Brown To Blue - Elvis Costello, The Attractions

We stood there in the courthouse room

So close yet far apart

You had brought your lawyer

And I’d brought a broken heart

The judge pronounced the words

The way you wanted him to do

And changed your name from Brown to Jones

And mine from Brown to blue

I couldn’t keep my tears from falling

On the courtroom floor

By law, they took away my rights

To love you anymore

My world just seemed to stop

While I stood there so close to you

They changed your name from Brown to Jones

And mine from Brown to blue

The judge forgot to tell me

How I’d live my life alone

What I would do without you

After loving you so long

He didn’t seem to care that

I am still in love with you

He changed your name from Brown to Jones

And mine from Brown to blue

I couldn’t keep my tears from falling

On the courtroom floor

By law, they took away my rights

To love you anymore

My world just seemed to stop

While I stood there so close to you

They changed your name from Brown to Jones

And mine from Brown to blue