Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes

Now I just don't know who to tell to go to hell Who put the old devil in the distorted angel?

Elvis Costello

• Hell
• Angel
• Don't Know
• Distorted

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• Now I just don't know who to tell to go to hell Who put the old devil in the distorted angel?

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Hell
  • Angel
  • Don't Know