Elvis Costello - Everyday I Write The Book video free download

Original official music video of Elvis Costello and The Attractions performing "Everyday I Write the Book" from the 1983 album "Punch the Clock".

The song peaked at 28 on the UK Singles Chart and was their first hit single in the United States, placing in the Billboard Top 40.

The video is one of the most popular and best-known from the early MTV era. Footage of Costello and the band performing is mingled with footage showing celebrity lookalikes of Prince Charles and Lady Diana, Princess of Wales, with Charles doing household chores and Diana watching television. Throughout the video Charles attempts to impress Diana with numerous acrobatic and romantic gestures to which Diana just rolls her eyes and continues to watch the TV. Kind of eerie considering the royal couple's marriage fell apart a few years later. The video also features the scene where Elvis Costello drops a pair of stone tablets that look like the Ten Commandments.

Amazingly Elvis Costello wrote the song in roughly 10 minutes and it has appeared on nearly all of Costello's greatest hits/compilations over the years. The song also appeared on the soundtrack album for "The Wedding Singer" in 1998.

I wasn't happy with the versions posted on YouTube so here is an improved version with enhanced audio/video (HQ).

Enjoy!

Lyrics: Elvis Costello

Don't tell me you don't know what love is

When you're old enough to know better

When you find strange hands in your sweater

When your dreamboat turns out to be a footnote

I'm a man with a mission in two or three editions

[Chorus:]

And I'm giving you a longing look

Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book

Chapter One we didn't really get along

Chapter Two I think I fell in love with you

You said you'd stand by me in the middle of Chapter Three

But you were up to your old tricks in Chapters Four, Five and Six

[chorus]

The way you walk

The way you talk, and try to kiss me, and laugh

In four or five paragraphs

All your compliments and your cutting remarks

Are captured here in my quotation marks

[chorus]

Don't tell me you don't know the difference

Between a lover and a fighter

With my pen and my electric typewriter

Even in a perfect world where everyone was equal

I'd still own the film rights and be working on the sequel

[chorus]