Oh it’s so funny to be seeing you after so long, girl.
And with the way you look I understand
that you were not impressed.
But I heard you let that little friend of mine
take off your party dress.
I’m not going to get too sentimental
like those other sticky valentines,
’cause I don’t know if you are loving some body.
I only know it isn’t mine.
Alison, I know this world is killing you.
Oh, Alison, my aim is true.
Well I see you’ve got a husband now.
Did he leave your pretty fingers lying
in the wedding cake?
You used to hold him right in your hand.
Bet he took all he could take.
Sometimes I wish that I could stop you from talking
when I hear the silly things that you say.
I think somebody better put out the big light,
’cause I can’t stand to see you this way.
Alison, I know this world is killing you.
Oh, Alison, my aim is true.
My aim is true.
Ohh Elvis.
The true Elvis in my eyes, Elvis Costello.
This song is one of my most favorites of all time.
but its really deep in my life.
again, lets start with my idea on the song synopsis.
Alison is an old flame of Elvis’. they meet at a party or something, and he is reminiscing over their past. Alison got married, or divorced, or something. i can’t tell. but Elvis is sad to see her this way, either that of his jealousy that she got married to another man, or that that man left her and she is all sad and what not.
i dont really know.
but for me, its a bit different
It’s very ironic that the song title is Alison, and the girl i’m thinking of name is Allison.
Me and Allison have had a crazy past together. We got really close after Nat’l Youth Conference in Purdue. We had the same beliefs, the same “enemies” and things like that. But i was also really good friends with her best friend. and then me and her best friend started dating. and i almost had to choose between the two, and the way i chose was very very selfish and stupid. after me and her friend broke up, (fairly quickly), we stopped talking…
then she changed a lot.
she fell away from God, got a tattoo, started drinking, and hanging with the wrong people.
Alison, I know this world is killing you.
a complete turn around.
I think somebody better put out the big light,
’cause I can’t stand to see you this way.
i always liked her, and i still do…. she is just way too different. and i know she is still good inside, just in the wrong direction. and we started hanging out again these past two weeks, and i realized that i still like her…
I’m not going to get too sentimental
like those other sticky valentines,
’cause I don’t know if you are loving some body.
I only know it isn’t mine.
its just that i dont know what her standpoint is on anything…
all i need is some time to talk.
