Lyrics REFUSE To Be Saved - Elvis Costello, The Roots

REFUSE To Be Saved

Now that you set everybody free
What you going to do about me?
Don’t want to be treated like some poor grateful clown
I’d rather go back in the sweet underground
Where I can tell the time by the color of my skin
And I know my neighbor 'cause he’s the one, yes he’s the one
Who always turns me in
A woman works the tunnel in the middle of the night
Picking up every lost object in sight
Handbags, toupees, lost legs and fingernails
The black market eats up all your failures
Her transistor offers no salvation or regrets
No pool, no pets, no cigarettes
Just non-stop discotheques and the Sex-o-lettes
There’s no name, there’s no name
There’s no name, there’s no name
There’s no name, there’s no name
For the pain we’ll cause you again and again
For the pain we’ll cause you again and again
The Liberation Forces make movies of their own
Playing their Doors records and pretending to be stoned
Drowning out a broadcast that wasn’t authorized
Incidentally the revolution will be televised
With one head for business and another for good looks
Until they started arriving with their rubber aprons and their butcher’s hooks
There’s no name, there’s no name
There’s no name, there’s no name
There’s no name, there’s no name
For the pain we’ll cause you again and again
For the pain we’ll cause you again and again
They’re hunting us down here with Liberty’s light
A handshaking double talking procession of the mighty
Pursued by a T.V. crew and coming after them
A limousine of singing stars and their brotherhood anthem
The former dictator was impeccably behaved
They’re mopping up all the stubborn ones who just refuse to be saved
I refuse to be saved
I refuse to be saved
I refuse to be saved
I refuse to be saved
I refuse to be saved
I refuse to be saved
I refuse to be saved
I refuse to be saved
I refuse to be saved
I refuse to be saved
I refuse to be saved
I refuse to be saved