088 :: I Had My Fingers Crossed
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Remedy Robinson
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Publication Date |
Sep 19, 2021
Episode Duration |
00:10:57

Today’s slow drag is with “Nothing Clings Like Ivy,” from “The Delivery Man,” released in 2004. 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, “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

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

 

"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

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