasing after vengeance. G#m B Ever since you got me punctured this has been my sentence. E G#m Oh I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.

E7 But since their wings have got rusted, A B E you know, the angels wanna wear my red shoes. A E But when they told me 'bout their side of the bargain, A E that's when I knew that I could not refuse. B A B A E And I won't get any older, now the angels wanna wear my red shoes. A E A E Red shoes, the angels want to wear my red shoes Red shoes, the angels want to wear my red (A)shoes (and so on) Internal links Elvis Costello — (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes — Listen, watch, download and discover music for free at Last.fm Oh, I used to be disgusted And now I try to be amused But since their wings have got rusted You know, the angels want to wear my red shoes But when… (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes by Elvis Costello Songfacts Songfacts In this song, Elvis makes a deal with the angels, who have come down to Earth because their wings have rusted. Needing footwear, they grant Costello immortality in exchange for his red shoes.

His estranged girlfriend, however, is not impressed and doesn't share in his enthusiasm, telling him to drop dead and leaving the club with another guy. Costello wrote the song backward, starting with the club scene where the girl leaves with another guy. From there, he worked in the idea of making the deal with the angels so he stops aging. He was just 22 years old at the time, and wasn't sure why he was writing about immortality. Costello wrote this in 10 minutes while on the Inter-City train to Liverpool between the Runcorn and Lime Street stations. He didn't have a recorder with him, so he kept the song in his head until he got off the train and made it to his mother's house, where he found one of his old guitars and played the song over and over until he had it recorded to memory. Nick Lowe produced the album. Costello had recently signed his record deal and didn't have a backing band, so Lowe brought in the group Clover. Alex Call, who was their lead singer, told us the story: "Clover got together in the late '60s.

It was four of us, we made two albums on Fantasy - we were buddies with Creedence Clearwater Revival. We got dropped, and then Huey Lewis and our keyboard player, Shawn Hopper, joined the band and we kind of made another run at it. In the mid-'70s, we were going down to Los Angeles a lot and playing a club called The Palamino. The Palamino was this great Country and Western place. We were more of a rock band really, but we kind of were country. At one gig, Nick Lowe was there with Paul Carrack. Nick had been in the band Brinsley Schwartz, and The Brinsleys were big fans of the early Clover albums. So one thing led to another, and Jake Riviera, who was Elvis' manager, signed us to come to England, and we signed with Phonogram over there, which is Mercury here. Elvis Costello was at that time Dec McManus, he was using his real name. He was just this mild-mannered, meek little songwriter who would hang out around Stiff Records, which was our management office.

Elvis once said, 'Man, I wish I could sing like you.' He went to cut some demos, and they used Clover. Huey and I did not participate in those because they had no need for us, but I remember they went and cut at this little place called Pathways - a little 8-track studio so small that all you had just enough space to play your instrument. They went in that first session, and in one session they cut ' Alison ' and 'Red Shoes' and ' Less Than Zero ,' these classic songs. I remember hearing them at this rock 'n' roll house we lived in outside of Headley, South of London called the Headley Grange House. John McFee brought back a reel-to-reel tape on one of those old Wollensak tape recorders. He played this stuff, and I mean, I was ready to quit after hearing that - it was so astounding. They did like three 8-12 hour sessions, and that was My Aim Is True. That is a classic record, just unbelievable. We were managed by the same guys and we hung out a lot with Nick. Nick produced a lot of our early sessions there.

We made two albums with Mutt Lange, and nothing happened with the band. We came close in England to breaking a single, but it didn't work and we ended up breaking up." (Check out our interview with Alex Call .) In 2011, Costello performed this on Sesame Street as "The Monster Went and Ate My Red 2." He had his numbers lined up from 1-10, but Cookie Monster (who does eat other things beside cookies, by the way), kept eating the red number 2, creating a counting problem. This song tells a strange story, but not nearly as strange as the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale The Red Shoes, which inspired a Kate Bush song of the same name . In that story, a girl puts on a pair of red shoes that make her dance uncontrollably. She can't take them off, so she has her feet cut off, only to have the shoes continue to dance with her amputated feet inside them. If you noticed a jangle-rock influence on this song, you're not alone.

Before it had a proper title, John McFee, who played guitar on the track, referred to it as, "That one that sounds like The Byrds." Elvis Costello - (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes - YouTube Elvis Costello - (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Feb 17, 2013 "(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes" by Elvis Costello Listen ad-free with YouTube Red Show more When autoplay is enabled, a suggested video will automatically play next. Up next (Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes--Album Version (Lyrics in Description) - Duration: 2:51. enginesummer99 116,600 views 2:51 Elvis Costello - (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes - 7/25/1999 - Woodstock 99 (Official) - Duration: 3:02.

Elvis Costello on MV 2,253 views 3:02 21 - (The Angels Wanna) Wear My Red Shoes | Elvis Costello's 40 best songs - Music Elvis Costello's 40 best songs Elvis Costello, the first new artist signed to Stiff Records back in 1977, is one of the UK's finest songwriters. Here Martin Chilton picks his 40 best songs. Credit: Rex Features/handout 40 - Couldn't call it unexpected (Mighty Like A Rose, 1991) "When you’re writing, it’s all about enjoying it, getting something from it, trying to give something to it," says Elvis Costello, who sometimes sings this song about "believing in something" without a microphone. Costello was born Declan Patrick Aloysius MacManus, in London on 25 August 1954. He is seen here in 1975. His stage name Elvis was borrowed from Presley and his own father’s singing name of Costello.

39 - Heart Shaped Bruise (The Delivery Man, 2004) What more is there to take from me? There's nothing else to give you, dear There's nothing more that I can lose Except this heart shaped bruise A sad song. Perfect for a duet with Emmylou Harris. Elvis Costello is seen here in 2013. Picture: Rex Features 38 - Still Too Soon to Know (Brutal Youth, 1994) During the Seventies, Elvis Costello (above, in 1979) was linked with the punk rock movement but told Spin magazine in 2012: "Well, I was marketed by other people, not by me. And 'punk' – what nonsense that was. Or 'new wave' – even bigger nonsense. I'm just a songwriter.

I knew older stuff and I knew newer stuff." Picture: Rex Features 37 - Lipstick Vogue (This Year's Model, 1978) A song by Elvis Costello and The Attractions (Steve Nieve on keyboards, Bruce Thomas on bass guitar and Pete Thomas on drums) and Costello says that the song was inspired by "the rhythms of the Metropolitan line (on which it was written) colliding with a song by The Byrds called I See You. "There are some things you can't cover up with lipstick and powder,” Costello, seen here on the London Underground in 1996, once said. Picture: Alamy 36 - Poor Fractured Atlas (All This Useless Beauty, 1996) Elvis Costello, seen here at Woodstock in 1999, said that Poor Fractured Atlas was written for a woman to sing. It was supposedly Aimee Mann, but she never recorded it.

Picture: AP 35 - I Want You (Blood and Chocolate, 1986) One of Elvis Costello's more disturbing songs (he called the song "the aural equivalent of a blurred polaroid"), which was produced by Nick Lowe. In later years he would sing the song with The Roots (above). Picture: AP 34 - This Year's Girl (This Year's Model, 1978) Elvis Costello, seen above in an Associated Press illustration for his 44th birthday in 1998, said once: “Good manners and bad breath will get you nowhere.” Picture: AP 33 - You Little Fool (Imperial Bedroom, 1982) From the album that inspired the title of Bret Easton Ellis' novel. Picture: AP 32 - All These Strangers (National Ransom, 2010) Late Elvis Costello, the track was from an album produced by frequent collaborator T Bone Burnett . Burnett has described Costello as "one of the great songwriters". Costello's father (above), Ronald Patrick Ross MacManus, was an English musician and trumpet player of Irish descent. He performed with Joe Loss and his Orchestra.

Ronan and Ruairi MacManus are also musicians, performing as The MacManus Brothers. Picture: AP 31 - Watch Your Step (Trust, 1981) "The only two things that motivate me and that matter to me are revenge and guilt,” said Elvis Costello. Watch Your Step came at a time when Costello (above with his band the Attractions in 1979) was drinking heavily. Picture: Rex Features 30 - Pump It Up (This Year's Model, 1978) Pump it Up mocks some of the excesses of rock bands in the Seventies. Elvis Costello said of the song: "It was a satire. If you listen to the lyrics, it kind of goes against the grain of hedonism." He is seen here aged 59, with his wife Diana Krall at the Montreal Jazz Festival in June 2014. Picture: Getty Images 29 - Bullets for the Newborn King (National Ransom, 2010) From an album recorded in Nashville that features guest appearances by Vince Gill, Marc Ribot, Buddy Miller, and Leon Russell.

T Bone Burnett (above with Costello and actor Jeff Bridges during the Bridge School Benefit concert in Mountain View, California in 2010) was again the producer. Picture: AP 28 - High Fidelity (Get Happy!!, 1980) "I was always into writing a lot of words. I liked the effect of a lot of images passing by quickly," said Costello, who is seen here with country music legend Willie Nelson. Picture: Reuters 27 - A Good Year for the Roses (Almost Blue) Elvis Costello recorded a fine album of country music covers and none was better than his version of Jerry Chesnut's A Good Year for the Roses . Chesnut also wrote hits for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash. Costello has done some great covers in his time, including a slow and maudlin version of Bruce Springsteen's Brilliant Disguise and a haunting take on Richard Thompson's End of the Rainbow. He is seen here with his wife, Diana Krall. He says her version of Almost Blue is one of his favourite cover versions of one of his own songs. "It has such a beautiful piano prelude.

The idea that she could have imagined that in relation to the song I wrote, which is relatively harmonically simple, fascinates me," Costello said. Credit: Getty 26 - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood (King of America, 1980) "I've been lucky to listen to lots of different types of music," says Elvis Costello, who is capable of singing so many different styles, including soul. He is seen here with the great songwriter Burt Bacharach. The song was originally written for Nina Simone by Bennie Benjamin, Gloria Caldwell and Sol Marcus. Costello sings it really well. Talking about other musicians who have covered his songs, Costello said: "The ones that are most intriguing to me are things like Roy Orbison doing The Comedians, because I completely rewrote it to make it more suitable for him, and then to hear him actually sing it that way was thrilling. Or to hear Johnny Cash sing Hidden Shame was really great .

Chet Baker singing Almost Blue was a realisation of a dream I had for the song, even though his actual performance is incredibly fragile, because he wasn't in the best shape when he did it." 25 - This is Hell (Brutal Youth, 1994) Elvis Costello (performing here at the Cornbury Music Festival in 2012) is a witty writer, too. On This is Hell, he sings My Favourite Things are playing again and again/ But it's by Julie Andrews and not by John Coltrane 24 - Little Palaces (King of America, 1986) Elvis Costello songs sometimes hark back to the Merseyside he knew as a child and a young man. Little Palaces, with its bleak picture of ‘chocolate town’ evokes the terraced houses of Birkenhead and the nearby Cadbury’s factory in Moreton where his father worked. "This concerns the town where my family ended up, and the things that have happened to it ever since," he said. 23 - Stranger in the House (This Year's Model) There is a wonderful video of Elvis Costello performing this song in a duet with George Jones.

A great weepy song that shows Costello can write authentic country music. This never was one of the great romances, But I thought you'd always have those young girl's eyes. But now they look in tired and bitter glances, At the ghost of a man who walks 'round in my disguise 22- Less than Zero (My Aim is True, 1977) Elvis Costello (seen here with Tony Bennett and Bono) said: "Less Than Zero was a song I had written after seeing the despicable Oswald Mosley being interviewed on BBC television. The former leader of the British Union of Fascists seemed unrepentant about his poisonous actions of the 1930s. The song was more of a slandering fantasy than a reasoned argument." 21 - (The Angels Wanna) Wear My Red Shoes (My Aim is True, 1977) (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes was part of My Aim is True, which was recorded over 24 hours at Pathway Studios in Holloway, London. It was the first of five consecutive Costello albums produced by Nick Lowe.

In the Seventies, Costello used a Jazzmaster guitar but told Fender.com: "I began the recording of the first record with a CBS-era Telecaster®. A friend of mine who was the drummer in my previous band, when I was a semi-professional, actually worked for Fender, and he could get a company discount. And he got me a Telecaster – brand-new, straight up from the factory, out of the box – and the strings were so far from the neck; it was set up like a Dobro. I knew so little about guitars; I thought that I was just unlucky and you couldn’t change them. I basically played it like that for a couple of years, including when I finally got a break and started making a record. So on the first sessions for My Aim Is True, I was playing this Telecaster – maple neck, blonde finish Telecaster; really hard to play." 20 - (What's So Funny 'Bout) Love, Peace and Understanding (Armed Forces, 1979) Nick Lowe's song is still a staple of Elvis Costello (seen above with the great New Orleans musician Alain Toussaint ) concerts.

Lowe was once asked how his career have been different if he had never heard of Costello. He replied: "I knew him a long time before he became Elvis Costello. The one major way it would be different is that he was a big fan of this band I was in called Brinsley Schwarz. We had a song called, (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding. When we broke up, that song would have gone into the dustbin along with the rest of our repertoire. When I became Costello's producer, he told me he wanted to record that song. Of course, he did, and he's the guy who really got the song all of the attention. In that respect, my career would be quite different." 19 - Radio Radio (This Year's Model, 1978) Elvis Costello told the Hollywood Reporter: "When I was sitting at home in England in 1975, in the thrall of Bruce Springsteen, he sort of made it feel like a big dream in America where a radio was playing and it was always the perfect song.

And even though there’s sadness in the song, I wanted to believe that somewhere it was like that and it wasn’t like it was in the suburbs, where you couldn’t hear any music you liked half the time. So that was a wishful song. Then, of course, you get into the business of making records and you realise what it’s really about is some guy going off with a big sack of money to give it to somebody with some hookers and cocaine so that they play your record enough times that people get batted to death with it and that makes it a hit." The outcome was Radio Radio. Credit: Rex Features 18 - I Can't Stand Up for Falling Down (Get Happy!! 1979) Elvis Costello has fun with a classic Sam & Dave Sixties song, which was written by Homer Banks and Allen Jones. "Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music. I've been lucky to listen to lots of different types of music," Costello said in 2004.

17 - Brilliant Mistake (King of America, 1986) Elvis Costello received an honorary doctor of music title from Liverpool University for his songwriting. He said once: "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture – it's really a stupid thing to want to do.” 16 - Kinder Murder (Brutal Youth, 1994) Elvis Costello can't read music but he can write memorably dark lyrics, as on Kinder Murder from the aptly-named Brutal Youth album. 14 - Sleep of the Just (King of America, 1986) Elvis Costello can be a harrowing writer, as Sleep of the Just shows. 13 - America Without Tears (King of America, 1986) This song features the wonderful Jo-El Sonnier on French accordion. Costello has described King of America as “inherently contradictory” (hence the title). Costello has made many appearances on television, incidentally, including in a 2003 episode of Frasier (above).

He played Ben, a folk singer whose renditions of The Wild Rover and Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport ruin the atmosphere at Frasier and Niles’s favourite coffee house. He has also appeared in sitcom Two and a Half Men, and has been on The Larry Sanders Show. In 2010 he appeared as himself on the excellent HBO series Tremé . 12 - Human Hands (Imperial Bedroom, 1982) A cleverly arranged song (keyboard player Steve Nieve, Pete Thomas’s stylish drumming and Bruce Thomas’s inventive bass work are given breathing space) for a wry Costello love song that includes the lines: Oh darling, how I miss you/ I’m just the mere shadow of my former selfishness 11 - Our Little Angel (King of America, 1986) A classy song. Elvis Costello has said that what pushed him on in music is "the curiosity, a passion for new ideas". He is pictured here with Brian Eno. 10 - New Amster dam (Get Happy!! 1979) Elvis Costello (pictured here in 1975) does wordplay so well in this track from Get Happy!!

9 - Watching the Detectives (My Aim is True, 1977) Elvis Costello (seen here at the Bonnaroo Arts and Music Festival in Tennessee in 2009), had his first chart success with Watching the Detectives, which went to No 15 in the UK charts in 1977. "I think there’s some great songs on My Aim Is True," Costello told Stereogum magazine, "but I believe a lot of folks overrate it. There’s a couple of good performances on that album, don’t get me wrong – I think Watching The Detectives is my first real record." 8 - Everyday I Write The Book (Punch the Clock, 1983) Elvis Costello said of Everyday I Write The Book: "There have been times when I’ve rearranged songs and people have been bewildered, and then there have been times when I’ve done it and people have found it illuminating in some way. Every Day I Write the Book is a good example. I mean, it’s a throwaway song that I wrote in 10 minutes that became a hit.

And in latter years, I've sung it more often the way Ron Sexsmith sang it to me, as a ballad, when I suddenly found something beautiful in it that I enjoyed singing much more than I’d ever enjoyed it before. And guess what, when I went back to playing it with a band, I then enjoyed playing it with a band again." 7 - Indoor Fireworks (King of America, 1986) A simple, bleak and powerful song about love gone bad from Elvis Costello (pictured in 1978). Indoor fireworks Can still burn your fingers 6 - Veronica (Spike, 1989) Veronica is a poignant tribute to Elvis Costello's grandmother Mabel, whose middle names were Josephine Veronica. The song recalls her youth, "when the world was the street where she lived" and her husband as a "young man" who "sailed on a ship in the sea", carrying with him Veronica’s picture. Costello wrote the song with Sir Paul McCartney (they are seen here performing at London's Royal Albert Hall in 1999).

5 - Accidents Will Happen (Armed Forces, 1979) One of Elvis Costello's simple and effective songs. He is seen here with Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters and Bruce Springsteen during the 45th Annual Grammy Awards. Quirky fact: In the film ET, a boy called Michael sings this song in the family kitchen after coming home from school. The song came just ahead of the period when Costello adopted the persona of a cheesy nightclub MC named Napoleon Dynamite. 4 - Man Out of Time (Imperial Bedroom, 1982) Elvis Costello told songwriter.com: "At the time of Imperial Bedroom, I came to terms with the fact that I was sacrificing the power of certain songs to this mad pursuit of tempo. Everything had to be delivered forcefully. I don’t know whether it was just a natural process or, literally, cumulative exhaustion of what were very intense years. Man Out of Time is the one time I said, 'No, stop. Let’s play this at the right tempo.' And we went for this bigger, more open sound. I think it’s a really good record. A lot of songs are about the sort of disgust with your own self.

There were a lot of things that I wasn’t very happy with during that time. I wanted songs to blow up the world. There was a famous political scandal in England going on then. It all sort of got wrapped up in the song. Sometimes a song will have a personal meaning and a public meaning. Man Out of Time is one of those." Costello is pictured here performing his Spinning Songbook gigs, a neat Costello touring gimmick in which a garish wheel of fortune dictates the set list, frequently spun by a celebrity MC, which has included Tom Waits. 3 - Shipbuilding (1982) Shipbuilding is a powerful and subtle song written by Elvis Costello (lyrics) and Clive Langer (music) during the Falklands War of 1982. A superb version by Robert Wyatt was a chart hit. Costello is seen above with Mumford & Sons for the Agit8 campaign. “My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant,” Costello once said. 2 - Alison (My Aim is True, 1977) A wonderful song about unrequited love.

Elvis Costello rarely discusses the song, but in the liner notes to his Girls Girls Girls compilation album, Elvis Costello wrote that it was about "disappointing somebody", adding that "much could be undone by saying more." 1 - Oliver's Army (Armed Forces, 1979) The closest Elvis Costello came to a No1 hit – he may not have cared about that, of course – Oliver's Army was at No2 for four weeks. It's a catchy tune with powerful lyrics written after a trip to troubled Belfast in 1978. Costello told Q Magazine in 2008: "I don't think its success was because of the lyrics. I always liked the idea of a bright pop tune that you could be singing along to for ages before you realise what it is you're actually singing. Of course, the downside of that is some people only hear the tune and never listen to the words. After a while I got frustrated at that." (the angels wanna wear my) Red Shoes - Elvis Costello - VAGALUME (the angels wanna wear my) Red Shoes Oh I used to be disgusted and now I try to be amused.

But since their wings have got rusted, you know, the angels wanna wear my red shoes. But when they told me 'bout their side of the bargain, that's when I knew that I could not refuse. And I won't get any older, now the angels wanna wear my red shoes. I was watching while you're dancing away. Our love got fractured in the echo and sway. How come everybody wants to be your friend? You know that it still hurts me just to say it. Oh, I know that she's disgusted (oh why's that) Cause she's feeling so abused. (oh that's too bad) She gets tired of the lust, (oh I'm so sad) but it's so hard to refuse. How can you say that I'm too old, when the angels have stolen my red shoes. Oh, I said "I'm so happy, I could die." She said "Drop dead," then left with another guy. That's what you get if you go chasing after vengeance. Ever since you got me punctured this has been my sentence. Oh I used to be disgusted and now I try to be amused. But since their wings have got rusted, you know, the angels wanna wear my red shoes.

Red shoes, the angels wanna wear my red shoes. Encontrou algum erro na letra? Por favor, envie uma correção » 653.698º "(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes" (Elvis Costello cover) - Eytan Mirsky bedroom version - YouTube "(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes" (Elvis Costello cover) - Eytan Mirsky bedroom version Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Sep 19, 2012 Eytan Mirsky does an acoustic version of Elvis Costello's early classic "(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes." Eytan is best known for the title songs he contributed to the films "American Splendor," "The Tao of Steve" and "Happiness." He has put out 5 albums of his original songs, the most recent of which is "Year of the Mouse" (2012).

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The evolution of Costello's craft as a songwriter and performer, from the early high-octane polemics, through his stylistic experiments with country and soul, and on to standards written for others, is splendidly documented on this elegant two-disc set. Chronology is ignored in favor of a thoughtful program that catalogs the jewels from his prolific output and a sprinkling of covers that demonstrate the maturing of his singing voice. The 42 tracks here lean generously to the first 10 years with the Attractions, but also collects the best of his subsequent collaborations with the cream of America's session musicians and on through to "She," his contribution to the soundtrack of 1999's Notting Hill . --Rob Stewart Track Listings 1. (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding 2. Oliver's Army 5. (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea 6. Accidents Will Happen 8. I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down 9. Radio Radio 11. Good Year For The Roses 12. Man Out Of Time 13. I Wanna Be Loved 14. Everyday I Write The Book 15.

Brilliant Mistake 16. The Other Side Of Summer 17. Tokyo Storm Warning 1. Big Tears - Elvis Costello & The Attractions 2. Beyond Belief - Elvis Costello & The Attractions 3. Lipstick Vogue - Elvis Costello & The Attractions 4. Green Shirt - Elvis Costello & The Attractions 5. Pills & Soap 6. Tramp The Dirt Down 7. Shipbuilding - Elvis Costello & The Attractions 8. High Fidelity - Elvis Costello & The Attractions 9. New Lace Sleeves - Elvis Costello & The Attractions 10. (The Angels Wanna Hear My) Red Shoes 11. Talking In The Dark - Elvis Costello & The Attractions 12. New Amsterdam 13. I Hope You're Happy Now - Elvis Costello & The Attractions 14. Riot Act - Elvis Costello & The Attractions 15. My Funny Valentine 16. Indoor Fireworks - The Costello Show 17. Almost Blue - Elvis Costello & The Attractions 18. I Want You - Elvis Costello & The Attractions 19.

God Give My Strength 20. That Day Is Done 21. I Want To Vanish - Elvis Costello/Steve Nieve Product Details Audio CD (April 17, 2001) Original Release Date: 2001 Page 1 of 1 Start over Sponsored Products are advertisements for products sold by merchants on Amazon.com. When you click on a Sponsored Product ad, you will be taken to an Amazon detail page where you can learn more about the product and purchase it. To learn more about Amazon Sponsored Products, click here . on June 23, 2001 Format: Audio CD I have owned quite a number of Elvis Costello anthology albums. The first was back in the late 80's, a "Greatest Hits" LP put out by CBS/Columbia. In 91 I purchased "Girls, Girls, Girls" a triple CD collection, & recently found a budget priced cassette called "Extreme Honey: the Best of the Warner Bros. Years". Each of these had songs I liked, but often contained more that I didn't. Now I have purchased "The Very Best of Elvis Costello" & for once I can say this album absolutely lives up to it's title!

In 2 CD's we have an overview of the extraordinary career of one of the most prolific & multi-faceted songwriters of our time. It's wonderful! Everything is here, from the chilling "Watching the Detectives" & supersonic "Lipstick Vogue" of the early albums thru the jazz & country-tinged experiments of the late 80's up to his latest collaborations with the Brodsky Quartet & Burt Bacharach. There isn't a single song that tempts me to hit the "forward" button on my CD player. Curiously, Rhino has opted to put the material in a non-sequential order. Most greatest hits collections start with the earliest songs, working their way up to the latest. "The Very Best of..." was organized by someone who had their mind on creating an emotional mood rather than a history of the artist. Although normally I prefer the time-line approach, in this casse it works quite well. If you want to hear the developement of Costello's song-writing, Rhino has included original release dates in the credits so that you can sequence your own order. Other than song titles & lists of musicians, this is about all the information you will discover inside the jewel case. Read more ›

Question: In the 1977 song by Elvis Costello, what colour shoes do the angels want to wear?
Answer: Red