Slow Drag with Remedy: Recent Episodes
Remedy Robinson
An appreciation & exploration of linguists, language, poetry, and clever word play as framed by the peerless poetry of the modern day master, Elvis Costello
Today's slow drag is with "I Want to Vanish," from "All This Useless Beauty," released in 1996. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.
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Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Riot, MA, MFA
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, "I Want to Vanish" https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=I_Want_To_Vanish
"I Want to Vanish" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZIzhXMNzBo
The meaning of "paste" as it pertains to jewels: https://www.josephjewelry.com/guide/glossary/paste
"I Want to Vanish" Lyrics
I want to vanish
This is my fondest wish
To go where I cannot be captured
Laid on a decorated dish
Even in splendor this curious fate
Is more than I care to surrender
Now it's too late
(Chorus:)
Whether in wonder or indecent haste
You arrange the mirrors and the spools
To snare the rare and precious jewels
That were only made of paste
If you should stumble upon my last remark
I'm crying in the wilderness
I'm trying my best to make it dark
How can I tell you I'm rarer than most
I'm certain as a lost dog
Pondering a sign post
(Repeat Chorus)
I want to vanish
This is my last request
I've given you the awful truth
Now give me my rest
Today's slow drag is with "Almost Beaten to the Punch," from "Get Happy!!," released in 1980. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.
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Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Riot, MA, MFA
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, "Almost Beaten to the Punch" https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=Beaten_To_The_Punch
"Almost Beaten to the Punch" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoDQS0Zd110
Semantic Satiation: https://www.verywellmind.com/semantic-satiation-why-words-become-meaningless-8650932
"Almost Beaten to the Punch" Lyrics
You say that you can and then you run and get your mummy
And you're almost beaten to the punch
Looking for the man who sold you the dummy
And you're almost beaten to the punch
Laughing at the older guys who say it's just as well
Saved by the wedding bell
Almost beaten to the punch
You're looking for somebody new that you can knock about
You are almost beaten to the punch
If you've got a head for figures then you'd better count me out
You were almost beaten to the punch
You pulled the piece but you soon called it love
You go hand in glove
Almost beaten to the punch
Your body speaks much louder than your voice
You let it do the talking so I don't have any choice
Now you find the younger guys are putting up resistance
And you're almost beaten to the punch
You better get out now because you'll never go the distance
And you're almost beaten to the punch
You'll find a girl and you'll promise her anything
Even a wedding ring
Almost beaten to the punch
Today's slow drag is with "Forgive Her Anything," from "Blood & Chocolate," Rykodisc/Demon Edition, released in 1995, with a slightly longer version, a "home demo," with opposing pronouns that profoundly shift the perspective of each iteration, found on the Rhino/Edsel version of "Mighty Like a Rose," released in 2002. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello's birth name.
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Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Riot, MA,MFA
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, "Forgive Her Anything" https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=Forgive_Her_Anything
"Forgive Her Anything" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65OoQsZ8DjI
"Forgive Her Anything" Home Demo Rhino Bonus Discs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuVP-gO4giI
"Forgive Her Anything" Lyrics
Oh, the TV went off like three day old milk
They shut this town down better than most
And it always was less of an idea and more of a boast
Oh, you're burning in the bloom of life
'Til you're powder in the grave
Or you're pounding on the counter begging for more
'Til you evaporate
You'd forgive her anything
When you look like you, my pretty miss
I wonder where you are tonight
When this place becomes pitiless
Oh, she offered it all but she forgot to say when
Oh, this won't hurt a bit, oh, this won't hurt again
When the roof comes down and the walls move in
Oh, I didn't know it could feel like that
When your face turned away and the day turned black
And the rain fell like a curtain
Oh, it's my turn to begin
To forgive her anything
You'd forgive her anything
If you knew what I know
You'd forgive her anything
Say, where did all my pride go?
You'd forgive her anything
If you knew what I have known
I've been given and forgotten
More than you will ever know
Alternative Lyrics:
Why is the radio so brutally cheerful
This endless happiness overdose
That it always was less of an idea and more of a boast
Now you're burning in the bloom of life
Until you're powder in the grave
Or you're pounding on the counter begging for more
Till you evaporate
Chorus:
You'd forgive her anything
If you could win back her tender kiss
You wonder where she is tonight
As this town becomes pitiless
Well, you couldn't sleep, you don't want to think anymore
You listen for a footfall, a key in the door
As the roof comes down and the walls move in
So you didn't know it could feel like that
Till the face turned away and the day turned black
And the rain fell like a curtain
Now it's your turn to begin
To forgive her anything
(Repeat Chorus)
You'd forgive her anything
If you knew what I know
You'd forgive her anything
Say, where did all your pride go?
Today's slow drag is with "Talking in the Dark," ostensibly from "Armed Forces," and then again in many other places, culminating with a Rhino/Edsel reissue in 2002. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.
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Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Riot, MA,MFA
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, "Talking in The Dark" https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=Talking_In_The_Dark
"Talking in The Dark" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JnSChQtbiQ
"Talking in The Dark" Lyrics
I tried in vain to drive myself insane
I talk to myself but I don't listen
I found out what I was missing
I miss talking in the dark
Without you, I'm not conversational
Without the sense of the occasional
Without you, I miss talking in the dark
When the barking and the biting is through
We can talk like we're in love or talk like we're above it
We can talk and talk until we talk ourselves out of it
I look for the news, somebody to abuse
I look at myself but it's so chancy
I see things that I don't fancy
I miss talking in the dark
Without you, I'm not conversational
Without the sense of the occasional
Without you, I miss talking in the dark
Without you, I miss talking in the dark
Today's slow drag is with "Just About Glad" from "Brutal Youth," released in 1993. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello's birth name.
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Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Riot, MA,MFA
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, "Just About Glad" https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=Just_About_Glad
"Just About Glad" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgRHdpTkX7c
"Just About Glad" Lyrics
I'm just about glad that I knew you once
And it was more than just a passing acquaintance
I'm just about glad that it was a memory
That doesn't need constant maintenance
There are a few things that I regret
But nothing that I need to forget
For all of the courage that we never had
I'm just about glad
(Chorus:)
Just about glad we didn't do that thing
Just about glad we didn't have that fling
Just about glad we didn't give it a try
Just about glad, is that a tear in your eye?
And on the few times I rang to propose
There was a man there or so I'd suppose
The greatest lover that you never had
I'm just about glad
They called time and vodka and lime
In some far flung Canadian club
Just about glad
And there I was just waiting to fall
Like a toe just aching to stub
Just about glad
Later on I could never accept it
When you finally gave it all to him
Just about glad
And you said that my nurse was sweet
But her lamp was just beginning to dim
I'm just about glad
That we never did that thing that we were going to do
I'm just about glad I can look you in the eye
But I can't say the same for you
And though the passion still flutters and flickers
It never got into our knickers
For all of the courage that we never had
I'm just about, I'm just about
I'm just about, I'm just about
(flutter and wow from the song of the same name, to flutter or flatter from Like Licorice)
(Repeat Chorus)
And it's all just a stupid creation
Of my feverish imagination
If I'm the greatest lover that you never had
I'm just about, I'm just about
I'm just about, I'm just about
(Repeat Chorus)
Is that a tear in your eye?
Is that a tear in your eye?
Is that a tear in your eye?
Today's slow drag is with "Like Licorice" from "The Coward Brothers," released in 2024. The songwriting is credited to Howard Coward.
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Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Riot, MA,MFA
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, "Like Licorice" https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=Like_Licorice
"Like Licorice" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ-rtPoEQcg&list=RDjQ-rtPoEQcg&start_radio=1
"Humans from Earth" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK5dNeM4Zls
"Days" Elvis Costello version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmivtDdL-Fo
"People Limousine" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1zhyFvcv9o
"Like Licorice" Lyrics
Gets down to the matter
Gets down to the root
To flutter or flatter
In hot pursuit
Like Licorice
Like Licorice
On your tongue
It might get a little ticklish
But it won't take long
Some say they only found one little piece
A relation of Anna and anise
The sweetness of candy
The thrill of your fears
The tart of your tongue
And the salt of your tears
Like Licorice
Like Licorice
On your tongue
It might get a little ticklish
But it won't take long
Give 'em what they want, a promise of a dream
A ticket on a time machine
A voyage to nowhere on a magic stick
Maybe you can give it a lick
Like Licorice
Like Licorice
On your tongue
Like Licorice
Like Licorice
On your tongue
It might get a little ticklish
But it won't take long
It won't take long
It won't take long
Today's slow drag is with "Lover's Walk" from "Trust," released in 1981. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.
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Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA,MFA
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, "Lover's Walk" https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=Lovers_Walk
"Lover's Walk" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNCIzaBliTY
"Lover's Walk" Lyrics
I won't walk with my head bowed
Beyond caution where lovers walk
Your love walks where three's a crowd
Beyond caution where lovers walk
Lovers walk, lovers scramble
Beyond caution where lovers walk
Lovers step, shuffle and gamble
Beyond caution where lovers walk
Lovers trip, lovers stumble
Lovers dip, lovers fumble (is that the word?)
Lovers lip where love has crumbled
Beyond caution where lovers walk
Lovers strut, lovers stroll, lovers leap
Lovers late, lovers wait
Making promises that they can't keep
Lovers link up arm in arm
Lovers slink up, lovers charm
Lovers drink up and come to harm
Beyond caution where lovers walk
Love is gone and it's no one's fault
Love has stopped here, lovers halt
Lovers don't walk, lovers run
Will you look what love has done
Will you look what love has done
Will you look what love has done
Beyond caution where lovers walk
Now love's limping on a lover's crutch
Looking for a hand with a personal touch
Beyond caution where lovers walk
Today’s slow drag is with “(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes” from “My Aim is True,” released in 1977. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello’s birth name.
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Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA,MFA
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes” https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=(The_Angels_Wanna_Wear_My)_Red_Shoes
“(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS8oaMFsBEk
Got vs. Gotten https://ellii.com/blog/got-vs-gotten
(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes lyrics:
Oh, I used to be disgusted
and now I try to be amused.
But since their wings have got rusted,
you know, the angels wanna wear my red shoes.
But when they told me 'bout their side of the bargain,
that's when I knew that I could not refuse
And I won't get any older, now the angels wanna wear my red shoes
I was watching while you're dancing away
Our love got fractured in the echo and sway
How come everybody wants to be your friend?
You know that it still hurts me just to say it
Oh, I know that she's disgusted (oh why's that)
Cause she's feeling so abused. (oh that's too bad)
She gets tired of the lust, (oh I'm so sad)
but it's so hard to refuse
How can you say that I'm too old,
when the angels have stolen my red shoes.
Oh, I said "I'm so happy, I could die"
She said "Drop dead," then left with another guy
That's what you get if you go chasing after vengeance.
Ever since you got me punctured this has been my sentence.
Oh, I used to be disgusted
and now I try to be amused.
But since their wings have got rusted,
you know, the angels wanna wear my red shoes.
Red shoes, the angels wanna wear my red shoes.
Today’s slow drag is with “We Are All Cowards Now” from “Hey Clockface,” released in 2020. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.
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Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA,MFA
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “We Are All Cowards Now” https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=We_Are_All_Cowards_Now
“We Are All Cowards Now” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8r_F_4AjVE
"We Are All Cowards Now" lyrics
Time has taught us
That they’re sending out their sons
To take away our guns and our daughters
We are all cowards now
Rivers rising
Darkness fell upon
People blotting out the sun
Disguising how
We are all cowards now
At least the Emperor Nero had an ear for music
But that’s history
Caligula said “God’s speed, my steed”
But that’s his story
They’re coming for our Peacemakers
Our Winchesters and Colts
The rattle of our Gatling Guns
Our best cowboy revolts and threats and insults
We are all cowards now
The emptiness of arms
The openness of thighs
The pornography of bullets
The promises and prizes can’t disguise
We are all cowards now
They're draping stones with colours
And a roll of stolen names
Except those we never cared about
And those we need to blame
We’ll extinguish that flame, just the same
We are all cowards now
Arms are empty
The pornography of plenty
Count commands from one to ten
Number sins from ten to twenty
There’s an illusion we believe in
There is honour in their need
Pretty confetti, chemical debt
And a necessity to bleed
My fears too fleet to scupper
My prayers too thin to scream
On my lover's back a zipper
On her limb a straightened seam
So, close the windows tightly
Lower lamps and shades
On the screen, silent rehearsals
For tomorrow's parades
For tomorrow's parades
For tomorrow's parades
We are all cowards now
Additional lyrics from live performances:
In a box of lies
In a shimmering air
There's a whispered curse
There's a mumbled prayer
No choice but to scan the sky up above
At least pretend we can surrender to love
At least pretend we can surrender to love
Put up your hands
Put up your hands
Put up your hands
Speak up for beauty
Throw down your arms
Undo your duty
For the wounds of the past
Some fool will say
Pardon these crimes committed today
We are all cowards now
Today’s slow drag is with “Uncomplicated” from “Blood & Chocolate,” released in 1986. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello’s birth name.
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Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA,MFA
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Uncomplicated” https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=Uncomplicated
“Uncomplicated” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a91_uGPR9_o
A bit more about prosody: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DUCCSepMbs
Heart Murmur: https://www.vulture.com/article/elvis-costello-profile.html
Clever Hans: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Clever-Hans
The difference between opposition and contradiction: https://jordantimes.com/opinion/ahmad-y-majdoubeh/opposition-vs-contradiction#:~:text=Opposition%20is%20both%20natural%20and,to%20countless%20damages%20and%20crises.
Purchase “The Most Terrible Time in My Life…Ends Thursday”
Listen to the audiobook of “The Most Terrible Time in My Life…Ends Thursday” for free at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq7n1pN8D1Y
Today’s slow drag is with “Mr. & Mrs. Hush” from the Grammy award-winning “Look Now,” released in 2018. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.
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Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA,MFA
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Mr. and Mrs. Hush” https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=Mr._%26_Mrs._Hush
“Mr. and Mrs. Hush” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdHjigna3gI
“Blindman’s Bluff” https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095512112
The Sapir Whorf hypothesis https://www.simplypsychology.org/sapir-whorf-hypothesis.html
Purchase “The Most Terrible Time in My Life…Ends Thursday”
Listen to the audiobook of “The Most Terrible Time in My Life…Ends Thursday” for free at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq7n1pN8D1Y
Today’s slow drag is with “TKO (Boxing Day)” from “Punch the Clock,” released in 1983. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.
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Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA,MFA
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “TKO (Boxing Day)” https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=TKO_(Boxing_Day)
“TKO (Boxing Day)” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5yoFjJSlwo
Why is it called Boxing Day? https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/46454700
The Origins of Boxing Day https://www.carnivalarts.org.uk/post/the-origins-of-boxing-day
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"TKO (Boxing Day)" Lyrics
You can run all you like from the classroom or the cot
From a great big man or tiny tot
But from this day, every day will be Boxing Day
Don't need your indecision, let there be no doubt
Don't need your permission, I can count you out
I can count you out
TKO
They put the numb into number, put the cut into cutie
They put the slum into slumber and the boot into beauty
But from this day, every day will be Boxing Day
It's a fight to the finish, let there be no doubt
As the seconds turn into minutes, I can count you out
I can count you out
TKO
You need a back to break or a back to stab
Now your birthday suit looks dull and drab
Every day will be Boxing Day
Now you don't look so glamorous
Whenever I feel so amorous
I can count you out
TKO
Today’s slow drag gives voice to an intrepid visual documentarian who puts the face to the name, splashes color in the corners of the nuance, and provides the proof that unicorns like our beloved entertainer truly do walk amongst us. It’s more than joy to pour over Tony Sacchetti’s evocative images of Mr. Costello in so many different settings. It’s an honor to scatter flowers at his feet as he dances us through a glimpse into how he does what he does so well.
Cover Art Credit: Anthony Sacchetti
Follow Tony Sacchetti on Instagram @Anthony.sacchetti
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Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA,MFA
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“Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, Podcasts” https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=Podcasts
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Today’s slow drag is with “The Only Flame in Town,” from “Goodbye Cruel World,” released in 1984. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.
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Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA,MFA
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slow_drag_remedy/
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Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
“Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, Podcasts” https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=Podcasts
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “The Only Flame in Town” https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=The_Only_Flame_In_Town
“The Only Flame in Town” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugcURF7B_gw
“The Only Flame in Town” Alternate version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geApcpKSk-4
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"The Only Flam in Town" Lyrics
I know a girl got my mind in a mess
I never heard her say goodnight and God bless
She's not the only flame in town
And when we're alone, we never quarrel
I'm miles away, now here's the moral
She's not the only flame in town
She's not the only flame in town
She's got to stop thinking that I'm carrying this torch around
He struck a match and it lit up her face
We should have struck a match, girl
To burn down the whole place
Now you're not the only flame in town
But you blew hot and cold
Turned my heart to a cinder
And with each passing day
You're less tender and more tinder
Now you're not the only flame in town
She's not the only flame in town
She's got to stop thinking that I'm carrying this torch around
You're not the only flame
You're not the only flame
Thought I saw your face in the fire
But it's so hard to remember
Even an inferno can cool down to an ember
Now you're not the only flame
You're not the only flame
You're not the only flame in town
Today’s slow drag is with “Poisoned Rose,” from “King of America,” released in 1986. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello’s birth name.
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Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA,MFA
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slow_drag_remedy/
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“Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, Podcasts” https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=Podcasts
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Poisoned Rose” https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=Poisoned_Rose
“Poisoned Rose” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5ycLSDu7jc
“La Vie Bohéme” trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYYE_1Br-kE
“A Drunken Man’s Praise of Sobriety” Elvis Costello Wiki https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=A_Drunken_Man%27s_Praise_Of_Sobriety
“A Drunken Man’s Praise of Sobriety” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFf-iHQjLNI
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"Poisoned Rose" Lyrics
The poisoned rose
That you gave to me
It left me half alive
And half in ecstasy
But if half of your love
Is all I can win
Give me just a fraction
But no more medicine
The poisoned rose
On a Valentine card
That you take straight to the heart
That you call my junkyard
But if all I can do
Is save pieces of you
The piece of your mind
The piece of your heart
Didn't tear me apart
Like the poisoned rose
I received from you
I don't know
How we came to grow
Into this very sad affair
Every time we do the decent thing
Somebody spikes the drink
And a single becomes a pair
The poisoned rose
That you wear at your best
That I keep pressed between the white sheets
Where you lie half undressed
I threw away my shirt and shoes
You looked and I dived in
It's just you and me now
'Cause I threw away the gin
I threw away your alibis
And all your worn-out clothes
I threw myself upon the floor
But I couldn't throw away
This poisoned rose
This poisoned rose
This poisoned rose
Today’s slow drag is with “Tear off Your Own Head,” from “When I Was Cruel,” released in 2002. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.
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Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA,MFA
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slow_drag_remedy/
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“Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, Podcasts” https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=Podcasts
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Tear off Your Own Head” https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=Tear_Off_Your_Own_Head_(It%27s_A_Doll_Revolution)
“Tear off Your Own Head” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY6iBsjZQhQ
“Tear off Your Own Head” The Bangles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwVvf_8oWFk
“Shabby Doll” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgKhxZTYtq4
“Puppet Girl” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSmTP4sqGRA
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"Tear off Your Own Head" Lyrics
Who dries your eyes when you cry real tears?
Who know or cares what an imitation is?
Only you do
You can paint his nails
Make him wear high heels
Why waste time altering the hemline?
Or do you?
Tear off your own head
Tear off your own head
It's a doll revolution
You can bat your lashes
You can cut your strings
You can pull his hair with your moveable fingers
It looks so real
If one won't do it, so collect the set
Dress him in pink ribbons
Put him in a kitchenette
How does this feel?
Tear off your own head
Tear off your own head
It's a doll revolution
What’s that sound?
It will turn you around
It's a doll revolution
They're taking over
And they're tearing it down
It's a doll revolution
You can pull and pinch him
'Til he cries and squeals
You can twist his body 'til it faces backwards
Plastic features
You could make somebody a pretty little wife
But don't let anybody tell you how to live your life
Broken pieces
Tear off your own head
Tear off your own head
It's a doll revolution
Tear off your own head
Tear off your own head
Revolution
— Dig it
Ballyhoo, my friend. The passion project is back again with another lyrics only episode.
My name is Remedy Robinson. And, for fun, let’s listen to the brilliant alternate lyrics of “Stalin Malone,” from Spike, released in 1989, off the 2001 Rhino re-issue of Spike. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello’s birth name, the recitation is credited to Elvis Costello.
"Stalin Malone" Lyrics
I'm going to make you even fear the dream you dream
Don't even think about it, don't make a wish
You think that I don't see you as you trawl those young weak fish
Hooked on those poor wonders, till they want you alone
Though they can't tell a cuckoo-clock from the squeals of saxophones
That's when they'll fear my name
I'm telling you the day will come when this man gets what he merits
Though people still wear animal skins to ward off evil spirits
Only wife-swapping and witchcraft woke the dormitory town
'Til horse's heads up in the trees came dripping down
Yes, horse's heads hung in the trees after the bird had flown
Did you wonder of my whereabouts as the powder room was blown?
Did anybody call my name?
In a room called creation, where you all obey my laws
Where Seconal is gravity and pain is like applause
You think that this phenomenon is some coincidence
I've got people everywhere, you're under my surveillance, in the pocket of my pants
Okay, she left me, but I'll soon get over that
Falling out of the "Blood Tub" and rolling on my back
Waking up to the one o'clock gun with a Punch and Judy bird
Reaching out for a gelignite beer that fills me up with murder
To overhear forbidden songs her lover must have known
Between the pity and advice...
"There's no one here to help you now, but speak after the tone"
Leave for me a message of hope
Now the church door is a roller-shutter with padlocks and keys
Just like all of the other dispensaries
The saloon is like a casket, stained wood and human dust
Stale with conversation that hangs on your clothes like smoke
The wooden clock set time for her to dance dressed only in a flower
As the jazz band drowned the hysterical bird that it spits out on the hour
I drop out of sight and disappear, turn up in another town
But somehow I can't seem to put it down now, put it down
You probably wonder why I'm here, I don't trust myself alone
But do I have to see her fall into his arms before I can atone?
Get my jacket on, get my story straight
I'm leaving on my own
Again, this has been a slow drag lyrics only reading of “Stalin Malone” from 1989’s Spike. What a joy to read such mastery. Thank you for listening.
So, until next time, adieu my little ballyhoo
Reference:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource: Stalin Malone https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=Stalin_Malone
Today’s slow drag is with “Heathen Town,” from “Out of Our Idiot,” released in 1987. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.
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Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slow_drag_remedy/
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“Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, Podcasts” https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=Podcasts
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Heathen Town” https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=Heathen_Town
“Heathen Town” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udnz2s_k8js
“The Fall of Rome” https://www.dictionary.com/browse/fall-of-rome#:~:text=The%20collapse%20of%20the%20Roman,%2C%20Romulus%20Augustulus%2C%20in%20476.
“Old hat” idiom: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/old-hat#:~:text=old%20hat%20in%20American%20English,of%20being%20trite%20or%20commonplace
John Howard Payne’s, “Home Sweet Home,” written in 1822 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqjjfF1Wn-s
“Ave Maria” (Ellen’s Third Song,” composed in 1825 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqjjfF1Wn-s
“Ave Maria” words: https://www.classicfm.com/composers/schubert/ave-maria-schubert-lyrics/
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"Heathen Town" Lyrics
They used to call it Sin City
Now it's gone way past that
Painting the town and then burning it down
Now even that's old hat
Now there's a choir of angels at the fall of Rome
Singing "Ave Maria" or "Home Sweet Home"
It's just a heathen town
I hear only evil as my tongue is tightened
I used to be god-fearing, now I'm so frightened
Cos the devil will drag you under
By the shark tail fin of your checkered cab
And I can't sit down, I'm going overboard
in this heathen town
It starts as a flirtation
And ends up as an expensive habit
With one eye on her place in debtor's prison
And the other on a girl dressed as a rabbit
Now you can live forever
Endure fits and starts
But the only stake you cannot raise
Is the one driven through your heart
It's just a heathen town
I hear only evil as my tongue is tightened
I used to be god-fearing, now I'm so frightened
Cos the devil will drag you under
By the shark tail fin of your checkered cab
And I can't sit down, I'm going overboard
In this heathen town
And I can't sit down, I'm going overboard
In this heathen town
In this heathen town
In this heathen town
In this heathen town
In this heathen town
— Dig it
Ballyhoo, my friend. The passion project is doing something a little different today.
My name is Remedy Robinson. And, for fun, this inaugural lyrics-only slow drag, let’s listen to brilliant lyrics of “The Boy Named If,” from the album of the same name, released in 2022. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.
I'm a lucky so and so
A fortunate stiff
You said you never knew me but I'm the one you want to be with
If I tumble from a tightrope or leap from a cliff
I won't be dashed to pieces
I'm the boy named "IF"
If I disappear and I slipper from your view
I just step upon a crack and I won't come back
Imagine me
And I'll imagine you too
In a hollow of the bed sheet
Or a picture in a frame
I'm vivid as a summer's day
Then never seen again
Who'll pay the taxman?
Who'll place the blame?
Who'll point into an empty room
And whisper my name?
If I disappear and I slipper from your view
You will step upon a crack and I won't come back
Imagine me
And I'll imagine you too
Take my hand
We'll go to "Magic Lantern Land"
Take my hand
See the pictures they've projected
Take my hand
We'll fill our pockets up with sand
Dance in frantic passes
'Til the grains all turn to glasses
Drums begin to navigate, the band strikes up a riff
No one will believe you but the
Boy Named If
Who'll pay your entrance fee?
Who'll leave a tip?
Who'll say, "Listen here, Sunshine
Don't you give me no lip"
Who broke your favorite heart?
Who stops and never starts?
Who kiss you stupid?
It must be something you did
Who'll keep you satisfied after a lover's tiff?
It must be some other guy not…
The Boy Named If
If I disappear and I slipper from your view
You will step upon a crack and I won't come back
Imagine me
And I'll imagine you too
Take my hand
We'll go to "Magic Lantern Land"
Take my hand
See the pictures we've projected
Take my hand
We'll fill our pockets up with sand
Dance in frantic passes
'Til the grains all turn to glasses
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Again, this has been a slow drag lyrics only reading of “The Boy Named If” from 2022’s album of the same name. Thank you for listening.
And, of course, until next time, adieu my little ballyhoo
Reference:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource: The Boy Named If https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=The_Boy_Named_If_(song)
Today’s slow drag is with “Country Darkness,” from “The Delivery Man,” released in 2004. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.
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Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slow_drag_remedy/
Bluesky Social: https://bsky.app/profile/slowdragwithremedy.com
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
“Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, Podcasts” https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=Podcasts
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Country Darkness” https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=Country_Darkness
“Country Darkness” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwp42y6I8m8
Blade definition: https://appzaza.com/dictionary/blade
Filament: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/filament#google_vignette
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"Country Darkness" Lyrics
This tattered document
A mystery you can solve
Some burnt out filament
Flies buzzing around the bulb
Country Darkness
He thought of traveling
Heard an approaching train
Drown out his desperate pulse
A song with no refrain
Country Darkness
She daydreams of forbidden sins
There must be something more
The prison she lives in
The one with the open door
A veil is covering
A glistening cruel blade
Suffer little children
Repent, unfaithful maid
Country Darkness
She daydreams of forbidden sins
There must be something more
The prison she lives in
The one with the open door
A veil is covering
A glistening cruel blade
Suffer little children
Repent, unfaithful maid
Country Darkness
Today’s slow drag is with “Tears before Bedtime,” from “Imperial Bedroom,” released in 1982. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.
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Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slow_drag_remedy/
Bluesky Social: https://bsky.app/profile/slowdragwithremedy.com
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
“Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, Podcasts” https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=Podcasts
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Tears before Bedtime” https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=Imperial_Bedroom
“Tears before Bedtime” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v_inbXiPLQ
“Tears before Bedtime” Alternative version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA8uLxyBF9I
“Give up The Ghost” meaning https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/to-give-up-the-ghost#:~:text=Definition%20of%20'to%20give%20up%20the%20ghost'&text=If%20someone%20gives%20up%20the,what%20they%20are%20looking%20for.
A chorus versus and hook: https://emastered.com/blog/hook-vs-chorus#:~:text=A%20chorus%20is%20usually%20preceded,make%20for%20a%20catchier%20tune.
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"Tears before Bedtime" Lyrics
I know the name on the tip of your tongue
And I know that accusing look
Everybody knows I've been so wrong
That's the problem and here's the hook
Chorus:
Tears before bedtime
There'll be trouble tonight
I don't want to talk about it anymore
I don't want to have another fight
I don't want to talk I don't want to fight
How wrong can I be before I am right
For the tears that you boo hoo hoo
There can be no defense
You say you'll forgive and forget
But it's only a pretense
(Chorus)
Either you can leave the past behind
Or give me something to disconnect my mind
I sleep with my fists clenched tight
When I don't lie awake all night
I guess time gave up the ghost too late
And the balance of our love
Very soon turns to hate
Darling your suspiciousness
Tortures me at night
But I can't excuse the cruel words
That I use whenever we fight
(Chorus)
How wrong can I be before I am right
Alternate Version Lyrics
I see that strange look in your eyes once again
And the name on the tip of your tongue is of a woman and not a man
There’ll be tears before bedtime, they’ll be trouble tonight
I don’t want to talk about it anymore, oh I don’t want to fight
How wrong can I be before I am right?
The pain that I’ve given you there is no defense
You say you’ll forgive and forget but it’s only a pretense
There’ll be tears before bedtime, they’ll be trouble tonight
I don’t want to talk about it anymore, oh I don’t want to fight
How wrong can I be before I am right?
Either you can leave the past behind or give me something to discount mind
I sleep with my fists clenched tights when I don’t lie awake all night
I guess time gave up the ghost too late
And the balance of our love
Very soon turns to hate
Suspicion and silence still torture my night
And the cruel words of anger that run through all our fights
They’ll be tears before bedtime, I’ll be trouble tonight
I don’t want to talk about it anymore, I don’t want to fight
How wrong can I be before I am right?
Today’s slow drag is with “Stella Hurt,” from “Momofuku,” released in 2008. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.
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Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slow_drag_remedy/
Bluesky Social: https://bsky.app/profile/slowdragwithremedy.com
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
“Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, Podcasts” https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=Podcasts
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Stella Hurt” https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=Stella_Hurt
“Stella Hurt” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W93e5f6py9U
“Chekhov’s Gun” https://screencraft.org/blog/everything-you-need-to-know-about-chekhovs-gun/
“Arcadia” https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/arcadia#:~:text=Now%20English%20speakers%20often%20use,%2C%20simple%2C%20or%20untroubled.%22
Blue Birds Songs: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Eastern_Bluebird/sounds#
“The Other End of the Telescope” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grIxnYllZxk
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"Stella Hurt" Lyrics
You should wear your red galoshes
Walking o'er the city pride
Streets are paved with heaven's pennies
Gutters full of suicides
Teddy steadily fell from grace
Somewhere near Arcadia
Once she overheard a voice
she didn't hear on the radio
Velvet gloves and country clubs
Were never going to hold her
Ringing the necks of silly
Southern belles
Who wanted to scold her
Don't bring me down
I'm trouble bound
Blue song
Red Alert
Who made Stella Hurt?
Teddy soon dropped out of sight
Turned up in another town
Changed her name for the spotlight
Singing like a blue bird in a sequin gown
She finally fell and married well
But I knew it wouldn't last
Reversing back into the limelight
No one ever saw her even half-plastered
Don't bring me down
I'm trouble bound
Blue song
Red Alert
Who made Stella Hurt?
Then she saw those soldier boys
Throw their bonnets in the air
Self-made men would pledge their fortunes
And dream of her
And dream of her...
Generals in the commissary opened up a case of wine
Checked the perfume of the cork
Said "Made in 1929"...
They used her up, to raise morale for money
And Old Glory
Her voice was shot beyond repair
But this is not the last act of this story
The night is black as cracked shellac
Abandoned in an attic
Stella is silent as the grave
Until the needle drags her through the static
Don't bring me down
I'm trouble bound
Blue song
Red Alert
Who made Stella Hurt?
Today’s slow drag is with “The Difference,” from “The Boy Named If,” released in 2023. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.
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Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slow_drag_remedy/
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“Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, Podcasts” https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=Podcasts
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “The Difference” https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=The_Difference
“The Difference” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tvg-OfP1LA
Octameter: https://poemanalysis.com/poetic-meter/#:~:text=Octameter%20Octameter%20refers%20to%20a,patterns%20in%20English%20language%20verse.
The difference between undertone and overtone https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/eb/qa/undertone-and-overtone
What is an appositive: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/appositive
Fiddlehead Reel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDYe6ZMs3K4
Fiddlehead: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fiddlehead
The Male Gaze: https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-the-male-gaze-5118422
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"The Difference" Lyrics
I pulled a petal from the flower to tell just where my fortune fell
About a boy beyond my caution before I lay beneath his spell
And he said, "Do you know, do you know, do you, by chance, know wrong from right?"
"Do you know, do you know, do you know what turns pleasure to plight?
If you trust me, I know it may seem strange
I'll show you the way down into the underworld"
I did just what he asked me to
Lifted my skirt to show him my shoe
Upon a reel of the finest fiddlehead
Light as the dance around Milady's bed
The steps came faster at his insistence
'Til he showed me all about the difference
"It's not about the things I promised, it's not about the vow we broke
If I am faithless or dishonest it's just the gaze that you provoke"
And he said, "Do you know, do you know, do you, by chance, know wrong from right?"
"Do you know, do you know, do you know what turns pleasure to plight?
If you kiss me, at first it may seem strange
I'll show you the way into another world"
My father shamed me just like you
Buried my name in a glass or two
'Til he came to me in his darkest house
He mistook me, took me for his spouse
And my cries for a woman in the distance
So, I took this knife to show him the difference
'Til he came to me in his darkest house
He mistook me, took me for his spouse
And my cries for the woman in the distance
So, I used this knife to show him the difference
Today’s slow drag is with “Lipstick Vogue,” from “This Year’s Model,” released in 1978. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.
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Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slow_drag_remedy/
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“Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, Podcasts” https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=Podcasts
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Lipstick Vogue” https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=Lipstick_Vogue
“Lipstick Vogue” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3sqZUMgcX4
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"Lipstick Vogue" Lyrics
Don't say you love me when it's just a rumor
Don't say a word if there is any doubt
Sometimes I think that love is just a tumor
You've got to cut it out
You say you're sorry for the things that you've done
You say you're sorry but you know you don't mean it
I wouldn't worry, I had so much fun
Sometimes I almost feel just like a human being
It's you
Not just another mouth in the lipstick vogue
It's you
Not just another mouth in the lipstick vogue
Oh yeah
Get to the slot machine almost dead on arrival
Just hit me one more time with that live wire
Maybe they told you you were only a girl in a million
You say I've got no feelings
This is a good way to kill them
Select the control and then insert the token
You wanna throw me away but I'm not broken
You've got a lot to say, well I'm not jokin
There are some words they don't allow to be spoken
Sometimes I almost feel just like a human being
It's you
Not just another mouth in the lipstick vogue
It's you
Not just another mouth in the lipstick vogue
Not just another mouth lost in the lipstick vogue (repeats)
Today’s slow drag is with “The Spell That You Cast,” from “National Ransom,” released in 2010. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.
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Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slow_drag_remedy/
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“Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, Podcasts” https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=Podcasts
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “The Spell That You Cast” https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=The_Spell_That_You_Cast
“The Spell That You Cast” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEYZTE8BDuE
The Difference between You Got and You Have: https://preply.com/en/question/you-got-youve-got-43032#:~:text=“You%20have%20got”%20fully%20correct,missed%20too%20many%20days%20already.”&text=“You%27ve”%20(short,”%20(have%20is%20missing).
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"The Spell That You Cast" Lyrics
The spell that you cast
Well, it seems to be wearing off fast
(The spell that you cast)
Come back baby, cos I don't think that I can last
(The spell that you cast)
And I wonder whether
You got some other kind of lover < grammar
That you like to please
Better than me
Don't think I can take it
How am I gonna break it?
The spell that you cast
The spell that you cast
The spell that you've woven
Well, it seems to be coming undone
(The spell that you cast)
Come back, Baby or at least tell me where you are going
(The spell that you cast)
And you know quite well
That I'm not the jealous kinda fella
But they look in your eyes
And they're all hypnotized
I'm gonna miss you madly
'Cos I love you sadly
The spell that you cast
The spell that you cast
Jimmy, come quickly ‘cos I feel quite sickly
(Oh, the spell that you cast)
You're like a gangster's Molly with a cannonade volley
(Oh, the spell that you cast)
(Oh, the spell that you cast)
Here we go…
Don't think I can take it
How am I gonna break it?
The spell that you cast
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Today’s slow drag is with “Blame It on Cain,” from “My Aim is True,” released in 1977. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.
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Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slow_drag_remedy/
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“Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, Podcasts” https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=Podcasts
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Blame It on Cain” https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=Blame_It_On_Cain
“Blame It on Cain” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfHaI7rVp9g
“The Ticker’s Rise and Fall” https://www.thinkadvisor.com/2008/02/01/the-tickers-rise-and-fall/
“Shallow Grave” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN5qkhNHEKg
“Good Luck Grin” https://stirredblog.com/2017/03/13/baldwin-bar/
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"Blame It on Cain" Lyrics
Once upon a time, I had a little money
Government burglars took it long
before I could mail it to you
Still, you are the only one
Now I can't let it slip away
So, if the man with the ticker tape,
tries to take it, this is what I'm gonna say
Blame it on Cain
Don't blame it on me
Oh, oh, it's nobody's fault
but we need somebody to burn
Well, if I was a saint with a silver cup
and the money got low
we could always heat it up or trade it in
then the radio to heaven will be wired to your purse
And then you can run down the waveband,
coast to coast, hand in hand
Bad to worse, curse for curse,
don't be dissatisfied
So, you're not satisfied
(Chorus)
I think I lived a little too long
on the outskirts of town
I think I'm going insane
from talking to myself for so long
Oh, but I never been acute
But when they step upon your face,
they wear that good look grin
I gotta break out one weekend if I do somebody in
But every single time I feel a little stronger
they tell me it's a crime
Well, how much longer?
(Chorus)
Blame it on Cain
Please don't blame it on me
It's nobody's fault,
but it just seems to be his turn
Today’s slow drag is with “American Gangster Time,” from “Momofuku,” released in 2008. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.
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Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slow_drag_remedy/
Bluesky Social: https://bsky.app/profile/slowdragwithremedy.com
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
“Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, Podcasts” https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=Podcasts
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “American Gangster Time” https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=American_Gangster_Time
“American Gangster Time” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnRIKlVsk1w
Flag Etiquette: https://www.vfw.org/community/flag-etiquette
Flatter to Deceive idiom meaning: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/flatter-to-deceive#:~:text=to%20give%20the%20appearance%20of,just%20a%20lull%20in%20hostilities.
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"American Gangster Time" Lyrics:
One, two, three, four
Somewhere downtown a pretty girl kneels
Offers her soft lips and a handful of pills
Peels off her dress and then the rest of her skills
It buys what she wants and the rest she just steals
He speaks between deep swallows of rum
While her head is beating like a big bass drum
And she wishes he were mute and not just dumb
When the trick asked her quick, "Did you come?"
It's a drag
Saluting that starry rag
I'd rather go blind
For speaking my mind
Or use it just like a gag
So, raise it in anger
Just let it hang
American Gangster Time
He sits back and starts to invent
All about some Saigon correspondent
"'Til the carbine fell silent and spent
I never knew it could be so eloquent"
Next week there'll be some fashionable new sin
For each harlot and each Puritan
Pull off their wings stick them on a pin
And just watch the money roll in
It's a drag
Saluting that starry rag
I’d rather go blind
For speaking my mind
Or use it just like a gag
So, raise it in anger
Just let it hang
American Gangster Time
What you got hidden up your sleeve?
The tracks of the train that were bidding you to leave
When they say that you should flatter to deceive
Don't count on any reprieve
The hands of the helpless are raised
Your dead little secrets are praised
The people stand dumbstruck and dazed
By the inches that you have erased
It’s a drag
Saluting that starry rag
I'd rather go blind
For speaking my mind
Or use it just like a gag
So, raise it in anger
Just let it hang
American gangster time
Committing the perfect crime
In American Gangster Time
Here we go
Bye bye
American Gangster Time
Today’s slow drag is with “Lip Service,” from “This Year’s Model,” released in 1978. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.
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Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slow_drag_remedy/
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Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
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“Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, Podcasts” https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=Podcasts
References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Lip Service” https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=Lip_Service
“Lip Service” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE6oRbX4CLc
“Grice’s Maxims” https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/dravling/grice.html
“Sharp Practice” meaning: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/sharp-practice
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"Lip Service" Lyrics
You left the motor running
But I know you're so attractive
Getting in some sharp practice
You better not do anything reckless
But if everybody is going through the motions
Everybody is going through the motions
Are you really only going through the motions?
Lip service is all you'll ever get from me
Lip service is all you'll ever get from me
Lip service is all you'll ever get from me
But if you change your mind
You can send it in a letter to me
Don't make any sudden movements
These are dangerous amusements
When did you become so choosy
Don't act like you're above me, just look at your shoes
But if everybody is going through the motions
Everybody is going through the motions
Are you really only going through the motions?
Lip service is all you'll ever get from me
Lip service is all you'll ever get from me
Lip service is all you'll ever get from me
But if you change your mind
You can send it in a letter to me
But if you change your mind
You can send it in a letter to me
But if you change your mind
You can send it in a letter to me
Today’s slow drag is with “The Man You Love to Hate,” from “The Boy Named If,” released in 2022. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.
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Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slow_drag_remedy/
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “The Man You Love to Hate” https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=The_Man_You_Love_To_Hate
“The Man You Love to Hate” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZU9b4NOQBQ
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"The Man You Love to Hate" Lyrics
I went to a theatre on Silhouette Street
It had a taste of decay, and a scent of defeat
All of the patrons in the pews were people that I'd killed or used
The actors on the stage were equally skilled
The players took turns in lighting the fuse
One of them said "Now you must choose"
A man of infamy or ill-repute
And that's the one that we will execute
None of that mob had turned up late
They said, "You'd better concentrate”
So, start the show, 'cos we can't wait for
The Man You Love to Hate
All of the patrons sitting on pews
Were the shades of the ghosts of the once accused
There was music that dragged in line and word
Not a penny was spent, or a conscience was spared
The hero's motives were never in doubt
We laughed at the speeches that he would spout
Suddenly there arose a shout
Confessions simply tumbled out
And marriage vows, that someone mumbled about
None of that mob had turned up late
They said, "You'd better concentrate”
So, start the show, 'cos we can't wait for
The Man You Love to Hate
The closing act
The first one billed
Into the limelight thrilled
The tale of a ship lured onto the rocks under
The cover of darkness, the hold was plundered
My mouth was parched my eyes red-rimmed
My false light shone
And my ghost light dimmed
I went to a house on Silhouette Street
Where I lived once and died once more
Awoke a woman I once adored
Her husband came to the door
In a masquerade of dignity
He said, "I'm pleased to meet you but you don't know me"
She took my money and handed me the key
The number on the fob was "999"
She whispered that's your room and this is mine
But that's a chamber that you can't afford
It's one door down, next to the Emergency Ward
None of that mob had turned up late
They said, "You'd better concentrate”
So, start the show, 'cos we can't wait for
The Man You Love to Hate
The Man You Love to Hate
I'm a one party state
The Man You Love to Hate
The girl you used to care for
Without a why or wherefore
The country that I loved
Is just a problem to solve
Until we all disintegrate before
The Man You Love to Hate
Today’s slow drag is with “Green Shirt,” from “Armed Forces,” released in 1979. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.
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Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slow_drag_remedy/
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Green Shirt” https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=Green_Shirt
“Green Shirt” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilN9SpD6Y_Q
The Somerton Man Mystery: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/have-scholars-finally-identified-the-mysterious-somerton-man-180980540/
Quisling Clinic Photo https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM51270
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"Green Shirt" Lyrics
There's a smart young woman on a light blue screen
Who comes into my house every night
And she takes all the red, yellow, orange and green
And she turns them into black and white
But you tease, and you flirt
And you shine all the buttons on your green shirt
You can please yourself but somebody's gonna get it
Better cut off all identifying labels
Before they put you on the torture table
'Cause somewhere in the "Quisling Clinic"
There's a shorthand typist taking seconds over minutes
She's listening in to the Venus line
She's picking out names
I hope none of them are mine
But you tease, and you flirt
And you shine all the buttons on your green shirt
You can please yourself but somebody's gonna get it
Never said I was a stool pigeon
I never said I was a diplomat
Everybody is under suspicion
But you don't wanna hear about that
'Cause you tease, and you flirt
And you shine all the buttons on your green shirt
You can please yourself but somebody's gonna get it
Better send a begging letter to the big investigation
Who put these fingerprints on my imagination?
You tease, and you flirt
And you shine all the buttons on your green shirt
You can please yourself but somebody's gonna get it
You can please yourself but somebody's gonna get it
You can please yourself but somebody's gonna get it
Today’s slow drag is with “The First to Leave,” from “The Juliet Letters,” released in 1993. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello’s birth name.
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Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slow_drag_remedy/
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “The First to Leave” https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=The_First_To_Leave
“The First to Leave” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS0dPEacnTY
“The Dark Ensemble: Voice and String Quartet https://interlude.hk/the-dark-ensemble-voice-and-string-quartet-20th-century/
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"The First to Leave" Lyrics
I should open with a kiss
For if you're reading this
You must have opened up your case
And found this letter where I placed it
In between the silk and lace
There were other clues, like your walking shoes
But I still refused to believe
That you were meant to be the first to leave
Everybody here sends you their love
How could I forget you still walk above
Or below
Perhaps you'll never know this Purgatory
We never could agree
There's a thought, there's a pause
No time to repent
Eternally yours in a permanent Lent
But if I should give you up
If you're right and life just stops
And I never see your face again
Then from unearthly pleasures, proud and plain
I shall abstain
'Til you realize, my loss is your surprise
Unless you know otherwise, then don't grieve
You see I had to be the first to leave
Today’s slow drag is with “God’s Comic,” from “Spike,” released in 1989. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello’s birth name.
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Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slow_drag_remedy/
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “God’s Comic” https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=God%27s_Comic
“God’s Comic” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajjBxMCMQQs
“God’s Comic” Live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0N6TfU54o8
“Requiem” by Andrew Lloyd Webber https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3CG8pUpVjg
“God is dead”: What Nietzsche really meant”: https://bigthink.com/thinking/what-nietzsche-really-meant-by-god-is-dead/
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"God's Comic" Lyrics
I wish you'd known me when I was alive, I was a funny fella
The crowd would hoot and holler for more
I wore a drunk's red nose for applause
Oh yes, I was a comical priest
"With a joke for the flock and a hand up your fleece"
Drooling the drink and the lipstick and greasepaint
Down the cardboard front of my dirty dog-collar
(Chorus:)
Now I'm dead, now I'm dead, now I'm dead, now I'm dead
And I'm going on to meet my reward
I was scared, I was scared, I was scared, I was scared
He might’ve never heard God's comic
So, there he was on a waterbed, drinking a cola of a mystery brand
Reading an airport novelette, listening to Andrew Lloyd-Webber's "Requiem"
He said, before it had really begun, "I prefer the one about my son"
"I've been wading through all of this unbelievable junk
And wondering if I should have given the world to the monkeys"
(Repeat Chorus)
I'm gonna take a little trip down Paradise's endless shores
They say that travel broadens the mind, till you can't get your head out of doors
I'm sitting here on the top of the world, I hang around in the longest night
Until each beast has gone to bed and then I say "God bless" and put out the light
While you lie in the dark, afraid to breathe
And you beg and you promise and you bargain and you plead
Sometimes you confuse me with Santa Claus
It's the big white beard, I suppose
I'm going up to the Pole, where you folks die of cold
I might be gone for a while if you need me
Now I'm dead, now I'm dead, now I'm dead, now I'm dead
And you're all going on to meet your reward
Are you scared? Are you scared? Are you scared? Are you scared?
You might have never heard, but God's comic
Today’s slow drag is with “The World and His Wife,” from “Punch the Clock,” released in 1983. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.
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Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slow_drag_remedy/
Bluesky Social: https://bsky.app/profile/slowdragwithremedy.com
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
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Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “The World and His Wife” https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=The_World_And_His_Wife
“The World and His Wife” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4wgrLmdVaI
“The World and His Wife” Live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KJTTmA_vvs
“The World and His Wife” idiom: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/world-and-his-wife#:~:text=a%20great%20many%20people%2C%20especially,his%20wife%20will%20be%20there.
“It’s a Living” idiom https://www.englishforums.com/English/ItsALiving/mkphd/post.htm
“This is the life” idiom https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/this-is-the-life
“Score Draw” https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/score-draw#:~:text=Word%20forms%3A%20plural%20score%20draws,the%20same%20number%20of%20goals.
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"The World and His Wife" Lyrics
The family circle gathers 'round from very far and near
To pass around the same remarks they passed away last year
The little girl you dangled on your knee without mishap
Stirs something in your memory and something in your lap
Chorus:
But it's a living
This is the life
For the world and his wife
The world and his wife
The kissing cousins slip outside to cuddle and confess
She says sweet nothing at all, it's much more of a mess
The conversation melts like chocolate down their open jaws
As the juniper berry slips down just like last night's drawers
(Chorus)
To tell the truth our Mum ran off with someone else's father
Went for two weeks' holiday in Taramasalata
Daddy went out with the rubbish and he kept on walking
Between Mum and the walls
God only knows who does the talking
(Chorus)
But late time in the evening through the tears and fol-de-rol
Come the sentimental feelings for the lure of vitriol
Longing thoughts go hankering for the old home overseas
With a blindfold and a national anthem sung in different keys
Today’s slow drag is with “Black and White World” from “Get Happy!”, released in 1980. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.
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Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slow_drag_remedy/
Bluesky Social: https://bsky.app/profile/slowdragwithremedy.com
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
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Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Black and White World” https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=Black_And_White_World
“Black and White World” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRDl6YvXhiw
“Black and White World” Demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMLZi9v-RFM
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"Black and White World" Lyrics:
I was looking at the black and white world
It seemed so exciting
If you'd only put me back-to-back with that girl
When the night's inviting
With just a little lighting
There'll never be days like that again
When I was just a boy and men were men
You never go from moment to moment
You're the living double of a single fiction
You're very colorful with your compliments
As you feel the finger's friction
It's a freeze-frame till it’s real life
You don't want to look
'Cause you've seen the film and you've read the book
I was looking at the black and white world
Trying to name some pin-up
Those days she was just a beautiful girl
Now she's framed and hung up
I thought she was young
Up until I saw her last night in close detail
Though they all fade away when you're so pale
It's more than just a physical attraction
It starts with a face and ends up a fixation
But you're never gonna feel a fraction
Of the way it used to work on your imagination
When you were looking at the black and white world
Today’s slow drag is with “Honey, Are You Straight or Are You Blind?” from “Blood and Chocolate,” released in 1986. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello’s birth name.
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Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slow_drag_remedy/
Bluesky Social: https://bsky.app/profile/slowdragwithremedy.com
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Honey, Are You Straight or Are You Blind?” https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=Honey,_Are_You_Straight_Or_Are_You_Blind%3F
“Honey, Are You Straight or Are You Blind?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqeSNPJ1bIY
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"Honey, Are You Straight or Are You Blind?"
Who do you see when you turn your eyes down?
Who do you see when I'm not seeing you?
The news is out all over town
And all these girls are taking turns at being you
Chorus:
Well, well, well
You'd better make up your mind
Honey, are you straight or are you blind?
She's coming in between us, you know that she is
I'm not holding on to her but one of us is
My hands are in my pockets, my face is in a book
She could walk 'round naked and I wouldn't sneak a look
(Chorus)
Honey, are you straight or are you blind?
Honey, are you straight or are you blind?
Honey, are you straight or are you blind?
Honey, are you straight or are you blind?
She walked in and your eyes flew out the door
You squeezed my hand until the circulation ceases
She's just a doll like so many more
She's the kind of doll that you'd like to pull to pieces
(Chorus)
Well!
Well, well, well
You'd better make up your mind
Honey, are you straight or are you blind?
Today’s slow drag is with “White Knuckles” from “Trust,” released in 1981. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.
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Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slow_drag_remedy/
Bluesky Social: https://bsky.app/profile/indoorfirewords.bsky.social
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “White Knuckles” https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=White_Knuckles
“White Knuckles” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbZ6TkpflKc
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Wave a White Flag” https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=Wave_A_White_Flag
“Wave a White Flag” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJwALX5riiU
“I need him like the axe needs the turkey” saying from “The Lady Eve.” https://melanienovak.com/2020/09/02/the-lady-eve-i-need-him-like-the-axe-needs-the-turkey/
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"White Knuckles" Lyrics:
White knuckles came down to put the frighteners on
I believe she's the one that he's got his heart set on
It doesn't matter if your face doesn't fit
There's no charge for changing it
Oooh ooh
What are you doing
You see right through him
You don't have to take it when he gets cruel
White knuckles on black and blue skin
You don't have to take it so you just give in
White knuckles sweatin' on the headboard
Never found out what the kisser was for
Losing face with the boys while she's whispering in his ear
They never found out why they called it laughing gear
Maybe they weren't loved when they were young
Maybe they should be hung by their tongues
Oooh ooh
Under the blankets with the body jerk
He needs her like the axe needs the turkey
Thinking of après of this fancy footwork
White knuckles on black and blue skin
Didn't mean to hit her but she kept laughing
White knuckles sweatin' on the headboard
Never found out what the kisser was for
There's always someone new to toy with when the penny drops in the slot
Now it's a petty crime on the news at nine
But it's all she's got
Love on the never never dreams don't come cheap
I don't close my eyes when I go to sleep
Oooh ooh
It gets right under your skin
It makes you as miserable as sin
You don't have to take it so you just give in
White knuckles on black and blue skin
Didn't mean to hit her but she kept laughing
White knuckles sweatin' on the headboard
Never found out what the kisser was for
White knuckles on black and blue skin
You don't have to take it so you just give in
White knuckles sweatin' on the headboard
Never found out what the kisser was for
Why you don't come round anymore
Mother said
He's using you
Sister said
I told you so too
When he goes to your head
You took it to be true
Today’s slow drag is with “They’re Not Laughing at Me Now” from “Hey Clockface,” released in 2020. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.
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Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Instagram: slow_drag_remedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Bluesky: @indoorfirewords.bsky.social
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “They’re Not Laughing at Me Now” http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/They%27re_Not_Laughing_At_Me_Now
“They’re Not Laughing at Me Now” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_uR6jvQKAI
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"They're Not Laughing at Me Now" Lyrics:
Tell me, how does it feel?
In the hour of deception and the moment of pretend
To be scorned by those rank and those unkind strangers
You were fool enough to call your friends
Will you say as the curtain descends?
"They're not laughing at me now"
When the last of the garlands and laurel crowns and fine bouquets have all been swept away
You were lost in the smokescreens and cavalcades and accolades instead of traitor's pay
Where will you find the courage to say?
"They're not laughing at me now"
You could shake my hand
If I could unfold my fist
If I were a gentleman
If I were a Christian
But I wouldn't risk it
Why would you?
You know my name now
And it's "Mister" to you.
Now we're back at the start, no forgiveness in your heart, you turned your coat and asked me to turn my cheek
And it's all in a language that I can understand but never bring myself to speak
I'll leave it to you, if you dare
It's a peal too appalling to bear
I wonder if you're here or you're there
They're not laughing at me now
Today’s slow drag is with “Mischievous Ghost” from the Rhino reissue of “Mighty Like a Rose,” released in 2002. It was originally released as part of the “Bringing It All Back Home” soundtrack, released in 1991. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello’s birth name. This episode has been requested by a loyal and astute fan who believes “Mischievous Ghost” was the impetus for Mr. Costello’s dalliance with long hair, as he seems to have spent much time “in the blank hillsides” of Ireland himself at the time.
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Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Mischievous Ghost” http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Mischievous_Ghost
“Mischievous Ghost” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfbsGZvdNbk
Unmask Us, Elvis Costello on “Mischievous Ghost” https://unmask.us/songwriters-c-e/elvis-costello-p5/
The Vibrato Debate: https://www.newsounds.org/story/43709-the-vibrato-debate/
The Scottish Bagpipes, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl9240HWXBU
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"Mischievous Ghost" Lyrics
She came dancing right before my eyes
She said she came to warn me
Before it dawned on me
I went walking on the blank hillside
Where the sunset falls
Where the sunset dies
She gave me love / she told me lies
That most mischievous ghost
She was in disguise, she was in disguise, she was in disguise
He started to whistle, they bought him a flute
He was talking in tongues, they swore he was mute
He scoffed and blasphemed, they said it was beautiful
Busted a button, they bought him a suitcase full
They colored him cricket and laced him up tight
As he drew on their days, resurrected his nights
He raved in the dark, he went out in a blaze
"There you go," they said, "he's good for nothing and lazy"
With scandal and shame, they slandered his name
They told him to freeze, they damned him to roast
Disappointed that he passed away peacefully
Never dying to be a mischievous ghost
They dug him up quick with a polish and lick
They powdered him up till he only looked sick
The hinge in his backbone would bend to applause
But his dancing was not quite as lively of course
These are the rewards immortality affords
Bullied and bribed and beaten to bliss
Parroting slack sentimental laments
Of going away and not being missed
With scandal and shame, they slandered his name
They told him to freeze, they damned him to roast
Disappointed that he passed away peacefully
Never dying to be a mischievous ghost
With the green beer and the shamrock tattoos
Singing his songs of the battles we lose
And "Will ye come home again," so we can murder you
What would you do if they took his word
With forty-eight million to join in the toast
Move over my darling mischievous ghost
Mischievous ghost
Today’s slow drag is with “The Other Side of Summer” from “Mighty Like a Rose,” released in 1991. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello’s birth name.
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Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “The Other Side of Summer” http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/The_Other_Side_Of_Summer
“The Other Side of Summer” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR_9f1xuloo
“The Other Side of Summer” Music Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww0hN-puTdA
“Stand Like Greyhounds…” https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/191850.html
“Give It Away Now” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr_uHJPUlO8
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Earthbound”:http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Wendy_James:_Now_Ain%27t_The_Time_For_Your_Tears
http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Earthbound
“Earthbound” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9Xs6Mhe9tU
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"The Other Side of Summer" Lyrics
The sun struggles up another beautiful day
And I felt glad in my own suspicious way
Despite the contradiction and confusion
Felt tragic without reason
There's malice and there's magic in every season
(chorus):
From the foaming breakers of the poisonous surf
The other side of summer
To the burning forests in the hills of Astroturf
The other side of summer
The automatic gates close up between the shanties and the palace
The blowtorch amusements, the voodoo chalice
The pale pathetic promises that everybody swallows
A teenage girl is crying 'cos she don't look like a million dollars
So help her if you can
'Cos she don't seem to have the attention span
(chorus)
Was it a millionaire who said "imagine no possessions"?
A poor little schoolboy who said "we don't need no lessons"?
The rabid rebel dogs ransack the shampoo shop
The pop princess is downtown shooting up
And if that goddess is fit for burning
The sun will struggle up, the world will still keep turning
Madman standing by the side of the road saying
"Look at my eyes, look at my eyes, look at my eyes, look at my eyes"
Now you can't afford to fake all the drugs your parents used to take
Because of their mistakes, you'd better be wide awake
(chorus)
The mightiest rose
The absence of perfume
The casual killers
The military curfew
The cardboard city
An unwanted birthday
The other side of summer
The dancing was desperate, the music was worse
They bury your dreams and dig up the worthless
Goodnight
God bless
And kiss "goodbye" to the earth
The other side of summer
Today’s slow drag is with “Dishonor the Stars” from the Grammy Award winning “Look Now,” released in 2018. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.
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Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.coms
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Dishonor the Stars” http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Dishonor_The_Stars
“Dishonor the Stars” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E18wcuJYxRM
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"Dishonor The Stars" Lyrics
If you wake and chance
to look above you
There's one that I named to show how
much I love you
Hanging up high
Poets long have written and
have sung of
moonlight and some
distant satellite and
when we're young we wish
upon them
Other men may only dream
to kiss you
But it's not a thrill like this
Put your lips a little closer to my cheek
then whisper,
then speak
So, tell me if you know
How deep can this thing go?
Honey will still desire the flowers
And there will be a love like ours
Until the sky dishonors the stars
What in the world would all this
amount to?
If I can't tell you how much
I want you
On such a night the sky might
dishonor the stars
Disown and dishonor the stars
Poets long have written and
have sung of
moonlight and some
distant satellite and
when we're young we wish
upon them
Other men may only dream to kiss you
But it's not a thrill like this
Put your lips a little closer to my cheek
then whisper,
then speak
So, tell me if you know
How deep can this thing go?
Honey will still desire the flowers
And there will be a love like ours
Until the sky dishonors the stars
What in the world would all this
amount to?
If I can't tell you how much
I want you
On such a night the sky might
dishonor the stars
Disown and dishonor the stars
Today’s slow drag is with “There’s a Story in Your Voice” from “The Delivery Man,” released in 2004. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello, with the guest vocal of Lucinda Williams.
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Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.coms
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “There’s a Story in Your Voice” http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/There%27s_A_Story_In_Your_Voice
“There’s a Story in Your Voice” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6dXZNT-Sd4
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"There's a Story in Your Voice" Lyrics
Once upon another time
If you had the need
I'd step right in the shoes that you've been walking
'Cos someone put the hurt in you
For everyone to see
And you only have to speak to tell your fortune
There's a story in your voice
Both by damage and by choice
It tells of promises and pleasure
And a tale of wine and woe
The uneasy time to come
And the long way 'round we go to get there
Once you told me fairytales
Everybody knows
But I didn't care for their prediction
Now you say you're leaving me
And packing up your clothes
I finally see you were a work of fiction
There's a story in your walk
Then you crumble just like chalk
And I could say that I was sorry
But I wouldn't mean it much
There are pages I can't touch
And something that's been torn out of this chapter
Far away, not far enough
'Cos I can still recall
How it felt when I read that last sentence
Now I go inside some rooms with Gideon in them all
And hide myself from all hope of repentance
There's a story in your eyes
Cheap sunglasses might disguise
But when the bedroom light reveals
All that bravado and that fright
That you cover up in spite
Attempts to strip away this fabrication
There's a story in your voice
Both by damage and by choice
It tells of promises and pleasure
And a tale of wine and woe
The uneasy time to come
And the long way 'round we go to get there
Today’s slow drag is with “Suit of Lights” from “King of America,” released in February, 1986. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello’s birth name.
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Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.coms
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Suit of Lights” http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Suit_Of_Lights
“Suit of Lights” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8Ke3f6yfI8
“Welcome to the Club” Nat “King” Cole: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=todFZrhmMc4
“Welcome to My World” Jim Reeves, 1963: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOCCvN8YDuc
“Workin’ Man Blues” Merle Haggard” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EwK0NsKdDY
“Everyday I Write the Book” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1d4r9awjKE
“It’s a Dog’s Life” Idiom: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/its-a-dogs-life
1987 Lasse Hallstrom Film, “My Life as a Dog” Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxzO8Qx96O4
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Today’s slow drag is with “Spooky Girlfriend” from “When I Was Cruel,” released in 2002. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.
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Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.coms
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Spooky Girlfriend” http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Spooky_Girlfriend
“Spooky Girlfriend” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMBmd6m7h-c
“Spooky Girlfriend” Cruel Smile, Live on KFOG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJsRa4XojFs
“London’s Brilliant Parade” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZmNE964rmk
Purchase “The Most Terrible Time in My Life…Ends Thursday”
"Spooky Girlfriend" Lyrics:
I want a girl to make a mess
To do no wrong she must confess
And then perhaps hitch up her dress
'Cos when the flashbulbs explode
She's such a sensitive soul
I want a girl who is helpless and frail
Who won't pull on my ponytail
I want a girl who has no past
She's made up now
But that won't last
'Cos when she sits on my knee
And then she whispers to me
"Can't you see
could be
could be
Your spooky girlfriend…
I could be, I could be your spooky girlfriend”
And the broken toys are scattered in the attic
And the Newspapers play in the words of the fanatic
And the greeting cards are your most poetic lyric
And the flat champagne is sweet sugar syrup
I want to paint you with glitter and with dirt
Picture you with innocence and hurt
The shutter closes
Exposes the shot
She says, "Are you looking up my skirt?"
When you say "No"
She says "Why not?"
I want a girl to turn my screw
To wind my watch, to buckle my shoe
And if she won't, her mother will do
'Cos when she does as she's told
We'll all turn platinum and gold
But when she sits on my knee
I hear her whispers to me
"Can't you see?"
"I could be your spooky girlfriend"
Today’s slow drag is with “You Little Fool” from “Imperial Bedroom,” released in 1982. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.
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Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.coms
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “You Little Fool” http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/You_Little_Fool
“You Little Fool” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYmVfF3WX_Q
“You Little Fool” Demo version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEo40X9_HUs
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Daddy's best girl in the world is not supposed to have a boyfriend
But she's never wanted at home
Other girls are allowed to wear their makeup
She sneaks out her lipstick, powder and comb
She surrounds his name with hearts and flowers
Talks on the telephone for hours and hours
But with a bird in his hand
And two on a string
The words of love have an imitation ring
Chorus:
You little fool, you little fool
I suppose that you're going to stay all night
You little fool
Don't look at me that way, you know it isn't right
You little fool
They say no news is good news
The little girl wants information
Mother just gives her some pills to choose
And says go and use your imagination
Daddy's best girl in the world says just look what I got
As she sits beside him on the high stool
With his arm around her neck, snowball in one hand
And the other full of imitation jewels
She fingers a string of pearls
An imitation but he'll never know it
Imitation lashes flutter above
Looking for an imitation of love
(Chorus)
Alternative second verse intro lyrics:
And you’re so surprised she’s up to hijinks out on the high stools
Sitting with a snowball in one hand, the other full of imitation jewels
Today’s slow drag is with “Sour Milk Cow Blues” from “Goodbye Cruel World,” released in 1984. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.
Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.coms
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Sour Milk Cow Blues” http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Sour_Milk-Cow_Blues
“Sour Milk Cow Blues” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_yk1GoVMMY
“Milk Cow Blues Boogie,” 1954 Elvis Presley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruWHWXRkHHk
“Milk Cow Blues,” 1934 Kokomo Arnold: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B944jMtu6Qc
Willie Nelson – Milk Cow Blues, 1981: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GnEpw-A0to
“Parade of Pleasure,” Geoffrey Wagner: https://www.amazon.com/Parade-pleasure-popular-iconography-U-S/dp/B00IY0JJNM
Purchase “The Most Terrible Time in My Life…Ends Thursday”
"Sour Milk Cow Blues" Lyrics:
You like coffee and you like tea
Much more than you like me
And everybody says watch out, yeah
For the sour milk-cow blues
You like your coffee just a little too sweet
Without your sugar, life is incomplete
And everybody says watch out, yeah
For the sour milk-cow blues
I think about you everyday
Something about you is not the same
Something about the things you say
Sounds like a different woman with a different name
Sour milk-cow blues
Sour milk-cow blues
You wear a different size and style of shoe
I think that someone must be poisoning you
To replace you with a living double
Get out of my life right now and save them all of the trouble
They changed your complexion and your personality
Somebody's putting ideas in your head
They took the girl of my dreams and left you here instead
Sour milk-cow blues
Sour milk-cow blues
You take your place in this parade of pleas
You dial a number and they offer relief
All alone with just your own device
They give you something and it isn't advice
To break the hearts of a million listeners
Start out as lovers and you end up as prisoners
Somebody's suffering from the things that you do
Somebody's suffering but you're glad it isn't you
Put your fingertips up to the screen
Repeat after me, wake at the count of three
Now I don't know which is worse
What they're doing to you or what you're doing to me
Sour milk-cow blues
Sour milk-cow blues
Sour milk-cow blues
Sour milk-cow blues
Today’s slow drag is with “That Bridge I Burned” from “Extreme Honey: The Very Best of the Warner Bros. Years,” released in 1997, and then again on the “All This Useless Beauty” Rhino re-issue, released in 2001. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.
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Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.coms
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “That Bridge I Burned” http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/The_Bridge_I_Burned
“That Bridge I Burned” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPdCavy9z_s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGhlUBtY8_I
Marsilio Ficino: https://iep.utm.edu/ficino/
Prince’s “Pop Life”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56Hvoqgdlfk
Purchase “The Most Terrible Time in My Life…Ends Thursday”
"That Bridge I Burned" Lyrics:
I'm walking in Times Square in the Electric Daylight
The sailors on shore leave stand out in their perfect white
I'm up here with my spying glass at the window up above
For better or for worse - it's a perverse universe, my love
Now I know, I should have never walked over the bridge I burned
Now I know, somehow I don't feel so alone
"And remember to flee far away from the unbridled,
and the impudent, the malicious, and the unlucky.
For these being full of bad demons or rays are maleficent,
and like lepers and people stricken with plague,
they harm not only by touch but even by proximity and by sight." (Dig it!)
(Quote from Marsilio Ficino, Italian philosopher [1433-1499])
You mutter underneath your breath - IT ECHOES ROUND THE WORLD
Everybody comes from nowhere
There is hope, it loops up in the air
Now I know, I should have never walked over the bridge I burned
Now I know, somehow I don't feel so alone
You said I used to be handsome if you screwed up your eyes
Professors and vampires drank up all the tears I cried
Now there's a bird at my window, he beats upon the pane
And sometimes he sings to me - a mocking bird in the twilight of infamy
Now I know, I should have never walked over the bridge I burned
Now I know, some how I don't feel so alone
Now I know, I should have never walked over the bridge I burned
Now I know, they've burned one sinner and the others are selling firewood
Now I know
Now I know
Now I know
Today’s slow drag is with “A Slow Drag with Josephine” from “National Ransom,” released in 2010. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.
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Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Linguist Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.coms
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “A Slow Drag with Josephine” http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/A_Slow_Drag_With_Josephine
“A Slow Drag with Josephine” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1II-SELD9k
Gavotte, Baroque Dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0tB2rGh1kM
Gavotte definition: https://www.britannica.com/art/gavotte
Garrotes Dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C32zAHaIJt4
Garrote (method of torture by strangulation) definition: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/garrote
Cotillions, definition and difference: https://www.astoriabanquets.com/difference-between-a-cotillion-and-a-debutante-ball.htm
Cotillion Dance example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvItgHeD2EU
Arabesque: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmRrfm1ihGg
Arabesque in Dance, definition: https://www.streetswing.com/histmain/z3farndo.htm
Farandole dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzUeMwM9CCQ
Farandole dance definition: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/farandole
Slow Drag Dance Moves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lFWWheBVuA
A bit of The Slow Drag Dance history: https://atomicballroom.com/blog/2011/05/17/slow-it-down-with-slow-drag/
“Tango Till You’re Sore, Tom Waits from the seminal “Rain Dogs”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjLBWJutzEI
“Flirtation – Dominica’s Traditional Dance”: https://dominicaexplorer.com/dominica/dominica-traditional-dances/flirtation-dance/
“Flirtation Two Step: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtj-SFouB6o
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"A Slow Drag with Josephine" Lyrics:
The snitch, the snoop, the tattletale
Lead a threadbare up the stairs
Adieu, my little ballyhoo
You broke my heart in two
And now I haunt the bars and scent those trite affairs
She went home to gather her comb
And caught him unawares
And there was a man enjoying the lay of the land
He took a walk in the dark with a dish from the stand
Girls and their creations
Tied in the brightest grenadine
But I'd take all that I've seen
For a Slow Drag with Josephine
Josephine, Josephine
But I'd trade all that I've seen for a Slow Drag with Josephine
Gavottes, garrotes, Cotillions and slow Arabesques
Drum-rolls and Farandoles were all made in jest
But when you make that move
I can't resist
When will you declare your armistice?
Josephine, Josephine
But I'd trade all that I've seen for a Slow Drag with Josephine
In another time and place a different fate was cast
He tried to skeddle-daddle-do
She might have slapped him
Just for saying "Grant one more chance before you pass"
"Then curse the nurse that named me the first or bury me at last"
And in three-quarter time
The true and the false
Dancing the "Hesitation Waltz"
Then comes the "Flirtation"
And temptation
Hip, hip hooray
Listen to what I say
Then you can take it away…
Today’s slow drag is with “No Flag” from “Hey Clockface,” released in June, 2020. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.
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Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.coms
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “No Flag”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/No_Flag
“No Flag”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7aQtVfB-88
Elvis Costello Drops Second “Helsinki Sound” https://www.977theriver.com/2020/07/10/elvis-costello-drops-second-helsinki-sound-track-hetty-ohara-confidential/
“My Dark Life” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw9boaOLnvI
Definition of collocation: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/collocation
Purchase “The Most Terrible Time in My Life…Ends Thursday”
"No Flag" Lyrics
I've got no religion
I've got no philosophy
I've got a head full of ideas and words that don't seem to belong to me
You may be joking but I don't get the gag
I sense no future but time seems to drag
No time for this kind of love
No flag waving high above
No sign for the dark place that I live
No God for the damn that I don't give
I've got no illusions
I've had no epiphany
Why should anybody listen to me
She said I'm tearing up the sheets that your love letters stained
All of your magic powers have drained
No time for this kind of love
No flag waving high above
No sign for the dark place that I live
No God for the damn that I don't give
There's a line in the sand
A word or two in the aftermath
I'm an arrow that shoots up and down on an advertising graph
I could write you verses and recite more than one
But they're not worth the paper that they're written on
No time for this kind of love
No flag waving high above
No sign for the dark place that I live
No God for the damn that I don't give
We want everything and we don't want to share
Out-o space for the faces we fear
Look in the mirror and see who I used to be
Made out of plastic in a factory
No flag
No flag
Today’s slow drag is with “Episode of Blonde” from “When I Was Cruel,” released in April, 2002. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.
Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.coms
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Episode of Blonde”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Episode_Of_Blonde
“Episode of Blonde”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoGCWtp4UIY
Main Wiki Resource, “Peroxide Side” Blunt Cut: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruel_Smile
“Peroxide Side” (Blunt Cut): http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Episode_Of_Blonde
“Un Chien Andalou,” (The Andalusian Dog) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB7gd_t6WMQ
“Colorless green ideas sleep furiously”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorless_green_ideas_sleep_furiously
“Governing English: Prescriptivism, Descriptivism, and Change” https://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/exhibits/show/english-language/governing-english
“Skittles – History and Useful Information” https://www.tradgames.org.uk/games/Skittles.htm
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"Episode of Blonde" Lyrics:
I spy for the "Spirit of Curiosity"
All the scandals of each vain monstrosity
I gossip and I pry and I insinuate
If the failure is great
Then it tends to fascinate
A tornado dropped a funnel cloud with twenty tons of rain
Though she had the attention span of warm cellophane
Her lovers fell like Skittles in a 10-pin bowling lane
But nothing could compare with that explosion of fame
So you jumped back with alarm
Every Elvis has his army
Every rattlesnake its charm
Can you still hear me?
Am I coming through just fine?
Your memory was buried in simple box of pine
(chorus):
Did her green eyes seduce you and make you get so weak?
Was there fire engine red that she left upon your cheek?
It's such a shame you had to break the heart you could have counted on
But the last thing you need is another episode of blonde
Revolving like a jeweller's figure on a music box
The spangled curtain parted and night-club scene unlocks
Pinned and fixed and fastened in a fallow spot
Arms thrown out to everyone, she's giving all she's got
To the last gasp of a wounded bandoneon
A tiny man imploring to the ceiling fan this stolen feeling
Amplified up through a busted speaker
Blaring, blasting, advertising, distorted beyond reason
Into the street where petty crime-coats shadow panic drunkards
Half out of the taxi-cab the barker seized my elbow
He thought I was another lonely, likely pilgrim looking for St. Telmo
(chorus)
I tried to keep a straight face but you know it never pays
He would stare into those eyes and then vacation in her gaze
She was a cute little ruin that he pulled out of the rubble
Now they're both living in a soft soap bubble
The film producer's contemplating, entertaining suicide
The picture crumpled in his fist, his runaway child bride
The timepiece stretched across his wrist
She couldn't care less cast aside
The scent that so repelled him that he swore: "insecticide"
And there's farewell note to mother
That will conclude "Your loving Son"
"Oh, tell your other children not to do as I have done"
Did her green eyes seduce you and make you get so weak?
Or was there fire engine red that she left upon your cheek?
It's such a shame
It's such a shame, shame, shame
A shame you had to break the heart you could have counted on
But the last thing you need
Is the last thing you want
Is another episode of blonde
It's another episode of blonde, oh oh oh
It's another episode of blonde
So an artist drags a toothbrush across the first thing that he sees
And names the painting "Christ's Last Exit into Purgatory"
Receiving secret messages from an alien intelligence
And Paying off his stalker it's a legitimate expense
So paste up pictures of those shrill and hollow girls with puckered lips
She's a trophy on your arm, a magnet for your money clip
The moral of this story is a sorry tale to say
They're pieced with links of chains so they can never run away
Today’s slow drag is with “The Town Where Time Stood Still” from, well, a few places: “Imperial Bedroom,” “Goodbye Cruel World,” sans a verse or two, and ultimately released in 1995 on the Rykodisc reissue of “Punch the Clock.” The songwriting, and everything else except for drum loop, is credited to Elvis Costello.
Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “The Town Where Time Stood Still”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/The_Town_Where_Time_Stood_Still
“The Town Where Time Stood Still”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI69GMlMNVU (demo version)
“Almost Persuaded” by David Houston: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbN4r4y3AIY
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"The Town Where Time Stood Still" Lyrics:
I made my selection from the lonely hit parade
In the town where time stood still
I was feeling very little pain
Until some joker played "Almost Persuaded"
Now every girl I see
Looks so much prettier to me
My faithfulness has faded
And their looks are sharp as daggers
And the conversation heated
Since the boys have all been laid off
And are walking round defeated
In the town where time stood still
Somebody in charge must have pretended
That the future's been suspended
And I say I don't want trouble
But I find myself back in it
In the town where time stood still
I am the man of the minute
Teach me to say "I love you"
They’ll teach you to say "You will do"
In the town where time stood still
Or maybe I can find a little girl
To wind me up with all the usual skills
There's nothing else to do but rearrange somebody's features (futures)
And trap your figures in the till
The bar is full of girls just like the creature with the curse
And the food is just like cabaret or vice versa
In the town where time stood still
Just as my heart went down sinking
I found the town was shrinking
And suddenly I saw her through the smoke and empty beers
In the town where time stood still
She might have well have waited years
Now I suppose we did some things we used to do
But no amount of darkness could ever turn her into you
And so I woke up in the town where time stood still
With a headache and a heartache
And a handful of pills
A welcome mat, a scandal rag, and unpaid bills
With her head inside her handbag
The sign says "please wait to be seated"
I only want a cup of coffee
I know you can't have your cake and eat it
In the town where time stood still
Did you hear the news today?
It's all bad, did I tell you how I left her so sad?
With a headache and a heartache
And an hour or two to kill
I only wish we were together
In the town where time stood still
In the town where time stood still
In the town where time stood still
In the town where time stood still
In the town where time stood still
Today’s slow drag is with “All the Rage” from “Brutal Youth,” released in 1994. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello’s birth name.
Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “All the Rage”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/All_The_Rage
“All the Rage”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Kf-yeojmjY
“Tenderness”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XegL32Btzs
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The twitching impulse is to speak your mind
I'll lend you my microscope and maybe you will find it
Is it in that ugly place that's just behind your face?
Where you keep my picture still
Despite the fact that you had me replaced
Say "Goodbye"
Baby can't you act your age?
You know why
I'm going to give it to you straight
Although I'll never be unhappy as you want me to be
Still it's all the rage
I'll probably play along left to my own devices
Spare me the drone of your advice
The sins of garter and gin confession may delay
You know the measuring pole, the merry boots of clay
I've heard it all before
You'll say it anyway
Chorus
Alone with your tweezers and your handkerchief
You murder time and truth, love, laughter and belief
So don't try to touch my heart, it's darker than you think
And don't try to read my mind because it's full of disappearing ink
Chorus
Although I'll never be unhappy as you want me to be
Still it's all the rage
Today’s slow drag is with “My Most Beautiful Mistake” from “The Boy Named If,” released in 2022. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.
Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “My Most Beautiful Mistake”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/My_Most_Beautiful_Mistake
“My Most Beautiful Mistake”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn0IWgpzanY
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"My Most Beautiful Mistake" Lyrics:
She was a part-time waitress with a dream of greatness
That nobody knew of or even suspected
Though it was sometimes reflected in the slant of a mirror
It was buried so deep and so dear
She caught the eye of a guy passing by who said,
"My, if I prove to be faithless, you'll surely know why
Oh, why?
You'll probably know why"
Then again you may say
"Mister, you've got a nerve
Most of us never get just what we deserve"
I'll smile sweetly,
"I'm here at your service"
And the camera walks us through into a sunlit room
Where a one-hit wonder lives
And he says, "Action" and "That's a take"
You are my most beautiful mistake
"It's not your reputation I'm trying to besmirch"
"I'm here undercover, I'm writing this screenplay"
"You might be my inspiration, it's beyond my control"
"So it's my soulful and wounded expression, that you'd like to console?"
There's a hand that lingers a little too long
There are lies you will hear, that they're singing right now, right here, right here in this song
And the lens pulls the focus on his magnum opus
He's a one-hit wonder kid
And he says, "Action" and "That's a take"
You are my most beautiful mistake
He made a portrait of her face out of burnt out matches
She said "The trouble is, Sunshine, I know what the catch is…
You'll offer me nothing, you'll offer me riches
I've seen your kind before in courtroom sketches"
From the booth in the corner
From a different perspective
Where a man plays the fool or a private detective
He wrote her name out in sugar on a Formica counter
"You could be the game that captures the hunter"
Then he went out for cigarettes
As the soundtrack played The Marvelettes
Let me check the script
Check the continuity
You'll be up on that screen for eternity
The billboard will spit:
"That look!
That's it!"
Take a little pill and you will get over it
The light will hit you
If you drop that hint
Now "Cut" and "Print"
And the camera walks us through into a low-lit room
Where a one-hit wonder lives
Today’s slow drag is with “The Invisible Man” from “Punch the Clock,” released in 1983. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.
Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “The Invisible Man”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/The_Invisible_Man
“The Invisible Man”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o-iZ_GfTTs
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “I Turn Around”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/I_Turn_Around
“I Turn Around”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg4cesm8obI
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"The Invisible Man" Lyrics
I was committed to life and then commuted to the outskirts
With all the love in the world
Living for thirty minutes at a time with a break in the middle for adverts
But it's a wonderful world within these cinema walls
Where a shower of affection becomes Niagara Falls
And you wish she could step down from the screen to your seat in the stalls
‘Cos if stars are only painted on the ceiling above
Then who can you turn to and who do you love
I want to get out while I still can
I want to be like Harry Houdini
Now I'm the invisible man
My head is spinning 'round faster and faster
Here I stand on the edge of disaster
I'm shattered like a piece of crystal, porcelain, or alabaster
'Cos if stars are only painted on the ceiling above
Then who can you turn to and who do you love
I want to get out while I still can
Crowds surround loudspeakers hanging from the lampposts
Listening to the murder mystery
Meanwhile someone's hiding in the classroom
Forging the books of history
Never mind there's a good film showing tonight
Where they hang everybody who can read or write
Oh, that could never happen here, but then again it might
'Cos if stars are only painted on the ceiling above
Then who can you turn to and who do you love
I want to get out while I still can
I want to be like Harry Houdini
Now I'm the invisible man
And you won't see me
Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Clown Strike”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Clown_Strike
“Clown Strike”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0zbZDn7juc
“Elvis Costello The Gwendolyn Letters (demos): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQieshbrzpI
Erik Jorgensen background: https://www.fredericia.com/stories/erik-joergensen.aspx
Flamingo Chair: https://www.danishdesignstore.com/products/ej205-flamingo-chair-by-erik-jorgensen
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"Clown Strike" Lyrics
She'll fix you with an iron cross
And cover you up with petals
And hang you up with some amber beads
And four or five precious metals
And in that black flamingo chair you'll sit among her trophies
And pray to be abandoned 'til you don't know what hope is
(Chorus:)
But there's one thing
That I had to keep inside because I was shaking
Why don't you get some pride?
There was a clown strike
And the clowns threw down their tools
But you don't have to play so hard
And I'm nobody's fool
You don't have to go so far
‘Cos I love you as you are
The big top is deserted now and the circus girl rehearses
She knows how to turn their heads and not fall between two horses
But all that seems a simple step, if only I were able
To love you like I want to do
And not by some times-table
(Repeat Chorus)
And it's pandemonium
For the humble and the mighty
You don't have to tumble for me
Even a clown knows when to strike
Tell me what you want of me
Or are you terrified of failure
Put on a superstitious face behind all this paraphernalia
We're not living in a masquerade where you only have three wishes
It isn't easy to see in a lifetime of mistaken kisses
(Repeat Chorus)
And it's pandemonium
For the humble and the mighty
You don't have to tumble for me
Even a clown knows when to strike
Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Room with No Number”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Room_With_No_Number
“Room with No Number”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg0XPZVQiso
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"Room with No Number" Lyrics:
Picture a hotel room
Clothes scattered across the floor
Covers pulled back from the pillow
A sign hung on the door
Two lovers locked up tight
Through the endless days and nights
Hiding something they can't show
Something no one else must know
Chorus:
There's a room without a number
While the sign outside says there's no vacancy
As you take your key, they smile at you so understandingly
She cried out in the night
Woke the porter from his sleep
He grinned slyly to himself
As he went to fetch his keys
Look what love has brought them to
This terrible nightmare
His or hers, he could not tell
As they were still sleeping there
(Chorus)
And I wish you could be
The man he was before he was me
(fireworks)
A girl arrived at first light
And enquired if they'd been seen
And why the numbers ran from twelve
Missing out thirteen
And they said oh my darling
Put it down to superstition
Try to avoid a scandal
And don't arouse suspicion
They re-arranged the furniture
They even papered over the door
There's a room without a number
While the sign outside says there's no vacancy
As you take your key, they smile just so so you know
There's a room without a number
While the sign outside says there's no vacancy
As you take your key, they smile just so so you know
(Chorus)
Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “The River in Reserve”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/The_River_In_Reverse_(song)
“The River in Reverse”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71YLX4pUMW0
“The River in Reverse” acoustic solo performance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZLZ5H-fjao for the Preservation Hall Foundation in 2020 https://www.preshallfoundation.org
“What Does it Mean to Have Grit”: https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/what_does_it_mean_to_have_grit
A list of a few Imponderables: http://www.unm.edu/~jerome/imponder.htm
“Beware of Nominalization” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNlkHtMgcPQ
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"The River in Reverse" Lyrics
How long does a promise last?
How long can a lie be told?
What would I take in exchange for my soul?
Would I notice when it was sold?
Wake me up
Wake me up
Wake me up with a slap or a kiss
There must be something better than this
'Cos I don't see how it can get much worse
What do we have to do to send
The river in reverse
Every man a crawling kingsnake
Every girl a half a heartbreak
Every woman sold into shame
To any son without a name
Are your arms too weak to lift?
Another shovel on the graveyard shift
Here comes the flood if you catch my drift
Where the things that they promised are not a gift
If man falls through the mirror of a lake
They fish him out quick and they call him a fake
Give him all the temptations he can take
Tie him up high 'til his bones break
Wake me up
Wake me up
Wake me up with a slap or a kiss
There must be something better than this
'Cos I don't see how it can get much worse
What do we have to do to send
The river in reverse
I thought I heard somebody laugh
Look out your window
They're chasing shadows in the dark
They're counting widows
I felt a sliver of glass
Saw a cross in splinters
I felt the truce of spring
Dig me out of the trench of winter
So count your blessings when they ask permission
To govern with money and superstition
They tell you it's all for your own protection
'Til you fear your own reflection
But the times are passing from illumination
Like bodies falling from a constellation
An uncivil war divides the nation
So erase the tape on that final ape running down creation
Running down creation
Wake me up
Wake me up
Wake me up with a slap or a kiss
There must be something better than this
Wake me up
Wake me up with a slap or a kiss
There must be something better than this
Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Next Time ‘Round”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Next_Time_%27Round
“Next Time ‘Round”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgQbf__uOvE
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"Next Time 'Round" Lyrics
As I stepped out upon the landing my heart was already down the stairs
She's in the bedroom with that boy of hers
Though her face is creased and her eyes seem strange
There's a second-hand emotion on battered forty-five
My tears were never enough to keep that girl alive
Now she seems contrite, will she make the change
Chorus:
The next time 'round
The next time 'round
You'll be someone else's baby
But I'll be underground
The next time 'round
Then you took two steps forward and then one step on your back
Now it's a future for me and you that I lack
You'll be the one who stands out in the dark
Even when you're all dressed in black
(Chorus)
You've got something I want now
And I've got something I can't hide
I've got too much love for you now
You’ve got too much pride?
Sometimes I name and number all the things you gave to me
Your elastic love, this velvet-lined purgatory
You used to take the breath out of me
Now I think you'll be the death of me
(Chorus)
The next time 'round
The next time 'round
You'll be someone else's baby
But I'll be underground
The next time 'round
The next time 'round
Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Heaven Won’t Heaven Help Me?”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Why_Won%27t_Heaven_Help_Me%3F
“Why Won’t Heaven Help Me?”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOolSuOkdiY
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"Why Won't Heaven Help Me?" Lyrics
I set off alarms and fire off flares
Cause sometimes they answer prayers
I'm listening
I wait for some distant bell to ring
Why won't heaven help me?
(Far, far away)
Why won't heaven help me?
(It's so hard to say)
Why won't heaven help me?
Hey you out there!
Even if you dare
Take care of your wishes
If you find they do come true
You may regret that too
Why won't heaven help me?
Why won't heaven help me?
Remember the thrill that followed praise
While dressed for a lover's gaze
The moment when
You saw through the lies of older men
Why won't heaven help me?
(Far, far away)
Why won't heaven help me?
(It's so hard to say)
Why won't heaven help me?
Hey you out there!
Even if you dare
Take care of your wishes
If you find they do come true
You may regret that too
Why won't heaven help me?
(Why won't heaven)
Why won't heaven help me?
(Why won't heaven)
Why won't heaven help me?
(Why won't heaven)
I sensed this was wrong but take my word
I thought somehow I'd be spared
Alone again
Believe what you want of me till then
Why won't heaven help me?
(Far, far away)
Why won't heaven help me?
(It's so hard to say)
Why won't heaven help me?
Hey you out there!
Even if you dare...
Take care of your wishes
If you find they do come true
You may regret that too
Why won't heaven help me?
(Why won't heaven)
Why won't heaven help me?
(Why won't heaven)
Why won't heaven help me?
(Why won't heaven)
Why won't heaven help me?
(Why won't heaven)
Why won't heaven help me?
(Why won't heaven)
Why won't heaven help me?
(Why won't heaven)
Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Nothing Clings Like Ivy”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Nothing_Clings_Like_Ivy
“Nothing Clings Like Ivy”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Bs4Sjma6PI
“The Pros and Cons of planting English Ivy in the Landscape”: https://blog.gardeningknowhow.com/gardening-pros-cons/pros-and-cons-of-planting-english-ivy/
Hollow: https://artsandsciences.sc.edu/appalachianenglish/node/492
“Southern Gothic Literature”: https://oxfordre.com/literature/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.001.0001/acrefore-9780190201098-e-304
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"Nothing Clings Like Ivy" lyrics
Nothing clings like Ivy
Frightened by the dark
Though she cuts deep
It never leaves a mark
No one quite like Ivy
Everyone gets it straight
What she believes
She won't negotiate
All the words of tenderness
That never quite got through
She says, "You know how young girls are
From my contempt for you"
Outside in the hollow
She may dare herself
For there may be
A serpent in the grass
Nothing clings like Ivy
Trying to scare herself
And it may strike or
Wait for her to pass
All the words of tenderness
That she never possessed
"So, what's the use of promises?"
"I had my fingers crossed"
All the words of tenderness
that never quite got through
She said, "I laughed behind your back
When I told them to you”
Nothing clings like Ivy
Frightened by the dark
Though she cuts deep
It never leaves a mark
Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Harpies Bizarre”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Harpies_Bizarre
“Harpies Bizarre”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW0-7Kbo5rU
“150 Years of Harper’s Bazaar” https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a18658/history-of-harpers-bazaar/
“Cultured Pearls vs. Real Pearls” https://www.pearlsofjoy.com/blogs/blog/real-pearls-vs-cultured-pearls
“Natural vs. Cultured Pearls: Everything You Need to Know” https://www.diamonds.pro/guides/natural-vs-cultured-pearls/
“Harpyiai” https://www.theoi.com/Pontios/Harpyiai.html
“Harpy” https://mythology.net/monsters/harpy/
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He selects the plainest face from a spiteful row of girls
Elegant insulted women, a flaw of cultured pearls
He drops a name or two, she fails to catch
At last he's met his match
Unspoiled and unaffected, he wants her so much
She puts up half-hearted resistance, like she was taught to do
She's heard some of those small town playboys but this is something new
His promise seems dangerous, she'd like to believe
He says "You'd better leave"
"You've only got yourself to blame, shame, or deceive"
The waiting lines are long
They never get too far
Everyone wearing that medal with pride
Harpies Bizarre
I looked on but hesitated, I failed to interrupt
You're so hard to tell the truth to, so easy to corrupt
I'll memorize your face, your tragic smile
The hurt look in your eyes
As you betrayed yourself to the part of him that dies
The waiting lines are long
They never get too far
They're shining up their shoes to kick a falling star
You think you should be somebody
But you don't know who you are
Everyone wearing that medal with pride
Harpies Bizarre
Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Drum & Bone”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Drum_%26_Bone
“Drum & Bone”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eewL9YmNM1Y
“That” definitions and synonyms: https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/that
“That” https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/that
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Maybe we're nothing but skin and bone
Blare and rubber
Eyes that blubber
Teeth that bite
Hands that slight
And I'm trying to do the best I can
But I'm a limited, primitive kind of man
Maybe we're nothing but skin and bone
Nerves that shatter
Tongues that flatter
Lips that mutter
Lashes that flutter
Mounds of dust and lips of ripe
Twice as vicious
As the words I type
Under a ribbon
Of every stripe
There's a grip that tightens
A dark that frightens
A wise that crackles
A fear that shackles
And I'm trying to do the best I can
But I'm a limited, primitive kind of man
And then that kinder creation
Becomes a fine fixation
All of a sudden
With the parts we've hidden
Because they are forbidden
Beneath a hide of pain
You'll find a soul of stain
While fists still beat
At heart's deceit
And I'm trying to do the best I can
But I'm a limited, primitive kind of man
Maybe with nothing but a drum and drone
I want to beat it 'til I get unknown
Pig some skin
Stretch it tight
Make myself up overnight
Maybe this is nothing but drum and drone
Wanna beat it 'til I get unknown
Dig my pin
Kick up some stink
Find myself a brand-new kink
Prick that berry
And squeeze this ink
Scratch out all of the words I think
Before your very eyes can blink
And I'm trying to do the best I can
But I'm a limited, primitive kind of man
Today’s slow drag is with “Motel Matches,” from “Get Happy!!,” released in 1980. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.
Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Motel Matches”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Motel_Matches
“Motel Matches”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLh-5onrgfQ
“Who Shot Sam” (1959) George Jones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItJp3mJSoKE
“Who Shot Sam” lyrics: https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/8152751/George+Jones
“Another Saturday Night,” Sam Cooke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O8m0mMDpHw
“Sam Cooke dies under suspicious circumstances in LA”: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/sam-cooke-dies-under-suspicious-circumstances-in-la
“Why Mystery Still Shrouds Singer Sam Cooke’s Shooting Death 60 Years Later”: https://people.com/movies/why-mystery-still-shrouds-singer-sam-cookes-shooting-death-nearly-60-years-later/
Urban Dictionary entry for Motel Matches: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Motel%20Matches
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"Motel Matches" Lyrics (Final and Alternative)
Somewhere in the distance I can hear "Who Shot Sam?"
This is my conviction, that I am an innocent man
Though you say I'm unkind
I'm being as nice as I can
Boys everywhere, fumbling with the catches
I struck a lucky with motel matches
Falling for you without a second look
Falling out of your open pocketbook
Giving you away like motel matches
I wake with the siren in an emergency
Though your mind is full of love
In your eyes there is a vacancy
And you know what I'll do
When the light outside changes from red to blue
Boys everywhere, fumbling with the catches
I struck a lucky with motel matches
Falling for you without a second look
Falling out of your open pocketbook
Giving you away like motel matches
Alternate lyrics Live at the Palomino, North Hollywood, CA, February 16, 1979:
Somewhere in the distance I can hear "Who Shot Sam?"
Someone's crawling 'round your door
I suspect it is the insect man
Though you say I'm unkind
You'll find
I'm being as nice as I can
Boys everywhere, fumbling with the catches
I struck lucky with motel matches
Falling for you without a second look
Falling out of your open pocketbook
Giving you away like motel matches
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
I remember thinking as I was crawling to the door
That I will make my move if I can only jump this chequered floor
And I know that quite soon
You'll see more of me than just a cartoon
Boys everywhere, fumbling with the catches
I struck lucky with motel matches
Falling for you without a second look
Falling out of your open pocketbook
Giving you away like motel matches
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Boys everywhere, fumbling with the catches
I struck lucky with motel matches
Falling for you without a second look
Falling out of your open pocketbook
Giving you away like motel matches
Giving you away like motel matches
Giving you away like motel matches
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “I’ll Wear It Proudly”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/I%27ll_Wear_It_Proudly
“I’ll Wear It Proudly”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0fLW4OpNyM
“20 Different Ways to Kiss”: https://www.liveabout.com/different-ways-to-kiss-better-3196326
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"I'll Wear It Proudly" lyrics:
I hate these flaming curtains they're not the color of your hair
I hate these striplights they're not so undoing as your stare
I hate the buttons on your shirt when all I wanna do is tear
I hate this bloody big bed of mine when you're not here
Chorus:
Well, I finally found someone to turn me upside down
And nail my feet up where my head should be
If they had a King of Fools then I could wear that crown
And you can all die laughing because I'll wear it proudly
You seem to be shivering dear and the room is awfully warm
In the white and scarlet billows that subside beyond the storm
You have this expression dear no words could take its place
And I wear it like a badge that you put all over my face
(Chorus)
I'll wear it proudly through the dives and the dancehalls
If you'll wear it proudly through the snakepits and catcalls
Like a fifteen-year-old kid wears a vampire kiss
If you don't know what is wrong with me
Then you don't know what you've missed
We are your arms and legs wrapped round more than by memory tonight
When the bell rang out and the air around turned blue from fright
But in shameless moments you made more of me than just a mess
And a handful of eagerness says "What do you suggest?"
(Chorus)
Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Night Rally”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Night_Rally
“Night Rally”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BanwTz8_Fk
The evolution of the song meaning comment thread: https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858655549/
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"Night Rally" Lyrics:
I would send out for assistance
but there's someone on the signal wire
And the corporation logo is flashing on and off in the sky
They're putting all your names in the forbidden book
I know what they're doing but I don't want to look
You think they're so dumb, you think they're so funny
Wait until they've got you running to the
Night rally, night rally, night rally
Everybody's singing with their hand on their heart
About deeds done in the darkest hours
That's just the sort of catchy little melody
To get you singing in the showers
Oh, I know that I'm ungrateful
I've got it lying on a plate
And I'm not buying my share of souvenirs
You can stand to attention
You can pray to your uncle
Only get that chicken out of here
Everyone gets armbands and 3-D glasses
Some are in the back room
And they're taking those night classes
You think they're so dumb, you think they're so funny
Wait until they've got you running to the
Night rally, night rally, night rally
Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Human Hands”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Human_Hands
“Human Hands”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6yiii2iWkw
“Why Can’t a Person Tickle Himself?”: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-cant-a-person-tickle/
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"Human Hands" Lyrics:
I've been talking to the wall and it's been answering me
Oh darling, how I miss you
I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness
I crave the silhouette of your kiss
With only the blue light of the TV on
Lip-reading threats and false alarms
There's a boy somewhere holding hands with himself
And a girl in a window on the Reeperbahn
Whenever I put my foot in my mouth
and you begin to doubt
That it's you that I'm dreaming about
Do I have to draw you a diagram?
All I ever want is just to fall into your human hands
With the kings and queens of the dance hall craze
Checkmate in three moves in your heyday
But the girls don't listen to your line anymore
Now you're part of someone else
On the factory floor you still say "Where’s the action?"
Now you manufacture happiness
And get sold on the cheap for someone's satisfaction
Whenever I put my foot in my mouth and you begin to doubt
That it's you that I'm dreaming about
Do I have to draw you a diagram?
All I ever want is just to fall into your human hands
All you toy soldiers and scaremongers
Are you living in this world, sometimes I wonder
In between saying you've seen too much
And saying you've seen it all before
Tighter and tighter, I hold you tightly
You know I love you more than slightly
Although I've never said it like this before
Whenever I put my foot in my mouth and you begin to doubt
That it's you that I'm dreaming about
Do I have to draw you a diagram?
All I ever want is just to fall into your human hands
All I ever want is to fall into your human hands
"Human Hands" Alternate Lyrics:
There’s nobody burning between these sheets
Oh, darling how I miss you
I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness
I crave the silhouette of your kiss
With only the blue light of the TV on
Lip-reading threats and false alarms
There's a boy somewhere holding hands with himself
And a girl in a window on the Reeperbahn
Whenever the money runs out
or the drugs wear off
And you start to doubt the household brands
All I ever want is just to fall into your human hands
With the kings and queens of the dance hall craze
Checkmate in three moves in your heyday
But the girls don't listen to your line anymore
Now you're part of someone else
On the factory floor you still say "Where’s the action?"
Now you manufacture happiness
And get sold on the cheap for someone's satisfaction
Whenever the money runs out
or the drugs wear off
And you start to doubt the household brands
All I ever want is just to fall into your human hands
All you toy soldiers and scaremongers
I can already remember when you were younger
in between saying you’ve seen too much
and saying you’ve seen it all before
Tighter and tighter, I hold you tightly
You know I love you more than slightly
Although I've never said it like this before
Whenever the money runs out or the drugs wear off
And you start to doubt the household brands
All I ever want is just to fall into your human hands
Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Radio Silence”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Radio_Silence
“Radio Silence”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CcSwea80dc (can’t find an official EC upload)
“Radio Silence” Definition: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/radio-silent-silence-meaning
“Pearl Harbor” Strike Force radio silence”: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01611190701313940?journalCode=ucry20
“The Secret History of messages etched into records”: https://thevinylfactory.com/features/secret-history-messages-etched-runout-groove/
“The World and His Wife” Origin: https://wordhistories.net/2020/04/22/world-and-his-wife/
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"Radio Silence" Lyrics:
Signal fading, listen to what I'm saying
Testing, testing
This better be worth all of the breath I'm wasting
Maintaining radio silence from now on
Barricaded in the talk radio station
Hostage taken
The red "On-Air" light shines on
Something cheaper that passes for free speech will have to do
Hear him coming through loud and clear
He's trickling in your ear
He'll tell you anything you want to hear
Tape starts running
He's going to tell you something
String starts strumming
Another humdrum conundrum
Signing off now
Maintaining radio silence from now on
But there's one thing I should have said
"The hostage will end up dead"
It's just a comedy
The hostage is me
So, pay the ransom
Beyond the run-out groove
And get my wife down here
A helicopter on the roof
No police marksman
Maintaining radio silence from now on
Mystery voices
Drowned out by too much choice
That's not to mention
The sad waste of this wonderful invention
Maintaining radio silence from now on
Libraries filled up with failed ideas
There's nothing more for me there
I trust in tender ink and gentle airs
Do those drug dealers still polish women made of wax?
Gangsters and world leaders
Require the same protection from attack
From a distance it's hard to tell the difference
Between a king and jack
then a poet and hack
Maintaining radio silence from now on
Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Pretty Words”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Pretty_Words
“Pretty Words”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5jV7LmNeVk
“Hobson’s Choice”: https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/hobsons-choice.html
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"Pretty Words" Lyrics:
I ask you nicely
Get my face slapped under wraps
What's going on precisely
Is there something wrong perhaps?
Surprise, surprise (surprise, surprise)
It's more like a booby trap than a booby prize
Civil disobedience from a soldier with a dirty rifle
You're loosening all the screws that hold the hinges of my life
Fat cats and army brats
Hep cats and dog tags pawing over girly mags
Pretty words don't mean much anymore
I don't mean to be mean much anymore
All I see are snapshots, big shots, tender spots
Mug shots, machine slots
Till you don't know what's what
You don't know what you got
Curious women running after curious men
Curiosity didn't kill the cat
It was a poisoned pen
But there's not much choice (it's Hobson's choice)
Between a cruel mouth and a jealous voice
Got back to London
Picked a paper from the mat
No words of consolation
Just cartoons and chitter chatter
Well, well, fancy that
Millions murdered for a kiss me quick hat
No backbone, blood and guts
Better keep your big mouth shut
Pretty words don't mean much anymore
I don't mean to be mean much anymore
All I see are snapshots, big shots, tender spots
Machine slots, mug shots
Till you don't know what's what
You don't know what you got
Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Five Small Words”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Five_Small_Words
“Five Small Words”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3i-0GJv4qA
“Poison most genteel” abstract: https://eds.a.ebscohost.com/abstract?site=eds&scope=site&jrnl=23275707&AN=100548026&h=14UchlM9kd2j0szlzDmbVBJRsz%2bofAGP3AdjTlnWUnx7Y%2bmKRxGniCiKe6aoz0yNrAZrPO8n7Ro8wWyXtDPV5A%3d%3d&crl=f&IdpId=&resultLocal=ErrCrlNoResults&resultNs=Ehost&crlhashurl=login.aspx%3fdirect%3dtrue%26profile%3dehost%26scope%3dsite%26authtype%3dcrawler%26jrnl%3d23275707%26AN%3d100548026
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"Five Small Words" Lyrics:
Maybe you'll recognize in time
Maybe one day you will discover
All the pain that lies behind
You and your unfortunate love
Somebody might be more
Unsuitable and strange
With eyes that offer everything
That are capable of danger
My mind turns over lies you told
Things said to your other lover
Sweet as they had been to me
You lay there telling them to each other
Now I stand outside the door
My head is filled with phrases
Inside someone's calling out
Their voices rise in praises
Five Small Words
"Don't want you anymore?"
Five Small Words
Well, who is keep score?
Five Small Words
Coward that you are, you would faithlessly implore
"Baby please don't leave me"
"Why don't you believe me?"
"Why did you deceive me?"
Didn't take some shiny dagger
Tattooed fingers grip and hone
I walked under some dark ladder
I Heard your final loving moan
All your indiscretions are so merciful and brief
Genteel poison sprinkled on your Spanish handkerchief
Five Small Words
"Don't you love me anymore?"
Five Small Words
Well, who is keeping score?
The coward that you are, you would so faithlessly implore
"Baby please don't leave me"
"Why don't you believe me?"
"Why did you deceive me?"
Maybe in time you'll want me more
Accidentally like this ‘45
This ‘44
Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Chewing Gum”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Chewing_Gum
“Chewing Gum”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh-tbg_0ZIY
“Rock n’ Roll: Here’s Where the Name Came From”: https://sparkfiles.net/rock-roll-origins-phrase/
“Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis”: http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~johnca/spch100/4-9-sapir.htm
“Language, thought, and color: Whorf was half right”: https://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/~kay/tics2.pdf
“Chewing Gum” Explanation from the Elvis Wiki page: http://www.elviscostello.info/faq/lyrics.php
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"Chewing Gum" Lyrics:
With their cardboard hands by their sides, here's a naked man and lady
And they're yours to cut out and keep and you can dress them up maybe
They don't know just who they are, or who they're supposed to be
You can make them happy or sad or assume their identity
So here they are in the departure lounge, it's the "Gateway to the East"
She is just another mail-order bride, she doesn't know he's a kinky beast
Now he gives her a picture of Maradona and child
She wants to "roll and rock"
As he spills his beer over her
Bumps and grinds as he repeats "Bangkok"
(Chorus:)
There must be something that is better than this
It starts with a slap and ends with a kiss
Begins with you bawling and it ends up in tears
Oh, my little one, take that chewing gum out of your ears
She might as well be in the jungle, she might as well be on the moon
He's away on a business trip in Dusseldorf, and she's becoming immune
To the lack of glamour and danger in the West-German city today
The nearest she comes to the "Dynasty" life he promised her
Is a Chinese takeaway
(Repeat Chorus)
And though he only taught her three little words
It doesn't matter if they're dirty or clean
He can only control what they look like
He can never possess what they mean
So, he wants to whisper in her ear
All the shrinking nothingness
Something always comes between them
I wonder if you can guess
(Repeat Chorus)
Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Pay It Back”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Pay_It_Back
“Pay It Back”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SEu2e12x1w
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"Pay It Back" Lyrics:
Stop thief; you're gonna come to grief
If you don't take a little more care
You're gonna get more than the family plan
From this one shoestring affair
I may be crazy but I can't contemplate
Being trapped between the doctor and the magistrate
Chorus:
One of these days I'm gonna pay it back, pay it back,
one of these days
One of these days I'm gonna pay it back, pay it back,
one of these days
And then they told me I could be somebody
If I didn't let too much get in my way
And I tried so hard just to be myself
But I keep on fading away
And then the lights went out, I didn't know what to do
If I could fool myself, then maybe I'd fool you
(chorus)
I wouldn't say that I was raised on romance
Let's not get stuck in the past
I love you more than everything in the world
I don't expect that will last
They told me everything was guaranteed
Somebody somewhere must've lied to me
(chorus)
Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Starting to Come to Me”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Starting_To_Come_To_Me
“Starting to Come to Me”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOM-9qBHoAs
“Lovelight” definition: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/lovelight
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"Starting to Come to Me" Lyrics:
It's started to come to me
Your new career would probably end like this
All that professional lipstick pressed into an amateur kiss
Farewell to the studied lines and carefully broken hearts
The overpowering perfume and the glimpse of her garter
Mingling with the sweet smoldering scent of the martyr
Well, it's starting to come to me (come to me, come to me)
Starting to come to me
So, you began to recognize the well-dressed man that everybody loves
It started when you chopped off all the fingers of those pony skin gloves
Then you cut a hole out where the lovelight used to shine
Your tears of pleasure equal measure crocodile and brine
You try to laugh it off saying "I knew all the time...
But it's starting to come to me" (come to me, come to me)
Starting to come to me
Sometimes you bring me down to play reluctant confidant
You say you may reward him if he gives you what you want
But these are days to treasure and to hold
They are much too precious to be sold
You'd probably play the pirate if you weren't so busy digging up the gold
Now you could tell he wanted you 'cause you could almost taste it on his breath
But you always cheated life just like the bold dare-devil cheated death
Incidentally, late last night your understudy finally got what you deserve
In private she's seductive but in public she's prim, porcelain and nervous
Afraid someone will recognize the shame in her eyes
You've still got your dignity or the next best disguise
You never know when to say no and when to compromise
But it's starting to come to me (come to me, come to me)
Starting to come to me (come to me, come to me)
Starting to come to me
Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “The Birds Will Still Be Singing”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/The_Birds_Will_Still_Be_Singing
“The Birds Will Still Be Singing”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0L0FTBIvbg
“Quintain Rhyme Scheme”: https://examples.yourdictionary.com/grammar/rhymes/quintain-rhyme-scheme.html
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"The Bird Will Still Be Singing" Lyrics
Summertime withers as the sun descends
He wants to kiss you, will you condescend?
Before you wake and find a chill within your bones
Under a fine canopy of lover's dust and humorous bones
Banish all dismay, extinguish every sorrow
Eternity stinks, my darling, that's no joke
Don't waste your precious time pretending you're heartbroken
There will be tears and candles, pretty words to say
Spare me lily-white lily with the awful perfume of decay
Banish all dismay, extinguish every sorrow
If I'm lost or I'm forgiven, the birds will still be singing
It's so hard to tear myself away
Even when you know it's over
It's too much to say
Banish all dismay, extinguish every sorrow
If I'm lost or I'm forgiven, the birds will still be singing
Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “The Deportees Club”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/The_Deportees_Club
“The Deportees Club”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf2RKMXjrMI
“Deportee” (slow version): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIzTXbixEaQ
“Did Nero Really Fiddle While Rome Burned?”: https://www.history.com/news/did-nero-really-fiddle-while-rome-burned
“The bouba/kiki effect: how do we link shapes to sounds?”: https://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2016/oct/17/the-boubakiki-effect-how-do-we-link-shapes-to-sounds
“On the Fiddle” expression: https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/on-the-fiddle.html
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"Deportees Club" Lyrics:
In the Arrivederci Roma nightclub, bar and grill
Standing in the fiberglass ruins watching time stand still
All your troubles you confess to another faceless backless dress
Schnapps chianti Porto and ouzo
Pernod vodka sambuca, I love you so
Deportee
Tatty beauty talking in riddles
Rome burns down everybody's on the fiddle
Two thousand dollars for a wife and some class
A thousand years drowned in a chaser glass
How I wish that she was mine
I could have been a king in six/eight time
Schnapps chianti Porto and ouzo
Pernod vodka sambuca, I love you so
Deportee
It's a brittle charm but she's had enough
Still she wrote her number on his paper cuff
You don't know where to start or where to stop
All this pillow talk is nothing more than talking shop
When I came here tonight my pockets were overflowing
They took my return ticket without me even knowing
I pray to the saints and all the martyrs
For the secret life of Frank Sinatra
But none of these things have come to pass
In America the law is a piece of ass
I'm a deportee
Schnapps chianti porter and ouzo
Pernod vodka sambuca, I love you so
Alternate lyrics to “Deportee”
In the Arrivederci Roma nightclub, bar and grill
Standing in the fiberglass ruins watching time stand still
All your troubles you confess to another faceless, backless dress
Schnapps, chianti, Porto and ouzo
Pernod, vodka, sambuca--I love you so
Deportee
There's a tattered beauty talking in riddles
Rome burns down and everybody fiddles
Deportee
But a thousand dollars won't buy you a Yankee wife, alas
There's a thousand years of history ground in this chaser glass
And how I wish that she was mine
I could have been the King in Six Eight Time
Deportee
Oh, it's a brittle charm, but she's had enough
Still she wrote her name upon his paper cuff
And you don't where to start or where to stop
All this pillow talk is nothing more than finally talking shop
When I came here tonight my pockets were overflowing
They took my return ticket without me even knowing
Well, I pray to the saints and all the martyrs
For the secret life of Frank Sinatra
But none of these things have come to pass
In America the law is a piece of ass
Deportee
So it's Schnapps, chianti, porter and ouzo
Pernod, vodka, sambuca--I love you so
Deportee
Deportee
Poor Deportee
Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Jimmie Standing in The Rain”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Jimmie_Standing_In_The_Rain
“Jimmie Standing in The Rain”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1PbA88w9jk
“Scrapping first-class train carriages leaves us all in third”: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/17/chris-grayling-scrapping-first-class-trains-leaves-us-all-in-third
“First, second third class train travel in 19040s & 1950s Britain”: https://www.1900s.org.uk/1940s-trains-class.htm
Third Class rail travel ends in Britain: https://moneyweek.com/394050/3-june-1956-third-class-rail-travel-ends-in-britain
Tweed’s history: https://www.masterclass.com/articles/what-is-tweed#what-are-the-origins-of-tweed
“Where London’s history happened — in the pub”: https://londonspubswherehistoryreallyhappened.wordpress.com/2017/12/19/the-argyll-arms/
“The London Trocadero, Leicester Square, and Piccadilly Circus,” Introduction to the early years: http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/TrocaderoLeicesterSquareLondon.htm
Purchase “The Most Terrible Time in My Life…Ends Thursday” https://www.amazon.com/Most-Terrible-Time-Life-Thursday-ebook/dp/B07XLXS5PL/ref=sr_1_1?crid=Y4SGCT62WPEK&dchild=1&keywords=the+most+terrible+time+in+my+life+ends+thursday&qid=1608873405&sprefix=The+Most+Terrible+Time+in+%2Caps%2C195&sr=8-1
"Jimmie Standing in the Rain" lyrics:
Third-Class ticket in his pocket
Punching out the shadows underneath the sockets
Tweed coat turned up against the fog
Slow coaches rolling o'er the moor
Between the very memory
And approaches of war
Stale bread curling on a luncheon counter
Loose change lonely, not the right amount
Forgotten Man of an indifferent nation
Waiting on a platform at a Lancashire station
Somebody's calling you again
The sky is falling
Jimmie's standing in the rain
Nobody wants to buy a counterfeited prairie lullaby in a colliery town
A hip flask and fumbled skein with some stage-door Josephine is all he'll get now
Eyes going in and out of focus
Mild and bitter from tuberculosis
Forgotten Man / Indifferent nation
Waiting on a platform at a Lancashire station
Somebody's calling you again
The sky is falling
Jimmie's standing in the rain
Her soft breath was gentle on his neck
If he could choose the time to die
Then he would come and go like this
Underneath the painted sky
She woke up and called him "Charlie" by mistake
And then in shame began to cry
Tarnished silver band peels off a phrase
And then warms their hands around the brazier
Forgotten Man / Indifferent nation
Waiting on a platform at a Lancashire station
Somebody's calling you again
It's finally dawning
Jimmie's standing in the rain
Brilliantine glistening
Your soft plaintive whistling
And your wan wandering smile
Died down at The Hippodrome
Now you're walking off to jeers, the lonely sound of jingling spurs,
the "toodle-oos" and "Oh, my dears" down at "The Argyle"
Vile vaudevillians applaud sobriety
There's no place for a half-cut cowboy in polite society
Forgotten Man / Indifferent nation
Waiting on a platform at a Lancashire station
Somebody's calling you again
It's finally dawning
Jimmie's standing in the rain
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “The Name of This Thing Is Not Love”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/The_Name_Of_This_Thing_Is_Not_Love
“The Name of This Thing Is Not Love”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-OQZvFoh_Q
Purchase “The Most Terrible Time in My Life…Ends Thursday” https://www.amazon.com/Most-Terrible-Time-Life-Thursday-ebook/dp/B07XLXS5PL/ref=sr_1_1?crid=Y4SGCT62WPEK&dchild=1&keywords=the+most+terrible+time+in+my+life+ends+thursday&qid=1608873405&sprefix=The+Most+Terrible+Time+in+%2Caps%2C195&sr=8-1
"The Name of This Thing Is Not Love" Lyrics:
There's a part of this feeling that I just cannot kill
But the name of this thing is not love
And I can't take a potion, and I won't take a pill
So, it tortures me still
But the name of this thing is not love
Then you start entertaining such a terrible thought
Life is so very short
And the name of this thing is not love
There's a bruise on her arm and some blood on the floor
But the name of this thing is not love
And they're taunting some girl that they claim to adore
She can't take anymore
But the name of this thing is not love
Who in the world do you think that you are?
That you pushed me this far
The name of this thing is not love
He thinks of her still, although you'd never guess
He's trying hard to forget her
The occasional moments that he'll always bless
Watching her dress for worse or better
He watched her pick over her broken playthings
What played on his mind is not love
The cast-aside tokens and discarded rings
Over one of his flings
But the name of this thing is not love
Then he threw something down in the wild rushing river
And won't ever recover
The name of this thing is not love
Then you start out pretending that you're so very tough
Life is not short enough
But the name of this thing is not love
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Sweet Pear”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Sweet_Pear
“Sweet Pear”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY-FGXC5qGE
“Why Do We Use Pet Names in Relationships?” https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind-guest-blog/why-do-we-use-pet-names-in-relationships/
Purchase “The Most Terrible Time in My Life…Ends Thursday” https://www.amazon.com/Most-Terrible-Time-Life-Thursday-ebook/dp/B07XLXS5PL/ref=sr_1_1?crid=Y4SGCT62WPEK&dchild=1&keywords=the+most+terrible+time+in+my+life+ends+thursday&qid=1608873405&sprefix=The+Most+Terrible+Time+in+%2Caps%2C195&sr=8-1
"Sweet Pear" Lyrics:
Sweet pear, sweet pear
Those who say they love you would never dare
I'll watch out for you / I'll always be there
In the hour of your distress, you need not fear
In all the world there's only one true love
And finding it's hard enough
I bless whatever's in the sky above
For bringing you to me
But there's a void without your kiss
I wake on the precipice above the abyss
And though the touch of your lips these fears dismiss
Make no mistake there is an ache I have to live with
Was my grip too loose, my grip too strong
That made you want to run away
And now you're back where I pretend you belong
I wonder every night and day / How long
I swear this is my prayer
Till we're burned and scattered in the atmosphere
Or lost in the world across a crowded room
I am your stupid lover, your wretched groom
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Go Away”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Go_Away
“Go Away”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQUq5AxhXJ4
The structure of a three-act Play: https://blog.reedsy.com/three-act-structure/
Purchase “The Most Terrible Time in My Life…Ends Thursday” https://www.amazon.com/Most-Terrible-Time-Life-Thursday-ebook/dp/B07XLXS5PL/ref=sr_1_1?crid=Y4SGCT62WPEK&dchild=1&keywords=the+most+terrible+time+in+my+life+ends+thursday&qid=1608873405&sprefix=The+Most+Terrible+Time+in+%2Caps%2C195&sr=8-1
"Go Away" Lyrics:
Are we rolling? One, two, one, two, three, four
Here in my little spy movie
With my garter and dagger
And my gag and my cuff
And my gunslinger swagger
You used to be my hand-painted villain
You used to be so thrilling
It's a switch that you're flicking
A fuse you're always tripping
A button that you're pressing
A number that you're pushing
You're always delaying
Denying and betraying
Why don't you come back, baby?
Why don't you go away?
Go away, Go away
Why don't you go away?
Why don't you come back, baby?
Why don't you go away?
Budapest intrigue
Three hours of black and white
Squinting at subtitles
Through a telescopic sight
Hungarian melody
Repeating endlessly
Is this the end I see?
Approaching in front of me
A switch that you're flicking
A fuse you're always tripping
A button that you're pressing
A number that you're pushing
You're always delaying
Denying or betraying
Why don't you come back, baby?
Why don't you go away?
Go Away, Go Away
Why don't you go away?
Why don't you come back, baby?
Why don't you go away?
In this hysterical epic
Secret passage of the palace
Powder from a hollow ring
Into the poisonous chalice
Unfrocked fondler
In a half moonlit gondola
Pampered hog in a ringlet wig
Gamboled a merry jig
You're always pursuing
But she won't need possessing
Just undoing and undressing
Please don't stop confessing
You're always delaying.
Denying or betraying
Why don't you come back, baby?
Why don't you go away?
Go Away, Go Away
Why don't you go away?
Why don't you come back, baby?
Why don't you go away?
In my mystery caper
As I lower my lamp
On a fey little gunsel
Who dreamed of drilling that vamp
I'm walking the shade
Of this silent parade
With my pepper and mace
And my heartbroken face
Rainy railway station
Drowns out a tearful parting
Last canister rolling
On our little melodrama
Is a one-horse opera
A screwball comedy
Mistaken identity
Well, who do you want to be?
A switch that you're flicking
A fuse you're always tripping
A button that you're pressing
A number that you're pushing
You're always delaying
Denying or betraying
Why don't you come back, baby?
Why don't you go away?
Go Away, Go Away
Why don't you go away?
Why don't you come back, baby?
Why don't you go away?
Hey, hey
Why don't you
Go away
Why don't you go away?
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “13 Steps Lead Down”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/13_Steps_Lead_Down
“13 Steps Lead Down”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C31mUTzAmhA
“Friends of Mine” By the Guess Who: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geLuIb4oic4
“Friends of Mine” lyrics: https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/guesswho/friendsofmine.html
“The Hanging Judge’s Hangman Discusses Hanging”: https://truewestmagazine.com/hanging-judges-hangmen/
Purchase “The Most Terrible Time in My Life…Ends Thursday” https://www.amazon.com/Most-Terrible-Time-Life-Thursday-ebook/dp/B07XLXS5PL/ref=sr_1_1?crid=Y4SGCT62WPEK&dchild=1&keywords=the+most+terrible+time+in+my+life+ends+thursday&qid=1608873405&sprefix=The+Most+Terrible+Time+in+%2Caps%2C195&sr=8-1
"13 Steps Lead Down" Lyrics:
When nobody knows she puts on secret clothes
And lies in the meadow with her hands tied behind her back
I won't refuse
If you know how to use it
Just stop playing that ugly drug music
Thirteen steps lead down
Thirteen steps lead down
There's commoners and kings
And everyone's a prisoner
Of paper and glue and a decent pair of scissors
So, tonight I'm drinking to your health
Because I just can't stand myself
Thirteen steps lead down
Thirteen steps lead down
Thirteen steps lead down
Thirteen steps lead down
She stands and fails on fashion fingernails
Her lovers have her walking 'round
On instruments of torture
And one of them is poisonous
The other is a thief they say
So, what one could give to her
The other cannot take away
When nobody knows she puts on secret clothes
And lies in her splendor for a picture opportunity
Cover up that bruise, put on patent leather shoes
Just stop playing that bad mood music
Thirteen steps lead down
Thirteen steps lead down
There's commoners and kings
And everyone's a prisoner
Of paper and glue and a decent pair of scissors
So, tonight I'm drinking to your health
Because I just can't stand myself
Thirteen steps lead down
Thirteen steps lead down
Thirteen steps lead down
Thirteen steps lead down
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Man Out of Time”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Man_Out_Of_Time
“Man Out of Time”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XDuHPLzsxM
Purchase “The Most Terrible Time in My Life…Ends Thursday” https://www.amazon.com/Most-Terrible-Time-Life-Thursday-ebook/dp/B07XLXS5PL/ref=sr_1_1?crid=Y4SGCT62WPEK&dchild=1&keywords=the+most+terrible+time+in+my+life+ends+thursday&qid=1608873405&sprefix=The+Most+Terrible+Time+in+%2Caps%2C195&sr=8-1
“Dead Man Shoes” Idiom: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/dead-mens-shoes
The responsibilities of a Minister of State, UK: https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers/minister-of-state--61
“Traitors’ Gate”: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/traitors-gate
“Twopence ha’penny millionaire” https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Twopence%20ha%27penny%20millionaire
“Rhyme Schemes” https://www.masterclass.com/articles/poetry-101-what-is-a-rhyme-scheme-learn-about-rhymed-poems-with-examples#the-abab-rhyme-scheme-in-poetry
"Man Out of Time" Lyrics
So this is where he came to hide
When he ran from you
In a private detective's overcoat
And dirty dead man's shoes
The pretty things of Knightsbridge
Lying for a minister of state
Are a far cry from the nod and wink
Here at traitor's gate
'Cause the high heel he used to be has been ground down
And he listens for the footsteps that would follow him around
To murder my love is crime
But will you still love
A man out of time?
There's a tuppenny ha'penny millionaire
Looking for a fourpenny one
With a tight grip on the short hairs
Of the public imagination
But for his private wife and kids somehow
Real life becomes a rumor
Days of Dutch courage
Just three French letters and a German sense of humor
He's got a mind like a sewer and a heart like a fridge
He stands to be insulted and he pays for the privilege
To murder my love is crime
But will you still love
A man out of time?
The biggest wheels of industry
Retire sharp and short
And the after dinner overtures
Are nothing but an afterthought
Somebody's creeping in the kitchen
There's a reputation to be made
Whose nerves are always on a knife's edge
Who's up late polishing the blade
Love is always scarpering or cowering or fawning
You drink yourself insensitive and hate yourself in the morning
To murder my love is crime
But will you still love
A man out of time?
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “I Hope You’re Happy Now”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/I_Hope_You%27re_Happy_Now
“I Hope You’re Happy Now”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJgBpjo7dpY
Purchase “The Most Terrible Time in My Life…Ends Thursday” https://www.amazon.com/Most-Terrible-Time-Life-Thursday-ebook/dp/B07XLXS5PL/ref=sr_1_1?crid=Y4SGCT62WPEK&dchild=1&keywords=the+most+terrible+time+in+my+life+ends+thursday&qid=1608873405&sprefix=The+Most+Terrible+Time+in+%2Caps%2C195&sr=8-1
“Proper Usage of “That” in English”: https://www.thoughtco.com/uses-of-that-1210017
“Put Paid to” idiom: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/put-paid-to
“Fine Figure of a Man” meaning: https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/a-fine-figure-of-a-man-woman
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"I Hope You're Happy Now" Lyrics
He's a fine figure of a man and handsome too
With his eyes upon the secret places he'd like to undo
Still he knows who knows who and where and how
And I hope that you're happy now
He's got all the things you need and some that you will never
But you make him sound like frozen food, his love will last forever
Still he knows what you want and what you don't allow
And I hope that you're happy now
I hope that you're happy now like you're supposed to be
And I know that this will hurt you more than it hurts me
He's acting innocent and proud still you know what he's after
Like a matador with his pork sword, while we all die of laughter
In his turquoise pajamas and motorcycle hat
I hope you're happy now because you'll soon put paid to that
I knew then what I know now I never loved you anyhow
And I hope you're happy now
I knew then what I know now I never loved you anyhow
And I hope you're happy now
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slow_drag_with_remedy/
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Fish ‘N’ Chip Paper”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IHpJQB8Rew
“Fish and Chip Papers”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IHpJQB8Rew
The term “screw” for a jailer: https://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/12/messages/610.html
Other newspapers respond to “The World” shuttering: https://www.pressreader.com/new-zealand/weekend-herald/20110709/284245231998926
Buy the Book, "The Most Terrible Time in My Life...Ends Thursday" here: https://www.amazon.com/Most-Terrible-Time-Life-Thursday-ebook/dp/B07XLXS5PL/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1G4Y0K7XGITK0&dchild=1&keywords=the+most+terrible+time+in+my+life+ends+thursday&qid=1608872671&sprefix=most+terrible+Tim%2Caps%2C195&sr=8-1
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"Fish and Chip Paper" Lyrics:
When Sunday morning dandruff turns out to be confetti
And the cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty
The girl of your dreams would have you up on an under age charge
And the man of the moment is the lifer at large
Chorus:
If you've got something to hide, if you've got something to sell
If you've got somebody's pride she might kiss and tell
Or wind up with a fight fan in the Hammersmith Hotel
You better speak up now if you want your piece
You better speak up now
It won't mean a thing later
Yesterday's news is tomorrow's fish and chip paper
The girl says she's leaving and this time she really means it
You can just look at the pictures, you don't actually have to read it
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
There's a man in the launderette and he's looking through your underwear for clues
And the milkman is working through the News of the Screws
He says...
Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slow_drag_with_remedy/
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Coal Train Robberies”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Coal-Train_Robberies
“Coal Train Robberies”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTw8kM9DFiQ
“Unmask Us” Elvis Costello page: https://www.unmask.us/songwriters-c-e/elvis-costello-p3/
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"Coal Train Robberies" Lyrics
Yesterday's coal train came to rest in the bitter cutting
And while the signals took an age to change, it was easy pickings
So you go to the movies where they smash it up
You want to feel your heart pumping, it makes you feel good
All through the karaoke, girls were squealing the hits
While another Mercedes-Benz gets blown to bits
While all the time in the camptown theatres of Piccadilly
They're going to throw a black-face minstrel show
For the barefoot children that they're always selling
They'll say "It's quaint" as the guilty ones faint
And claim they ain't underneath this paint
We interrupt these liberal saints with their whips and watermelon
Reports are coming in of a coal-train robbery
It's like another world, or it had better be
So we return to whitewash pout of his committed lips
Since he was declared the long lost fountain of youth that drips and drips and drips
They'll be sending him round from door to door to sell you back what's already yours
"So many good deeds, so little time," say the advertising agency swine
When man has destroyed what he thinks he owns
I hope no living thing cries over his bones
If you don't believe that I'm going for good
You can count the days I'm gone and chop up the chairs for firewood
Reports are coming in of a coal-train robbery
It's like another world, or it had better be
Reports are coming in of a coal-train robbery
It's like another world, or it had better be
Reports, reports, reports, reports...
Alternative lyrics:
Yesterday's coal train came to rest in the bitter cutting
And while the signals took an age to change, it was easy pickings
So you go to the movies where they smash it up
You want to feel your heart pumping, it makes me feel good
All through the karaoke, they were screaming the hits
While another Mercedes-Benz gets blown to bits
Outside a khaki-covered river oozes by
And still they say that there’s a big important world out there to try
"What’s yours is yours, what’s yours is mine," so say those City of London swine
"So let’s steal something that’s really worth it"
Reports are coming in of a coal train robbery
It’s like another world, or it had better be
Come down the banks where you used to court, your heart pumping
You know where she kissed you as the sweating trains pulled in
A scrap of grime for a glimmer of heat beneath the rails between your feet
You used to pick rags from the workhouse floor
You don’t want much, you just want more
You waited fifteen years for the whistle to blow
When they say "work," when they say "no"
If you don’t believe that I’m going for good
You can count the days I’m gone and chop up the chairs for firewood
Reports are coming in of a coal train robbery
It’s like another world, or it had better be
Reports are coming in of a coal train robbery
Reports are coming in of a coal train robbery
Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slow_drag_with_remedy/
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Suspect My Tears”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Suspect_My_Tears
“Suspect My Tears”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK8wHkucVBk
Episode 13 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “Not Quite against My Will,” a slow drag with “Stripping Paper” and “Shatterproof”: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/11708024
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"Suspect My Tears" lyrics:
Do you remember how to say "Please"?
You've had your own way for such a long time
Your lashes sweep down, I dry your cheek
You think I'm powerless when you speak
You may have something,
I don't deny
You look so beautiful
when you cry
If I seem unconcerned
Perhaps it's time you learned
I'll cry until you suspect my tears
I'll cry until you suspect my tears
You're not the only one who can
turn it on
When and where you need it
Do you remember how bad it felt?
Big eyes would fill up
Your lip would tremble
You want to hurt me but then
you melt
You always promise to lose control
I learned a trick that you used to play
I'm tired of you having it your own way
With the power to persuade
Beginning to cascade
I'll cry until you suspect my tears
I'll cry until you suspect my tears
You're not the only one who can
turn it on
When and where you need it
If you hear me weeping
I may be cheating or just laughing inside
If you're suspicious that I'm sly and vicious
Here's your chance to decide
Two hypocrites collide
I'll cry until you suspect my tears
I'll cry until you suspect my tears
You're not the only one who can
turn it on
Where and when you need it
When you need it
I'll cry until you suspect my tears
I'll cry until you suspect my tears
You're not the only one who can
turn it on
Where and when you need it
When you need it
I'll cry until you suspect my tears
I'll cry until you suspect my tears
I'll cry until you suspect my tears
I'll cry until you suspect my tears
Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slow_drag_with_remedy/
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “My Little Blue Window”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/My_Little_Blue_Window
“My Little Blue Window”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXgWe6yGw5g
“9 Shakespeare Innuendos”: https://www.vox.com/2015/4/23/8479871/shakespeare-dirty-jokes
“Hooligan” as an Ethnic Slur: https://qz.com/1306921/world-cup-2018-hooligans-is-an-ethnic-slur-in-history/
Episode 2 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “And You Only Want to be Famous,” a slow drag with “Alibi”: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/11068049
Episode 42 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “A Creature of Habit,” a slow drag with “Tart”: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/14276159
Episode 49 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “Every Twisted Grudge,” a slow drag with “Soul for Hire”: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/15206756
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"My Little Blue Window" Lyrics
This is a calling card
Maybe it will be a farewell note
The poison fountain pen now requires the antidote
But if I avert your gaze
And I should become a shrinking flower
Just punch me on the arm
This could be our finest hour
Till now this was my view
But I'm counting on you
How am I ever going to make you see?
Nothing in this ugly world comes easily
I want you to be...
My lovely hooligan
Come by and smash my pane
Till I can see right through
My little blue window
This is a fingerprint
Maybe you will feel a fond caress
But when you start to speak
Are you tempted to confess?
Well, I was a gloomy soul
Never thought I see a brighter day
The dark interior
Blows those silver clouds away
Till now this was my view
But I'm counting on you
How am I ever going to make you see?
Nothing in this ugly world comes easily
I want you to be...
My lovely hooligan
Come by and smash my pane
Till I can see right through
My little blue window
Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slow_drag_with_remedy/
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Brilliant Mistake”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Brilliant_Mistake
“Brilliant Mistake”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfICbSL6Vm0
“The Marshmallow Test”, why rich kids are so good at it: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/06/marshmallow-test/561779/
The Marshmallow Test on Patience: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/6/6/17413000/marshmallow-test-replication-mischel-psychology
Episode 4 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “The Hangover This Morning,” a slow drag with “The Big Light”: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/11158313
Episode 33 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “Friends Think of Her Fondly,” a slow drag with “Our Little Angel”: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/13256063
Episode 43 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “It’s Better to Confess,” a slow drag with “Glitter Gulch”: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/14551127
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"Brilliant Mistake" lyrics:
He thought he was the King of America
Where they pour Coca Cola just like vintage wine
Now I try hard not to become hysterical
But I'm not sure if I am laughing or crying
I wish that I could push a button
And talk in the past and not the present tense
And watch this hurtin' feeling disappear
Like it was common sense
It was a fine idea at the time
Now it's a brilliant mistake
She said that she was working for the ABC News
It was as much of the alphabet as she knew how to use
Her perfume was unspeakable
It lingered in the air
Like her artificial laughter
and mementos of affairs
"Oh" I said "I see you know him"
"Isn't that very fortunate for you"
And she showed me his calling card
He came third or fourth and there were more than one or two
He was a fine idea at the time
Now he's a brilliant mistake
He thought he was the King of America
But it was just a boulevard of broken dreams
A trick they do with mirrors and with chemicals
The words of love in whispers
And the acts of love in screams
I wish that I could push a button
And talk in the past and not the present tense
And watch this lovin' feeling disappear
Like it was common sense
I was a fine idea at the time
Now I'm a brilliant mistake
Show Notes:
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slow_drag_with_remedy/
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Poor Fractured Atlas”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Poor_Fractured_Atlas
“Poor Fractured Atlas”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afjkN_0RM3Y
Squirrel Gun definition: https://www.andrews.edu/~rwright/Oldwww/Alamo/squirrel.html
“Atlas” and the interesting facts: https://greekgodsandgoddesses.net/gods/atlas/
“Boy’s Last Wish Sets off Animal Rights Furor” https://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/12/us/boy-s-last-wish-sets-off-animal-rights-furor.html
Episode 9 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “Grace and Virtue,” a slow drag with “All This Useless Beauty”: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/11434418
Episode 23 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “False and Lovely Modesty,” a slow drag with “Little Atoms”: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/12489932
Episode 56 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “Pure Illuminated Sweetness,” a slow drag with “Distorted Angel”: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/15986612
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"Poor Fractured Atlas" Lyrics:
He's out in the woods with his squirrel gun
To try to recapture his anger
He's screaming some words at the top of his lungs
Until he begins to feel younger
But back at his desk in the city we find
Our trembling punch-drunken fighter
Who can't find the strength now to punish the length
Of the ribbon in his little typewriter
(Chorus:)
Poor Fractured Atlas
Threw himself across the mattress
Waving his withering pencil
As if it were a pirate's cutlass
I'm almost certain he's trying to increase his burden
He said "That's how the child in me planned it;
A woman wouldn't understand it"
I believe there was something that I wanted to say
Before I conclude this epistle
But you would forgive me for holding my tongue
'Cause man made the blade and the pistol
Yes man made the waterfall over the dam
To temper his tantrum with magic
Now you can't be sure of that tent of azure
Since he punched a hole in the fabric
(Repeat Chorus)
A woman wouldn't understand it
A woman wouldn't understand it
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slow_drag_with_remedy/
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Charm School”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Charm_School
“Charm School”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoK19qiftb0
References:
“You Can’t Make a Silk Purse out of a Sow’s Ear” origin: https://wordhistories.net/2016/12/28/silk-purse-sows-ear/
“The Mangle” Definition: https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Mangle+(machine)
Episode 11 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “Blow the Whistle,” a slow drag with “King of Thieves”: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/11574305
Episode 38 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “His Tribute of a Rose,” a slow drag with “The Greatest Thing”: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/13850447
Episode 53 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “Telling You What’s What,” a slow drag with “Mouth Almighty”: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/15663395
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"Charm School" Lyrics:
Men made out of monkeys
Men made into mice
Happy days are here again
And all the drinks half price
A girl with a trick and a man with a calling
Trying to make a living out of your downfalling
Trying to make a living out of anything at all
Didn't they teach you anything except how to be cruel
In that charm school
You and I as lovers
Were nothing but a farce
Trying to make a silk purse
Out of a sow's arse
Saying "Why don't you watch me"
Hardly speaking sotto voce
Trying to make a living out of your downfalling
Trying to make a living out of anything at all
Didn't they teach you anything except how to be cruel
In that charm school
I've got a notion / I've got an angle
Take your dreams and promises
And put them through the mangle
They say it's hell to finance too
And I just want to romance you
In this perpetual nightclub
I'll be yours eternal
Though the hours are long
And the noise infernal
Just one shameful act or sometimes two
We make believe we're making do
Trying to make a living out of your downfalling
Trying to make a living out of anything at all
Didn't they teach you anything except how to be cruel
In that charm school
Didn't they teach you anything except how to be cruel
In that charm school, in that charm school
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slow_drag_with_remedy/
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Miss Macbeth”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Miss_Macbeth
“Miss Macbeth”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQnpjwSq5vM
References:
Episode 10 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “A Terrible Crime,” a slow drag with “Let Him Dangle”: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/11524901
Episode 55 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “A Little Amused,” a slow drag with “…This Town…”: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/15882878
“Spike” Liner notes: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Spike_(2001)_liner_notes
Fishbone Slide hairstyle instrument: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nRHJQ9axxs
First Foot Coal Explanation: https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/The-History-of-Hogmanay/
New York Eve Traditions, first foot: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/home-improvement-tips/tradition-for-seeing-in-new-year/
5 Scottish Hogmanay Traditions: https://www.tripsavvy.com/hogmanay-traditions-in-scotland-1661711
“Beware the Deadly Nightshade, the beautiful plant that can kill you”: https://allthatsinteresting.com/deadly-nightshade
Macbeth quote: Act 1, scene 7: https://www.sparknotes.com/nofear/shakespeare/macbeth/page_42/
https://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/macbeth/quotes/theme/children/
The Golliwog Caricature, Jim Crow Museum of racist Memorabilia: https://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/golliwog/
Chuck under the chin idiom: https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/chuck+under+the+chin
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"Miss Macbeth" Lyrics:
All the children testified that Miss Macbeth had a fishbone slide in her cobweb tresses
Her eyes were black as first foot coal, clutched as white as chalk-dust
Her fingers sweated India-ink and poison-pen letters
There is a hungry hanging tree just below your bedroom window
You can hear her take a broom to beat out a tattoo on the ceiling
Her bloodless face ran red inside but was she really evil, was she only pantomime?
Now the chalk on the wall says that somebody saves
That somebody's face has just been washed off the pavement
Into a puzzle where petrol will be poisoned by rain
Miss Macbeth saw her reflection as confetti bled it's colors down the drain
(Chorus:)
And every day she lives out another love song
It's a tearful lament of somebody done wrong
But how can you miss what you've never possessed, Miss Macbeth?
Well we all should have known when the children paraded
They portrayed her in their fairytales, sprinkling Deadly Nightshade
And as they tormented her, she rose to the bait
Even a scapegoat must have someone to hate
And every day she lives out another love song
"You're up there enjoying yourself, but I know it's wrong"
But how can you miss what you've never possessed, Miss Macbeth?
Miss Macbeth
Sometimes people are just what they appear to be
With no redemption at all
We try to walk upright when we can't even crawl
Miss Macbeth has a gollywog she chucks under the chin
And she whispers to it tenderly, then sticks it on a pin
And it might be coincidence, but a boy down the lane
That she said "went white as he could do," then doubled over in pain
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slow_drag_with_remedy/
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “No Dancing”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/No_Dancing
“No Dancing”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d2KdzBf8yI
References:
Episode 22 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “And His Castanets,” a slow drag with “Waiting for the End of the World”: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/12403490
Episode 36 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “It’s the Way that You Are,” a slow drag with “Miracle Man”: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/13551431
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"No Dancing" Lyrics
Oh I know that she
Has made a fool of him
Like girls have done so many nights before
Time and time again
Now he’s so strange
I don't know why
But somebody, somebody has to cry
There's gonna be no dancing when they get home
There's gonna be no dancing
There's gonna be no dancing
There's gonna be no dancing when they get home
Now he's telling her
Every little thing he's done
Once he glanced at the jackets of some paperbacks
Now he's read every one
He's such a drag / He's not insane
It's just that everybody / Has to feel his pain
There's gonna be no dancing when they get home
He's getting down on his knees
He finds that the girl is not so easy to please
Oh oh, after all, his nights were just a paper striptease
She's caught it like some disease
If he says no dancing
There's gonna be no dancing
There's gonna be no dancing on my own
She can't even speak to him
He can't face her now
He says "Even though I wanna shake your hand
All I ever do is bow.
So now you see
How can it be.
Why can't you give me anythin' but sympathy?"
There's gonna be no dancing
There's gonna be no dancing
There's gonna be no dancing
There's gonna be no dancing
There's gonna be no dancing on my own
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slow_drag_with_remedy/
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Worthless Thing”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Worthless_Thing
“Worthless Thing”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHvRCRP4MKo
References:
Episode 6 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “Don’t Let Them See You Crying that Way,” a slow drag with “Joe Porterhouse”: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/11297243
Episode 30 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “The Bells Take Their Toll,” a slow drag with “Peace in Our Time”: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/12489932
“Have a skeleton in someone’s cupboard” idiom: https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/cupboard
“Blue/Bloody Murder” idiom: https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/scream+blue+murder
“King’s Ransom” idiom: https://grammarist.com/idiom/kings-ransom/
Union Avenue history: http://www.mississippibluestravellers.com/sun-records-706-union-avenue-memphis-tennessee/
The Legendary Sun Studio: https://www.sunstudio.com
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"Worthless Thing" lyrics:
How many times can you jump out of the cupboard
Before someone gets suspicious or someone gets discovered
You can live forever in a split second of fame
Come on down, the price is right, what's your name
While a crocodile makes good shoes and a dog may change his coat
I can't change what's written on your face tonight and I quote
Chorus:
Oh I wish you could see
Quite how much you could mean to me
You worthless thing
If you were ten feet taller and almost handsome
I might pay this king's ransom
You worthless thing
They commit blue murder along Union Avenue
Then they sell you souvenir matches
Nightclubs full of grave robbers from Memphis, Tennessee
And Las Vegas body snatchers
And he's carrying a warning, can't you see how his eyes glint?
Keep your bloody hands off my life, your affectionate fingerprints
(Chorus)
All the cars and pills and girls who tore his shirt to tatters
Do you know how tall he was 'cos that is all that really matters?
Do you know his mother's last name, do you think that he's divine?
You've seen the film, you've read the book
You're drinking vintage Elvis Presley wine
Bored out of your tiny mind while life is twice as large
They'll cut her down to size on television
She's available and beautiful, but with more time to devote
They're going to take this cable now and stick it down your throat
So this is an obituary which should be right and fitting
For every clockwork cat and conceivable kitten
(Chorus)
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slow_drag_with_remedy/
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Distorted Angel”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Distorted_Angel
“Distorted Angel”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aenmB8vjZdI
“Distorted Angel” Tricky Remix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICJDe5yAJwM
References:
Episode 9 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “Grace and Virtue,” a slow drag with “All This Useless Beauty”: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/11434418
Episode 23 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “False and Lovely Modesty,” a slow drag with “Little Atoms”: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/12489932
Bruegel: a fall with the Rebel Angels [Virtual Reality]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXR9EEmb-JU
Need2know Music Show – Part 2 Elvis Costello: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcNJ9cNBCLU
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"Distorted Angel" Lyrics:
Strange things seem to occur, somewhere behind the nursery door
Though I was just a bit of a kid, it was the bit that she was looking for
Now I don't know where to begin confessing
The way she's making me feel it can't be a sin
I was taught to believe you were looking down on everyone
And your benevolent face is beautiful to gaze upon
Now I just don't know who to tell to go to hell
Who put the old devil in the distorted angel?
Distorted Angel
Pure illuminated sweetness
Frightening small children is just about your only weakness
I thought that you would tell me what I'm living for
But I can't see you anymore
I don't know what they did but I'm sorry if it made you cry
And if there's any justice at all I'd be punished for it I'd surmise
It will mark the spot very well where I fell
Under the shadow of the distorted angel
Beneath the shadow of the distorted angel
Below the shadow of the distorted angel
Angel
Beneath the shadow of the distorted angel
Below the shadow of the distorted angel
Angel
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slow_drag_with_remedy/
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “…This Town…”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Spike
“…This Town…”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjFfdp3922k
Elvis Costello Wiki Page: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Mouth_Almighty
References:
Episode 10 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “A Terrible Crime,” a slow drag with “Let Him Dangle”: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/11524901
Episode 39 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “The Secret It Arouses,” a slow drag with “Satellite”: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/13951256
If Corporations are People: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/02/if-corporations-are-people-they-should-act-like-it/385034/
“The Salt of the Earth” Idiom: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20salt%20of%20the%20earth
What is Absinthe and is it Legal?: https://www.distillerytrail.com/blog/what-is-absinthe-and-is-it-legal/
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"...This Town..." Lyrics
That Charlie Sedarka was a-playing the piano like he was pawing a dirty book
He bit a hole in his big bottom lip and gave his very best little boy look
Well, it was a song with a topical verse which I'm afraid he then proceeded to sing
Something about the moody doomed love of the Fish-Finger King
(Chorus:)
You're nobody in this town / You're nobody in this crowd
You're nobody till everybody in this town knows you're poison
Got your number, knows it must be avoided
You're nobody till everybody in this town thinks you're a bastard
Mr. Getgood moved up to Self-Made Man Row
Though he swears that he's the salt of the earth
He's so proud of the "kick-me-hard" sign that they hung on his back at birth
He said "I appreciate beauty, if I have one, then it's my fault"
"Beauty is on my pillow, beauty is there in my vault"
You're nobody in this town / You're nobody in this crowd
You're nobody till everybody in this town knows you're poison
Got your number, knows it must be avoided
You're nobody till everybody in this town thinks you're a bastard
The girl with the eternity rock went down on her bookie to buy some stock
Now all the signs in the shopping arcades
Say "The corporation thief is the new Jesse James"
Her clothes and her attention were scant
Her eyes were everywhere, her eyes were like absinthe
The little green figures that dance on your screen
Say everything you want to hear and nothing they mean
They made love while she was changing her dress
She wiped him off, she wiped him out and then she made him confess
A little amused by the belief in her power
You must remember this it was the fetish of the hour
You're nobody in this town / You're nobody in this crowd
You're nobody till everybody in this town knows you're poison
Got your number, knows it must be avoided
You're nobody till everybody in this town thinks you're a bastard
You're nobody in this town...
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slow_drag_with_remedy/
Website: http://slowdragwithremedy.com
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Watch Your Step”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Watch_Your_Step
“Watch Your Step” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvgIbU-I7-M
References:
Episode 18 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “Rowdiest but Slightest,” a slow drag with “Luxembourg”: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/12106880
Episode 41 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “Money’s Gone Already,” a slow drag with “Clubland”: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/14133332
A Brief History of Kodachrome: http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1906503,00.html
1973 “Kodachrome” Paul Simon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrRRhoS3KFk
“Breaker’s Yard” definition: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/breaker-s-yard
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"Watch Your Step" Lyrics
Don't say a word / Don't say anything
Don't say a word / I'm not even listening
I read in the papers about their escape
They're just two bitter kids from a bunch of sour grapes (two bits of kids)
You better watch your step
Watch who's knocking on your front door
Now you know that they're watching
What are you waiting for?
Think you're young and original
Get out before
They get to watch your step
Every day is full of fun
And family spies
They're making heroes out of fall guys
They say it's good for business
From Singapore to Widnes
You better watch your step
Broken noses hung up on the wall
Back-slapping drinkers cheer the heavyweight brawl
So punch drunk they don't understand at all
You better watch your step
Every night
Go out full of carnival desires
End up in the closing time choirs
When you're kicking in the car chrome
And you're drinking down the Eau de Cologne
And you're spitting out the Kodachrome
You better watch your step
Bye
I send you all my regards
You're so tough
You're so hard
Listen to the hammers falling in the breaker's yard
You better watch your step
You better watch your step
Ooh, watch your step
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slow_drag_with_remedy/
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Mouth Almighty”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Mouth_Almighty
“Mouth Almighty”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIDC1bKNp_Q
References:
Episode 11 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “Blow the Whistle on the Whole Design,” a slow drag with “King of Thieves”: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/13850447
Episode 38 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “His Tribute of a Rose,” a slow drag with “The Greatest Thing”: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/13850447
What’s What idiom: https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/tell+you+what%27s+what
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"Mouth Almighty" Lyrics
This town belongs to you and your tricks of confidence
All the pavements for miles around are littered with your footprints
Now every girl I get close to seems to be wearing your perfume
And the clock strikes the letters of your name
Both midnight and noon
But I used to shoot my mouth off
Till you'd had enough of me
Once or twice nightly
I know I've got my faults
And among them I can't control my tongue
But if you didn't believe me
Why did you have to leave me
With my mouth almighty
Mouth almighty, that's what I've got
Mouth almighty, telling you what's what
Mouth almighty
I wish I'd never opened my mouth almighty
Wish I'd never opened my mouth almighty
Wish I'd never opened my mouth almighty
So I threw away the rose and held on to the thorn
Crawling round with my crooner cufflinks and my calling card cologne
But the realization of being replaced starts to tell tales across my face
Without a soul to talk to or a hair out of place
But I used to shoot my mouth off
Till you'd had enough of me
Once or twice nightly
I know I've got my faults
And among them I can't control my tongue
But if you didn't believe me
Why did you have to leave me
With my mouth almighty
Mouth almighty, that's what I've got
Mouth almighty, telling you what's what
Mouth almighty
I wish I'd never opened my mouth almighty
Wish I'd never opened my mouth almighty
Wish I'd never opened my mouth almighty
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slow_drag_with_remedy/
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Monkey to Man”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Monkey_To_Man
“Monkey to Man”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsAe1X1gNzA
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2020/08/05/episode-52-monkey-to-man-2/
References:
Episode 16 and 17 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “I Might Recite a Small Prayer,” a slow drag with “Bedlam,” and the supplement “The Quickening Art”: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/11977772
https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/12057494
Episode 27, “Or Maybe I Really Love You,” a slow drag with “Needle Time”: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/12795641
“The Monkey” w/ The Dirty Dozen Brass Band: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUKLjtqWPuM
“The Monkey” Speaks His Mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNjuxtjtuWg
“The Monkey” Original 45rpm quality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qdMPxImd3E
“The Monkey” song lyrics: Dave Bartholomew: http://www.songlyrics.com/dave-bartholomew/the-monkey-lyrics/
Dave Bartholomew Quick bio: https://www.allmusic.com/artist/dave-bartholomew-mn0000577590/biography
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"Monkey to Man" Lyrics:
A long time ago, our point of view
Was broadcast by Mr. Bartholomew
And now the world is full of sorrow and pain
And it's time for us to speak up again
You're slack and sorry / Such an arrogant brood
The only purpose you serve is to bring us our food
We sit here staring at your pomp and pout
Outside the bars we use for keeping you out
You've taken everything that you wanted
Broke it up and plundered it and hunted
Ever since we said it
You went and took the credit
It's been headed this way since the world began
When a vicious creature took the jump from Monkey to Man
Every time man struggles and fails
He makes up some kind of fairytales
After all of the misery that he has caused
He denies he's descended from the dinosaurs
Points up to heaven with cathedral spires
All the time indulging in his base desires
Ever since we said it
He went and took the credit
It's been headed this way since the world began
When a vicious creature took the jump from Monkey to Man
Big and useless as he has become
With his crying statues and his flying bomb
Goes 'round acting like the chosen one
Excuse us if we treat him like our idiot cousin
He hangs up flowers and bells and rhymes
Hoping to hell someone's forgiven his crimes
Fills up the air with his pride and praise
He's a big disgrace to our beastly ways
In a fashionable nightclubs and finer precincts
Man uses words to dress up his vile instincts
Ever since we said it
He went and took the credit
It's been headed this way since the world began
When a vicious creature took the jump from Monkey to Man
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slow_drag_with_remedy/
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Blue Chair”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Blue_Chair
“Blue Chair”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm9T-cpZIAI
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2020/07/26/episode-51-blue-chair/
References:
Episode 1 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “The Take Where They Take Your Spine,” a slow drag with “Poor Napoleon”:https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/12614024
Episode 25, “Tough and Transparent,” a slow drag with “Crimes of Paris”: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/11020403
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"Blue Chair" Lyrics:
Now it's just you and me, my blue friend
And you say that it's you that she's thinking of
And our affair must end
But if it's you that she's thinking of
I think my broken heart might mend
Chorus:
Now it's my turn to talk and your turn to think
Your turn to buy and my turn to drink
Your turn to cry and my turn to sink down in the blue chair
Down in the blue chair
Now I've made up my mind, I've made my mistake
And I know that she cries for you
When she's barely awake
But she's going to bend your mind
Well, I hope it don't break
(Chorus)
Down in the blue chair
We can watch our troubles rise
Like smoke into the air
And drift up to the ceiling
Down in the blue chair
You can feel just like a boy or a man
And next minute you can find yourself kneeling
Down in the blue chair
They're boasting of loving the daylights right out of her in the small hours
Down in the blue chair
You say that your love lasts forever when you know the night is just hours
still I want her right now
Not any minute, hour or day
And wherever she is tonight
I want her anyway
I suppose she never said to you
You were just in the way
(Chorus)
Down in the blue chair
Down in the blue chair
Down in the blue chair
Down in the blue chair
Down in the blue chair
Down in the blue
Blue becomes you
Down in the blue chair
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slow_drag_with_remedy/
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “After the Fall”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/After_The_Fall
“After the Fall”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2wS1Y2rw4s
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2020/07/20/episode-50-after-the-fall/
References:
Episode 5 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “Well, Heaven Knows what Fills the Heart,” a slow drag with “Georgie and her Rival”: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/11192174
Episode 34, “Lost Legs and Fingernails,” a slow drag with “Invasion Hit Parade”: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/13352381
Readability Formulas: https://readabilityformulas.com
That Obscure Object of Desire, user reviews: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075824/reviews
That Obscure Object of Desire Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gba_tu2-EMY
The Arthur Miller Society, Guide to “After the Fall”: https://arthurmillersociety.net/guide-after-the-fall/
“After the Fall,” a play by Miller: https://www.britannica.com/topic/After-the-Fall
Types of Rhyme: https://www.dailywritingtips.com/types-of-rhyme/
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"After the Fall" lyrics:
In an anonymous rendezvous
Where the forbidden lovers repair
They're burning down another damn candle
They're melting the tables and chairs
Beneath them applause from the balcony
Whenever they accomplished making love
Other times they thought they heard laughter
Coming from the balcony above
(chorus):
She lies to his right and she carelessly recites
All of her brand new appetites
She seems brittle and small, it don't sound like her at all
Since she came back to him after the fall
She said "You never visit the countryside
So I've made you a country to order"
She put up a little tent in the bedroom
Crickets played on a tape-recorder
The ceiling was festooned with phosphorous stars
She noticed his skin turning cold
Burning all his clothes on the bonfire
"Relax" she whispered and tightened the blindfold
(chorus)
You've changed but not for the better babe
I'd tell you why but what's the use
'Cos it's the same kind of pity
A drunkard gives as his excuse
You were sharp and ideal as a bobby pin
Now your eyes are deserted and quiet
We both look like those poor shattered mannequins
Thrown through the window in the riot
She lies in his arms and without any qualms
Revels in shallow delights
She seems brittle and small, it don't sound like her at all
Since she came back to him after the fall
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Soul for Hire”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Soul_For_Hire
“Soul for Hire”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuXtvYtVsnQ&list=RDcuXtvYtVsnQ&start_radio=1
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2020/07/14/episode-49-soul-for-hire/
References:
Episode 2 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “And You Only Wanted to be Famous.” It’s a slow drag with “Alibi,” another gem from “When I was Cruel”: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/11068049
Episode 42 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “A Creature of Habit.” It’s a slow drag with “Tart,” another gem from “When I was Cruel”: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/14276159
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
Hang my head and shut my eyes
What kind of justice is this?
Fool I was, I thought that you fought fire with fire
Got to be more than just a soul for hire
Speaking for myself I wouldn't take the fame, the fees, the glory
For whoring in the practice of the law
I make my case stop and stutter
Soul comes unglued from the uppers
Blood is seeping in the hole
A mother's eye is weeping
I see every human kind
And still the truth is distant
I hear every evil men do and desire
Got to be more than just a soul for hire
When it's time to give protection
To the ones who need it most, who are desperate
I get distracted from my job
Streams of ink and piles of paper
What are the breaks?
Jump out the window? Parole? Escape?
Blood is seeping in the hole
A mother's eye is weeping
Hang my head and shut my eyes
I can't see justice twisted
I hear every evil men do and desire
Got to be more than just a soul for hire
When it's time to give protection
To the ones who need it most, who are desperate
I get distracted from my job
Streams of ink and piles of paper
To hand them over to dopers and kiddie-rapers
Corrupt in every twisted grudge
And that is just the judge
Hang my head and shut my eyes
What kind of justice it this?
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Flutter and Wow”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Flutter_%26_Wow
“Flutter and Wow”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn9HeYxxzuc
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2020/07/05/episode-48-flutter-and-wow/
References:
Episode 7 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “Let’s See How Brave You Are.” It’s a slow drag with “No Hiding Place,” another gem from “Momofuku”: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/11336612
Episode 35 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “With a Song in My Heart.” It’s a slow drag with “Turpentine,” another gem from “Momofuku”: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/13453079
“Flutter and Wow, Sound Distortion”: https://www.britannica.com/technology/flutter
Q: Are wow and flutter key to that analogue tape sound?: https://www.soundonsound.com/sound-advice/q-are-wow-and-flutter-key-analogue-tape-sound
“What do wow and flutter sound like?”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCwRdrFtJuE
“Magnetic Field” example: https://www.britannica.com/science/magnetic-field
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"Flutter and Wow" lyrics:
Last rays of sunlight die
Full moon begins to rise
Reflected in your eyes
I can't believe that this is happening
You make the motor in me
Flutter and Wow
The crowd was gathering
The clock struck five, then ten
My happy tears were descending
I can't believe that this is happening
You make the motor in me
Flutter and Wow
Flutter and Wow / Flutter and Wow
You make the motor in me
Flutter and Wow / Flutter and how
The incident tape across the bed
Threading it from the reel to the head
I'm planting this thought in a magnetic field
And pushing the button
And all of a sudden
Erase everything rotten
Fascinated and uptight
Make me shout out loud
Make me cry all day and night
My voice got stuck in my throat...
Pulled my hand up into the sleeve of my coat
So you'd never know how it was shaking
I can't believe that this is happening
You make the motor in me
Flutter and Wow
Flutter and Wow / Flutter and Wow
You make the motor in me
Start up and stop again
When I am spluttering
You make the motor in me
Flutter and wow / Flutter and how
Flutter and wow / Flutter and how
To the bridge
The incident tape across the bed
Threading it from the reel to the head
I'm planting this thought in a magnetic field
And pressing the button
And all of a sudden
Erase everything rotten
Fascinated and uptight
Make me shout out loud
Make me cry all day and night
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “This Sad Burlesque”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/This_Sad_Burlesque
“This Sad Burlesque”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7erFv3Z0SI
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2020/06/27/episode-47-this-sad-burlesque/
References:
Episode 12 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “The Maddening Smile.” It’s a slow drag with “Damnation’s Cellar,” another gem from “The Juliet Letters”: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/11642873
Episode 32 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “Pass the Vinegar.” It’s a slow drag with “I Almost Had a Weakness,” another gem from “The Juliet Letters”: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/13163477
Letters of Heartbreak Find Some Love in Verona, Italy: https://www.npr.org/2013/04/16/177027206/letters-of-heartbreak-find-some-love-in-verona-italy?t=1593189184122
From “Comedy Writing,” The K sound is just funnier:
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=giFjDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT75&lpg=PT75&dq=k+sound+is+a+funnier+sound+mel+brooks&source=bl&ots=b6Ot6lAJfA&sig=ACfU3U1VwErAvAuGgOJ9np-8b-njMCJdmg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi5uK6n95_qAhWQVRUIHU5NDVAQ6AEwBHoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=k%20sound%20is%20a%20funnier%20sound%20mel%20brooks&f=false
Victorian Burlesque Dancers, musical theater of the exotic: https://mashable.com/2014/11/11/victorian-burlesque-dancers/
Burlesque Timeline: https://alibi.com/feature/18609/Burlesque-Timeline.html
The History of Burlesque Dancing: https://burlexe.com/burlesque/burlesque-history/the-history-of-burlesque-dancing/
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"This Sad Burlesque" Lyrics
I write in hope by the time you get this letter
We may live to see a change for the better
Or are we so devoted to these wretched selfish motives?
When the cold facts and figures all add up
They cannot contradict this sad burlesque
This sad burlesque
With miserable failures making entertainment of our fate
Laughter cannot dignify or elevate this sad burlesque
Now can they recall being young and idealistic
Before wading knee-deep in hogwash and arithmetic?
The pitying smirk
The argument that runs like clockwork
Will run down eventually and splutter to a stop
P.S. Well, by now you know the worst of it
And we've heard all the alibis that they've rehearsed
The smug predictions
If it's not a contradiction
Please have faith in human nature
And have mercy on the creatures in this sad burlesque
This sad burlesque
With miserable failures making entertainment of our fate
Laughter cannot dignify or elevate this sad burlesque
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Possession”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Possession
“Possession”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm2bcKRbMZI
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2020/06/23/episode-46-possession/
References:
Episode 15 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “A Villain in a Million.” It’s a slow drag with “Riot Act,” another gem from “Get Happy!!”: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/11888735
Episode 28 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “The Face of Your Affection.” It’s a slow drag with “Man Called Uncle,” another gem from “Get Happy!!”: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/12888788
What is Morphology, a quick glance: https://ielanguages.com/morphology.html
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"Possession"
If there's anything that you want
If there's anything that you need
There's no need to be evasive
Money talks and it's persuasive
Possession
Now you're sending me your best wishes
Signed with love and vicious kisses
You lack lust, you're so lackluster
Is that all the strength you can muster?
Possession
Even when we are out of touch
Now I know that I've seen too much
Seen too much
So I see us lying back to back
My case is closed, my case is packed
I'll get out before the violence
Or the tears or the silence
Possession
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “My Science Fiction Twin”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/My_Science_Fiction_Twin
“My Science Fiction Twin”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aymF6j4Si8
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2020/06/10/episode-45-science-fiction-twin/
References:
Episode 8 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “The Word She Wanted.” It’s a slow drag with “20% Amnesia,” another gem from “Brutal Youth”: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/11408294
Episode 26 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “Before You Start to Cry.” It’s a slow drag with “You Tripped at Every Step,” another gem from “Brutal Youth”: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/12703019
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"Science Fiction Twin" Lyrics:
My science fiction twin
Is doing better than expected
He captured a little blonde trophy wife
Who's really very well connected
And when he calls home with his alibi
She says "Is this really necessary?"
But she knows that a man can't be a man
Unless he's punishing his secretary
He sips in the glow of a '61 vintage
Just as the day is dimming
With every intention of surrendering
To fifty-foot women
Who put the fascination back into my science fiction twin
My science fiction twin
Decided to become invisible
He has my eyes, my face, my voice
But he's only happy when I'm miserable
The words flew from his mouth
And they were gently gathered by reporters
Trying to frame his once infamous flame
With tattered pictures of her daughter
"Her hair is all made out of porcupine
Her figure is fantastic"
But as you know, they corrupted her
So they're being sarcastic
To put the fascination back into my science fiction twin
He'll scream and shout
Everything is working out just as he predicted
Pride and position in the gallery of attempted people
Oh and the pain is so sweet
That he'll stamp his little feet
And you'll even have time to pity me
How can you feel content?
You'll wonder where this fellow went
My science fiction twin
Escorted by his lovely nieces
Filled up his purse dictating verse
While painting masterpieces
His almost universal excellence
Is starting to disturb me
They asked how in the world he does all these things
And he answered "Superbly"
He's trapped in his own parallel dimension
That's why I'm so forgiving
But how could I possibly forget to mention
Those fifty-foot women
Who put the fascination back into my science fiction twin
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Stations of the Cross”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Stations_Of_The_Cross
“Stations of the Cross”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJBEFmaRmug&pbjreload=10
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2020/05/28/episode-44-stations-of-the-cross/
References:
“Elvis Costello on music, religion and the act of writing songs”: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/music/elvis-costello-on-music-religion-and-the-act-of-writing-songs/article1215986/
“Elvis Costello” Guardian Interview after the release of “National Ransom”: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/oct/17/elvis-costello-interview-tim-adams
The 14 Stations of the Cross: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Stations-of-the-Cross
Episode 3 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “Sing Hallelujah Sister.” It’s a slow drag with “Church Underground,” another gem from “National Ransom”: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/11118701
Episode 37 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “Gallivant in Peg-Leg Pants.” It’s a slow drag with “A Voice in the Dark,” another gem from “National Ransom”: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/13730246
The difference between a tempest and a squall: https://wikidiff.com/squall/tempest
“The Long Term Recovery of New Orleans’ Population after Hurricane Katrina”: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4752119/
Slattern, definition: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slattern
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
The tempest blows up from a squall
Past the Cape of Bad Conscience
Into the Gulf of the Cauldron
Roars over the coastline to batter and flatten
Exposing the roots like the dyed hair of slattern
Scrapper and mauler in a rope ring this small
Outside the wind is punching
There's no one to hear it
No one hears the bell ring
but the one who comes to fear it
And they continue to brawl
He's buying his way into heaven I suppose
He weeps at the blows
But down in a location that we cannot disclose
He turns the dial slowly
Through the Stations of the Cross
Crowd done up dandy
In diamonds and finery
Baying and howling
All bloodlusty calling
Fists like pistons
Faces like meat spoiling
Haul, boys, haul, bully-boys haul
Later in the evening
Molly and her gunman
Go down the stairs to a dive like a dungeon
Meanwhile in the backroom there's a girl like a sponge
Saying, "Bring him along as a constable's truncheon"
The gunman wants Molly to kingdom come
Then blows them all to the hereafter
Who's scuttling away now and hidden from our view?
Who tightened the tourniquet, turning her blue?
They're hurling themselves into heaven I suppose
Before the gates are closed
But down in a location that we cannot disclose
They'll turn the dial slowly through the Stations of the Cross
The gale of hale laughter
Scales up the ivory
The black keys of her fine wine descend into the minor
Die away breathless
Diminishing behind her
Haul boys haul, bully-boys haul
The water came up to the eaves
You'd think that someone had opened a valve
It's too soon to stay now and too late to leave
So spare your remorse all the way up to Calvary
They're hurling themselves into heaven I suppose
Before the gates are closed
But down in a location that we cannot disclose
They turn the dial slowly through the Stations of the Cross
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA, MFA
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Glitter Gulch”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Glitter_Gulch
“Glitter Gulch”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7bZNShqoVQ
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2020/05/25/episode-43-glitter-gulch/
References:
Episode 4 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “The Hangover This Morning Had a Personality.” It’s a slow drag with “The Big Light,” another gem from “King of America”: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/11158313
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/04-the-hangover-this-morning-had-a-personality/id1478037117?i=1000448878517
Episode 33 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “Friends Think of Her Fondly.” It’s a slow drag with “Our Little Angle,” another gem from “King of America”: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/13256063
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/33-friends-think-of-her-fondly/id1478037117?i=1000466347849
“Glitter Gulch” and Vegas Vic and Vickey: https://www.stripclubconcierge.com/glitter-gulch-las-vegas/
http://vegas4visitors.com/museum/downtown-las-vegas-the-heyday-of-glitter-gulch/
The dismantling of Vegas Vickie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnQDOd1FHBc
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
Enter Madam X painted in a shocking pink spangled dress
Her teeth are perfect but her mouth is loose
Rubbing their hands together she persuades them that it's better to confess
Which unpleasant fate they'd like to choose
Chorus:Every step might be your last
Money signs are in your eyes, sucker
You've been taken in this time
You might just get out alive if you're lucky
All the vultures tuning in to Glitter Gulch
Are looking in on you / And they're hungry
He stood five feet tall in his elevator shoes and stovepipe hat
He was known by several different names
Prompted by Madam X he answered all their questions
And then after that he said I'm sick and tired of stupid games
(Chorus)
We've got prizes if you can afford
Some small humiliation before you get your reward
And I'd rather be an outlaw than an in law to you
And to live my life in miserable poverty
Than to have to grovel to have some dream home hovel
So watch me while I get away with prime time robbery
As he enters Madam X he thinks of red raged faces and the sweet greenbacks
He climbed upon his honey and he covered her with money
As they do their victory dance
He thinks I hope they choke upon their laughter tracks
We can all go straight to hell while we howl down the whole hotel
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA, MFA
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Tart”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Tart
“Tart”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FnYK0Icf8E
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2020/05/04/episode-42-tart/
References:
Episode 2 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “And You Only Wanted to Be Famous.” It’s a slow drag with “Alibi,” another gem from “When I was Cruel”: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/11068049
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/02-and-you-only-wanted-to-be-famous/id1478037117?i=1000448238224
“Do You Always Use a Lip Trill on a Trumpet?”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO6ed7GuQT4
Lip Trill on a Trumpet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tyd5XyFz--k
Trumpet in C – Trills, Vienna Symphonic Library: https://www.vsl.co.at/en/Playing_Techniques/Trumpet_in_C-Trills
“The Arab Seville”: https://www.visitasevilla.es/en/route/arab-seville
“Orange Types: Sweet, Bitter, Mandarin”: https://harvesttotable.com/oranges_the_basics_there_are/
“Moro Blood Oranges”: https://www.froghollow.com/products/organic-moro-blood-oranges
“Ashfield” meaning: https://www.houseofnames.com/ashfield-family-crest
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"Tart" Lyrics:
Hear silver trumpets will trill
In the Arabic streets of Seville
Oranges roll in the gutter
And you pick them up
And pull back the skin
To the red fruit within
But the flavor is... Tart
And the flavor is...Tart
Is it something you crave?
And you say that you only feel bitterness
When you know it's a lie, lie, lie...
Wild with a blackberry bush
There were blossoms of cherries to crush
There, at the edge of the ashfield tempting fingertips
You stain your hands, press too hard
They'll color your lips…
Chorus:
But the flavour is... Tart
And the flavour is... Tart
Is it something you crave?
'Cos you say that you only feel bitterness
Would it kill you to show us a little sweetness?
Odd, where nothing else grows
It was something like love that she chose
Always a creature of habit
When pity would do
She wore down that heel with no feeling
She kept on her shoes
(Repeat Chorus)
Tart
And the flavour is... Tart
And the flavour is... Tart
And the flavour is... Tart
Nylon was hung from a peg
And a kohl black seam ran down her leg
Fishermen look for their nets
And send their regrets
The bug lay there broken
She spoke, "Is this some kind of joke?"
(Repeat Chorus)
Tart
And the flavour is... / Tart
And the flavour is... /Tart
And the flavour is... /Tart
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA, MFA
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Clubland”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Clubland
“Clubland”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kZXYqc8IL4
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2020/04/24/episode-41-clubland/
References:
Episode 18 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “Rowdiest but Slightest.” It’s a slow drag with “Luxembourg,” another gem from “Trust”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/18-rowdiest-but-slightest/id1478037117?i=1000457312611
How to Jerk | Club Dancing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2zA85C_d6I
“The Jerk” Dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Owea_NH-6lE
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"Clubland" Lyrics:
With a handful of backhanders and a bevy of beauty
Going off limits / Going off duty / Going off the rails
Going off with booty
The telltales of fiction found on all the criminal types
Lead to a higher-ranking man or a face with thin red stripes
The boys next door
The mums and dads
New weds and nearly-deads
Have you ever been had in Clubland?
There's a piece in someone's pocket to do the dirty work
You've come to shoot the pony
They've come to do the jerk
They leave him half way to paradise
They leave you half way to bliss
The ladies' invitation never seemed like this
(Chorus)
The long arm of the law slides up the outskirts of town
Meanwhile in Clubland they are ready to pull them down
Hey
The right to work is traded in for the right to refuse admission
Don't pass out now, there's no refund
Did you find out what you were missing
The crowd is taking forty winks minus ten percent
You barely get required sleep to go lingering with contemptment
Thursday to Saturday
Money's gone already
Some things come in common these days
Your hands and work aren't steady
(Chorus)
Written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA, MFA
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Hand in Hand”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Hand_In_Hand
“Hand in Hand”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XKgrSY5Mi4
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2020/04/22/episode-40-hand-in-hand/
References:
Episode 20 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “Now It’s Much Too Dangerous.” It’s a slow drag with “Living in Paradise,” another gem from “This Year’s Model”: http://slowdragwithremedy.libsyn.com/website/20-now-its-much-too-dangerous
Guardian: Songs that start with the chorus: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/mar/22/readers-recommend-playlist-songs-that-start-with-the-chorus
Quora list of songs that start with the chorus: https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-examples-of-songs-that-begin-with-the-chorus
Bully Boy Idiom: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/bully-boy
“Darling Fascist Bully Boy” from “The Young Ones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbOlJAU8llY
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"Hand in Hand" Lyrics:
No, don't ask me to apologize.
I won't ask you to forgive me.
If I'm gonna go down,
you're gonna come with me
You say 'Why don't you be a man about it,
like they do in the grown-up movies?'
But when it comes to the other way around,
you say you just wanna use me.
Oh, you sit and you wonder whether
it's gonna be syndicated.
You sit with your knees together.
All the time your breath is baited.
Hand in Hand.
No, don't ask me to apologize.
I won't ask you to forgive me.
If I'm gonna go down,
you're gonna come with me
Don't you know I got the bully boys out
changing someone's facial design,
sitting with my toy room lout,
polishing my precious china
Don't you know I'm an animal?
But don't you know I can't stand up steady?
But you can't show me any kind of hell
that I don't know already.
Hand in Hand.
No, don't ask me to apologize.
I won't ask you to forgive me.
If I'm gonna go down,
you're gonna come with me
Hand in hand, hand in hand, hand in hand...
Written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Satellite”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Satellite
“Satellite”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCj1Fgj28i8
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2020/04/12/episode-39-satellite/
References:
Episode 10 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “If Killing Anybody is a Terrible Crime.” It’s a slow drag with “Let Him Dangle,” another gem from “Spike”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/10-if-killing-anybody-is-a-terrible-crime/id1478037117?i=1000452426652
When the WWW opened to the public: https://thenextweb.com/insider/2011/08/06/20-years-ago-today-the-world-wide-web-opened-to-the-public/
Unmask Us: an explanation of Spike songs: https://www.unmask.us/songwriters-c-e/elvis-costello-p3/
1989 interview with Spin Magazine: https://www.spin.com/featured/elvis-costello-spike-may-1989-cover-story-the-man-who-would-be-king/
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"Satellite" Lyrics
She looked like she learned to dance from a series of still pictures
She's madly excited now, she throws her hands up like a tulip
She looks like an illustration of a cocktail party
Where cartoon bubbles burst in the air
Champagne rolls off her tongue like a second language
And it should have been her biggest night
The satellite looks down on her as she begins to cry
All over the world at the very same time, people sharing the same sorrow
As the satellite looks down, her darkest hour is somebody's bright tomorrow
He pulled on a cigarette, in the crook of his first finger
Felt the static electric charge of her perfect hour-glass figure
As he undressed her with his eyes, her weakness was his talent
How could she know as she stepped through the lights
That her dress would become transparent
And with his face pressed to the screen,
He muttered words he'd never dare to say if she could see him
All over the world at the very same time, people sharing the same cheap sensation
The thrill of watching somebody watching those forbidden things we never mention
The satellite looks down right now and forever
What it is pulled apart, let no man tether his own body to his dream,
His dream is someone else
Oh no, oh no.
She went back to a pitiful compromise
He'd go back to his family
But for the matter of a thousand miles that separated them entirely
In the hot unloving spotlight, with the secrets it arouses
Now they both know what it's like inside a pornographer's trousers
And in a funny way it's anonymous
The satellite, it blesses us and makes these dreams come true
All over the world at the very same time
All over the world
The satellite looks down right now and forever
What it has pulled apart, let no man tether his own body to his dream,
His dream is someone else
Oh no, oh no
Oh no, oh no
Written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “The Greatest Thing”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/The_Greatest_Thing
“The Greatest Thing”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAizlY5yzd8
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2020/04/05/episode-38-the-greatest-thing/
References:
Episode 11 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “Blow the Whistle on the Whole Design.” It’s a slow drag with “King of Thieves,” another gem from “Punch the Clock”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/11-blow-the-whistle-on-the-whole-design/id1478037117?i=1000452881853 http://slowdragwithremedy.libsyn.com/website/slow-drag-with-king-of-thieves
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"The Greatest Thing" Lyrics:
Everyone stopped when she walked into the room
Isn't this the greatest thing
Everyone own up but nobody could touch her
Isn't this the greatest thing
Punch the clock, keep boxing clever
You'll be young enough forever
Isn't this the greatest
Isn't this the greatest thing
Isn't this the greatest thing
The greatest thing
I heard some new confection
Said we can't afford to feel affection
'Cos it's the latest thing
In and out of matrimony
Never once removed the Sony
'Cos it's a status thing
So girls like that above described
Are not to be so easily bribed
With a white frock and a ring
Punch the clock and in time you'll get pulled apart
When you're married on paper and not in your heart
But I won't be told that life with the one you love is sordid
Just because some authority says you can't afford it
And it's the greatest thing, and it's the greatest thing
And it's the greatest thing, and it's the greatest thing
Oh, it's the greatest
Isn't this the greatest thing
Isn't this the greatest thing
The greatest thing
Since nights were long and days were olden
Woman to man has been beholden
But since then times have been changing
She sends back his tribute of a rose
And says this ring is better suited to the nose you're always fingering
I punch the clock and it's OK
I know a girl who takes my breath away
And it's the greatest
Isn't this the greatest thing
Isn't this the greatest thing
The greatest thing, the greatest thing...
Written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “A Voice in the Dark”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/A_Voice_In_The_Dark
“A Voice in the Dark”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-CJTZMKh7E
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2020/03/27/episode-37-a-voice-in-the-dark/
References:
Episode 16 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “I Might Recite a Small Prayer.” It’s a slow drag with “Bedlam,” another gem from “National Ransom”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/16-i-might-recite-a-small-prayer/id1478037117?i=1000456392629
Episode 17 Supplement of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “The Quickening Art” https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/17-the-quickening-art/id1478037117?i=1000456956290 A slow drag with
Live solo performance of “A Voice in the Dark,” with “Pennies from Heaven” Prelude: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szu-y3n9ubg
Elvis Costello in Isolation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfXyl0fBcTY&feature=youtu.be
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"A Voice in The Dark" Lyrics:
You can read right through a book of matches
But that won't make you smart
You can laugh in the face of watches
But time will only break your heart
Kings reign beneath umbrellas
Hide pennies down in cellars
And money pours down and yet
Not everyone gets soaking wet
When bores and bullies conspire
To stamp out your spark
Listen for…
A Voice In The Dark
Not a moment too soon as we blue the moon
And a wolf began to howl in tune
I announced for all mankind / A boon
Stand aside you big baboon
Now I'm the a prize invention
You're the image of yourself
Forget your cares
your disapproving stares
I'm not here to try to jump your borders
Just ask your nieces and daughters
I'm flat as sole, I'm happy as a clam
But you don't know the kind of man I am
Little fish swimming in a jealous shoal
Now my net is overflowing
And suddenly I seem to be all seeing and all knowing
I got something right there
You might want to hear
I have no fear
Lend a hand / Lend an ear
If your rent-money is in arrears
We'll be striking up a symphony bandstand
Long of hair and loose of tooth
There'll be pirouettes and startling handstands
And who but acrobats know how to tell the truth
When all is said and then redundant
They gallivant in peg-leg pants
I‘ll be your servant
You'll be my pal
and I'll be faithful you know I shall
There's no fool like an old fool
Who blames it all upon his youth
When times are tough and you find you're down
Without a star to wish upon
Listen for…
A Voice In The Dark
I was striking through a box of matches
Hoping that one would spark
I heard somebody calling to me
A voice in the dark
A voice both wild and gentle
Daring and confidential
I thought there was music playing
But it was all and only talk
When liars and bullies conspire to stamp out spark
Fill up that empty space in your heart
Listen up as the herald says, "Hark"
Believe in the voice in the dark…
Written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Miracle Man”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Miracle_Man
“Miracle Man”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2Jso4D-caQ
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2020/03/15/episode-36-miracle-man/
References:
Episode 22 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “And His Castanets.” It’s a slow drag with “Waiting for the End of the World,” another gem from “My Aim is True”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/22-and-his-castanets/id1478037117?i=1000459634912
“Baseball Heroes” Lyrics: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Baseball_Heroes
“Baseball Heroes”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5oELSntnpQ
“Miracle Man” (Flip City version) lyrics: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Miracle_Man_(Flip_City_version)
An excellent stroll through the past before many of these songs found a final home, Flip City Demos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL64vJLMIf4
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"Miracle Man" Lyrics:
You never asked me what I wanted. You only asked me why.
I never thought that so much trouble was restin' on my reply,
I could say it was the nights when I was lonely
and you were the only one who'd talk.
I could tell you that I like your sensitivity,
when you know it's the way that you walk.
Why do you have to say that there's always someone
who can do it better than I can?
But don't you think that I know that walking on the water
won't make me a miracle man?
Baby's gotta have the things she wants.
You know she's gotta have the things she loves.
She's got a ten-inch bamboo cigarette holder
and her black patent leather gloves.
And I'm doing everything just tryin' to please her,
even crawling around on all fours.
Oh, I thought by now that it was gonna be easy,
but she still seems to want for more.
(chorus)
I hear they're givin' you a bad reputation
just because you've never been denied.
You try to say you've done it all before.
Baby, you know that you just get tired.
But everybody loves you so much, girl.
I just don't know how you stand the strain.
Oh, I, I'm the one who's here tonight,
and I don't wanna do it all in vain.
Written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Turpentine”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Turpentine
“Turpentine”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpd-wd4ZqfQ
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2020/03/08/episode-35-turpentine/
References:
Episode 7 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “Let’s See How Brave You Are.” It’s a slow drag with “No Hiding Place,” another gem from “Momofuku”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/07-lets-see-how-brave-you-are-when-im-about-this-far/id1478037117?i=1000450581432
Momofuku name and restaurant history: https://momofuku.com/our-company/team/
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"Turpentine" Lyrics:
I can't tell if this is real or if I am sleeping
I'll embroider the truth
And that's so I shall reap
I took things that didn't belong to me
I didn't mean to do you wrong
Looking back on all that stolen time (turpentine)
Back when I was drinking turpentine
Don't blame me / I only took you in
It takes time to do the poisoning
So let's close the door on this and lock it
And that's all it will ever be
Just an accident of chemistry
You did everything to me but stopped short of murder
Couldn't move me much closer to keeping my word
While the crowds threw stones at the hangman
The sky fell down / The bells rang
Looking back on all that stolen time (turpentine)
Back when I was drinking turpentine
Don't blame me / I only took you in
It takes time to do the poisoning
So let's close the door on this and lock it
And that's all that it will ever be
Just an accident of chemistry
Airless shaft of an underground railway
Effete assassin with a hawk in a sack
The earth will offer us in when our hearts fail
As it swallowed the river running under the track
Under the track yeah
I can't tell if I'm dreaming or if I'll awaken
With a song in my heart that is longing to break
Let it out and let it fly high
Up where the spires scrape the sky
Looking back on all that stolen time
Back when I was drinking turpentine
Don't blame me / I only took you in
It takes time to do the poisoning
So let's close the door on this and lock it
And that's all that it will ever be
Just an accident of history
Yeah
Airless shaft of an underground railway
Cute assassin with a hawk in a sack
The earth will offer us in when our hearts fail
Swallowed the river running under the track
That's right
Written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
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Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Invasion Hit Parade”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Invasion_Hit_Parade
“Invasion Hit Parade”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7Slp9rDxQU
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2020/02/29/episode-34-invasion-hit-parade/
References:
Disco Tex and The Sex O Lettes “Get Dancin’”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwUQWamRNiY
Disco Tex & the Sex-O-Lettes bio: https://www.allmusic.com/artist/disco-tex-and-the-sex-o-lettes-mn0001202301/biography
Pet Shop Boys’ 2013 “Electricity”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIk1qEjI1mA
Hit Parade definition: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/hit-parade
Gil Scott-Heron “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGaoXAwl9kw
Background information of Scott-Heron’s “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”: https://www.songfacts.com/facts/gil-scott-heron/the-revolution-will-not-be-televised
Butcher’s Hook Cockney Rhyming Slang: https://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/slang/butcher_s_hook
Who is Gil Scott-Heron?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH14L0IlduQ
Episode 5 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “Well Heaven Knows What Fills the Heart”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/05-well-heaven-knows-what-fills-the-heart/id1478037117?i=1000449229176
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"Invasion Hit Parade" Lyrics:
Now that you set everybody free
Whatcha gonna do about me?
Don't want to be treated like some poor grateful clown
I'd rather go back in the sweet underground
Where I can tell the time by the color of my skin
And I know my neighbor 'cos he's the one, yes he's the one
Who always turns me in
A woman works the tunnel in the middle of the night
Picking up every lost object in sight
Handbags, toupees, lost legs and fingernails
The black market eats up all your failures
Her transistor offers no salvation or regrets
No pool, no pets, no cigarettes
Just non-stop Disco Tex and the Sex-o-lettes
(chorus):
There's no name, no name for the place
Or pain we'll cause you again and again
If you do not cooperate with the Invasion Hit Parade
The liberation forces make movies of their own
Playing their Doors records and pretending to be stoned
Drowning out a broadcast that wasn't authorized
Incidentally, the revolution will be televised
With one head for business, another for good looks
Until they started arriving with their rubber aprons and their butcher's hooks
(chorus)
They're hunting us down here with Liberty's light
A handshaking double-talking procession of the mighty
Pursued by a T.V. crew and coming after them
A limousine of singing stars and their brotherhood anthem
The former dictator was impeccably behaved
They're mopping up all the stubborn ones who just refuse to be saved
(chorus)
Written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
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Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, Our Little Angel: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Our_Little_Angel
“Our Little Angel”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdBXReI9TeI
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2020/02/22/episode-33-our-little-angel/
References:
Listen to episode 4 of Slow Drag with Remedy, “The Hangover This Morning Had a Personality,” a slow drag with the darling and frenetic, “The Big Light”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/04-the-hangover-this-morning-had-a-personality/id1478037117?i=1000448878517
Which hand does the world wear their engagement rings: https://www.mytriorings.com/cultural-differences-wearing-bridal-rings-on-the-left-or-the-right-hand
“Vena Amoris,” or the vein of love: https://www.brides.com/story/why-are-wedding-rings-worn-on-left-hand
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"Our Little Angel" Lyrics:
This is the place where I made my best mistakes
This is the place even angels don't understand
I've seen the disappointment in her face
And the collection of engagement rings on her right hand
She sits alone apart from the crowd
In a white dress she wears like a question mark
Friends speak of her fondly
Enemies just think out loud
You think you're man enough to please her
And you're fool enough to start
But you're not going to do a thing to our little angel
There's nothing you're thinking tonight that tomorrow won't change
Now the cabaret is frozen and the laughter comes in cans
And the lonely hearts club clientele don't know what to do with their hands
You think that you'll be sweet to her but everybody knows
That you're the marshmallow valentine that got stuck on her clothes
But you're not going to do a thing to our little angel
There's nothing you're thinking tonight that tomorrow won't change
So you mix your drinks and words
You make bad jokes you make bad time
The floors are there to walk over
The walls are there to climb
You swear that you'll never go back again once you're inside
But you're never the bridegroom she's always the bride
And you're not going to do a thing to our little angel
There's nothing you're thinking tonight that tomorrow won't change
You'll come in a sweetheart and you'll go out a stranger
Well you try to love her but she's so contrary
Like a chainsaw running through a dictionary
So get your mind off the sweet behind of our little angel
You're not going to do a thing
You're not going to do a thing
You're not going to do a thing to our little angel
Written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
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Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, I Almost Had a Weakness: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/I_Almost_Had_A_Weakness
“I Almost Had a Weakness”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITvtRUO2qPg
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2020/02/15/episode-32-i-almost-had-a-weakness/
References:
“Watch Your Step” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvgIbU-I7-M
Sour Grapes: https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/sour+grapes
Aesop’s “The Fox and The Sour Grapes” Parable: https://fablesofaesop.com/the-fox-and-the-grapes.html
Listen to Episode 12 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “The Maddening Smile of La Giaconda”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/12-the-maddening-smile-of-la-giaconda/id1478037117?i=1000453528993 for more from our appreciation of “The Juliet Letters”
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"I Almost Had a Weakness" Lyrics:
Thank you for the flowers
I threw them on the fire
And I burned the photographs that you had enclosed
God, they were ugly children
So you're that little bastard of that brother of mine
Trying to trick a poor old woman
'Til I almost had a weakness
Last week Cousin Florence bit your Uncle Joe
Hit him on the forehead with a knife and a fork
Said that he looked like the devil
Then she said... "pass the vinegar", I'm beginning to think
That I'm the only one who hasn't taken to the drinking of it
Though I almost had a weakness
It pains me to mention
These delicate concerns
But while I have to tolerate you family jewels
I really mustn't grumble
'Cause when I die, the cats and dogs will jump up and down
And you little swines will get nothing
Though I almost had a weakness
Written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
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Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, The Loved Ones: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/The_Loved_Ones
“The Loved Ones”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G5RWMzuuY0
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2020/02/08/episode-31-the-loved-ones/
References:
30 Best Basslines: https://www.musicradar.com/news/the-30-best-basslines-of-all-time
“Stitched up” Idiom: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/stitch-up
@ElvisCostello tweets his own lyrics: https://twitter.com/ElvisCostello/status/898197736922783745
The meaning and origin of “the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker”: https://wordhistories.net/2018/11/17/butcher-baker-candlestickmaker/
Episode 14 of Slow Drag with Remedy: “Silly Beggars Can’t Be Choosers,” a slow drag with “Pidgin English,” also on “Imperial Bedroom”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/14-silly-beggars-cant-be-choosers/id1478037117?i=1000455095065
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
Don't get smart or sarcastic
He snaps back just like elastic
Spare us the theatrics and the verbal gymnastics
We break wise guys just like matchsticks
What would the loved ones say
(Your pride and joy is all blown up)
What would the loved ones say
(The bride and boy are barely grown up)
You're not my particular poison
I've got nothing against you myself
You could have been a danger to the boys and girls
Now you're a danger to yourself
Chorus:
Oh what would the loved ones say
What would the loved ones say
Oh what would the loved ones say
What would the loved ones say
The ugly little dreams run 'round your bed
The ugly little scenes, you get the needle and no thread
They stitched you up this time
They said you'll do
Then bitch about your pretty face turning ugly on you
The butcher, baker and the bassline maker
Saying you can leave her I can take her
You spend your whole life like a minute or two later
One day its going to end sooner than greater
What would the loved ones say
(He'll be remembered young and pretty)
What would the loved ones say?
(Now he's a hit in every city)
Now there's a name well never forget
There's one born every minute or two
Don't pin a medal on me yet
They might be waiting for you
(Chorus)
PPS I LOVE YOU
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
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Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, Peace in Our Time: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Peace_In_Our_Time
“Peace in Our Time”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Xwgm_O1jh0
“Peace in Our Time” Solo live Performance w/ slightly different lyrics: https://youtu.be/AY_Lw53udq8 (extended version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dJH5IqUxrw )
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2020/02/02/episode-30-peace-in-our-time/
References:
Heston Aerodrome arrival of Neville Chamberlain: https://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675035713_Neville-Chamberlain_reads-the-paper_plane-lands-and-taxis_greeted-by-friends
Britain’s Gesture of Peace (1938) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGG9YT4YXuE
Britain’s Appeasement: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/ztydcwx/revision/1
Munich Agreement: https://www.britannica.com/event/Munich-Agreement
“Slow Drag with Remedy” Episode 6: “Don’t Let Them See You Crying that Way” https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/06-dont-let-them-see-you-crying-that-way/id1478037117?i=1000450193639 A slow drag with “Joe Porterhouse” from the same album, “Goodbye Cruel World.”
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"Peace in Our Time" Lyrics:
Out of the airplane stepped Chamberlain with a condemned man's stare
But we all cheered wildly, a photograph was taken,
As he waved a piece of paper in the air
Now the Disco Machine lives in Munich and we are all friends
And I slip on my Italian dancing shoes as the evening descends
And the bells take their toll once again in victory chime
And we can thank God that we've finally got peace in our time
There's a man going round taking names no matter who you claim to be
As innocent as babies, a mad dog with rabies, you're still a part of some conspiracy
Meanwhile there's a light over the ocean burning brighter than the sun
And a man sits alone in a bar and says "Oh God, what have we done?"
And the bells take their toll once again in victory chime
And we can thank God that we've finally got peace in our time
They're lighting a bonfire upon every hilltop in the land (In England)
Just another tiny island invaded when he's got the whole world in his hands
And the Heavyweight Champion fights in the International Propaganda Star Wars
There's already one spaceman in the White House what do you want (the same one again) another one for?
And the bells take their toll once again in victory chime
And we can thank God that we've finally got peace in our time
Written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, Men Called Uncle: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Men_Called_Uncle
“Men Called Uncle”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28I74ME2--4
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2020/01/26/episode-28-man-called-uncle/
References:
“Girls, Girls, Girls” Liner notes: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Girls_Girls_Girls_(1989)_liner_notes
Podchaser review page: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/slow-drag-with-remedy-910893
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So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"Man Called Uncle" Lyrics:
Now there's newsprint all over your face
Well maybe that's why I can read you like a book
Just when I thought I was getting my tasty bite
I go and lose my appetite
Look at the men that you'd call uncle
They'd like to sink their teeth into you
For the pride and the pleasure
And the privilege of having you
If I say you're the one, do you think that I'm serious?
You get that kind of talk from older men
If I say I love you then I must be delirious
So why are you trying to put my temperature up again?
Look at the men that you'd call uncle
Having a heart attack round your ankles
When you wake up with X-rated eyes
When you wake up still shaking
How can I apologize
As you check your effects and check your reflection
I'm so affected in the face of your affection
Look at the men that you'd call uncle
Having a heart attack round your ankles
I could swear, I could promise that I'll always be true to you
But we may not live to be so old
I could even say I'm going to do something new to you
Now the girls I see just leave me cold
Look at the men that you call uncle...
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Needle_Time
“Needle Time” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldJnWS2gUBM
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2020/01/19/episode-27-needle-time/
References:
Elvis Costello Awarded O.B.E. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/elvis-costello-obe-queens-honors-services-to-music-845936/
Elvis Costello response to OBE https://www.elviscostello.com/#!/news/298460
Understanding the British Honors System & Knighthood: https://blog.eftours.com/tours/british-honours-system-knighthood
The Musicians’ Union: A History (1893 – 2013): https://www.muhistory.com/hang-the-dj-the-musicians-union-and-the-early-days-of-radio-1/
“Some Songs That Must Have Been Overlooked”:
Part one: “Oliver’s Army”
Part two: “Tramp the Dirt Down”
Part three: “Stick out your Tongue”
Part four: “Tokyo Storm Warning”
Part five: “New Lace Sleeves”
Part six: “Shipbuilding”
Ending with “and now a word from our sponsors” “Less Than Zero.”
“Cheap Reward” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FK4h3dazfw
“Cheap Reward” Lyric page http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Cheap_Reward
“Better out than in” idiom: https://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/45/messages/329.html
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"Needle Time" Lyrics:
I wish that I didn't hate you
Least not as much as I do
And squander all my contempt for
A little nothing like you
Liars like you are ten-a-penny
Women would slap you, if you knew any
Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime
I've got this suitcase of phony wisdom to dispense
These twenty-seven or so years
How you'd think I would have made them some cents
Now they want me fingerprinted like I was smuggling drugs
While the government does deals with the most convenient thugs
Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime
It's Needle Time
It’s needle time
I'm trying not to despise you with a passion that's hard to extinguish
Or maybe I really love you although it's hard to distinguish
I wish I could be more like a saint is
Forgiving those who trespass against us
Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime
I started talking nonsense, just like I did to begin with
Around the time I tired of those sour English
Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime
It's Needle Time
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
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Elvis Costello Wiki Resource: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/You_Tripped_At_Every_Step
“You Tripped at Every Step” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEJEJ66Wyto
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2020/01/12/episode-26-you-tripped-at-every-step/
References:
“Why Do People Like Sad Songs?”: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hot-thought/201507/why-do-people-sad-songs
Semantic Pointer Architecture: http://compneuro.uwaterloo.ca/research/spa/semantic-pointer-architecture.html
What is the Minor Third? Music Theory #20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO1pBNC8ggw
The descending Minor Third: Meagan Curtis explains the science of sad songs: http://archive.ttbook.org/book/meagen-curtis-science-sad-songs Music and speech (musical interval) Tufts Music Cognition Lab.
Journal Article: The Minor Third Communicates Sadness in Speech, Mirroring It’s Use in Music: http://ase.tufts.edu/psychology/music-cognition/pdfs/Curtis&Bharucha2010Emotion.pdf
Mud in your eye idiom: https://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/23/messages/344.html
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
Take your tiny feet out of your mother's shoes
Or there is going to be a terrible scene
It's not just the lipstick drawn on crooked
When they find how wicked we are
How wicked we have been
How I've been tempted
How you tripped at every step
You tripped at every step
You tripped at every step
How you tripped at every step
There's a merry tune that starts in "I" and ends in "You"
Like many famous pop songs do
And you would sing along with little tell-tale staggers
While balancing on daggers
Though they were killing you
You looked so deadly
As you tripped at every step
You tripped at every step
You tripped at every step
As you tripped at every step
And I would run to catch you
Anytime you call
Only you drank that potion
And went out of control
There's nothing to stop you
So how can you fall
Let me take your hand
Put down that frying pan
Darkness would become me
Underneath the table
As the fury raged around the house
Your despairing, treadless, angry, and unstable
You never suspected
Just as that cartoon mouse
Went undetected
So you tripped at every step
In another world of gin and cigarettes
Those cocktail cabinets put mud in your eye
Maybe that is why you find it hard to see me
And if you don't believe me
Before you start to cry
"Don't ever leave me"
As you start to lose your grip
(As you start losing your grip)
You will stumble and you slip
(And you will stumble and slip)
As you tripped at every step
You tripped at every step
You tripped at every step
As you tripped at every step
You tripped at every step
You tripped at every step
As you tripped at every
As you tripped at every
You tripped at every step
You tripped at every step
As you tripped at every
As you tripped at every step
Written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Crimes_Of_Paris
“Crimes of Paris” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97L6Ukrmrk4
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2020/01/04/episode-25-crimes-of-paris/
References:
Kurt Vonnegut quote regarding love: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/91604-if-somebody-says-i-love-you-to-me-i-feel
Hunter S. Thompson, the bats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC4nP9LA3T4
Duplicate lyrics, “Suffering Face” Wiki Resource: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Suffering_Face
“Suffering Face”: https://www.megalyrics.net/elvis-costello/suffering-face
“Freytag’s Pyramid”: https://blog.reedsy.com/narrative-arc/
“Leave My Kitten Alone” liner notes: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Leave_My_Kitten_Alone
“Leave My Kitten Alone” EC cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVf0HMWmDvE
“Q” Magazine interview, “Kojak Variety” http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/File:1995-06-00_Q_page_28.jpg
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"Crimes in Paris" Lyrics:
I thought it was you with your optimist's view of the clock
And how it's always another day
Just after twelve o'clock's struck
Said "Now I only want you so I don't have to promise"
But tiny children in grown-up clothes whispered all the Crimes of Paris
Chorus:
You're not the girl next door or a girl from France
Or the cigarette-girl in the sizzle hot-pants
All the words of love seem cruel and crass
When you're tough and transparent as armored glass
You're an everywhere girl in an everyday mess
Who'll pay for the Crimes of Paris
I heard that you fell for the "Hell or to Hammersmith Blues"
In the tiny torn up pieces of his mind, he's irresistible too
It's hard to say now if he's only stupid or is smart
As he crawled through the door
And poured out more of his (weeping) creeping-Jesus heart
(Chorus)
And it's all here and now
She hits him with that paper-weight Eiffel Tower
And I tried to hold on to you, but I don't know how
And I find it hard to swallow good advice
Like going down three times to only come up twice
Come up twice
She's so convenient, he's always stiff as hair-lacquer
It's hard to discover now he's in love with her
It was her way of getting her own back
He never did anything she couldn't do on her own
You're as good as your word and that's no good to her
You'd better leave that kitten alone
(Chorus)
Written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
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Elvis Costello Wiki Resource: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Little_Atoms
“Two Little Hitlers” http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Two_Little_Hitlers
“Two Little Hitlers” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkyMYl_u2H0
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2019/12/29/episode-24-two-little-hitler/
References:
https://singledatingdiva.com/2015/09/02/finding-the-ideal-partner-requires-selective-dating/
Grammy nomination surprise: https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/awards/8546756/elvis-costello-grammy-rule-change-nomination
Todd Rundgren cover of “Two Little Hitlers” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc6cI_BNlBg
“Taste of Honey” “Boogie Oogie Oogie”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYWkG_DI5OE
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"Two Little Hitlers" Lyrics
Why are we racing to be so old?
I'm up late pacing the floor
I won't be told
You have your reservations
I'm bought and sold
I'll face the music
I'll face the facts
Even when we walk in polka dots and chequer slacks
Bowing and squawking
Running after titbits
Bobbing and squinting
Just like a nitwit
Two little Hitlers will fight it out until
One little Hitler does the other one's will
I will return
I will not burn
Down in the basement
I need my head examined
I need my eyes excited
I'd like to join the party
But I was not invited
You make a member of me
I'll be delighted
I wouldn't cry for lost souls, you might drown
Dirty words for dirty minds
Written in a toilet town
Dial me a Valentine
She's a smooth operator
It's all so calculated
She's got a calculator
She's my soft touch typewriter
And I'm the great dictator
Two little Hitlers will fight it out until
One little Hitler does the other one's will
I will return
I will not burn
A simple game of self-respect
You flick a switch and the world goes off
Nobody jumps as you expect
I would have thought you would have had enough by now
You call selective dating
For some effective mating
I thought I'd let you down, dear
But you were just deflating
I knew right from the start
We'd end up hating
Pictures of the merchandise
Plastered on the wall
We can look so long as we don't have to talk at all
You say you'll never know him
He's an unnatural man
He doesn't want your pleasure
He wants as no one can
He wants to know the names of
All those he's better than
Two little Hitlers will fight it out until
One little Hitler does the other one's will
I will return
I will not burn
I will return
I will not burn
(repeats)
Written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
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Elvis Costello Wiki Resource: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Little_Atoms
“Little Atoms” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7OSkO1vG7I
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2019/12/21/episode-23-little-atoms/
References:
Rolling Stone review of “All This Useless Beauty” https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/all-this-useless-beauty-204765/
“All This Useless Beauty” review: https://www.allmusic.com/album/all-this-useless-beauty-mw0000173695
A “conceit”: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conceit
Elvis Costello, “Little Atoms,” “Larry Sanders”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unpbrKHtSSE
1 Corinthians 13: http://web.mit.edu/jywang/www/cef/Bible/NIV/NIV_Bible/1COR+13.html
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"Little Atoms" Lyrics by Elvis Costello:
I arose and Marigold lay down with Curious Iris
Cherry gave to Victor her prudence and her virus
For the sake of purity I can recall the time and place
Between Wisdom and Murder she gave up her immaculate face
(Chorus:)
My poor belated chastity fell foul of grown up games,
With false and lovely modesty
I can recall the names I'll miss
In the particle of me that cares for this
I betrayed those little atoms with a kiss
Patience has her virtue still
but every grace must have its price
I through some felicity may spin a tale of constant vice
I took my better nature out, drowned it in the babbling stream
Took the blossom of my youth and blew it all to smithereens
(Repeat Chorus)
And if you still don't like my song / then you can just go to hell
I don't care if I'm right or wrong / or if my typewriter can spell
But I cannot promise you I've said "Goodbye" to childish things
There's still some pretty insults left and such sport in threatening
(Repeat Chorus)
And for the sake of clarity
They are "Faith", "Hope", and "Charity"
In the particle of me that cares for this
I betrayed those little atoms with a kiss
Written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
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Elvis Costello Wiki Resource: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Waiting_For_The_End_Of_The_World
“Waiting for the End of the World”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgIR3GU_5sw
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2019/12/15/episode-22-waiting-for-the-end-of-the-world/
References:
To have “agency” https://www.basicknowledge101.com/pdf/Agency%20(philosophy).pdf “The capacity of an entity…to act in any given environment.”
“A Bunch of Stiff Records” contractual band name: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/A_Bunch_Of_Stiff_Records
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"Waiting for the End of the World" lyrics:
The man from the television crawled into the train
I wonder who he's gonna stick it in this time
Everyone was looking for a little entertainment
So they'll probably pull his hands off when they find out his name
And then they shut down the power all along the line
And we got stuck in the tunnel where no lights shine
They got to touching all the girls who were too scared to call out
Nobody was saying anything at all
We were waiting for the end of the world
Waiting for the end of the world
Waiting for the end of the world
Dear Lord, I sincerely hope you're coming
'cause you've really started something
Things got back to normal as the train began to roll again
We got to the station about twenty minutes later
The legendary hitchhiker says that he knows where it's at
Now he'd like to go to Spain or somewhere like that
With his two-tone Bible and his funny cigarettes,
His suntan lotion and his castanets
He was waiting for the end of the world
Waiting for the end of the world
Waiting for the end of the world
Dear Lord, I sincerely hope you're coming
'cause you've really started something
And then the bride, the groom, the congregation and the priest
All got onto the train when we were three stations east, yeah
Hiding from a scandal in the national press
They had been trying to get married since they stole the wedding dress
You may see them drowning as you stroll along the beach
But don't throw out the lifeline till they're clean out of reach
Waiting for the end of the world
Waiting for the end of the world
Waiting for the end of the world
Waiting for the end of the world
Written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/My_Mood_Swings
“My Mood Swings”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzJo3rS9sOE
“I’ll Never Fall in Love Again” Austin Powers 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sbNQoGwXGg
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2019/12/07/episode-20-my-mood-swings/
References:
Elvis Costello Grammy nominations and wins: https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/elvis-costello
“God Give Me Strength” live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrcNnIV6FV8
“God Give Me Strength” Kristen Vigard version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJvKN7MS_9w
Burt Bacharach in rehearsal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON0moJR_JnE
Cultural Icon Definition, a radical view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VUZUGIWV5Q
Marshmallow pronunciation: American and English: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/marshmallow
“Imperial Bedroom” lyrics: http://www.elviscostello.info/disc/official/ib/ib_mini_inner_2.jpg
“Barney Bubbles” https://nostalgiacentral.com/pop-culture/people/barney-bubbles/
https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2015/03/barney-bubbles-feature
“In Search of Barney Bubbles” (available on BBC Sounds) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b018wh7h
http://www.eyemagazine.com/review/article/what-a-genius
“The Big Lebowski” Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/album/7Hz6IKNVi0Rlqpa2PLdAG2
Letterkenny, “To be fair” compliation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv7jcciKB_s
How Are Ya Now? Podcast https://howareyanowpod.com
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
Written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Living_In_Paradise
“Living in Paradise”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6cA9jniTO8
“Living in Paradise” early version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2uoByQlnK0
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2019/12/01/episode-20-living-in-paradise/
References:
Concert Review, “Creative Loafing: Tampa Bay” by Eric Snider https://www.cltampa.com/music/reviews/article/21096905/elvis-costello-gives-hardcore-fans-the-goods-at-st-petes-mahaffey-theater
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
Written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Chemistry_Class
“Chemistry Class”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6QABOVXkFk
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2019/11/25/episode-19-the-breath-that-i-waste/
References:
“I’d Rather Be Thin than Famous”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKhqBejt0NA
A big, big thank you to Chris Novembrino @ChrisNovembrino for giving us a shout out on his fantastic and much needed podcast, Don't Worry about the Government, http://dontworry.tv Please give him a listen and a review.
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
Written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
“Luxembourg” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA7XqnHMIwQ
“Seven O’clock” demo: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Seven_O%27Clock
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Luxembourg
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2019/11/20/episode-18-rowdiest-but-slightest/
YouTube version w/ lyrics: https://youtu.be/heeY3UzX9GU
References:
Serve two masters idiom: https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/serve+two+masters
Dog’s dinner idiom: https://www.thefreedictionary.com/dog%27s+dinner
It’s a dog’s life idiom: https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/it%27s+a+dog%27s+life
Butter wouldn’t melt idiom: https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/butter+wouldn%27t+melt+(in+(one%27s)+mouth)
Luxembourg info: https://www.britannica.com/place/Luxembourg/Demographic-trends
Look daggers at idiom: https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/look+daggers+at
Send to Coventry slang: https://www.historyrevealed.com/eras/stuarts/why-do-we-say-send-someone-to-coventry/
Mark Twain Didn’t Say It: https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/05/mark-twain-didnt-say-thing-about-obituaries/350238/
EC’s long hair in “The Other Side of Summer”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww0hN-puTdA
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
Written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Cover art and production by Sam Dunn @indoorfirewords
“Bedlam” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DipIDbymOj8
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Bedlam
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2019/11/16/episode-17-the-quickening-art/
References:
“Bedlam” etymology: https://historicengland.org.uk/research/inclusive-heritage/disability-history/1050-1485/from-bethlehem-to-bedlam/
How Bedlam became “a palace for lunatics” http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20161213-how-bedlam-became-a-palace-for-lunatics
1601 Relief of the Poor Act: http://www.victorianweb.org/history/poorlaw/elizpl.html
1989 “Veronica” with intro and outro from E.C. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zifeVbK8b-g
Mr. Costello’s Personal Reasons for Alzheimer’s PSA:
Music and Memory https://musicandmemory.org
“Alive Inside” Trailer: http://www.aliveinside.us/#land
“Alive Inside” full movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7GF7_xyeH8
The quickening art VPR piece: https://www.vpr.org/post/timeline-music-and-memory-quickening-art#stream/0
Oliver Sacks’ description of Kant’s “quickening art”: https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/53/1/175/618359
Malcolm Gladwell’s “Revisionist History” Season 1, episode 7, “Hallelujah”: http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/07-hallelujah
“The Deportees Club” (original) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf2RKMXjrMI
“The Deportees Club (re-release) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIzTXbixEaQ
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
Written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
“Bedlam” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DipIDbymOj8
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Bedlam
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2019/11/10/episode-16-bedlam/
YouTube Visual Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDJm-6rDJ2k
References:
“Bedlam” etymology: https://historicengland.org.uk/research/inclusive-heritage/disability-history/1050-1485/from-bethlehem-to-bedlam/
How Bedlam became “a palace for lunatics” http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20161213-how-bedlam-became-a-palace-for-lunatics
St. Francis of Assisi: https://www.earthday.org/2016/10/06/patron-saint-animals-ecology/
1977 “Life Goes On” The Kinks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7eg30GvV9E
Elvis Costello 1991 version of The Kink’s 1969 “Days” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmivtDdL-Fo
Britain’s favorite song, “Jerusalem” https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5980126/jerusalem-lyrics-national-anthem-england-hymn-meaning/
“Jerusalem” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoJqhoBUT14
“Jerusalem” version w/ William Blake’s lyrics subtitled https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKRHWT6xdEU
Thirty pieces of silver: http://www.theology-centre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Thirty_pieces_of_silver.pdf
Jake in Notts twitter: @jake_in_notts
Jerri Williams’ podcast and books: https://jerriwilliams.com/podcast-2/
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
Written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
“Riot Act” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO3-ci_1ERI
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Riot_Act
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2019/11/03/episode-15-riot-act/
References:
YouTube version w/ lyrics: https://youtu.be/1AvTjrEUt5w
Riot Act: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8142/8142-h/8142-h.htm
Revenge and guilt: https://www.treblezine.com/35781-revenge-and-guilt-elvis-costellos-my-aim-is-true-at-40/
Rod Stewart Axes Old Songs: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/10122753/sir-rod-stewart-me-too-movement/
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
Written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Pidgin_English
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2019/10/27/episode-14-pidgin-english/
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
References:
YouTube Version w/ Lyrics: https://youtu.be/I-MphF3ARTU
“Pidgin English”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTnnDqcsdXw
The Great Vowel Shift: https://www.thehistoryofenglish.com/history_early_modern.html
Norman Conquest of 1066: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9606163/In-everything-we-say-there-is-an-echo-of-1066.html
Great vowel shift: https://www.thehistoryofenglish.com/history_early_modern.html
Examples of Grimm’s Law in English: https://www.jpetrie.net/examples-of-grimms-law-in-english/
44 English Phonemes: https://www.dyslexia-reading-well.com/44-phonemes-in-english.html
Graphemes: http://www.speechlanguage-resources.com/support-files/soundstographemesguide2.pdf
Lingua Franca to Pidgin to Creole: http://www.differencebetween.net/language/the-difference-between-pidgin-and-lingua-franca/
Grice’s maxims: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/projects/stylistics/topic12/14cp1.htm
Pidgin word etymology: https://www.etymonline.com/word/pidgin
Rolling Stone Review of “Imperial Bedroom”: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/imperial-bedroom-117931/
Slanging Match meaning: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/slanging-match
“Many Hands Make Light Work,” John Heyward’s idiom: John Heywood Quotes. (n.d.). BrainyQuote.com. Retrieved October 26, 2019, from BrainyQuote.com Web site: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/john_heywood_158880
“A change is as good as a rest” definition: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/a-change-is-as-good-as-a-rest
“Love Letters” “throwaway kiss” mention: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hn0oAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT293&lpg=PT293&dq=%22throwaway+kiss%22&source=bl&ots=72fti9sMam&sig=ACfU3U1IRbQB0dVq0bXNqfBWHJ5C1NnAEQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiZmuLB_brlAhWEQxUIHRK8BFwQ6AEwC3oECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22throwaway%20kiss%22&f=false
Hunting down who coined “writing about music is like dancing about architecture”: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/11/08/writing-about-music/
Squeeze, “”Hourglass”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM3PWVDzlfQ
“Post Truth” Society OED word of the year, 2016: https://www.hau.gr/?i=culture.en.past_event.5196
Virginia Woolf quote: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/426030-it-is-a-thousand-pities-never-to-say-what-one
Rod Stewart Axes Old Songs: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/10122753/sir-rod-stewart-me-too-movement/
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
Written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Stripping Paper” http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Stripping_Paper
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2019/10/20/episode-13-stripping-paper/
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
References:
“Stripping Paper” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJWckSvZC94
“Shatterproof” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt0bXvzwa-M
Rococo style: https://allthatsinteresting.com/rococo-art-movement
More about the Slow Drag dance origins: https://bluesjazzbookclub.com/2018/09/01/a-landscape-of-slow-drag/
Sloe gin: https://sipsmith.com/exploring-the-history-of-sloe-gin/
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
"Damnation's Cellar": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mMIP8WCf_w
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Damnation’s Cellar” http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Damnation%27s_Cellar
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2019/10/15/episode-12-damnations-cellar/
References:
“Damnation’s Cellar” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mMIP8WCf_w
People write to Juliet Caplet: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/The_Juliet_Letters_(1993)_liner_notes
Rhyme Scheme: https://www.creative-writing-now.com/rhyme-schemes.html
https://literarydevices.net/rhyme-scheme/
Thank you to Comeron Mazafair @world_on_a_wire for his help with linguistic terminology.
Punter slang definition: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/punter
Mona Lisa’s Last Name (sometimes questioned) https://www.wga.hu/html_m/l/leonardo/04/1monali.html
English Triple Crown: https://www.britannica.com/sports/Triple-Crown-British-horse-racing
Nijinsky, the crowd favorite triple crown winner: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/racing/greatest-derby-winners/nijinsky-epsom-1970-profile/
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"Damnation's Cellar" Lyrics:
Did anybody notice, over marmalade and eggs
In between the Princess' legs
What with wars and floods and beggars
Not to mention stocks and shares
Well, if you have a moment to spare
Can you write and reassure me that I have seen
That they're constructing a time machine
There will be no need for the obituary pages
We can have any hero from the bygone ages
'Til the truth emerges, an argument rages
The major and the minor turn from tallow into tar
Should we leave them in their place down in damnation's cellar?
When any form of deity that you might enjoy
Can be conjured with a test-tube and a flame
If it's out there then science can explain it
Or at least remove the blame
And if there is anyone you'd like to see again
Then speak up quickly
Send us back Da Vinci then we don't have to ponder
The maddening smile of "La Giaconda"
The critics say Nijinsky, the dancer, of course
While the punters would probably prefer the horse
You'll find it's quicker than history, cheaper than divorce
The major and the minor turn from tallow into tar
Should we leave them in their place down in damnation's cellar?
Bring back Liberace or Ollie and Stan
Shakespeare will have to wait his turn
Elvis Presley and Puccini shall return
I suppose we live and learn
Though it's hard to believe as we cheerfully burn
It's curious
Some will call for justice, there are murders to solve
What about Hitler? Or at least Lee Harvey Oswald
Give us this day and everything we squander
Anyone beautiful, somebody blonder
They'll never please mankind, so lie back and enjoy it
Stop press: They've just decided to destroy it
The major and the minor turn from tallow into tar
Should we leave them in their place down in damnation's cellar?
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2019/10/09/episode-11-king-of-thieves/
References:
“King of Thieves”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwDHBDT07iU
“The Bridge I Burned”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGhlUBtY8_I
A bit more about Marsilio Ficino: https://www.iep.utm.edu/ficino/
“The Most Terrible Time in my Life…Ends Thursday”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07XLXS5PL/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=remedy+robinson&qid=1568499321&sr=8-3
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"King of Thieves" Lyrics:
I had forgotten all about "The Case Of The Three Pins"
They said I must be cracked
Until the brown paper parcel landed on my welcome mat
Even the pretty secretaries who wouldn't even let me hang my hat
All recognize my handwriting
And return to sender as a matter of fact
If I were you I'd change my name again
They don't care what they do to you, believe me
This is the coronation of the King of Thieves
His occupation is the King of Thieves
He can steal more than you can save
You can take him on, but you're not that brave
I'll tell your fortune in a minute or two
I might even tell you what comes next
The moguls want a human sacrifice
And look at that girl - young, hungry and perplexed
They took away the best years of her life
Ah, but it's all in good fun
And if you kept your nose clean
You can laugh now at the caring things they've done
If I were you I'd change my name again
They don't care what they do to you, believe me
This is the coronation of the King of Thieves
His occupation is the King of Thieves
He can steal more than you can save
You can take him on, but you're not that brave
I'll write this story down, but you'll never guess the final twist
Blow the whistle on the whole design
As they find my name on that fatal mailing list
I hear the clatter of a typewriter
Another rookie eating up the reams
I think it's time to put my feet under the desk
And place my mark on another man's dreams
If I were you I'd change my name again
They don't care what they do to you, believe me
This is the coronation of the King of Thieves
His occupation is the King of Thieves
He can steal more than you can save
You can take him on, but you're not that brave
This is the coronation of the King of Thieves
And look at that girl, look at that girl
Look at that girl, look at that girl
Look at that girl
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
Let Him Dangle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-vtA-k2QUU
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource: "Let Him Dangle": http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Let_Him_Dangle
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2019/10/05/episode-10-let-him-dangle/
References:
A learning journal that cites Ben Franklin: https://wiki.auckland.ac.nz/display/MGMT300/A+man+convinced+against+his+will%2C+is+of+the+same+opinion+still
Benjamin Franklin misquotes from the Franklin institute blog: https://www.fi.edu/benjamin-franklin/7-things-benjamin-franklin-never-said
Why it’s a waste of time trying to determine who said “a man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still”: https://quotationcelebration.wordpress.com/2017/02/20/a-man-convinced-against-his-will-is-of-the-same-opinion-still-unknown/
Hunting down who coined “writing about music is like dancing about architecture”: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/11/08/writing-about-music/
Derek Bentley, “A Victim of British Justice?” http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/bentley.html
UK Bentley case breakthrough: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/24208.stm
Craig’s Relief at Bentley’s Posthumous Pardon: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/142351.stm
Newsnight – Derek Bentley #1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiy6Dx8DvBw
Linguistic ambiguity: http://michealaxelsen.com/blog/?p=347
Syntactic Ambiguity: https://www.thoughtco.com/syntactic-ambiguity-grammar-1692179
Britain’s last executions: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/13/britain-last-executions-hanging-criminals-low-key
Derek Bentley’s Headstone: http://veryverybritish.blogspot.com/2014/06/derek-bentley.html
“Let Him Have It” Film Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7kjmN2SFGo
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"Let Him Dangle" Lyrics:
Bentley said to Craig, "Let him have it, Chris"
They still don't know today just what he meant by this
Craig fired the pistol, but was too young to swing
So the police took Bentley and the very next thing
Let him dangle, let him dangle
Let him dangle, let him dangle
Bentley had surrendered, he was under arrest
When he gave Chris Craig that fatal request
Craig shot Sidney Miles, he took Bentley's word
The prosecution claimed as they charged them with murder
Let him dangle, let him dangle
Let him dangle, let him dangle
They say Derek Bentley was easily led
Well what's that to the woman that Sidney Miles wed?
Though guilty was the verdict, and Craig had shot him dead
The gallows were for Bentley and still she never said
Let him dangle, let him dangle
Let him dangle, let him dangle
Well, it's hard to imagine it's the times that have changed
When there's a murder in the kitchen that is brutal and strange
If killing anybody is a terrible crime
Why does this bloodthirsty chorus come 'round from time to time?
Let him dangle
Not many people thought that Bentley would hang
But the word never came, the phone never rang
Outside Wandsworth Prison there was horror and hate
As the hangman shook Bentley's hand to calculate his weight
Let him dangle, let him dangle
Let him dangle, let him dangle
Well, it's hard to imagine it's the times that have changed
When there's a murder in the kitchen that is brutal and strange
If killing anybody is a terrible crime
Why does this bloodthirsty chorus come 'round from time to time?
Let him dangle
From a welfare state to society murder
"Bring back the noose" is always heard
Whenever those swine are under attack
But it won't make you even, it won't bring him back
Let him dangle, let him dangle
Let him dangle, let him dangle
Let him dangle, let him dangle
Let him dangle, let him dangle
String him up...
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2019/09/29/episode-09-all-this-useless-beauty/
References:
“All this Useless Beauty”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrDC4EYmgYs
Elvis Costello Wiki Reference: "All This Useless Beauty": http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/All_This_Useless_Beauty_(song)
“All This Useless Beauty” June Tabor version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX1cnBPXT38
Bechdel Test Movie List: https://bechdeltest.com
Bechdel Test Original comic strip:http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1gAF_bCo_4Y/TexG3UuxAMI/AAAAAAAAAsk/1RnUFtjHXOw/s1600/The+Bechdel+Test.jpg
Bechdel Test for music: https://urge.org/the-bechdel-test-for-music/
Shall vs. Will: https://www.grammar-monster.com/easily_confused/shall_will.htm
The Mystery of Mary Magdalene: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p016qd9z
Quote about being a club member, Groucho Marx: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/groucho_marx_122546
The Hellenistic Period: https://www.ancient.eu/Hellenistic_Period/
Elvis Costello Rock and Roll Hall of Fame speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFObHCqccVk
Madonna and Whore Dichotomy: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2018-04940-001
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"All This Useless Beauty" Lyrics:
http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/All_This_Useless_Beauty_(song)
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
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“20% Amnesia”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ljVEbHw2mg
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource Page: "20% Amnesia": http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/20%25_Amnesia
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2019/09/26/episode-08-20-amnesia/
References:
Strip Jack Naked: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/nov/22/rules-card-games-beggar-neighbour
“Beggar My Neighbour” Marc. M. Paulhus. Source:
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 106, No. 2 (Feb., 1999), pp. 162-165
Published by: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. on behalf of the Mathematical Association of America https://www.jstor.org/stable/2589054
Boot Boy definition and examples from the Cambridge dictionary: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/boot-boy
A Hundred Years of Windsors but Still the Queen is partly German: https://www.ft.com/content/b80a9dde-f1f0-11e6-95ee-f14e55513608
Tramp the Dirt Down: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Tramp_The_Dirt_Down
How to Be Dumb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q7sFEe_H-o
Rich Hall QI quote: https://www.quotes.net/mquote/833502
The difference between destiny and destination: https://wikidiff.com/destination/destiny
Elvis Costello continues to sing “Tramp the Dirt Down” https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/tramp-the-dirt-down-elvis-costello-defends-decision-to-continue-singing-anti-thatcher-songs-8706270.html
Glastonbury Festival 2013 “Tramp the Dirt Down” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaZ8PormR1w
Gorbachev and Cinderella and Major: https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1991-07-17-1991198031-story.html
Pick up the phone! (90s adult sex chat line ad): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKdlb5yv5xo
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"20% Amnesia" Lyrics
"What is your destiny?" the policewoman said
20% amnesia
The word that she wanted was "destination," I'm afraid
20% amnesia
This is your future boy, this is your fate
20% amnesia
And you're obsolete and they can't afford to educate you
20% amnesia
In his bed-time boot-boy jersey
Ringing up some fantasy tart
Give me strength or give me mercy
Life intimidates art
Give me strength or give me mercy
Don't let me lose heart
From rage to anaesthesia
20% amnesia
Were you passed out on the sofa?
20% amnesia
While justice was bartered by a drunken oaf?
20% amnesia
This is all your glorious country thinks of your life
20% amnesia
Strip-jack-naked with a Stanley knife
20% amnesia
So the German Queen went home again
But she couldn't find forgiveness
They made a fist of the hand of friendship
But it's only business
Give me strength or give me mercy
Don't let me lose heart
From rage to anaesthesia
20% amnesia
The wine you drink has never seen a grape
And now your sci-fi suit has lost its shape
But its a dangerous game that comedy plays
Sometimes it tells you the truth
Sometimes it delays it
Think back, think back if you still can
When the trumpet sounded and the world began
Somebody said "We must have won"
So they started burying the bogeyman
Mister Gorbachev came cap in hand
20% amnesia
From a bankrupt land to a bankrupt land
20% amnesia
Mister Gorbachev and some other fella
20% amnesia
Were taken to a show called "Cinderella"
20% amnesia
It wasn't an accident, it wasn't a mystery
20% amnesia
It was calculated and the rest is history
20% amnesia
You don't have to listen to me
That's the triumph of free will
When there are promises to break
And dreams to kill
Give me strength or give me mercy
Don't let me lose heart
From rage to anaesthesia
20% amnesia
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
“No Hiding Place”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW8LSU7NcOc
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2019/09/21/episode-07-no-hiding-place/
References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Reference Page: "No Hiding Place" http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/No_Hiding_Place
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
“Big Sister’s Clothes”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3wPnwq5Ww8
Momofuku name and restaurant history: https://momofuku.com/our-company/team/
Burning hair off video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdVuSvZOqXM
Thank you, Dylan Taylor, for the stellar voice work:
Please visit EndeavourFM website: http://www.endeavourfm.co.uk/#
Dylan’s Twitter: @mrdpa Please say hello.
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"No Hiding Place" Lyrics
In the not very distant future
When everything will be free
There won't be any cute secrets
Let alone any novelty
You can say anything you want to
In your fetching cloak of anonymity
Are you feeling out of breath now?
In your desperate pursuit of infamy
Two lovers rocking up and down
In an elevator
15 minutes later
They'll make a killing in the market
They know how to work it
On that close circuit
My, my, it's a terrible disgrace
You'll find these days that there's
No Hiding Place
How proud you are
You got the knack
Of howling in a vacuum
Whatever I said about you
I didn't say it behind your back
I paid for my immortal sins
I know the enemy within you
As it seems these days
There is no hiding place
Next time someone wants to hurt you
Or set alight your effigy
Don't call on me to help you out
Don't come crying to me for sympathy
You stay there with your daubs and scratches
While I summon up the red machine
I'll be handing somebody matches
And carrying a can of kerosene
Walk up to me
And say what you said
Let's see how brave you are
When I'm about this far
You sit in judgment and bitch
Well, baby that's rich
You're nothing but a snitch
My, my, it's a terrible disgrace
My, my, it's a terrible disgrace
My, my, it's a terrible disgrace
You'll find these days that there's
No Hiding Place
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
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“Joe Porterhouse”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xTQXzVUyxA
Elvis Costello Wiki Reference page, "Joe Porterhouse": http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Joe_Porterhouse
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2019/09/18/episode-06-joe-porterhouse/
References:
“Under Lime”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMKkQtH75R8
Catch a tiger by the tail meaning: https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/catch+a+tiger+by+the+tail
Universal Grammar: https://www.quora.com/What-does-Noam-Chomsky-mean-by-recursion
“Valley of Tears” Buddy Holly Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdBoFm2SihI
Music Boxes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Od_5VIiRVg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uHSIkHW860
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"Joe Porterhouse" Lyrics
The children sit upon the stairs
High above a valley of tears
Don't let them see you crying that way, oh no
Oh no, Joe Porterhouse is not gone forever
He'll be back another day
Don't let them see you crying that way
Chorus:
Please don't wake him let him sleep
It's a moment she can keep
Like an old bus ticket or a photograph
Resting on the mantlepiece
While for the wicked, there is no peace
She says it's not his time to go
Why we were nearly lovers years ago
Now what is left for me
Among the broken branches of the family tree
Heart like an anchor, arms like cable
He stood all alone on an iron turntable
Don't let them see you crying that way, oh no
The sun beats down, it's cracking the flags
Boys who should know better are stamping out fags
Don't let them see you laughing that way
(Chorus)
Oh no, Joe Porterhouse is not gone forever
He'll be back another day
Don't let them see you crying that way
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
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“Georgie and Her Rival”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNg2KGRKu8I
Elvis Costello Wiki Reference: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Georgie_And_Her_Rival
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2019/09/10/episode-five-georgie-and-her-rival/
References:
“Mighty Lak’ a Rose”: https://songofamerica.net/song/mighty-lak-a-rose/
Muppet Fan site illustration: https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Mighty_Lak%27_a_Rose
A Petula Clark interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA6tZeX5PKo
Podcast suggestion: Down in the Hole, a Tom Waits Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/down-in-the-hole/id1040064262
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Until next time, adieu my little ballyhoo.
"Georgie and Her Rival" Lyrics
Georgie grew to hate her name, it sounded like a tiny man
And the one she had said "I can't see you, but I'll call you whenever I can"
Sometimes the phone would ring, when she was half-asleep
A voice would drag her down with its suggestions
Though she often felt cheated, she never felt cheap
(chorus):
Well heaven knows what fills the heart
And makes you feel so alive
It's impossible to tear apart
Georgie and her rival
It was half-past February, and he hadn't called since New Year's Day
Maybe he'd found another woman to say those words no chapel girl should say
Her mother would phone and always keep her talking
She'd try to be polite, making faces
But somewhere in the back of her mind, her rival was stalking
(chorus)
Her rival would always wait till the eighth or ninth bell
He'd be desperate anyway and drunk as well
She always liked to hurt him to prove he was prepared
To love her anyway that she wanted
So she could tell which she preferred
He sat up with his address book trying to think what mood he's in
His finger traced past Georgie's name to someone who needed less persuading
She didn't hear through her disguise, he didn't leave her in a rush
Just like the promise that he left on her machine that almost made her blush
The radio plays a lover's symphony
"The number you have dialed has been re-directed"
Now she puts him on the speaker-phone whenever she has company
(chorus)
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
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“The Big Light”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tU_Nhu0Hf8
Elvis Costello Wiki Reference: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/The_Big_Light
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2019/09/07/episode-four-the-big-light/
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
References:
Huffington Post article about passion projects: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-you-should-start-a-passion-project_b_9276604
Google Ngram Viewer: https://books.google.com/ngrams
Johnny Cash version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWB0lF8Gptk
“Alison”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9GlC9GyF4Y
The definition of a “ditty” https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/ditty
“Ironic Repetition” explained: http://www.robertleonardassociates.com/PDF/ForensicLinguistics_Applying-Scientific-Principles.pdf
The extensive, accurate, up to date, useful Elvis Costello Wiki page: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
EC’s version of “Tonight…” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyxVahBPYts
Merle Haggard’s version of “Tonight…”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVq27glkY_A
“The Deliver Man” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fnaa-Rf3RY
“Are the Good Time Really Over” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS7GGpMkRTo
So, until next time, adieu, my little ballyhoo.
"The Big Light" Lyrics:
Well I had a little feeling to have a big night
And I woke up feeling small and not so brave and not quite right
I had to face the who am I and where is she and what did I do
But worst of all I had to face the big light
Chorus:The big light came through my window and it opened up my eyelids
And it snapped them up like roller blinds and told me things that I did
I can't face another day and night of good ideas and complications
And I'm thankful that I didn't open another bottle of inspiration
When the hangover this morning had a personality
And I cast my shattered mind over selected memories
I didn't even touch the light switch so I knew I'd never see
The Haggard face that would be staring back at me
(Chorus)
Well I had a little feeling to have a big time
And I woke up to alarm bells like a big church chime
I had to face the who am I and who is she and what did I do
But worst of all I had to face the big light
(Chorus)
Oh when it’s time to go out and have a big night
Sooner or later you’ve got to face the big light
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
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Church Underground: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFDk4OaSRJg
Elvis Costello Wiki Reference page: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Church_Underground
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2019/09/04/episode-three-a-slow-drag-with-church-underground/
References:
“The Tribute to Leonard Cohen Concert, November 2017: https://consequenceofsound.net/2017/11/sting-lana-del-rey-elvis-costello-and-many-more-perform-in-tribute-to-leonard-cohen-in-montreal-11-6/
The first moving picture and the history of its inventor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqfCmQtrTcE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmuo45NR6qE
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Eadweard-Muybridge
https://www.britannica.com/art/history-of-the-motion-picture/Post-World-War-I-European-cinema
Atlas Obscura “Taxi Dancers” article: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-men-in-the-1920s-paid-women-for-spins-around-the-dance-hall
The history of Prohibition: https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/prohibition
The concept of Purgatory: https://www.britannica.com/topic/purgatory-Roman-Catholicism
The video of Dorothy and her pals getting ready to see the Wizard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur7GnxTkS-M
The blog post with the “New International Version” of Hebrews 11:36-38 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur7GnxTkS-M
The “English Standard Version” passage of Hebrews 11:36-38 https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Heb%2011.36–38
So, until next time, adieu, my little ballyhoo
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
Companion Blog: https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/44
References:
“Alibi”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1kqc7V6Vn8&list=RDg1kqc7V6Vn8&start_radio=1
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, "Alibi": http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Alibi
The Gwendolyn Letters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQieshbrzpI
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"Alibi" Lyrics:
You did it 'cos you wanted
Alibi, alibi
And you took it
'Cos you need it
Alibi, alibi
But if I've done something wrong there's no "ifs and buts"
'Cos I love you just as much as I hate your guts
Alibi, alibi, alibi…
And you don't need anybody
Alibi, alibi
But you are the only one who knows this
Alibi, alibi
You deserve it 'cos you're special
Alibi, alibi
Maybe Jesus wants you for a sunbeam
Alibi, alibi
But if I've left something out
I apologise
But if you look in my eyes
Then I'm sure you'll see…
Alibis, alibis, alibis…
Sometimes I'm so forgiving
Everything seems bad to me
But I can't go on living
With this alibi, alibi, alibi…
"Insane," what a mundane
Alibi, alibi
And you only wanted to be famous
Alibi, alibi
Sorry, but your mummy doesn't love you
Alibi, alibi
Stop me if you've heard this…
Alibi, alibi
But if I've done something right then don't be surprised
There are soldiers who will kill but refuse to die
But if I've done something wrong there's no "ifs and buts"
'Cos I love you just as much as I hate your guts
Alibi, alibi, alibi, alibi…
You were weak…
You couldn't help it
Alibi, alibi
But you never had a pony
Alibi, alibi
(chorus)
And you're such a people person
Alibi, alibi
And I will be true to you forever
Alibi, alibi
But you're stupid and you're lazy
Alibi, alibi
Maybe we can make the future better
Alibi, alibi
(chorus)
Sometimes I'm so forgiving
Everything seems bad to me
But I can't go on living
With this alibi, alibi, alibi…
You were happy when you were poor
And more honest and that's your…
Alibi, alibi
Sister is a whore, brother isn't sure
Alibi, alibi
You don't fit the body that you're trapped in
Alibi, alibi
Papa's got a brand new
Alibi, alibi
But if I've done something wrong there's no "ifs and buts"
'Cos I love you just as much as I hate your guts
But if I've left something out
I apologise
But if you look in my eyes
Then I'm sure you'll see…
Alibis, alibis, alibis…
Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson
Twitter: @slowdragremedy
Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com
Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag
Poor Napoleon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIh_O7rksgw
Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2019/08/27/episode-one-poor-napoleon/
References:
Reduction to absurdity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikjkCi_DhC8
Magic Fingers: https://www.retrothing.com/2007/06/magic_fingers_v.html
Corpse Factory: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/the-corpse-factory.html
The "hardest cut": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd3-HakNEGM&vl=en
Eggcorns: https://grammarist.com/mondegreens/
Title dispute: https://www.stereogum.com/693/napoleon_dynamite_vs_elvis_costello/news/
Pomeranian reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjN5q9Ixen4
Weekly Podcast Recommendation: History of the 90s https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/history-of-the-90s/id1201927184
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"Poor Napoleon" Lyrics:
I can't lie on this bed anymore, it burns my skin
You can take the truthful things you've said to me
And fit them on the head of a pin
Poor Napoleon
You always look so disappointed when I take my stockings off
Don't you know the facts of life, boy
Don't you know what these things cost
She was selling stolen kisses to traveling salesmen and minstrel singers
You put a penny in the slot
She called you her Magic Fingers
Poor Napoleon
I bet she isn't all that's advertised
I bet that isn't all she fakes
Just like that place where they take your spine
And turn it into soapflakes
Bare wires from the socket to the bed where you embrace that girl
Did you ever think there's far too many people in the world?
One day they'll probably make a movie out of all of this
There won't even have to be a murder just a slow dissolving kiss
Poor Napoleon
So good night, little school boy, you'd better learn some self control
Did you mess up your hairstyle, pour scorn in your begging bowl
Poor Napoleon
I’ve had a 30-year love affair with the masterful poetry of Elvis Costello. Song by song, this is an appreciation of a peerless poet whose words continue to confound and continue to inspire.