Today’s slow drag is with “Black and White World” from “Get Happy!”, released in 1980. 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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References:

Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Black and White World” https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=Black_And_White_World

“Black and White World” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRDl6YvXhiw

“Black and White World” Demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMLZi9v-RFM

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Listen to the audiobook for free at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq7n1pN8D1Y

 

"Black and White World" Lyrics:

I was looking at the black and white world

It seemed so exciting

If you'd only put me back-to-back with that girl

When the night's inviting

With just a little lighting

There'll never be days like that again

When I was just a boy and men were men

 

You never go from moment to moment

You're the living double of a single fiction

You're very colorful with your compliments

As you feel the finger's friction

It's a freeze-frame till it’s real life

You don't want to look

'Cause you've seen the film and you've read the book

 

I was looking at the black and white world

Trying to name some pin-up

Those days she was just a beautiful girl

Now she's framed and hung up

I thought she was young

Up until I saw her last night in close detail

Though they all fade away when you're so pale

 

It's more than just a physical attraction

It starts with a face and ends up a fixation

But you're never gonna feel a fraction

Of the way it used to work on your imagination

When you were looking at the black and white world