069 :: Fashion Fingernails :: A Slow Drag with "13 Steps Lead Down"

25/01/2021 10 min
069 :: Fashion Fingernails :: A Slow Drag with "13 Steps Lead Down"

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Today's slow drag is with "13 Steps Lead Down," from "Brutal Youth," released in 1994. 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 Email: [email protected] Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag   References: Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, "13 Steps Lead Down": http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/13_Steps_Lead_Down "13 Steps Lead Down": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C31mUTzAmhA "Friends of Mine" By the Guess Who: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geLuIb4oic4 "Friends of Mine" lyrics: https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/guesswho/friendsofmine.html "The Hanging Judge's Hangman Discusses Hanging": https://truewestmagazine.com/hanging-judges-hangmen/ Purchase "The Most Terrible Time in My Life…Ends Thursday" https://www.amazon.com/Most-Terrible-Time-Life-Thursday-ebook/dp/B07XLXS5PL/ref=sr_1_1?crid=Y4SGCT62WPEK&dchild=1&keywords=the+most+terrible+time+in+my+life+ends+thursday&qid=1608873405&sprefix=The+Most+Terrible+Time+in+%2Caps%2C195&sr=8-1     "13 Steps Lead Down" Lyrics: When nobody knows she puts on secret clothes And lies in the meadow with her hands tied behind her back I won't refuse If you know how to use it Just stop playing that ugly drug music   Thirteen steps lead down Thirteen steps lead down There's commoners and kings And everyone's a prisoner Of paper and glue and a decent pair of scissors So, tonight I'm drinking to your health Because I just can't stand myself   Thirteen steps lead down Thirteen steps lead down Thirteen steps lead down Thirteen steps lead down   She stands and fails on fashion fingernails Her lovers have her walking 'round On instruments of torture And one of them is poisonous The other is a thief they say So, what one could give to her The other cannot take away   When nobody knows she puts on secret clothes And lies in her splendor for a picture opportunity Cover up that bruise, put on patent leather shoes Just stop playing that bad mood music   Thirteen steps lead down Thirteen steps lead down There's commoners and kings And everyone's a prisoner Of paper and glue and a decent pair of scissors So, tonight I'm drinking to your health Because I just can't stand myself   Thirteen steps lead down Thirteen steps lead down Thirteen steps lead down Thirteen steps lead down

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