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

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

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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

Today’s slow drag is with “Clown Strike” 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

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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

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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

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

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)

Today’s slow drag is with “The River in Reverse,” the only song with a solo writing credit from the collaboration with Allen Toussaint on the album of the same name, “The River in Reverse,” released in 2006. The songwriting, as mentioned, is credited solely 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 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

Today’s slow drag is with “Next Time ‘Round” from “Blood and Chocolate,” released in 1986. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello’s birth name.

Show Notes:

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

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Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com

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

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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

Today’s slow drag is with “Why Won’t Heaven Help Me?” from the Grammy Award winning, “Look Now,” released in 2018. 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, “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)

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

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

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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

Today’s slow drag is with “Harpies Bizarre,” from “Mighty Like a Rose,” released in 1991. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello’s birthname.

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, “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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"Harpies Bizarre" Lyrics:

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

Today’s slow drag is with “Drum and Bone,” from “Momofuku,” released in 2008. 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, “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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"Drum and Bone" Lyrics:

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

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Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.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

Today’s slow drag is with “I’ll Wear it Proudly,” from “King of America,” released in 1986. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello’s birth name.

Show Notes:

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

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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)

Today’s slow drag is with “Night Rally,” from the original UK release of “This Year’s Model,” released in 1978, and then from the compilation cassette “Taking Liberties,” released in the US in 1980. 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, “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

Today’s slow drag is with “Human Hands,” from “Imperial Bedroom,” released in 1981. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.

Show Notes:

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

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Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com

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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

Today’s slow drag is with “Radio Silence,” from “When I was Cruel,” released in 2002. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.

Show Notes:

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

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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: webster.com/words-at-play/radio-silent-silence-meaning"> 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

Today’s slow drag is with “Pretty Words,” from “Trust,” released in 1981. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.

Show Notes:

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

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Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com

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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”: choice.html">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

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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Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.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

“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

Today’s slow drag is with “Chewing Gum,” from “Spike,” released in 1989. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello’s birth name.

Show Notes:

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

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Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com

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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”: 9-sapir.htm">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)

Today’s slow drag is with “Pay It Back,” from “My Aim Is True,” released in 1977. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.

Show Notes:

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

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Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.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)

Today’s slow drag is with “Starting to Come to Me,” from “All This Useless Beauty,” released in 1996. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello’s birth name.

Show Notes:

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

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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

Today’s slow drag is with “The Birds Will Still Be Singing,” from “The Juliet Letters,” released in 1993. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello’s birth name.

Show Notes:

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

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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”: rhyme-scheme.html"> 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

Today’s slow drag is with “Deportees Club,” 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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Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com

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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: the-fiddle.html">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

Today’s slow drag is with “Jimmie Standing in The Rain,” 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

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, “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”: trains-class.htm">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 

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"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

Today’s slow drag is with “The Name of This Thing is Not Love,” 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

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 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

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"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

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

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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/

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"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

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

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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/

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"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?

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

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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/

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"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

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

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Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com

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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

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“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?

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

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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  

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“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

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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

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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:

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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

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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:

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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

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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:

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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

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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:

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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

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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:

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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

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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” s-last-wish-sets-off-animal-rights-furor.html">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

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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

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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

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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

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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: uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/The-History-of-Hogmanay/"> 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

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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

Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slow_drag_with_remedy/

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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: webster.com/dictionary/the%20salt%20of%20the%20earth"> 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...

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

Twitter: @slowdragremedy

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slow_drag_with_remedy/

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Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

Twitter: @slowdragremedy

Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com

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

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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?

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

Twitter: @slowdragremedy

Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com

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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

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

Twitter: @slowdragremedy

Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com

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

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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: Timeline.html">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

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

Twitter: @slowdragremedy

Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com

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

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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

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

Twitter: @slowdragremedy

Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com

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

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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

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

Twitter: @slowdragremedy

Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com

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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: webster.com/dictionary/slattern">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

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

Twitter: @slowdragremedy

Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com

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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

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

Twitter: @slowdragremedy

Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com

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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

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

Twitter: @slowdragremedy

Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com

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

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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)

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Written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA, MFA

Twitter: @slowdragremedy

Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com

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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...

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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

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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 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

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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

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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.

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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, “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

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Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.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)

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Twitter: @slowdragremedy

Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.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

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Twitter: @slowdragremedy

Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.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: fox-and-the-grapes.html">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

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Twitter: @slowdragremedy

Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.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

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Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson

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Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.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

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Twitter: @slowdragremedy

Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com

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

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

Twitter: @slowdragremedy

Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com

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

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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...

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

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/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

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Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson

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Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.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: pointer-architecture.html"> 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

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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/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)

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Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.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)

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Written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson

Twitter: @slowdragremedy

Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.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”: webster.com/dictionary/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

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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

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"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

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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

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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

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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. 

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“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

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Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com

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Cover art and production by Sam Dunn @indoorfirewords

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“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

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“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: centre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Thirty_pieces_of_silver.pdf"> 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/

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“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: h.htm">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

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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: everything-we-say-there-is-an-echo-of-1066.html"> 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: reading-well.com/44-phonemes-in-english.html"> https://www.dyslexia-reading-well.com/44-phonemes-in-english.html

Graphemes: resources.com/support-files/soundstographemesguide2.pdf"> 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/

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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

Today's slow drag is with "Damnation's Cellar," from "The Juliet Letters," released in 1993. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello's birth name.

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"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 Transcript: https://slowdragwithremedy.weebly.com/podcast-transcriptlinks/episode-12-the-maddening-smile-a-slow-drag-with-damnation-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: writing-now.com/rhyme-schemes.html">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/ 

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"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?

Today's slow drag is with "King of Thieves," from " Goodbye Cruel World," released in 1983. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.

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

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Companion Transcript: 

References: https://slowdragwithremedy.weebly.com/podcast-transcriptlinks/episode-11-blow-the-whistle-on-the-whole-design-a-slow-drag-with-king-of-thieves 

“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

Today's slow drag is with "Let Him Dangle," from "Spike," released in 1989. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.

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Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson

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Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com

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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 Transcript: https://slowdragwithremedy.weebly.com/podcast-transcriptlinks/episode-10-a-terrible-crime-a-slow-drag-with-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: bentley.html">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...

Today's slow drag is with the title track from "All This Useless Beauty," released in 1996. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.

Show Notes:

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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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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: monster.com/easily_confused/shall_will.htm">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)

Today's slow drag is with 20% Amnesia. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello's birth name.

Show Notes:

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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.weebly.com/podcast-transcriptlinks/episode-8-the-word-she-wanted-was-destination-a-slow-drag-with-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” the-dirt-down-elvis-costello-defends-decision-to-continue-singing-anti-thatcher-songs-8706270.html"> 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: xpm-1991-07-17-1991198031-story.html"> 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