139 :: Or So I'd Suppose :: A Slow Drag with "Just About Glad"

Today’s slow drag is with “Just About Glad” from “Brutal Youth,” released in 1993. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello’s birth name.

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Show Notes:

Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Riot, MA,MFA

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References:

Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Just About Glad” https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=Just_About_Glad

“Just About Glad” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgRHdpTkX7c

 

"Just About Glad” Lyrics

I'm just about glad that I knew you once

And it was more than just a passing acquaintance

I'm just about glad that it was a memory

That doesn't need constant maintenance

There are a few things that I regret

But nothing that I need to forget

For all of the courage that we never had

I'm just about glad

 

(Chorus:)

Just about glad we didn't do that thing

Just about glad we didn't have that fling

Just about glad we didn't give it a try

Just about glad, is that a tear in your eye?

 

And on the few times I rang to propose

There was a man there or so I'd suppose

The greatest lover that you never had

I'm just about glad

 

They called time and vodka and lime

In some far flung Canadian club

Just about glad

And there I was just waiting to fall

Like a toe just aching to stub

 

Just about glad

Later on I could never accept it

When you finally gave it all to him

Just about glad

And you said that my nurse was sweet

But her lamp was just beginning to dim

 

I'm just about glad

That we never did that thing that we were going to do

I'm just about glad I can look you in the eye

But I can't say the same for you

And though the passion still flutters and flickers

It never got into our knickers

For all of the courage that we never had

I'm just about, I'm just about

I'm just about, I'm just about

(flutter and wow from the song of the same name, to flutter or flatter from Like Licorice)

(Repeat Chorus)

 

And it's all just a stupid creation

Of my feverish imagination

If I'm the greatest lover that you never had

I'm just about, I'm just about

I'm just about, I'm just about

 

(Repeat Chorus)

 

Is that a tear in your eye?

Is that a tear in your eye?

Is that a tear in your eye?