Today’s slow drag is with “Room with No Number” 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

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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)