Brilliant. Auden would have taken pride in these graceful lyrics, but Costello's delivery (over a piano which plays around with Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata!) invites real understanding of the strain on what could be journalists or writers, all too human men.
Brilliant. Auden would have taken pride in these graceful lyrics, but Costello's delivery (over a piano which plays around with Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata!) invites real understanding of the strain on what could be journalists or writers, all too human men.