Today's slow drag is with "Worthless Thing," from "Goodbye Cruel World," released in 1984. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.
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Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
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Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, "Worthless Thing": http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Worthless_Thing
"Worthless Thing": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHvRCRP4MKo
References:
Episode 6 of "Slow Drag with Remedy," "Don't Let Them See You Crying that Way," a slow drag with "Joe Porterhouse": https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/11297243
Episode 30 of "Slow Drag with Remedy," "The Bells Take Their Toll," a slow drag with "Peace in Our Time": https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/12489932
"Have a skeleton in someone's cupboard" idiom: https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/cupboard
"Blue/Bloody Murder" idiom: https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/scream+blue+murder
"King's Ransom" idiom: https://grammarist.com/idiom/kings-ransom/
Union Avenue history: http://www.mississippibluestravellers.com/sun-records-706-union-avenue-memphis-tennessee/
The Legendary Sun Studio: https://www.sunstudio.com
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"Worthless Thing" lyrics:
How many times can you jump out of the cupboard
Before someone gets suspicious or someone gets discovered
You can live forever in a split second of fame
Come on down, the price is right, what's your name
While a crocodile makes good shoes and a dog may change his coat
I can't change what's written on your face tonight and I quote
Chorus:
Oh I wish you could see
Quite how much you could mean to me
You worthless thing
If you were ten feet taller and almost handsome
I might pay this king's ransom
You worthless thing
They commit blue murder along Union Avenue
Then they sell you souvenir matches
Nightclubs full of grave robbers from Memphis, Tennessee
And Las Vegas body snatchers
And he's carrying a warning, can't you see how his eyes glint?
Keep your bloody hands off my life, your affectionate fingerprints
(Chorus)
All the cars and pills and girls who tore his shirt to tatters
Do you know how tall he was 'cos that is all that really matters?
Do you know his mother's last name, do you think that he's divine?
You've seen the film, you've read the book
You're drinking vintage Elvis Presley wine
Bored out of your tiny mind while life is twice as large
They'll cut her down to size on television
She's available and beautiful, but with more time to devote
They're going to take this cable now and stick it down your throat
So this is an obituary which should be right and fitting
For every clockwork cat and conceivable kitten
(Chorus)
