18 :: Rowdiest but Slightest :: A Slow Drag with "Luxembourg"

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

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

Twitter: @slowdragremedy

Email: [email protected]

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

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References:

“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

YouTube version w/ lyrics: https://youtu.be/heeY3UzX9GU 

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

 

"Luxembourg" Lyrics

Dressed up like a dog's dinner
Butter wouldn't melt on your paws
If this is a dog's life
Then you're the cat's clothes
They hire out your sons
And hire out your daughters
The man from abroad says he's already bought her
And now you look like a lover but you're only a tourist

Chorus:
You're either talking or yawning
You didn't listen to a thing you heard
Don't start your morning moaning or you might wake up in Luxembourg

You get up, you get over
You're worried about her body
She's worryin' about her bodily odour
You pull off
The pull over
You say that you love her when you really loathe her
Serves you right, now she wants you to feed her and clothe her

(Chorus)

They're smiling sweetly while they're looking daggers
Kick you where it really matters
Send all your friends to Coventry
And look for your name in last night's obituaries

If you've got the Deutschmarks
If you've got the Yen, then
You get the shirt off her back and the clock off Big Ben
Somebody's soft touch
Struck all these bargains
In the drinking clubs with the council men
Making plans to put lead back in their pencils again