079 :: Filled with Phrases
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Remedy Robinson
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Publication Date |
Apr 12, 2021
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00:11:55

Today’s slow drag is with “Five Small Words,” from “National Ransom,” released in 2010. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.

Show Notes:

Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA

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Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com

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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

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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

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