| Elvis Costello – (I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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I can't believe nobody else noticed that the line "They call her Natasha but she looks like Elsie" is a reference to the number "Cabaret" from the musical of the same name, sung by the character Sally Bowles. Here are the pertinent lines: "I used to have this girlfriend known as Elsie With whom I shared four sordid rooms in Chelsea She wasn't what you'd call a blushing flower As a matter of fact she rented by the hour The day she died the neighbors came to snicker 'Well, that's what comes from too much pills and liquor' But when I saw her laid out like a Queen She was the happiest corpse, I'd ever seen" Musical clip: https://youtu.be/nx3F3YfsWHA |
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