Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello
Costello reveals the meaning of the song in the Mighty Like A Rose liner notes:
A fantasy about a decent man who has been working in the resistance of a recently ‘liberated’ country, only to find that his new role is to be patronized and force-fed consumer goods and pop anthems. He must assume a po...
[Verse 1]
Now that you set everybody free
What you going to do about me?
Don't want to be treated like some poor grateful clown
I'd rather go back in the sweet underground
Where I can tell the time by the color of my skin
And I know my neighbor 'cause he's the one, yes he's the one
Who always turns me in
[Verse 2]
A woman works the tunnel in the middle of the night
Picking up every lost object in sight
Handbags, toupees, lost legs and fingernails
The black market eats up all your failures
Her transistor offers no salvation or regrets
No pool, no pets, no cigarettes
Just non-stop Disco Tex and the Sex-o-lettes
[Chorus]
There's no name, no name for the place
Or pain we'll cause you again and again
If you do not cooperate with the Invasion Hit Parade
[Verse 3]
The liberation forces make movies of their own
Playing their Doors records and pretending to be stoned
Drowning out a broadcast that wasn't authorized
Incidentally the revolution will be televised
With one head for business and another for good looks
Until they started arriving with their rubber aprons and their butcher's hooks
[Chorus]
There's no name, no name for the place
Or pain we'll cause you again and again
If you do not cooperate with the Invasion Hit Parade
[Verse 4]
They're hunting us down here with Liberty's light
A handshaking double talking procession of the mighty
Pursued by a t.v. crew and coming after them
A limousine of singing stars and their brotherhood anthem
The former dictator was impeccably behaved
They're mopping up all the stubborn ones who just refuse to be saved
[Chorus]
There's no name, no name for the place
Or pain we'll cause you again and again
If you do not cooperate with the Invasion Hit Parade
Invasion Hit Parade was written by Elvis Costello.
Invasion Hit Parade was produced by Mitchell Froom & Kevin Killen & Elvis Costello.
Elvis Costello released Invasion Hit Parade on Tue May 14 1991.