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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"Suit of Lights" Lyrics:

While Nat King Cole sings "Welcome to My World"

You request some song you hate, you sentimental fool

And it's the force of habit

If it moves then you fuck it

If it doesn't move you stab it

And I thought I heard "The Working Man's Blues"

He went to work that night and wasted his breath

Outside there was a public execution

Inside he died a thousand deaths

And they pulled him out of the cold cold ground

And they pulled him out of the cold cold ground

And they pulled him out of the cold cold ground

And they put him in a suit of lights

In the perforated first editions

Where they advocate the hangman's noose

Then tell the sorry tale of the spent Princess

Her uncouth escort looking down her dress

Anyway, they say that she wears the trousers

And learnt everything that she does

And doesn't know if she should tell him yes

Or let him go

And they pulled him out of the cold cold ground

And they pulled him out of the cold cold ground

And they pulled him out of the cold cold ground

And they put him in a suit of lights

But, it's a dog's life in a rope leash or a diamond collar

It's enough to make you think right now

But you don't bother

For goodness sake as you cry and shake

Let's keep your face down in the dirt where you belong

And think of all the pleasure that it brings

Though you know that it's wrong

And there's still life in your body

But most of it's leaving

Can't you give us all a break

Can't you stop breathing

And I thought I heard "The Working Man's Blues"

I went to work that night and wasted my breath

Outside they're painting tar on somebody

It's the closest to a work of art that they will ever be

And they pulled him out of the cold cold ground

And they pulled him out of the cold cold ground

And they pulled him out of the cold cold ground

And they put him in a suit of lights

And they put him in a suit of lights

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

Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag

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

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"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

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"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:

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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

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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

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"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:

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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

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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: between-a-cotillion-and-a-debutante-ball.htm"> 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

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"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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"All the Rage" Lyrics:

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