099 :: Listen to Me :: A Slow Drag with "Hey Clockface"

28/08/2022 10 min
099 :: Listen to Me :: A Slow Drag with "Hey Clockface"

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Today's slow drag is with "No Flag" from "Hey Clockface," released in June, 2020. 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, "No Flag": http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/No_Flag "No Flag": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7aQtVfB-88 Elvis Costello Drops Second "Helsinki Sound" https://www.977theriver.com/2020/07/10/elvis-costello-drops-second-helsinki-sound-track-hetty-ohara-confidential/ "My Dark Life" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw9boaOLnvI Definition of collocation: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/collocation Purchase "The Most Terrible Time in My Life…Ends Thursday"   "No Flag" Lyrics I've got no religion I've got no philosophy I've got a head full of ideas and words that don't seem to belong to me You may be joking but I don't get the gag I sense no future but time seems to drag   No time for this kind of love No flag waving high above No sign for the dark place that I live No God for the damn that I don't give   I've got no illusions I've had no epiphany Why should anybody listen to me She said I'm tearing up the sheets that your love letters stained All of your magic powers have drained   No time for this kind of love No flag waving high above No sign for the dark place that I live No God for the damn that I don't give   There's a line in the sand A word or two in the aftermath I'm an arrow that shoots up and down on an advertising graph I could write you verses and recite more than one But they're not worth the paper that they're written on   No time for this kind of love No flag waving high above No sign for the dark place that I live No God for the damn that I don't give   We want everything and we don't want to share Out-o space for the faces we fear Look in the mirror and see who I used to be Made out of plastic in a factory   No flag No flag

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