049 :: Every Twisted Grudge :: A Slow Drag with "Soul For Hire"

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

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

Twitter: @slowdragremedy  

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

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References:

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

 

 

"Soul for Hire" Lyrics

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?