Pump It Up Lyrics - Singles - Skin

(Elvis Costello) 

(originally performed by Elvis Costello; from his album "This Year's Model") 

I've been on tenterhooks, endin' in dirty looks 

Listenin' to the muzak, thinkin' 'bout this 'n' that 

She said that's that, I don't wanna chitterchat 

Turn it down a little bit or turn it down flat 

Pump it up - when you don't really need it, yeah 

Pump it up - until you can feel it 

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, yeah 

Oh yeah, when you don't, when you don't, don't, don't really need it, ow 

She's been a bad girl, she's like a chemical 

Though you try to stop it, she's hard to knock out 

You wanna torture her, you wanna talk to her 

All the things you bought for her, putting up her temperature 

(chorus) 

Out in the fashion show, down in the bargain bin 

You put your passion on, under the pressure pin 

Fall into submission, hit-and-run transmission 

No use wishin' now for any other sin 

(chorus repeats 2x) 

You don't really need it, you don't really need it 

Don't really need it, don't really need it 

Don't really need it, don't really need it 

No no 

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