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Elvis Costello - "Everyday I Write the Book"

published by Issykitty

5 days 23 hours 44 minutes ago • 302 views

tags: elvis costello, punch the clock, everyday i write the book, 1983, 80s

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From the album "Punch The Clock."

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So... it looks to me in the video that the couple are supposed to Princess Diana and the Prince of Wales. Is the song about them too? Anyone know?

written by Issykitty

| 6 days 3 hours 16 minutes ago | CH

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found in http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=50986--

This is what Elvis had to say about the song:

"Every Day I Write The Book" is kind of a hack pop song. It doesn't have any feeling behind it. It's just an exercise in writing that sort of bad Smokey Robinson song with all the tricks of the trade...To balance [the album], we had a thing like "Everyday I Write The Book," that anybody could whistle, and that was written in 10 minutes, as a spoof. Originally I tried to do it as a lovers' rock song, and then we grafted on this kind of modern rhythmic treatment. It always begged to be done in some kind of pop style."

written by winkler1

| 5 days 23 hours 28 minutes ago | CH

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2:24... STRONGBAD??

written by notarobot

| 5 days 22 hours 17 minutes ago | CH

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HE sucks, why is he sucssesful?

And yes I can bash him because i write music sometimes and it IS better. I am not saying my tunes are great, but he is shit balls.

written by AceOfKidneys

| 5 days 21 hours 54 minutes ago | CH

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Seriously? No offense, but WHAT THE FUCK are you doing in a comment thread of an artist you you think is "shit balls" and leaving a worthless troll comment??? What are you, 10 years old? Kindly go back to Youtube or Break please. KTHANKXBYE.

>> ^AceOfKidneys:
HE sucks, why is he sucssesful?

And yes I can bash him because i write music sometimes and it IS better. I am not saying my tunes are great, but he is shit balls.

written by Issykitty

| 3 days 2 hours 30 minutes ago | CH

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