[ti:A Century Of Elvis] [ar:Belle and Sebastian] [al:Push Barman To Open Old Wounds] [by:] [offset:0] [00:02.40]Artist:belle and sebastian [00:03.58]Songs Title:a century of elvis [00:05.27] [00:17.30]We were sitting in the living room on the sofa the wrong way round looking out the window [00:21.44]It was quiet and then in the car park across the road we saw Elvis - look there beside the postman's van [00:28.24] [00:29.31]And he was walking round the postman's van looking in the open door [00:33.90] [00:34.53]He looked as if he was thinking about getting in but then the postman came back and he swaggered off [00:38.96] [00:40.40]Walked past the window and down the stairs and then at the bottom of the stairs right by the caretaker's office [00:45.91]He started licking the pavement [00:46.51] [00:49.52]Every night now since we moved in that new house there's this noise outside the door at just about half seven or eight o' clock every night [00:58.64]And if we go and look outside the door Elvis'll be standing there waiting to be let in [01:03.78] [01:06.09]And then he wanders into the living room maybe sits down on one of the chairs or even lies down on the floor [01:10.92] [01:11.98]He doesn't say much he just stays there for an hour or two watching the TV [01:16.05] [01:16.98]We talk to him a bit and then around ten o' clock he'll go away again and not come back until the next night [01:23.61] [01:30.17]There's a lot of lanes and stuff around here around the house - although it's right in the middle of the city [01:35.50]It seems quite like the country it's dead hidden - safe I suppose made for night living [01:40.56] [01:42.25]There's a lot of squirrels and birds and Stuart says he's seen about nine foxes there [01:49.06] [01:50.25]When he's jumped over the fence on his way to Prior's Road [01:52.68] [01:54.75]Sometimes you can go out walking and when you've been out for a wee while even you don't know where you are anymore [01:59.43]So it would be pretty hard for anyone else to find you [02:02.62] [02:03.58]I suppose that's why he spends so much time there that's why he's come to live there or maybe it's just the squirrels [02:10.26]I read about somewhere that he likes squirrels quite a lot [02:13.97] [02:16.85]There's these two videos that we got for wedding presents - called the e-files [02:20.66]E-files one and e-files two about how Elvis is supposed to be still alive [02:23.67] [02:27.23]And one time when he came round we were watching one of those but he didn't say anything he just sat on the armchair [02:32.07]He was playing with his collar a bit and we watched it right through and then when it finished [02:36.82]He just got up and walked off into the mist and didn't say anything [02:40.00] [02:43.13]The first few times he came round I didn't speak to him at all I wasn't really sure what to say [02:49.51] [02:50.19]And Karen spoke to him quite a lot - she seemed to know what to do more than I do [02:54.44]He had quite a strange manner though he'd go into your stuff and look through it [02:58.70] [02:59.44]Then he'd maybe pick something up and play with it for a wee while but he'd never make any comment about any of it [03:04.91]Seemed pretty rude to me [03:06.41] [03:07.16]I just watched whatever Karen did and listened to how she talked to him and then [03:11.41]After a while I started to copy that and tell him a few things [03:15.23] [03:16.35]Not really bothered about whether he responded or said anything back or not [03:20.35] [03:22.28]I think the first time I spoke to him we were sitting up on the mezzanine and I said that I would tell him about me and wee Karen [03:28.66]And how it was that we'd come to be living there [03:31.87]I thought he probably liked the fact that we were living there because he came round so much [03:35.76]So I thought he might want to know how it was that it came about [03:38.43] [03:40.24]We did it all over backwards I told him [03:42.18] [03:42.75]First of all we got to know each other and then a while after that we met [03:46.87] [03:47.49]And when we'd known each other for about seven years we decided to have an anniversary [03:50.64] [03:52.33]And that went quite well so after the anniversary we had a honeymoon and that went well too [03:57.83] [03:59.10]So after that we decided that we would get married [04:01.10] [04:02.29]That's why we're living there now I used to think my dad was Elvis but I haven't told him that yet [04:12.79]I haven't told my dad either