Today's slow drag is with "My Most Beautiful Mistake" from "The Boy Named If," released in 2022. 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, "My Most Beautiful Mistake": http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/My_Most_Beautiful_Mistake "My Most Beautiful Mistake": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn0IWgpzanY 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 "My Most Beautiful Mistake" Lyrics: She was a part-time waitress with a dream of greatness That nobody knew of or even suspected Though it was sometimes reflected in the slant of a mirror It was buried so deep and so dear   She caught the eye of a guy passing by who said, "My, if I prove to be faithless, you'll surely know why Oh, why? You'll probably know why" Then again you may say "Mister, you've got a nerve Most of us never get just what we deserve" I'll smile sweetly, "I'm here at your service"   And the camera walks us through into a sunlit room Where a one-hit wonder lives  And he says, "Action" and "That's a take" You are my most beautiful mistake   "It's not your reputation I'm trying to besmirch" "I'm here undercover, I'm writing this screenplay" "You might be my inspiration, it's beyond my control" "So it's my soulful and wounded expression, that you'd like to console?"   There's a hand that lingers a little too long There are lies you will hear, that they're singing right now, right here, right here in this song   And the lens pulls the focus on his magnum opus He's a one-hit wonder kid  And he says, "Action" and "That's a take" You are my most beautiful mistake   He made a portrait of her face out of burnt out matches She said "The trouble is, Sunshine, I know what the catch is… You'll offer me nothing, you'll offer me riches  I've seen your kind before in courtroom sketches"   From the booth in the corner From a different perspective Where a man plays the fool or a private detective He wrote her name out in sugar on a Formica counter "You could be the game that captures the hunter" Then he went out for cigarettes As the soundtrack played The Marvelettes   Let me check the script  Check the continuity  You'll be up on that screen for eternity The billboard will spit: "That look! That's it!" Take a little pill and you will get over it The light will hit you  If you drop that hint  Now "Cut" and "Print"   And the camera walks us through into a low-lit room Where a one-hit wonder lives 

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