The Difference

Lyrics by：Elvis Costello

Composed by：Elvis Costello

I pulled a petal from the flower

To tell just where my fortune fell

About a boy beyond my caution

Before I lay beneath his spell

And he said Do you know do you know

Do you by chance know wrong from right

Do you know do you know do you know

What turns pleasure to plight

If you trust me

I know it may seem strange

I'll show you the way

Down into the underworld

I did just what he asked me to

Lifted my skirt to show him my shoe

Upon a reel of the finest fiddlehead

Light as the dance around Milady's bed

The steps came faster at his insistence

Till he showed me all about the difference

It's not about the things I promised

It's not about the vow we broke

If I am faithless or dishonest

It's just the gaze that you provoke

And he said Do you know do you know

Do you by chance know wrong from right

Do you know do you know do you know

What turns pleasure to plight

If you kiss me

At first it may seem strange

I'll show you the way

Into another world

My father shamed me just like you

Buried my name in a glass or two

Till he came to me in his darkest house

He mistook me took me for his spouse

And my cries for a woman in the distance

So I took this knife to show him the difference

Till he came to me in his darkest house

He mistook me took me for his spouse

And my cries for the woman in the distance

So I used this knife to show him the difference