104 :: With Glitter and With Dirt :: A Slow Drag with "Spooky Girlfriend"

Today’s slow drag is with “Spooky Girlfriend” from “When I Was Cruel,” released in 2002. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.

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Show Notes:

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

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Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com

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References:

Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Spooky Girlfriend” http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Spooky_Girlfriend

“Spooky Girlfriend” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMBmd6m7h-c

“Spooky Girlfriend” Cruel Smile, Live on KFOG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJsRa4XojFs

“London’s Brilliant Parade” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZmNE964rmk

Purchase “The Most Terrible Time in My Life...Ends Thursday”

"Spooky Girlfriend" Lyrics:

I want a girl to make a mess

To do no wrong she must confess

And then perhaps hitch up her dress

'Cos when the flashbulbs explode

She's such a sensitive soul

I want a girl who is helpless and frail

Who won't pull on my ponytail

I want a girl who has no past

She's made up now

But that won't last

'Cos when she sits on my knee

And then she whispers to me

"Can't you see

could be

could be

Your spooky girlfriend...

I could be, I could be your spooky girlfriend”

And the broken toys are scattered in the attic

And the Newspapers play in the words of the fanatic

And the greeting cards are your most poetic lyric

And the flat champagne is sweet sugar syrup

I want to paint you with glitter and with dirt

Picture you with innocence and hurt

The shutter closes

Exposes the shot

She says, "Are you looking up my skirt?"

When you say "No"

She says "Why not?"

I want a girl to turn my screw

To wind my watch, to buckle my shoe

And if she won't, her mother will do

'Cos when she does as she's told

We'll all turn platinum and gold

But when she sits on my knee

I hear her whispers to me

"Can't you see?"

"I could be your spooky girlfriend"