Elvis, I Don’t Love You Anymore
Recorded
Release history
Credits
- Written by Huffman/Lin/Nelson, © Song-Based Songs (ASCAP)
- Produced, engineered, and mixed by Steve Fisk
- Recorded at Soundhouse with engineering assistance by Scotty Crane
Lyrics
I followed you as far as Spike
Though there were some I didn’t like at all
(I said I liked it all)
Goodbye Cruel World and Almost Blue
and half of Trust, to name a few
In the twilight of your amp buzz
I couldn’t see how true your aim wasElvis, I don’t love you anymore
Bought every single reissue
Read each appalling interview
in which you talked like rock
was just some silly phase that you went through
But even when your heart got set
on Bacharach1 and string quartets2
My ringing ears drew closer
To parse the pose from the composerElvis, I don’t love you anymore
I felt your pain, it didn’t hurt
It tastes like cold revenge
It may be just desserts
You’ll never know how much you meant to me
I think I speak for all of us
When now I say you’ve gotta go
and if you must, you must, you mustWe all enjoyed your Brutal Youth
We’d like it back, to tell the truth
We grew apart, we both know how
“I hope you’re happy now”3Elvis, I don’t love you
Elvis, I don’t love you
Elvis, I don’t love you anymore
Notes
- Possibly an answer song to Costello’s 1981 cover of Hank Williams’s “Why Don’t You Love Me (Like You Used to Do)?”