058 :: All I Ever Do is Bow :: A Slow Drag with "No Dancing"

13/10/2020 14 min
058 :: All I Ever Do is Bow :: A Slow Drag with "No Dancing"

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Today's slow drag is with "No Dancing," from "My Aim is True," released in 1977. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello. . . . 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, "No Dancing": http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/No_Dancing  "No Dancing": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d2KdzBf8yI References: Episode 22 of "Slow Drag with Remedy," "And His Castanets," a slow drag with "Waiting for the End of the World": https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/12403490 Episode 36 of "Slow Drag with Remedy," "It's the Way that You Are," a slow drag with "Miracle Man": https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/13551431 "No Dancing" Lyrics Oh I know that she Has made a fool of him Like girls have done so many nights before Time and time again Now he's so strange I don't know why But somebody, somebody has to cry There's gonna be no dancing when they get home There's gonna be no dancing There's gonna be no dancing There's gonna be no dancing when they get home Now he's telling her Every little thing he's done Once he glanced at the jackets of some paperbacks Now he's read every one He's such a drag / He's not insane It's just that everybody / Has to feel his pain There's gonna be no dancing when they get home He's getting down on his knees He finds that the girl is not so easy to please Oh oh, after all, his nights were just a paper striptease She's caught it like some disease If he says no dancing There's gonna be no dancing There's gonna be no dancing on my own She can't even speak to him He can't face her now He says "Even though I wanna shake your hand All I ever do is bow. So now you see How can it be. Why can't you give me anythin' but sympathy?" There's gonna be no dancing There's gonna be no dancing There's gonna be no dancing There's gonna be no dancing There's gonna be no dancing on my own

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