Today's slow drag is with "Room with No Number" from "Goodbye Cruel World," released in 1984. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello. Show Notes: 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, "Room with No Number": http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Room_With_No_Number "Room with No Number": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg0XPZVQiso 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 "Room with No Number" Lyrics: Picture a hotel room Clothes scattered across the floor Covers pulled back from the pillow A sign hung on the door Two lovers locked up tight Through the endless days and nights Hiding something they can't show Something no one else must know Chorus: There's a room without a number While the sign outside says there's no vacancy As you take your key, they smile at you so understandingly She cried out in the night Woke the porter from his sleep He grinned slyly to himself As he went to fetch his keys Look what love has brought them to This terrible nightmare His or hers, he could not tell As they were still sleeping there (Chorus) And I wish you could be The man he was before he was me (fireworks) A girl arrived at first light And enquired if they'd been seen And why the numbers ran from twelve Missing out thirteen And they said oh my darling Put it down to superstition Try to avoid a scandal And don't arouse suspicion They re-arranged the furniture They even papered over the door   There's a room without a number While the sign outside says there's no vacancy As you take your key, they smile just so so you know   There's a room without a number While the sign outside says there's no vacancy As you take your key, they smile just so so you know   (Chorus)  

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