Today's slow drag is with "…This Town…," from "Spike," released in 1989. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello's birth name. . . . Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slow_drag_with_remedy/ Email: [email protected] Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag ---------------------- 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...

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