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Show Notes: ---------------------- Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag ---------------------- References: Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Chewing Gum”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Chewing_Gum “Chewing Gum”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh-tbg_0ZIY “Rock n’ Roll: Here’s Where the Name Came From”: https://sparkfiles.net/rock-roll-origins-phrase/ “Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis”: http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~johnca/spch100/4-9-sapir.htm “Language, thought, and color: Whorf was half right”: https://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/~kay/tics2.pdf “Chewing Gum” Explanation from the Elvis Wiki page: http://www.elviscostello.info/faq/lyrics.php 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 "Chewing Gum" Lyrics: With their cardboard hands by their sides, here's a naked man and lady And they're yours to cut out and keep and you can dress them up maybe They don't know just who they are, or who they're supposed to be You can make them happy or sad or assume their identity So here they are in the departure lounge, it's the "Gateway to the East" She is just another mail-order bride, she doesn't know he's a kinky beast Now he gives her a picture of Maradona and child She wants to "roll and rock" As he spills his beer over her Bumps and grinds as he repeats "Bangkok" (Chorus:) There must be something that is better than this It starts with a slap and ends with a kiss Begins with you bawling and it ends up in tears Oh, my little one, take that chewing gum out of your ears She might as well be in the jungle, she might as well be on the moon He's away on a business trip in Dusseldorf, and she's becoming immune To the lack of glamour and danger in the West-German city today The nearest she comes to the "Dynasty" life he promised her Is a Chinese takeaway (Repeat Chorus) And though he only taught her three little words It doesn't matter if they're dirty or clean He can only control what they look like He can never possess what they mean So, he wants to whisper in her ear All the shrinking nothingness Something always comes between them I wonder if you can guess (Repeat Chorus)