Pump It Up

Song Pump It Up
Artist Elvis Costello
Album The Very Best of Elvis Costello

Lyrics

[00:21.74] I've been on tenterhooks
[00:23.49] ending in dirty looks,
[00:24.74] list'ning to the Muzak,
[00:26.42] thinking 'bout this 'n' that.
[00:28.36] She said that's that.
[00:29.92] I don't wanna chitter-chat.
[00:31.66] Turn it down a little bit
[00:33.42] or turn it down flat.
[00:35.36] Pump it up when you don't really need it.
[00:38.50] Pump it up until you can feel it.
[00:49.04] Down in the pleasure centre,
[00:51.30] hell bent or heaven sent,
[00:52.36] listen to the propaganda,
[00:53.81] listen to the latest slander.
[00:55.81] There's nothing underhand
[00:57.26] that she wouldn't understand.
[00:59.07] Pump it up until you can feel it.
[01:02.58] Pump it up when you don't really need it.
[01:07.04]
[01:33.58] She's been a bad girl.
[01:35.20] She's like a chemical.
[01:36.78] Though you try to stop it,
[01:38.65] she's like a narcotic.
[01:40.34] You wanna torture her.
[01:41.83] You wanna talk to her.
[01:43.69] All the things you bought for her,
[01:45.43] putting up your temp'rature.
[01:47.87] Pump it up until you can feel it.
[01:50.45] Pump it up when you don't really need it.
[01:54.53]
[02:01.05] Out in the fashion show,
[02:02.43] down in the bargain bin,
[02:04.31] you put your passion out
[02:06.01] under the pressure pin.
[02:07.64] Fall into submission,
[02:09.64] hit-and-run transmission.
[02:11.14] No use wishing now for any other sin.
[02:14.97] Pump it up until you can feel it.
[02:17.79] Pump it up when you don't really need it.
[02:21.19] Pump it up until you can feel it.
[02:31.60] Pump it up when you don't really need it.