| Elvis Costello – Our Little Angel Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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SO THIS SONG appears on King of America, or "The Costello Show," Declan Patrick McManus' most overtly self-as-popstar reflection. Many of the songs--the title cut, a couple of others--describe the pitiful state of a recording artist who hasn't achieved the kind of big stardom he may have aspired to or was promised. He is disappointed and maybe a little bitter, but he can still sing about it. The way he jokes wearing a crown as America's King or the way he describes the sad sack in this song show a kind of ironic distance from his pain that allows us to laugh. The "you" in the song can be taken as a pop-sensation ("a sweetheart") who ends up being passed by ("go out a stranger") and has to accept his impotence at achieving superstardom. The bride is American Pop Music charting, something Elvis never really got. She is attractive and the "you" thinks that he's "man enough to please her/and fool enough to start". The consolation might be that very few who have courted this success have achieved her--and those who have, the real "Elvis, King of America" among them, may have been worse off for wedding her. and so he's got to listen to her pimpdaddy America assure him that, try as he might, American pop music success will never be his. No, for all the tours and albums, he's really not going to "do a thing to our little angel." Or at least that's how i've heard the song. |
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