Elvis Costello - Radio Radio

This Year's Model / 1978-03-01 1. (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea 2. Big Boys 3. Big Tears 4. Crawling To The U.S.A. 5. Green Shirt 6. Hand In Hand 7. Lipstick Vogue 8. Lip Service 9. Little Triggers 10. Living In Paradise 11. Night Rally 12. No Action 13. Pump It Up 14. Radio Radio 15. Running Out of Angels 16. The Beat 17. This Year's Girl 18. You Belong To Me

Radio Radio

I was tuning in the shine on the light night dial
doing anything my radio advised
with every one of those late night stations
playing songs bringing tears to me eyes
I was seriously thinking about hiding the receiver
when the switch broke 'cause it's old
They're saying things that I can hardly believe.
They really think we're getting out of control.

Radio is a sound salvation
Radio is cleaning up the nation
They say you better listen to the voice of reason
But they don't give you any choice
'cause they think that it's treason.
So you had better do as you are told.
You better listen to the radio.

I wanna bite the hand that feeds me.
I wanna bite that hand so badly.
I want to make them wish they'd never seen me.

Some of my friends sit around every evening
and they worry about the times ahead
But everybody else is overwhelmed by indifference
and the promise of an early bed
You either shut up or get cut out;
they don't wanna hear about it.
It's only inches on the reel-to-reel.
And the radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools
tryin' to anaesthetise the way that you feel

[Chorus]

Wonderful radio
Marvelous radio
Wonderful radio
Radio, radio...