Yes, and it would be hard to find a song from the eighties with better lyrics. If you did, it would probably be another one of Elvis's.
Working with or without Clive Langer, he obviously hadn't 'lost it'.
He hadn't even wrote 'Shipbuilding' before 'Trust', or 'Beyond Belief', or 'I Want You.'
I'm tempted to go for 'All This Useless Beauty' which is an absolutely brilliant album, but I'm going to settle on 'Blood and Chocolate.' He just does bitter and angry so well...