Little Palaces Lyrics

Lyric discussion by fortune8 

Cover art for Little Palaces lyrics by Elvis Costello

In the 1987 on the Irish television programme THE SESSION Live, Elvis explained before singing this song:

"This is in a town where my family finally ended up, and the things that have happened to it ever since.

There is a company there that makes chocolate. You probably know it, Cadbury's. They've got a fixation about painting everything the same colour as their wrappers, even the train. You'd see these chocolate trains that went by, sort of brown and silver. (?) As if anybody'd stolen it, maybe they will. (?)

Last year we made an albumn sleeve that looked exactly like one of their chocolate wrappers and they sued us. Cause it's obvious our cassette looked, you know, tasted a lot better than their chocolate. Anyway, enough of this comedy."

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