Radio Radio Lyrics by Elvis Costello

Radio Radio Lyrics

    I was tuning in the shine on the light night dial
    Doing anything my radio advised
    With every one of those late night stations
    Playing songs bringing tears to me eyes
    I was seriously thinking about hiding the receiver
    When the switch broke 'cause it's old
    They're saying things that i can hardly believe.
    They really think we're getting out of control.

    Radio is a sound salvation
    Radio is cleaning up the nation
    They say you better listen to the voice of reason
    But they don't give you any choice
    'cause they think that it's treason.
    So you had better do as you are told.
    You better listen to the radio.

    I wanna bite the hand that feeds me.
    I wanna bite that hand so badly.
    I want to make them wish they'd never seen me.


    Some of my friends sit around every evening
    And they worry about the times ahead
    But everybody else is overwhelmed by indifference
    And the promise of an early death
    You either shut up or get cut up;
    They don't wanna hear about it.
    It's only inches on the reel-to-reel.
    And the radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools
    Tryin' to anaesthetise the way that you feel

    [chorus]

    Wonderful radio
    Marvelous radio
    Wonderful radio
    Radio, radio...

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