13 :: Not Quite Against My Will :: A Slow Drag with "Stripping Paper"

Today’s slow drag is with “Stripping Paper,” from “Look Now,” released in 2018. The songwriting and is credited to Elvis Costello.

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Written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA

Twitter: @slowdragremedy

Email: [email protected]

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

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References:

Elvis Costello Wiki Resource: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Stripping Paper” http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Stripping_Paper

“Stripping Paper” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJWckSvZC94

“Shatterproof” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt0bXvzwa-M

Rococo style: https://allthatsinteresting.com/rococo-art-movement

More about the Slow Drag dance origins: https://bluesjazzbookclub.com/2018/09/01/a-landscape-of-slow-drag/

Sloe gin: https://sipsmith.com/exploring-the-history-of-sloe-gin/

"Stripping Paper" Lyrics

I got time on my hands I'm just stripping paper It's amazing what you will find stripping paper When you get down to the past Back then we didn't have means for fine decorations So we painted while mixing wine With flirtation There in the mess of it all He took me right there in the thrill Not quite against my will With my back to rococo-wall We slipped right down to the floor I can't close the door He complimented my taste I anointed his serious face With wallpaper paste I wish we could laugh like that now But what seemed to follow It ended up hollow us out there Tear a strip or two See what what came not much later Here's a pony and a toy balloon Behind the vine that withered all too soon Here's the pencil of a measuring mark And the monsters you spied in the dark Now I got no place in her heart Let me go back to the start I got time on my hands I'm just stripping paper I got time on my hands I'm just stripping paper I've got time on my hands I'm just stripping paper