055 :: A Little Amused :: A Slow Drag with "...This Town..."

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

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

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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: 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...