107 :: A Thrill Like This :: A Slow Drag with Dishonor the Stars"

05/28/23 • 10 min

Slow Drag with Remedy :: An Elvis Costello Appreciation

Today’s slow drag is with “Dishonor the Stars” from the Grammy Award winning “Look Now,” released in 2018. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.

Show Notes:

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

Bluesky Social: https://bsky.app/profile/slowdragwithremedy.com

Email: [email protected]

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

Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag

References:

Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Dishonor the Stars” http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Dishonor_The_Stars

“Dishonor the Stars” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E18wcuJYxRM

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

"Dishonor The Stars" Lyrics

If you wake and chance

to look above you

There's one that I named to show how

much I love you

Hanging up high

Poets long have written and

have sung of

moonlight and some

distant satellite and

when we're young we wish

upon them

Other men may only dream

to kiss you

But it's not a thrill like this

Put your lips a little closer to my cheek

then whisper,

then speak

So, tell me if you know

How deep can this thing go?

Honey will still desire the flowers

And there will be a love like ours

Until the sky dishonors the stars

What in the world would all this

amount to?

If I can't tell you how much

I want you

On such a night the sky might

dishonor the stars

Disown and dishonor the stars

Poets long have written and

have sung of

moonlight and some

distant satellite and

when we're young we wish

upon them

Other men may only dream to kiss you

But it's not a thrill like this

Put your lips a little closer to my cheek

then whisper,

then speak

So, tell me if you know

How deep can this thing go?

Honey will still desire the flowers

And there will be a love like ours

Until the sky dishonors the stars

What in the world would all this

amount to?

If I can't tell you how much

I want you

On such a night the sky might

dishonor the stars

Disown and dishonor the stars

Today’s slow drag is with “Dishonor the Stars” from the Grammy Award winning “Look Now,” released in 2018. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.

Show Notes:

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

Bluesky Social: https://bsky.app/profile/slowdragwithremedy.com

Email: [email protected]

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

Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag

References:

Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Dishonor the Stars” http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Dishonor_The_Stars

“Dishonor the Stars” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E18wcuJYxRM

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

"Dishonor The Stars" Lyrics

If you wake and chance

to look above you

There's one that I named to show how

much I love you

Hanging up high

Poets long have written and

have sung of

moonlight and some

distant satellite and

when we're young we wish

upon them

Other men may only dream

to kiss you

But it's not a thrill like this

Put your lips a little closer to my cheek

then whisper,

then speak

So, tell me if you know

How deep can this thing go?

Honey will still desire the flowers

And there will be a love like ours

Until the sky dishonors the stars

What in the world would all this

amount to?

If I can't tell you how much

I want you

On such a night the sky might

dishonor the stars

Disown and dishonor the stars

Poets long have written and

have sung of

moonlight and some

distant satellite and

when we're young we wish

upon them

Other men may only dream to kiss you

But it's not a thrill like this

Put your lips a little closer to my cheek

then whisper,

then speak

So, tell me if you know

How deep can this thing go?

Honey will still desire the flowers

And there will be a love like ours

Until the sky dishonors the stars

What in the world would all this

amount to?

If I can't tell you how much

I want you

On such a night the sky might

dishonor the stars

Disown and dishonor the stars

Previous Episode

106 :: A Work of Fiction :: A Slow Drag with "There's a Story in Your Voice"

Today’s slow drag is with “There’s a Story in Your Voice” from “The Delivery Man,” released in 2004. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello, with the guest vocal of Lucinda Williams.

Show Notes:

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

Bluesky Social: https://bsky.app/profile/slowdragwithremedy.com

Email: [email protected]

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

Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag

References:

Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “There’s a Story in Your Voice” http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/There%27s_A_Story_In_Your_Voice

“There’s a Story in Your Voice” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6dXZNT-Sd4

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

"There's a Story in Your Voice" Lyrics

Once upon another time

If you had the need

I'd step right in the shoes that you've been walking

'Cos someone put the hurt in you

For everyone to see

And you only have to speak to tell your fortune

There's a story in your voice

Both by damage and by choice

It tells of promises and pleasure

And a tale of wine and woe

The uneasy time to come

And the long way 'round we go to get there

Once you told me fairytales

Everybody knows

But I didn't care for their prediction

Now you say you're leaving me

And packing up your clothes

I finally see you were a work of fiction

There's a story in your walk

Then you crumble just like chalk

And I could say that I was sorry

But I wouldn't mean it much

There are pages I can't touch

And something that's been torn out of this chapter

Far away, not far enough

'Cos I can still recall

How it felt when I read that last sentence

Now I go inside some rooms with Gideon in them all

And hide myself from all hope of repentance

There's a story in your eyes

Cheap sunglasses might disguise

But when the bedroom light reveals

All that bravado and that fright

That you cover up in spite

Attempts to strip away this fabrication

There's a story in your voice

Both by damage and by choice

It tells of promises and pleasure

And a tale of wine and woe

The uneasy time to come

And the long way 'round we go to get there

Next Episode

108 :: The Mightiest Rose :: A Slow Drag with "The Other Side of Summer"

Today’s slow drag is with “The Other Side of Summer” from “Mighty Like a Rose,” released in 1991. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello’s birth name.

Show Notes:

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

Bluesky Social: https://bsky.app/profile/slowdragwithremedy.com

Email: [email protected]

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

Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag

References:

Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “The Other Side of Summer” http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/The_Other_Side_Of_Summer

“The Other Side of Summer” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR_9f1xuloo

“The Other Side of Summer” Music Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww0hN-puTdA

“Stand Like Greyhounds...” https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/191850.html

“Give It Away Now” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr_uHJPUlO8