81 :: "Gentle Airs"

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Slow Drag with Remedy

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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, “Radio Silence”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Radio_Silence “Radio Silence”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CcSwea80dc (can’t find an official EC upload) “Radio Silence” Definition: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/radio-silent-silence-meaning “Pearl Harbor” Strike Force radio silence”: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01611190701313940?journalCode=ucry20 “The Secret History of messages etched into records”: https://thevinylfactory.com/features/secret-history-messages-etched-runout-groove/ “The World and His Wife” Origin: https://wordhistories.net/2020/04/22/world-and-his-wife/ 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   "Radio Silence" Lyrics: Signal fading, listen to what I'm saying Testing, testing This better be worth all of the breath I'm wasting Maintaining radio silence from now on   Barricaded in the talk radio station Hostage taken The red "On-Air" light shines on Something cheaper that passes for free speech will have to do   Hear him coming through loud and clear He's trickling in your ear He'll tell you anything you want to hear   Tape starts running He's going to tell you something String starts strumming Another humdrum conundrum Signing off now Maintaining radio silence from now on   But there's one thing I should have said "The hostage will end up dead" It's just a comedy The hostage is me   So, pay the ransom Beyond the run-out groove And get my wife down here A helicopter on the roof No police marksman Maintaining radio silence from now on   Mystery voices Drowned out by too much choice That's not to mention The sad waste of this wonderful invention Maintaining radio silence from now on   Libraries filled up with failed ideas There's nothing more for me there I trust in tender ink and gentle airs   Do those drug dealers still polish women made of wax? Gangsters and world leaders Require the same protection from attack From a distance it's hard to tell the difference Between a king and jack then a poet and hack Maintaining radio silence from now on