Today's slow drag is with "Needle Time," from "The Delivery Man," released in 2004. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello. . . . Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA Twitter: @slowdragremedy Email: [email protected] Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com References: Elvis Costello Wiki Resource: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Needle_Time   "Needle Time" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldJnWS2gUBM   References: Elvis Costello Awarded O.B.E. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/elvis-costello-obe-queens-honors-services-to-music-845936/ Elvis Costello response to OBE https://www.elviscostello.com/#!/news/298460 Understanding the British Honors System & Knighthood: https://blog.eftours.com/tours/british-honours-system-knighthood The Musicians' Union: A History (1893 – 2013): https://www.muhistory.com/hang-the-dj-the-musicians-union-and-the-early-days-of-radio-1/   "Some Songs That Must Have Been Overlooked": Part one: "Oliver's Army" Part two: "Tramp the Dirt Down" Part three: "Stick out your Tongue" Part four: "Tokyo Storm Warning" Part five: "New Lace Sleeves" Part six: "Shipbuilding" Ending with "and now a word from our sponsors" "Less Than Zero."   "Cheap Reward" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FK4h3dazfw "Cheap Reward" Lyric page http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Cheap_Reward "Better out than in" idiom: https://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/45/messages/329.html "Needle Time" Lyrics: I wish that I didn't hate you Least not as much as I do And squander all my contempt for A little nothing like you Liars like you are ten-a-penny Women would slap you, if you knew any Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime I've got this suitcase of phony wisdom to dispense These twenty-seven or so years How you'd think I would have made them some cents Now they want me fingerprinted like I was smuggling drugs While the government does deals with the most convenient thugs Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime It's Needle Time It's needle time I'm trying not to despise you with a passion that's hard to extinguish Or maybe I really love you although it's hard to distinguish I wish I could be more like a saint is Forgiving those who trespass against us Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime I started talking nonsense, just like I did to begin with Around the time I tired of those sour English Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime It's Needle Time

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