PUMP IT UP by ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS
VERSE:
I've been on tenterhooks
ending in dirty looks,
list'ning to the Muzak,
thinking 'bout this 'n' that.
She said that's that.
I don't wanna chitter-chat.
Turn it down a little bit
or turn it down flat.
CHORUS
Pump it up
when you don't really need it.
Pump it up
until you can feel it.
VERSE:
Down in the pleasure centre,
hell bent or heaven sent,
listen to the propaganda,
listen to the latest slander.
There's nothing underhand
that she wouldn't understand.
CHORUS
Pump it up
until you can feel it.
Pump it up
when you don't really need it.
BREAK (DON’T SING!)
VERSE
She's been a bad girl.
She's like a chemical.
Though you try to stop it,
she's like a narcotic.
You wanna torture her.
You wanna talk to her.
All the things you bought for her,
putting up your temp'rature.
CHORUS
Pump it up
until you can feel it.
Pump it up
when you don't really need it. VERSE
Out in the fashion show,
down in the bargain bin,
you put your passion out
under the pressure pin.
Fall into submission,
hit-and-run transmission.
No use wishing now for any other sin.
Pump it up until you can feel it.
Pump it up when you don't really need it.
(REPEAT AD NASEUM)
END SONG
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