094 :: Faster and Faster :: A Slow Drag with "The Invisible Man"

13/02/2022 10 min
094 :: Faster and Faster :: A Slow Drag with "The Invisible Man"

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Today's slow drag is with "The Invisible Man" from "Punch the Clock," released in 1983. 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, "The Invisible Man": http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/The_Invisible_Man "The Invisible Man": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o-iZ_GfTTs Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, "I Turn Around": http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/I_Turn_Around "I Turn Around": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg4cesm8obI 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 "The Invisible Man" Lyrics I was committed to life and then commuted to the outskirts With all the love in the world Living for thirty minutes at a time with a break in the middle for adverts But it's a wonderful world within these cinema walls Where a shower of affection becomes Niagara Falls And you wish she could step down from the screen to your seat in the stalls   'Cos if stars are only painted on the ceiling above Then who can you turn to and who do you love I want to get out while I still can I want to be like Harry Houdini Now I'm the invisible man   My head is spinning 'round faster and faster Here I stand on the edge of disaster I'm shattered like a piece of crystal, porcelain, or alabaster   'Cos if stars are only painted on the ceiling above Then who can you turn to and who do you love I want to get out while I still can   Crowds surround loudspeakers hanging from the lampposts Listening to the murder mystery Meanwhile someone's hiding in the classroom Forging the books of history Never mind there's a good film showing tonight Where they hang everybody who can read or write Oh, that could never happen here, but then again it might   'Cos if stars are only painted on the ceiling above Then who can you turn to and who do you love I want to get out while I still can I want to be like Harry Houdini Now I'm the invisible man   And you won't see me

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