Songs
Show all 587 Elvis Costello & The Imposters songs
- ...And in Every Home (33)
- ...Dust (59)
- (I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea (599)
- (I Don't Want Your) Lyndon Johnson (32)
- (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes (200)
- (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes / Purple Rain / I Want You (1)
- (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding (714)
- (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding / I Can't Stand Up for Falling Down / (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding (1)
- 13 Steps Lead Down (13)
- 15 Petals (68)
- 45 (133)
- 5ive Gears in Reverse (8)
- A Case of You (1)
- A Case of You / Face in the Crowd (1)
- A Certain Girl (5)
- A Face in the Crowd (126)
- A Good Year for the Roses (124)
- A Matter of Time (4)
- A Slow Drag With Josephine (112)
- A Town Called Riddle (16)
- A Voice in the Dark (2)
- Accidents Will Happen (308)
- Adieu Paris (L'envie des étoiles) (6)
- After the Fall (2)
- Alibi (79)
- Alison (622)
- Alison / I'm Gonna Make You Love Me (4)
- Alison / Suspicious Minds (1)
- Alison / The Only Flame in Town (1)
- Alison / What’s Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me) (1)
- Alison/Somewhere Over the Rainbow (3)
- All Grown Up (8)
- All I've Got to Do (9)
- All or Nothing at All (3)
- All the Rage (21)
- All These Strangers (10)
- All This Useless Beauty (19)
- All This Useless Beauty / Do You Know What I'm Saying (1)
- Almost Blue (142)
- Almost Blue / Stripping Paper (1)
- American Gangster Time (80)
- American Mirror (10)
- American Without Tears (28)
- And Your Bird Can Sing (12)
- Anna (Go to Him) (1)
- April 5th (2)
- Ascension Day (10)
- Baby It's You (3)
- Basket Case (1)
- Be Real (4)
- Beaten to the Punch (2)
- Bedlam (166)
- Before I Grow Too Old (1)
- Bertha (2)
- Beyond Belief (251)
- Big Boys Cry (2)
- Big Chief / Tipitina / Tipitina and Me / The Olde Professor (1)
- Big Sister's Clothes (1)
- Big Stars Have Tumbled (24)
- Big Tears (35)
- Black and White World (4)
- Black Sails in the Sunset (1)
- Blame It on Cain (65)
- Blood & Hot Sauce (90)
- Blue Chair (46)
- Born Under a Bad Sign (1)
- Boy With a Problem (10)
- Brilliant Disguise (1)
- Brilliant Mistake (135)
- Brilliant Mistake / Boulevard of Broken Dreams (22)
- Brilliant Mistake / Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood (1)
- Brilliant Mistake / Happy Birthday to You (1)
- Broken Promise Land (4)
- Bullets for the New Born King (4)
- Burn the Paper Down to Ash (1)
- Burnt Sugar Is So Bitter (48)
- Button My Lip (56)
- Can You Hear Me? (1)
- Charm School (5)
- Cheap Reward (1)
- Chewing Gum (2)
- Church Underground (6)
- Cinco minutos con vos (16)
- Clown Around Town (6)
- Clown Strike (82)
- Clowntime Is Over (26)
- Clubland (359)
- Clubland / Ghost Town (15)
- Clubland / Ghost Town / Insensatez (3)
- Clubland / Ghost Town / Insensatez (2)
- Come the Meantimes (44)
- Complicated Shadows (30)
- Condemned Man (6)
- Condemned Man / I Put a Spell on You (2)
- Cool For Cats (1)
- Couldn't Call It Unexpected No. 4 (3)
- Country Darkness (126)
- Crawling to the USA (5)
- Crooked Teeth (1)
- Cry One More Time (1)
- Cry! Cry! Cry! (39)
- Cryin' Time (8)
- Cupid (1)
- Daddy Can I Turn This? (8)
- Dance Dance Dance (1)
- Deep Dark Truthful Mirror (77)
- Deep Dark Truthful Mirror / You've Really Got a Hold on Me (46)
- Deportee (30)
- Detonantes (Little Triggers) (1)
- Different Finger (2)
- Dio come ti amo / Almost Blue (7)
- Dio, come ti amo (1)
- Dishonor the Stars (3)
- Dissolve (15)
- Distorted Angel (6)
- Domino (2)
- Don't (3)
- Don't Bother Me / It Don't Bother Me (1)
- Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood (22)
- Don't Look Now (17)
- Don't Lose Your Grip on Love (6)
- Don't You Lie to Me (1)
- Dr. Watson, I Presume (4)
- Drum & Bone (8)
- Dust 2... (28)
- Earthbound (5)
- Either Side of the Same Town (194)
- Episode of Blonde (64)
- Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1)
- Everybody's Cryin' Mercy (54)
- Everyday I Write the Book (439)
- Everyday I Write the Book / Mr. Big Stuff (1)
- Fallen (1)
- Farewell, OK (49)
- Favourite Hour (6)
- Femme Fatale (6)
- Ferry Cross the Mersey (1)
- Fish ’n’ Chip Paper (12)
- Flutter & Wow (55)
- Folsom Prison Blues (1)
- For More Tears (2)
- Fortune Teller (1)
- Freedom for the Stallion (4)
- From a Whisper to a Scream (22)
- From Head to Toe (1)
- Games People Play (1)
- Gathering Flowers for the Master's Bouquet (11)
- Get Out of My Life, Woman (1)
- Get Ready (2)
- Getting Mighty Crowded (5)
- Ghost Town (2)
- Ghost Train (1)
- Girl (16)
- Girls Talk (55)
- Girls Talk / Lovable (2)
- Go Away (17)
- Go Tell (Your Quiet Sister) (15)
- God Give Me Strength (21)
- God's Comic (11)
- Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) (1)
- Got To Get You Into My Life (1)
- Green Shirt (273)
- Hand in Hand (9)
- Happy Birthday to You (8)
- Harry Worth (11)
- Hattie O'Hara Confidential (1)
- He's Given Me Things (14)
- Heart of the City (144)
- Heart Shaped Bruise (46)
- Help Me (4)
- Hetty O'Hara Confidential (113)
- Hey Bulldog (11)
- Hey Clockface / How Can You Face Me? (18)
- Hidden Charms (35)
- Hidden Shame (8)
- High Fidelity (284)
- His Latest Flame (12)
- Home Is Anywhere You Hang Your Head (9)
- Home Truth (6)
- Honey Hush (5)
- Honey, Are You Straight or Are You Blind? (53)
- Hoover Factory (5)
- Hot Burrito #1 (1)
- How Much I've Lied (1)
- How to Be Dumb (5)
- Human Hands (62)
- Hurry Down Doomsday (The Bugs Are Taking Over) (18)
- I Ain't Living Long Like This (3)
- I Almost Had a Weakness (1)
- I Can Only Give You Everything (7)
- I Can't Stand Up for Falling Down (257)
- I Cried My Last Tear (1)
- I Do (Zula’s Song) (6)
- I Don't Wanna Be a Soldier (1)
- I Don't Want to Go Home (1)
- I Don't Want Your Lyndon Johnson / Gimme That Wine (3)
- I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine (1)
- I Found Out (1)
- I Hope (8)
- I Hope You're Happy Now (239)
- I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself (3)
- I Know (1)
- I Let the Sun Go Down (1)
- I Lost You (4)
- I Stand Accused (2)
- I Still Have That Other Girl (38)
- I Still Miss Someone (9)
- I Thank You (1)
- I Threw It All Away (2)
- I Trust (2)
- I Wanna Be Loved (18)
- I Want to Vanish (2)
- I Want You (220)
- I Want You / I Say a Little Prayer (2)
- I Will Follow You Into the Dark (1)
- I'll Make It All Up to You (2)
- I'll Watch Out for You (1)
- I'll Wear It Proudly (13)
- I'm a Mess (1)
- I'm Ahead If I Can Quit While I'm Behind (2)
- I'm in the Mood Again (2)
- I'm Leaving You (Commit a Crime) (2)
- I'm Not Angry (1)
- I'm Your Toy (2)
- I've Been Wrong Before (7)
- If I Could Believe (1)
- If You Love Me (1)
- Imperial Bedroom (1)
- In Another Room (7)
- In the Darkest Place (35)
- Inch By Inch / Fever (2)
- Indoor Fireworks (103)
- Indoor Fireworks / This House (1)
- International Echo (3)
- Intro (1)
- Isabelle in Tears (2)
- It Had to Be You (1)
- It Must Have Been the Roses (2)
- It Takes Time (3)
- It Tears Me Up (1)
- Jack of all Parades (1)
- Jesus Just Left Chicago (1)
- Jimmie Standing in the Rain (94)
- Just a Memory (1)
- Just About Glad (17)
- Kid About It (40)
- Kinder Murder (53)
- King Horse (61)
- Knoxville Girl (2)
- La Grange (1)
- Last Boat Leaving (1)
- Leave My Kitten Alone (9)
- Less Than Zero (124)
- Let Him Dangle (3)
- Let Me Roll It (6)
- License to Kill (1)
- Like a Rolling Stone (1)
- Like Licorice (41)
- Like Rain (1)
- Lip Service (13)
- Lipstick Vogue (135)
- Little Palaces (5)
- Little Palaces/Set of Traditional Fiddle & Accordion Tunes (1)
- Little Savage (7)
- Little Sister (2)
- Little Triggers (51)
- Living in Paradise (9)
- Living in Paradise / Domino (14)
- London's Brilliant Parade (2)
- Lost on the River #12 (2)
- Lost on the River #20 (1)
- Lovable (3)
- Love Field (11)
- Love Hurts (11)
- Love That Burns (26)
- Lovers Walk (35)
- Luxembourg (2)
- Luxury Liner (10)
- Magnificent Hurt (107)
- Man Called Uncle (2)
- Man Out of Time (204)
- Man Out of Time / Tangled Up In Blue (1)
- Más y más (3)
- Mexican Divorce (1)
- Mexican Divorce / Brilliant Mistake / Boulevard of Broken Dreams (3)
- Miracle Man (35)
- Mistook Me for a Friend (23)
- Monkey to Man (156)
- Moods for Moderns (55)
- Moods for Moderns / Shotgun (1)
- Motel Matches (50)
- Mouth Almighty (3)
- Mr. and Mrs. Hush (46)
- Mr. and Mrs. Hush / Getting Mighty Crowded (1)
- Mr. Crescent (8)
- Mr. Feathers (4)
- Mr. Feathers / God's Comic (1)
- Must You Throw Dirt in My Face (5)
- My All Time Doll (16)
- My Baby Just Squeals (You Heel) (2)
- My Baby Just Squeals (You Heel) (17)
- My Baby's Gone (14)
- My Dark Life (6)
- My Funny Valentine (9)
- My Little Blue Window (8)
- My Mood Swings (43)
- My Most Beautiful Mistake (12)
- My New Haunt (4)
- My Three Sons (19)
- Mystery Dance (346)
- Mystery Train (20)
- National Ransom (21)
- National Ransom No. 2 (4)
- National Ransom No. 9 (4)
- Nearer to You (3)
- Needle Time (80)
- New Amsterdam (7)
- New Amsterdam / You've Got to Hide Your Love Away (6)
- New Lace Sleeves (59)
- Newspaper Pane (29)
- Next Time 'Round (35)
- Night Rally (9)
- Night Time (1)
- No Action (44)
- No Dancing (17)
- No Dancing / Please Please Me / Be My Baby (2)
- No Flag (50)
- No Hiding Place (22)
- No Hiding Place / And Your Bird Can Sing (1)
- No Man's Woman (1)
- No Particular Place to Go (15)
- No Reason to Quit (3)
- No Wonder (6)
- North (1)
- Nothing Clings Like Ivy (40)
- O Mistress Mine (1)
- Ode to Billie Joe / Everybody's Cryin' Mercy (1)
- Oliver's Army (196)
- On Your Way Down (14)
- One Bell Ringing (17)
- One of These Days (10)
- Ooh Las Vegas (1)
- Opportunity (21)
- Our Little Angel (20)
- Out of Time (46)
- Overture (2)
- Pads, Paws and Claws (2)
- Paint the Red Rose Blue (4)
- Pancho & Lefty (10)
- Pardon Me, Madam, My Name Is Eve (6)
- Party Girl (65)
- Pay It Back (3)
- Payday (14)
- Peace in Our Time (1)
- Penelope Halfpenny (47)
- Photographs Can Lie (38)
- Pidgin English (36)
- Pills and Soap (26)
- Play Something Sweet (Brickyard Blues) (2)
- Please Please Me (7)
- Point Blank (1)
- Poison Moon (2)
- Poisoned Rose (52)
- Polythene Pam (10)
- Poor Fractured Atlas (3)
- Poor Napoleon (15)
- Possession (36)
- Pouring Water on a Drowning Man (4)
- Pretty Words (1)
- Professor Longhair Medley (1)
- Promised Land (1)
- Psycho (3)
- Pump It Up (718)
- Pump It Up / Busted (10)
- Purple Rain (35)
- Quiet About It (6)
- Radio Radio (493)
- Radio Silence (11)
- Radio Soul / Radio Radio (2)
- Radio Sweetheart / Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile) (8)
- Ramble On Rose (3)
- Real Emotional Girl (1)
- Red Cotton (4)
- Red Dirt Girl (10)
- Red Red Red (1)
- Riot Act (27)
- Rocking Horse Road (22)
- Roxanne (1)
- Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town (1)
- Runnin' Out of Fools (5)
- Running Out of Fools (1)
- Secondary Modern (14)
- Secondary Modern / Watch Your Step (2)
- Seconds of Pleasure (5)
- Shabby Doll (88)
- Shake for Me (1)
- Shallow Grave (5)
- Sharp Dressed Man (1)
- She (73)
- She Handed Me a Mirror (2)
- She's Pulling Out the Pin (9)
- She's the One (1)
- Shipbuilding (148)
- Shot With His Own Gun (59)
- Shut Him Down (7)
- Sin City (7)
- Sittin' And Thinkin' (1)
- Sleep of the Just (9)
- Sleepless Nights (11)
- Slippin' and Slidin' (Peepin' and Hidin') (1)
- Slow Down (16)
- Smile (7)
- Sneaky Feelings (5)
- So Like Candy (41)
- So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star (5)
- Someone Took the Words Away (5)
- Song With Rose (17)
- Soul for Hire (9)
- Spooky Girlfriend (99)
- Starting to Come to Me (2)
- Stations of the Cross (39)
- Stella Hurt (61)
- Still (9)
- Still Too Soon to Know (30)
- Stranger in the House (19)
- Strict Time (102)
- Stripping Paper (8)
- Substitute (15)
- Such Unlikely Lovers (1)
- Sugar Won't Work (22)
- Suit of Lights (46)
- Sulky Girl (27)
- Sulphur to Sugarcane (19)
- Sunday's Best (10)
- Surrender to the Rhythm (8)
- Suspect My Tears (23)
- Suspicious Minds (4)
- Sweet Dreams (22)
- Sweet Home Chicago (1)
- Take It or Leave It (1)
- Take Me I'm Yours (1)
- Talking in the Dark (37)
- Tart (75)
- Te recuerdo Amanda (3)
- Tear Off Your Own Head (It's a Doll Revolution) (127)
- Tears Before Bedtime (61)
- Tears of Rage (2)
- Tears, Tears and More Tears (4)
- Tell Me Right Now (1)
- Temptation (29)
- Tempted (1)
- That Day Is Done (2)
- That's How You Got Killed Before (2)
- That's Not The Part of Him You're Leaving (2)
- The Beat (36)
- The Birds Will Still Be Singing (2)
- The Bottle Let Me Down (39)
- The Boy Named If (25)
- The Butcher's Boy (1)
- The Comedians (38)
- The Crooked Line (13)
- The Dark End of the Street (7)
- The Death of Magic Thinking (35)
- The Delivery Man (81)
- The Delivery Man / The Butcher's Boy (18)
- The Deportees Club (3)
- The Difference (6)
- The Element Within Her (1)
- The Greatest Love (12)
- The Greatest Love (9)
- The Imposter (18)
- The Invisible Man (4)
- The Judgement (58)
- The Last Year of My Youth (2)
- The Long Honeymoon (56)
- The Loved Ones (36)
- The Lovers That Never Were (3)
- The Man You Love to Hate (27)
- The Monkey (24)
- The Name of This Thing Is Not Love (16)
- The New Year (1)
- The Only Flame in Town (7)
- The Other End (Of the Telescope) (2)
- The Other Side of Summer (20)
- The Parting Glass (1)
- The River in Reverse (28)
- The River in Reverse / I'll Take Care of You / This Wheel's on Fire (1)
- The River in Reverse / This Wheel's On Fire (1)
- The Roadette Song (1)
- The Scarlet Tide (82)
- The Sharpest Thorn (5)
- The Spell That You Cast (8)
- The Tears of a Clown (1)
- The Town Where Time Stood Still (10)
- The Tracks of My Tears (3)
- There Stands the Glass (4)
- There Won't Be Anymore (5)
- There's a Story in Your Voice (56)
- They Didn't Believe Me (1)
- They're Not Laughing at Me Now (1)
- This House Is Empty Now (11)
- This Is a Test (1)
- This Is Hell (4)
- This Wheel's On Fire / River in Reverse / I'll Take Care of You (3)
- This Wheel's On Fire / River In Reverse / On Your Way Down / I'll Take Care of You (3)
- This Wheel's On Fire / River In Reverse / On Your Way Down / I'll Take Care of You / This Wheel's On Fire (1)
- This Wheel's on Fire / The River in Reverse (2)
- This Wheel's on Fire / The River In Reverse / On Your Way Down / I'll Take Care of You (7)
- This Will Be Our Year (1)
- This Year's Girl (115)
- Thunderbird (1)
- Till There Was You (1)
- Tiny Steps (8)
- Tipsy Woman (16)
- Tokyo Storm Warning (17)
- Toledo (38)
- Too Far Gone (1)
- Town Cryer (40)
- Town Cryer / Love In Mind / The First Cut is the Deepest (1)
- Tramp the Dirt Down (37)
- Tripwire (3)
- Trouble (1)
- Truth Drug (27)
- Turning the Town Red (1)
- Turpentine (46)
- Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa (2)
- Two Little Hitlers (5)
- Tymps (The Sick in the Head Song) (1)
- Uncomplicated (270)
- Under Lime (14)
- Under Lime / Jimmy Standing in the Rain (2)
- Unwanted Number (45)
- Unwanted Number / Love Child (1)
- Veronica (37)
- Viceroy's Row (3)
- Vitajex (3)
- Waiting for the End of the World (153)
- Wake Me Up (4)
- Wake Me Up When September Ends (1)
- Walk Us Uptown (21)
- Walkin' My Baby Back Home (15)
- Waltzing Matilda (1)
- Watch Your Step (60)
- Watching the Detectives (667)
- Watching the Detectives / Help Me (11)
- Watching the Detectives / Let Him Dangle (1)
- Watching the Detectives / Walk Us Uptown (1)
- We Are All Cowards Now (54)
- Welcome to the Working Week (31)
- Welcome to the Working Week / Workin' Man Blues (11)
- What If I Can't Give You Anything but Love? (76)
- Wheels (16)
- When I Paint My Masterpiece (13)
- When I Was Cruel No. 1 (9)
- When I Was Cruel No. 2 (125)
- When I Was Cruel No. 2 / Gloomy Sunday (3)
- When I Was Cruel No. 2 / My Funny Valentine (8)
- When I Was Cruel No. 2 / Watching The Detectives (1)
- When It Sings (1)
- Who Will the Next Fool Be (8)
- Who's Gonna Help Brother Get Further? (5)
- Who's the Meanest Gal in Town, Josephine (13)
- Why Can't a Man Stand Alone? (7)
- Why Don't You Love Me (47)
- Why Won't Heaven Help Me? (11)
- Wild Honey (3)
- Wild Honey / The Other Side of Summer (1)
- Wild Horses (10)
- Wild Side of Life (1)
- Willie And The Hand Jive (1)
- Wonder Woman (65)
- Wondering (3)
- Working In A Coal Mine (1)
- Yes We Can / The Sharpest Thorn (1)
- Yes We Can Can (5)
- You Belong to Me (101)
- You Bowed Down (6)
- You Don't Know My Mind Today (3)
- You Little Fool (63)
- You Shouldn't Look at Me That Way (14)
- You Tripped at Every Step (7)
- You Turned to Me (16)
- You Win Again (1)
- You'll Never Be a Man (23)
- You'll Never Walk Alone (1)
- You've Got to Hide Your Love Away (1)
- You've Really Got a Hold on Me (16)
Waiting for the End of the World performed by Elvis Costello & The Imposters
- Original Artist Elvis Costello
- From the release My Aim Is True (Album)
- Total Plays 153 times by Elvis Costello & The Imposters
- 395 times by 5 artists
- First Played in Concert April 16, 2002 at London Astoria, London, England
- Most Recently Played October 19, 2025 at Orpheum Theatre, Madison, WI, USA
Years
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2002
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2025
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2005
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2018
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2024
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2011
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15 |
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2023
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11 |
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2004
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2003
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5 |
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2012
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2013
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2007
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2022
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2008
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2009
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2010
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2015
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