053 :: Telling You What's What :: A Slow Drag with "Mouth Almighty"

Today’s slow drag is with “Mouth Almighty,” from “Punch the Clock,” 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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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