Radio Silence Lyrics - Elvis Costello

Signal fading, listen to what I'm saying 

Testing, testing 

This better be worth all of the breath I'm wasting 

Maintaining radio silence from now on 

Barricaded in the talk radio station 

Hostage taken 

The red "On Air" light shines on 

Something cheaper that passes for free speech 

Will have to do 

Hear him coming through loud and clear 

Trickling in your ear 

He'll tell you anything you want to hear 

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The tape starts running 

He's going to tell you something 

The strings start strumming 

Another humdrum conundrum 

Signing off now 

Maintaining radio silence from now on 

But there's one thing I should have said 

"The hostage will end up dead" 

It's just a comedy 

The hostage is me 

So pay the ransom 

Beyond the run-out groove 

Get my wife down here 

A helicopter on the roof 

No police marksman 

Maintaining radio silence from now on 

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Mystery voices 

Drowned out by too much choice 

That's not to mention 

The sad waste of this wonderful invention 

Maintaining radio silence from now on 

Libraries filled up with failed ideas 

There's nothing more for me there 

I trust in tender ink and gentle airs 

Do those drug dealers still polish women made of wax? 

Gangsters and world leaders 

Require the same protection from attack 

From this distance it's hard to tell the difference 

Between a king and a jack 

Between a poet and hack 

Maintaining radio silence from now on