All The Rage, by Elvis Costello

When I was sixteen, a junior in high school, I kind of felt like I was constantly walking a ledge between darkness and light.

Darkness and Light have become a constant theme in my life.

I can still remember the day... I had just gotten home from school, having bought the latest issue of Sassy on the way home and was reading the music reviews when a line caught my eye...

"So don't try to touch my heart / it's darker than you think / and don't try to read my mind / because it is full of dissappearing ink." I couldn't stop staring at it...

I felt like I had just seen my entire struggle with my emotions summed up in twenty five words or less. I read the review and saw it was from an album callled "Brutal Youth" by Elvis Costello and the Attractions.

A few days later when I was in Los Angeles for Spring Break, I was let loose on a mall with about forty dollars and bought a journal, a deck of Tarot Cards, and that tape.

I've never been the same.

1-2-3,2-2-3

The twitching impulses to speak your mind

I'll lend you my microscope and maybe you will find it

Is it in that ugly place that's just behind your face

Where you keep my picture still despite the fact

That you had me replaced

Say "Goodbye"

Baby can't you act your age?

You know why

I'm going to give it to you straight

Although I'll never be

Unhappy as you want me to be

Still it's all the rage

I'll probably play along

Left to my own devices

Spare me the drone of your advice

The sins of garter and gin

Confession may delay

You know the measuring pole

The merry boots of clay

I've heard it all before

You'll say it anyway

Say "Goodbye"

Baby can't you act your age?

You know why

I'm going to give it to you straight

Although I'll never be

Unhappy as you want me to be

Still it's all the rage

Alone with your tweezers and your handkerchief

You murder time and truth, love, laughter and belief

So don't try to touch my heart, it's darker than you think

And don't try to read my mind because it's full of disappearing ink

Say "Goodbye"

Baby can't you act your age?

You know why

I'm going to give it to you straight

Although I'll never be

Unhappy as you want me to be

Still it's all the rage

Although I'll never be

Unhappy as you want me to be

Still it's all the rage