101 :: The Twilight of Infamy :: A Slow Drag with "That Bridge I Burned"

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

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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

 

Purchase “The Most Terrible Time in My Life…Ends Thursday”

 

"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