Refuse To Be Saved - Elvis Costello & The Roots

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Refuse To Be Saved Lyrics

Now that you set everybody free
What you going to do about me?
Don't want to be treated like some poor grateful clown
I'd rather go back in the sweet underground
Where I can tell the time by the colour of my skin
And I know my neighbour 'cos he's the one, yes he's the one
Who always turns me in

A woman works the tunnel in the middle of the night
Picking up every lost object in sight
Handbags, toupees, lost legs and fingernails
The black market eats up all your failures
Her transistor offers no salvation or regrets
No pool, no pets, no cigarettes
Just non-stop Disco Tex and the Sex-o-lettes

There's no name, there's no name
There's no name, there's no name
There's no name, there's no name
For the pain we'll cause you again and again
For the pain we'll cause you again and again

The Liberation Forces make movies of their own
Playing their Doors records and pretending to be stoned
Drowning out a broadcast that wasn't authorised
Incidentally the revolution will be televised
With one head for business and another for good looks
Until they started arriving with their rubber aprons and their butcher's hooks

There's no name, there's no name
There's no name, there's no name
There's no name, there's no name
For the pain we'll cause you again and again
For the pain we'll cause you again and again

They're hunting us down here with Liberty's light
A handshaking double talking procession of the mighty
Pursued by a T.V. crew and coming after them
A limousine of singing stars and their brotherhood anthem
The former dictator was impeccably behaved
They're mopping up all the stubborn ones who just refuse to be saved

I refuse to be saved

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A collaboration between Elvis Costello and The Roots, who released Wise Up Ghost on 16th September 2013.

Produced by Costello with Roots drummer Questlove and the band’s longtime associate Steven Mandel, ‘Ghost’ was first revealed in a January 2013 interview with Questlove, who told Billboard that the Roots’ gig as the house band for ‘Late Night With Jimmy Fallon‘ had given them the opportunity to back up Costello a number of times. He described the relationship as “love at first sight.”

Initially slated to cover just a few songs, the ‘Wise Up Ghost’ sessions quickly turned into something more when, as Questlove recalled, “We had 13 or 14 songs, but then we said, ‘Ooh! Wait a minute! Let’s replace four of these songs with four better songs! And now we have the tightest 12-14 song collection out of about 20 songs that we made.”

Costello shared Questlove’s enthusiasm in typically cryptic fashion, describing the record in a press release as “the shortest distance between here and there” and containing “both rhythm and what is read.” Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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