Today's slow drag is with "Poor Fractured Atlas," from "All This Useless Beauty," released in 1996. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello. . . . Show Notes: 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 ---------------------- References: Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, "Poor Fractured Atlas": http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Poor_Fractured_Atlas "Poor Fractured Atlas": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afjkN_0RM3Y Squirrel Gun definition: https://www.andrews.edu/~rwright/Oldwww/Alamo/squirrel.html "Atlas" and the interesting facts: https://greekgodsandgoddesses.net/gods/atlas/ "Boy's Last Wish Sets off Animal Rights Furor" https://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/12/us/boy-s-last-wish-sets-off-animal-rights-furor.html Episode 9 of "Slow Drag with Remedy," "Grace and Virtue," a slow drag with "All This Useless Beauty":  https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/11434418 Episode 23 of "Slow Drag with Remedy," "False and Lovely Modesty," a slow drag with "Little Atoms": https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/12489932 Episode 56 of "Slow Drag with Remedy," "Pure Illuminated Sweetness," a slow drag with "Distorted Angel": https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/15986612 So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo   "Poor Fractured Atlas" Lyrics: He's out in the woods with his squirrel gun To try to recapture his anger He's screaming some words at the top of his lungs Until he begins to feel younger But back at his desk in the city we find Our trembling punch-drunken fighter Who can't find the strength now to punish the length Of the ribbon in his little typewriter (Chorus:) Poor Fractured Atlas Threw himself across the mattress Waving his withering pencil As if it were a pirate's cutlass I'm almost certain he's trying to increase his burden He said "That's how the child in me planned it; A woman wouldn't understand it" I believe there was something that I wanted to say Before I conclude this epistle But you would forgive me for holding my tongue 'Cause man made the blade and the pistol Yes man made the waterfall over the dam To temper his tantrum with magic Now you can't be sure of that tent of azure Since he punched a hole in the fabric (Repeat Chorus) A woman wouldn't understand it A woman wouldn't understand it

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