Are they working together to stomp out biological females? If you can see that they clearly are then you may ask yourself what they get out of this concerted agenda.
Have they been suppressing her because of this hatred and fear of women?
Elvis Costello - All This Useless Beauty
It won't even make sense but you can bet
If she isn't a sweetheart or plaything or pet
The film turns her into an unveiled threat
"All This Useless Beauty"
It's at times such as this she'd be tempted to spit
If she wasn't so ladylike
She imagines how she might have lived
back when legends and history collide
So she looks to her prince finding he's so charmingly
slumped at her side
Those days are recalled on the gallery wall
And she's waiting for passion or humour to strike
[Chorus:]
What shall we do, what shall we do with all this useless beauty?
All this useless beauty
Good Friday arrived, the sky darkened on time
'Til he almost began to negotiate
She held his head like a baby and said "It's okay if you cry"
Now he wants her to dress as if you couldn't guess
He desires to impress his associates
But he's part ugly beast and Hellenic deceased
So she finds that the mixture is hard to deny
[Chorus]
She won't practice the looks from the great tragic books
That were later disgraced to face celluloid
It won't even make sense but you can bet
If she isn't a sweetheart or plaything or pet
The film turns her into an unveiled threat
Nonsense prevails, modesty fails
Grace and virtue turn into stupidity
While the calendar fades almost all barricades to a pale compromise
And our leaders have feasts on the backsides of beasts
They still think they're the gods of antiquity
If something you missed didn't even exist
It was just an ideal -- is it such a surprise?
[Chorus 2x]
Elvis Costello - The Whirlwind
The Whirlwind lyrics
I came out to this town
To seek a new career
Or just another kind of whirlwind than one that brought me here
I stare up through the ceiling, past the plaster and the paint
Considering the stars that shine and flap and fall before they're spent
How could you know?
My common senses have deserted me
On certain nights
When other gentlemen had courted me
But in the light of morning
They would turn to see me go
I've had my moments
But all too few
You think you know me
Maybe you do
But in the light of morning
You will turn to see me go
Nothing's lost and no one’s won
It's over now and now it's done
I may be lying
This may be true
You think you know me
Maybe you do, maybe you do, maybe you do
Elvis Costello - The Last Confession Of Vivian Whip
The Last Confession Of Vivian Whip Lyrics
Hear the last confession of Vivian Whip
If you're reading this
"My life was lonely
Never hurt a fly
Or spared a kiss
Never killed a soul
Except my own"
But when I took you in my arms
I wondered why it took so long
For me to recognize this precious song
Had it been playing all along?
Just when I needed it
When I couldn't conceive that it's
So hard to lose your nerve
To just get what you need
And not, not what you deserve
See the first impression of Vivian Whip
Still denied parole
He's etched in charcoal
"Never hurt a fly or killed a soul
Entertained a doubt
I cared about"
But now I fear we fear too much
I tried my best to keep my watch
To bear up in the light that strips
So stop my mouth up with your lips
An interesting film about wealth and monstrousness
Elvis Costello charity concert - Austin, TX - 12.2.2022
Elvis Costello - Hetty O’Hara Confidential
Hetty O'Hara Confidential lyrics
Hetty said if you ask me nicely
I'll write you up well
Don't tell me twice
Or quote you directly
Or you'll pay the price
I'll peel off your skin like a thin veneer
If someone tells me something that I didn't hear from you
Who's got the dope?
Who's got the potential?
Hetty O'Hara Confidential
Those were different days
Those were different drugs
From a gold-plated palace with the half-mast flags
To a chalk lined body that was full of slugs
She was trading favours for footnote plugs
Who's got the needle?
Who is fit to burst?
A morphine tattoo on an unquenchable thirst
Who's got your girlfriend?
And who had her first?
Reading her column was essential
Hetty O'Hara Confidential
She could kill a man with a single stroke
She is not the one you want to provoke
If you can't take the heat
Or you can't take a joke
Who's got the dope?
Who's got the potential?
Hetty O'Hara Confidential
If there was a gentleman caller
To a comely wench
And a snooping peeper
In a coat of trench
She'd place a line or two
At the foot of the page
A cue or a clue
To the latest rage
With your true dimensions
And your actual age
Trade a life of scandal
For a career on the stage
These little things seem inconsequential
Except to Hetty O'Hara Confidential
On the night he came home
From the debutante ball
Passed out drunk on the bathroom floor
Call-girl called after taking a peek
At the secret drawer of atomic secrets
Repeating something that I whispered about
They have to take it
But they can't dish it out
Who's cleaning up his act?
And breaking the bank?
But unfortunately didn't remember to thank me
But now the rumour is doing the rounds
That his only friends
Are villains and scoundrels
Her reputation curled like yellow smoke
She named the wrong man in the story she broke
She had an unfortunate character trait
The irresistible impulse to assassinate
But the damage she did was quite substantial
Hetty O'Hara Confidential
They've got witch trials now
With witches to spare
And a jukebox jury full of judgement and fury
With bright neon dresses and porn star hair
She was thrown to the wolves
Or the dogs or the foxes
Once they'd had their fill of shares and stocks
Their gaze is unforgiving
If your morals are lax
Pointing manicured fingers and making a mockery
With voices that sound like broken crockery
Hetty said "I'm powerless and I feel alone..."
Now everyone has a megaphone
Who's got the dope?
Who's got the potential?
Hetty O'Hara Confidential
Elvis Costello & Steve Nieve - Someone Else’s Heart (Copy)
This comes from Steve Nieve’s Facebook page where he has been running a very interesting project called The Daily Improvisation.
Someone Else's Heart lyrics
Squeeze
(Difford/Tilbrook)
I got nosy and I read her letters
I read her diary it's the same story and nothing better,
The words remind me of someone else's heart
Has gone and left a mark.
And the pop music plays
On the local radio,
There's people on the streets but no one that I know
And like my heart is now
I know not where they go.
Same words different meaning
Same heart different feeling,
So much for him so much for her 'cause that's past,
Now I know about that someone else's heart.
She got nosy and read my letters too
And my notebook surprised to find that
Love is not so new,
So we both took
Someone else's heart
And walked it through the dark.
A feeling so rich
I turned around to laugh,
We had both indulged in each other's past
To find out that our love
Was true enough to last.
Elvis Costello - Satellite
Satellite lyrics
She looked like she learned to dance from a series of still pictures
She's madly excited now, she throws her hands up like a tulip
She looks like an illustration of a cocktail party
Where cartoon bubbles burst in the air
Champagne rolls off her tongue like a second language
And it should have been her biggest night
The satellite looks down on her as she begins to cry
All over the world at the very same time, people sharing the same sorrow
As the satellite looks down, her darkest hour is somebody's bright tomorrow
He pulled on a cigarette, in the crook of his first finger
Felt the static electric charge of her perfect hour-glass figure
As he undressed her with his eyes, her weakness was his talent
How could she know as she stepped through the lights
That her dress would become transparent
And with his face pressed to the screen,
He muttered words he'd never dare to say if she could see him
All over the world at the very same time, people sharing the same cheap sensation
The thrill of watching somebody watching those forbidden things we never mention
The satellite looks down right now and forever
What it is pulled apart, let no man tether his own body to his dream,
His dream to someone else
Oh no, oh no.
She went back to a pitiful compromise
He'd go back to his family
But for the matter of a thousand miles that separated them entirely
In the hot unloving spotlight, with the secrets it arouses
Now they both know what it's like inside a pornographer's trousers
And in a funny way it's anonymous
The satellite, it blesses us and makes these dreams come true
All over the world at the very same time
All over the world
The satellite looks down right now and forever
What it is pulled apart, let no man tether his own body to his dream,
His dream to someone else
Oh no, oh no
Oh no, oh no
George Ivan Morrison - He’s Not The Kingpin
Happy Birthday!
"He's Not The Kingpin" Lyrics
He's not the kingpin
He's just a fall guy
He's not the kingpin
He's just a fall guy
He's not the kingpin
He's just a fall guy
He's not the kingpin
Don't have the knowhow
He's not the kingpin
Don't have the knowhow
He's not the kingpin
He's just a fall guy
Follow the money
Follow the story
Research it further
Research it further
Follow the money
Follow the story
Research it further
Research it further
Give me the details
Give me the number
Research it further
Research it further
Used by the media
Used by the media
For their agenda
For their agenda
Who's shouting loudest?
Who's getting comfy?
Who's taking over?
Who's taking over?
Let's take it further
Who's taking over?
Who'll be in clover?
Who'll be in clover?
He's not the kingpin
He's just a fall guy
He's not the kingpin
He's just a fall guy
He's not the kingpin
He's just a fall guy
He's not the kingpin
He doesn't have the knowhow
He's not the kingpin
He don't have the know how
He's not the kingpin
He's just a fall guy
Follow the media
What's their agenda?
How do they frame it?
How do they name it?
Follow the media
What's their agenda?
How do they frame it?
How do they name it?
You make the call
He'll take the fall
Patsy or Seamus
Bet he can name us
Who are the sources?
Horses for courses
Who are the sources?
Horses for courses
Don't have enough
Just make it up
Follow the story
Follow the money
If he's a traitor
Sooner or later
He'll take the fall
He'll drop the ball
He's not the kingpin
He's just a fall guy
He's not the kingpin
He's just a fall guy
He's not the kingpin
He's just a fall guy
He's not the kingpin
He don't have the knowhow
He's not the kingpin
He don't have the knowhow
He's not the kingpin
He's just the fall guy
He's not the kingpin
He's just a fall guy
He's not the kingpin
He's just a fall guy
He's not the kingpin
He's just a fall guy