04 :: The Hangover This Morning Had a Personality :: A Slow Drag with "Big Light"

Today’s slow drag is with “Church Underground” from “National Ransom,” released in 2010. Songwriting credit goes to Mr. Elvis Costello.

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. Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA

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References:

Church Underground: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFDk4OaSRJg

Elvis Costello Wiki Reference page: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Church_Underground

“The Tribute to Leonard Cohen Concert, November 2017: https://consequenceofsound.net/2017/11/sting-lana-del-rey-elvis-costello-and-many-more-perform-in-tribute-to-leonard-cohen-in-montreal-11-6/

The first moving picture and the history of its inventor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqfCmQtrTcE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmuo45NR6qE

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Eadweard-Muybridge

https://www.britannica.com/art/history-of-the-motion-picture/Post-World-War-I-European-cinema

Atlas Obscura “Taxi Dancers” article: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-men-in-the-1920s-paid-women-for-spins-around-the-dance-hall

The history of Prohibition: https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/prohibition

The concept of Purgatory: https://www.britannica.com/topic/purgatory-Roman-Catholicism

The video of Dorothy and her pals getting ready to see the Wizard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur7GnxTkS-M

The blog post with the “New International Version” of Hebrews 11:36-38 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur7GnxTkS-M

The “English Standard Version” passage of Hebrews 11:36-38 https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Heb%2011.36–38

"Church Underground" Lyrics:

She stood spotlit in a plain print dress Came howling out of the wilderness There beat a cunning and murderous heart Beneath that calm exterior "You know my name You don't know my mind Don't doubt my eyes They betray the past And I've already forgotten Much more than you will ever know" And every word that I have spoken is true Except for those that were broken in two I'm trying to make peace after a long night of pretend I need a pawnbroker or moneylender Why do you do me down, Mister? Sing "Hallelujah," Sister Turn up the volume, just to turn it down The trivial secrets buried with profound It's enough to put a Church Underground Deflowered young and then ever since She's tried to wash off his fingerprints So every charlatan and prince Was made to feel inferior She worked for tips in a 10-cent dance Said moving pictures might pay perchance 10,000 one-way tickets to the sparkling coast From the blank interior Everybody's either talking in code Or getting ready to explode Then she was singing with five-piece band But seems that no-one wants this sound Why do you do me down, Mister? Sing "Hallelujah," Sister Turn up the volume, just to turn it down The trivial secrets buried with profound It's enough to put a Church Underground The shaft of fanlight streaked with rain Poured through the glass, punched through the pain A holy picture hidden in the midden of that poisoned stitch Her lonely voice was just a ruin in these riches Must have been dreaming this all along Could she be redeeming herself in song? “I'm no-one's martyred, plaster saint Below the grease, beneath the paint” I'm rolling like barrel Swinging like a gallows I'm rising up fast like all hell and all hallows Why do you do me down, Mister? Sing "Hallelujah," Sister I'll be damned or purgatory bound Before those jokers ever understand It's enough to put a Church Underground