Pump It Up

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Pump It Up by Elvis Costello & The Attractions

About Pump It Up

One of Costello’s best known songs and a prime example of his witty wordplay, “Pump It Up” is pure sexual frustration, its high octane lyrics being a pun for the speaker’s desperate pleas for both sexual release and the raising of the booming music he’s overwhelming himself in. Allegedly, Costello wrote the song while sitting on the fire escape of the Newcastle Hotel during his 1977 tour. In his 2015 autobiography Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink, Costello acknowledged that the song owed an inspiration to Bob Dylan: .

Pump It Up Lyrics

[00:20.70] I've been on tenterhooks
[00:22.53] Ending in dirty looks
[00:24.37] Listening to the muzak
[00:26.16] Thinking 'bout this and that
[00:27.96] She said "that's that"
[00:29.71] I don't wanna chitter-chat
[00:30.64] Turn it down a little bit
[00:32.52] Or turn it down flat
[00:34.37] Pump it up, when you don't really need it
[00:37.91] Pump it up, until you can feel it
[00:43.12]
[00:47.85] Down in the pleasure centre
[00:49.78] Hell-bent or heaven-sent
[00:51.53] Listen to the propaganda
[00:53.39] Listen to the latest slander
[00:55.15] There's nothing underhand
[00:56.96] That she wouldn't understand
[00:58.71] Pump it up, until you can feel it
[01:02.38] Pump it up, when you don't really need it
[01:07.86]
[01:28.97] Hey!
[01:31.36]
[01:36.29] She's been a bad girl
[01:38.01] She's like a chemical
[01:39.80] Though you try to stop it
[01:40.72] She's like a narcotic
[01:42.59] You wanna torture her
[01:44.46] You wanna talk to her
[01:46.22] All the things you bought for her
[01:48.03] Could not get a temperature
[01:49.85] Pump it up, until you can feel it
[01:53.40] Pump it up, when you don't really need it
[01:58.82]
[02:03.31] Out in the fashion show
[02:05.14] Down in the bargain bin
[02:06.90] You put your passion out
[02:08.74] Under the pressure pin
[02:10.52] Fall into submission
[02:12.37] Hit and run transmission
[02:14.11] No use wishing now for any other sin
[02:16.83] Pump it up, until you can feel it
[02:20.52] Pump it up, when you don't really need it
[02:31.13] Pump it up, until you can feel it
[02:33.81] Pump it up, when you don't really need it
[02:44.94] Pump it up, until you can feel it
[02:47.68] Pump it up, when you don't really need it
[02:53.10] Don't really need it
[02:56.88] Don't really need it
[02:59.58] Don't really need it
[02:59.58]

From the album: Throwback Hits: The 80’s