#bruce springsteen paradise

[1uc0z4dee]

#lana del rey #coney island #lou reed #brooklyn baby #born to die #paradise #tropico #vintage americana #vintage #elvis presley #bruce springsteen #lizzy grant #lana del ray aka lizzy grant #lana del rey unreleased #lana del rey aesthetic #lust for life #go go dancer #girl that got away #moodboard #messy moodboard #girlblog #girlblogging #just girly posts #diet mountain dew #noir #heart shaped sunglasses #cherry coke #every man gets his wish #coney island baby #florida kilos

[4chambersofmystery]

#bruce springsteen #paradise #my go to guy #Spotify

[thirst2]

YOU do the dry-in' i'll do the dishes WHO'll do the cry-in' when all the wishes don't come true? YOU do the wash-in' i'll do the foldin' WHOse heart is break-in' when whose arms are holding someone new?

Sittin' on a peaceful lakeside Didn't hear the roar of the waterfall coming When it's all a storybook story, When it's all so easy and nice, Here comes trouble in paradise

YOU did the dust-in' I did the sweeping YOU did the driv-in' Oh and I did the sleeping a little too long On a picnic 'neath the sky so blue We didn't see the rain and heartache coming through When it's all an old black and white movie And you're sure you've seen the ending twice Here comes trouble in paradise

You said everything was fine – I'm sorry, baby: I didn't see the signs oh, so beautifully you read your lines… In a play where the hero has no vice And love comes without a price So does trouble in paradise

DOn't matter who did the dust-in' or who did the sweeping WHO did the trust-in' or who did the cheat-in' when it's all gone Layin' in a field on a summer's day Waitin' for those gray skies to clear away Knowing all love's glory and beauty Can vanish before you think twice Leaving trouble in paradise

Now, WE share the laugh-in' we share the joking Oh, WE do the sleep-in' mmm, with one eye op-en…

#Music #Bruce Springsteen #Tracks album #Trouble in Paradise song #Lyrics #Youtube

[ofgreatart]

Darcey Bussell / Bruce Springsteen: 'It’s a mad dog’s promenade. So walk tall…or, baby, don’t walk at all.'

‘“dancing, dancing, dancing” / “singing, singing, singing” becomes a triumph of life itself. For in this place, beauty is everywhere balanced by something sinister. The beat is not rock and roll—it is just a rolling heartbeat. And Bruce Springsteen’s voice aches with desire.’

1: Darcey Bussell, ballerina Video: Song of the Earth Music: Gustav Mahler Choreography by Kenneth MacMillan

2: Bruce Springsteen Video: New York City Serenade

“Most writers take years to write songs that meld classical virtues with a unique perspective, but Springsteen did it when he was twenty-three, on his second album. “When I write something and I know it’s good,” Springsteen says, “I get a little spark. It’s like a little light that goes off inside me that says, ‘Bing! You’ve just fulfilled your life’s purpose.’”

“New York City Serenade” is about exactly such moments of self-discovery. Bruce croons it with all the faith of the truly wild and innocent, describing a fool’s paradise and the rules by which one lives within it: “It’s midnight in Manhattan/This is no time to get cute. It’s a mad dog’s promenade. So walk tall…or, baby, don’t walk at all.” In the end, the city and the song merge in a single metaphor:

Hey vibes man, hey jazz man, play me your serenade Any deeper blue and you’re playin’ in your grave

There’s great delicacy in this song, with its acoustic guitar and light piano, rumbling bass and crying strings. But in the guitar, there’s an edge like a knife, and Bruce’s voice aches with desire. At the very end of the song’s ten minutes, the music glides and soars with a singsong celebration of a junkman, whose “singing, singing, singing” becomes a triumph of life itself. For in this place, beauty is everywhere balanced by something sinister.

It’s as though he were whispering secrets and promises in our ear, drawing us just close enough to make us want to hear more. You can imagine Johnny Shines hearing Robert Johnson’s blues and finding in them something like this that encouraged him to follow the great country bluesman. The beat is not rock and roll—it is just a rolling heartbeat. But it is something very like Springsteen’s own statement of the blues: what it is that matters, how one might gain it, and lose it, and the price paid for the attempt. For if this is not a version of the blues, then it is very like a Pied Piper’s tune; one has about as much hope of resisting.”

Dave Marsh: Bruce Springsteen

Darcey Bussell

#art #heroine #dance #music #ballerina #darcey bussell #bruce springsteen #springsteen #songwriting #gustav mahler #ballet #goddess #dancer #choreographer #artist #beauty #choreography #classical music #singer #songwriter #Youtube

[wutheringdyke]

sweet Petra @majortomwaits tagged me to do to this fun thing! <3 rules: pick a song for every letter of your url and tag that many people

w - why don't you write me - simon & garfunkel u - up on cripple creek - the band t - trouble in paradise - bruce springsteen h - how to disappear - lana del rey e - emmylou - first aid kit r - reason to believe - karen dalton i - i'll be your baby tonight - bob dylan (live with the band at isle of wight 1969. btw.) n - new slang - the shins g - give it up - angel olsen d - drink before the war - sinéad o'connor y - your best american girl - mitski k - kathy's song - simon & garfunkel e - end of the line - traveling wilburys

tagging @appleisms @fortheturnstiles @kafkaguy @planetwaving @opheliamp3

❤️

#this was hard as fuck!!!! #and I'm notttt tagging that many people + I'm sparing my mutuals with long ass urls #sorry not you though kiki I know you will slay this <3

[emphasisonthehomo]

Continuation of this.

I was lamenting in the tags on the original post about my failure to include Gracie and @teruel-a-witch rightly pointed out that Steve could be the bio dad. So anyways. Here’s how Danny gets a bun in his oven. This also gets unbelievably schmoopy.

I’d say this is a... light E? Heavy M? Sex but nothing too detailed.

•

The thing with having spent like 12 years as Best Friends with Benefits, is that this means everyone gets slapped in the face with Deeply Flirtatious Married Bickering right out the gate.

Danny comes back from the airport, and because he flew in last night and was going to fly out today, all he has is his comfy travel clothes and his funeral suit. As a result he’s in a threadbare pair of jeans and a t shirt with the album cover of Born in the U.S.A on the front, exclusively bc the idea of Danny walking around w/ Bruce Springsteen’s ass across his chest is hilarious to me.

But they’re like Obviously Close to the point that when Steve goes to bully Chin into joining his new task force, Chin sits there like “Okay so Steve McGarrett brought his… not husband, there’s no wedding ring, but boyfriend? Partner? To this discussion. Interesting.”

Steve and Chin go to speak to Doran, because Danny is very firmly in the ‘civilian’ box in Steve’s head. Which mostly means Danny stands by the rental car and goes WHAT THE FUCK when Steve and Chin go in without backup. This is probably the first time Danny’s seen Steve in SEAL mode, the closest is maybe when Steve’s taken him to the gun range. But this is different. This is a side of Steve that Danny hasn’t seen, in all the time he’s known him. But why would he? Steve goes off and does classified shit and doesn’t talk about it. Danny’s a PI from Jersey. It’s two very different lives.

Afterwards Danny walks up to Steve, grabs him by the elbow and, and in front of god and Chin and HPD says:

“Steven. Listen. I love you. You understand that, right?”

Steve, taken a back, half distracted because Doran is fucking dead and therefore useless says, “I – yes. I love you too, Danno.”

“Good,” Danny nods seriously, “Because you are a dumb shit idiot bastard son of a bitch motherfucker, what the hell were you thinking – ”

And then Chin witnesses one of their more legitimate arguments and is like oh damn, trouble in paradise.

After all of it, after Hess is dead in the water, Danny takes Steve back to a hotel room and fucks him careful. Because Steve’s kind of beat up, a little worse for wear. Because he’s a moron who crashed a car into a ship, but he’s also Danny’s moron. Danny sucks him sloppy and then gets on top of him and rides him bare, fucks himself on Steve’s dick until they’re both shaking with it, until Steve’s clinging to him and kissing him and holding him close.

Danny feels bad, leaving. He can tell Steve’s still in a really fragile place, but Danny does seriously need to get back to Jersey. He’s in the middle of a case there.

“So, Governor’s task force, huh?” Danny asks afterwards, when Steve’s basically using him as a human shaped weighted blanket, “You’ll be on O’ahu full time.”

“Yeah,” Steve kind of wants to ask Danny to stay, to join the task force with him. He won’t. Danny’s got a successful business in Jersey. Danny hates the beach.

“We’ll be able to see each other more often then,” and Danny’s so pleased with the idea, playing idly with Steve’s hair, “I’ll come out again in a couple months for a visit.”

Steve’s got so many fucking feelings, things he can’t even begin to say out loud, so he just starts pushing Danny onto his back. Ignores Danny’s protests of ‘you’re in a sling you moron’ and eats Danny out, very thoroughly cleans up the mess left deep inside him.

And then the next morning Steve drives Danny to the airport in the rental, pecks him on the mouth at passenger drop off, and watches him walk away.

Because that’s what they do.

Except Steve won’t be traveling anymore, not like he used to. He’s very cognizant of the fact that he’s going to be sleeping and waking up in the same bed every morning for the foreseeable future, and that if he weren’t in the middle of the pacific, Danny would probably be in that bed with him.

•

“Danny just went back to New Jersey?” Chin asks.

“That’s where he lives,” Steve says, surprised at how shocked Chin sounds, “I told you, he’s a PI.”

“Ah. And you’re going to live here. In Honolulu,” Chin says.

“Yes,” Steve says, unsure of what exactly is so confusing about the whole thing. Of course he’s going to live here. His house is here. The task force is here.

Chin just blinks at him.

“What?” Steve doesn’t understand why Chin’s making that face.

“I thought Danny was your boyfriend,” Chin says, looking a little uncomfortable.

“Oh no uh. No. Danny’s a friend.”

Chin blinks at him some more.

“… There’s a hickey on your neck,” Chin points out, because there is. It’s barely covered by the collar of Steve’s shirt.

“A friend with benefits,” Steve explains with a shrug.

“Alright then,” Chin’s still got his eyebrows up by his hairline.

•

And then things just sort of figure themselves out, with the task force. They become Five-0.

Kono’s favorite thing to do is ask “What’re you smiling at, boss?” when she catches Steve grinning at his phone, because like 99.999% of the time it’s because he’s texting Danny.

MEANWHILE

Danny’s in New Jersey, doing his thing. And he. Well, he feels some kind of way, that Steve’s in the reserves now. He’d always kind of assumed that when Steve either retired or went to the reserves, that he’d come to Jersey. But then Steve didn’t.

Danny gets it. Understands why Steve did what he did, why he’s in Honolulu now. But Danny also can’t help but be a little grumpy, because he wants Steve in his house instead.

But it’s what they do. This thing. It’s been long distance right from the beginning. Danny’s used to it.

Steve sends Danny badly framed pictures of himself shirtless on the beach at some ungodly hour of the morning, and Danny misses him with an ache he can’t shake. It is nice though, that they can text and call more frequently than when Steve was active duty.

AND THEN whelp.

Danny starts to get weirdly nauseous. Like he’s got a stomach bug. Except it doesn’t go away, and it’s usually in the morning, and suddenly the smell of coffee makes him sick and oh jesus fucking christ.

He’s an idiot.

Danny knows, that going on T isn’t a form of birth control. He knows this. But him and Steve fuck without a condom all the time, this hasn’t happened before, there’s no way.

Except he also knows ‘hasn’t happened before’ doesn’t mean something won’t happen and shit fuck goddammit.

So, he goes to see an ob/gyn and confirms his suspicions and son of a bitch.

He’s gestating a mini McGarrett.

•

Danno: I land Friday at 9:35

Danno: SORRY 21:35 🙄

And Steve’s kind of stupid excited, because yes Danny had said he’d visit again in a few months, but it’s one thing to know that Danny’s going to visit at some vague point in the future, and it’s another to get the flight itinerary.

He’s in a good enough mood about it that Kono pegs him immediately and is like “Is your Not Boyfriend going to come visit?”

And Steve doesn’t even argue about how he doesn’t like her referring to Danny as his Not Boyfriend, he just says “Yup 😊” and then idk gets into a high speed car chase and shoots his gun and does his usual bullshit.

Danny meanwhile is shitting a brick and pacing a hole in the floor and having a hissed conversation with Matty about the whole situation while packing. Danny respects Steve too much to do this over the phone, he needs to tell him to his face. This is going to change things; he just doesn’t know how. He knows how he wants things to change, but that doesn’t mean he’s going to get that.

“You gonna make an honest man out of him?” Matty’s been unimpressed with Danny and Steve’s fuck buddies thing, has been for years. He genuinely doesn’t understand why Danny won’t just put a ring on it, “He’s in the reserves now.”

“IT’S COMPLICATED” Danny’s kind of an emotional wreck. He tapered off of T because like, you know. Baby. So, he’s dealing with that plus all of the regular ass pregnancy hormones. He’s dreading it, the changes that’ll happen to his body. At the same time, he’s so excited to hold Baby in his arms that he’s freaking himself out a little. A Dad. He’s gonna be a Dad. He’s always wanted kids, and always assumed it probably wasn’t in the cards for him.

“It’s not that complicated. He’s gotta stay in Hawai'i so just move there or something.”

“I have spent years building this business –”

“Rebuild it on O’ahu and go get your baby daddy locked down, goddamn. Stop being stupid about it.”

Danny throws a sock at him.

•

Steve can tell that Danny’s stressed about something and trying to hide it. Steve tries to bring it up on the drive back to the house, but Danny is like “No. Not now. We’ll talk about it in a little bit” and he’s jittery in the passenger seat, but Steve knows when to push an issue and this is Not one of those times.

Danny practically jumps him once they get through the door, and Danny’s suitcase gets forgotten in the front hallway while the two of them get mostly naked. Shirts get tossed and a pants get shoved down, and it ends with Danny bent over the back of the couch while Steve fucks him deep and hard and right there Steve goddammit –

They flop together afterwards. They’re not even sitting on the couch, just kind of laying awkwardly on the floor behind it. Danny’s got come dripping out of him, christ he’s making a mess and he fights the urge to laugh hysterically, because this is how he got into this situation in the first place.

Steve can feel him tense up from where they’re cuddling together and asks:

“Are we talking about it now?”

He doesn’t think it’s anything bad, Danny doesn’t look scared or upset, just worried about something.

“Later, I need a shower,” Danny says.

Steve thinks if he pushed the issue now, Danny probably wouldn’t get too pissed, but he’d also much rather get Danny properly naked and wet, so instead Steve just drags him upstairs.

They don’t fuck again in the shower, but they do go in together. Danny gropes Steve shamelessly, and Steve keeps reaching up and changing the angle of the shower head so Danny gets sprayed in the face.

“Are we talking about it now?” Steve asks, when they’re damp and in bed. They’re curled up next to each other, legs tangled together.

“Shit,” Danny says, “Yeah.”

It’s late. Dark outside.

Danny’s suitcase is still down stairs. He needs to go grab it so he can brush his teeth and get his pajamas. Instead, he puts his hands on either side of Steve face and rips off the band aid.

“I’m pregnant.”

Steve’s eyes get huge.

“What?”

“I’m pregnant. It’s yours,” Danny adds, kind of uselessly. It’s not like it’d be anyone else’s. Danny lets go of his face.

Steve doesn’t look upset, but Danny didn’t think he would. He just looks surprised.

“Mine?” Steve says, after a beat.

“Yeah.”

“How?” Steve asks, looking gob smacked.

“Well Steve, when two people love each other very much –” Danny starts, and then stops because that feels like Too Much right now, “You came inside my you goon, that’s how it happens.”

“I come inside you all the time,” Steve says, blunt and vulgar.

“Yeah well. Last time it took,” Danny props himself up on his arm looks down a Steve, “What’s the face mean?”

“I – I don’t know,” Steve says, still processing.

Danny shifts and sits up.

“How’re we doing this?” Danny asks, eventually. He’s given Steve enough time to think.

“How do you want to do this?” Steve asks, because that’s a good enough place to start.

“I’m keeping it,” Danny says, “I’d like you to be involved, if you want.”

“Of course, I want!” Steve sounds a little indignant. He sits up too, and stares at Danny some more, “… I can’t go to Newark.”

“I know.”

And that’s the thing, isn’t it.

For once Steve’s tied down somewhere. After years of being on the move, he’s finally got commitments in once place.

Danny’s mouth is twisted up, and he doesn’t look happy. Steve leans in to press a kiss to the corner of his mouth, grabs his hand and squeezes.

“You could stay here,” Steve says, “That’s another option. I know you’ve got your PI business but I mean. Licenses transfer. You could work at Five-0.”

He doesn’t want to – this shouldn’t be something Danny feels pressured to do. He knows what Danny has in Jersey is important but. But it is an option.  

“That’s gotta be nepotism,” Danny says weakly, “Getting me a job at your task force.”

“Well, it is my task force, I can do whatever I want,” Steve says.  

“…Okay. Yeah,” Danny shakes his head slowly, clearly thinking through logistics, “I can get my license switched.”

“We can figure something out,” Steve says, breath catching in his chest because Danny. Danny’s going to move here.

Danny’s quiet for a long moment.

Then he gets a Look in his eye.

“If I asked you to marry me, would you say yes?” Because Danny needs to know. If they’re changing what they do, he needs to know how it’s going to change.

“What?” Steve’s back to staring.

That’s fair. Danny’s dropped quite a few bombs on him in the last few minutes.

“Would you say yes?” Danny repeats, pink cheeked and determined.

“… are you asking?”

“Not if you’re gonna break my heart about it,” Danny says, and he doesn’t mean for his voice to crack, but it does.

Steve kisses him. Cradles Danny’s face in his hand and kisses him careful and with purpose and pulls away.

“Will you marry me, Daniel Williams?”

“I fuck – I was going to ask you first!” Danny says, incensed.

“Too slow,” Steve kisses him again, “Will you?”

“Yes, you fucking bastard – ” Danny’s grinning, a laugh bubbling out of his chest.

He shoves Steve down onto the mattress. Steve laughs too, loud and infectious, and just tugs Danny down for another kiss.

AND THEN idk idk idk they’re gross and In Love and the next day Danny goes to the Palace and Kono’s like “CHIN, Steve’s Not Boyfriend is here” and Steve just gets Very Smug and says:

“You’re right, he’s not my boyfriend, he’s my fiancé.”

#aron's fic #trans danno #au of an au

[hornyfallenangel]

Please send, comment or reblog with your top 5 Lestappen songs, I am making a playlist and need help!

So far I got: Suburban Legends - Taylor Swift Drive - The Cars The Secret of My Success - Night Ranger Getaway Car - Taylor Swift All Eyes - Heart Hungry for Heaven - Dio No Surrender - Bruce Springsteen Dancing in the Dark - Bruce Springsteen Lonely is the Night - Billy Squire Animal - Def Leppard Two Tickets to Paradise - Eddie Money . . . Ready For It? - Taylor Swift

#lestappen #thanks in advance #I'm doing important research here

[sevenswansmp3]

tagged by my love @youngestdaughtersyndrome to do this little ask thing, thank you babe!!!

last song: famous last words (an ode to eaters) by ethel cain !

currently watching: true blood with my roommates… this show is So Interesting. the men are ugly, the accents are bad. andrew skarsgard has a fuck ass bob. pinnacle of tv fr

currently reading: im also in a book purgatory rn…. i just finished dark places by gillian flynn and i’m on the search for my next read. i may do paradise rot next but i will absolutely take recommendations! oh… or east of eden… hmmmmm

current obsessions: dr bronner’s peppermint lip balm, the little beaded hoop earrings my best friend made me (silver with chunky chartreuse beads… im so obsessed), early sunsets over monroeville by my chemical romance, ruminating, celestial seasonings mint magic tea, the secondhand docs i got from ebay that im in the process of stretching out, painting my nails (currently wearing sally hansen garnet attention, totally a shitty polish but the color is so pretty), nebraska by bruce springsteen, half assed caramelized onions, my heating pad.

tagging @uglyseasonmp3 @talkshowhost1996 @thehappysmiler @lesbianjudasiscariot @tenderheart444 @inmynewyork

#ask game !

[1uc0z4dee]

your skin so golden brown

be young, be dope, be proud

#american #lana del rey #born to die #paradise #tropico #ride #burning desire #bruce springsteen #elvis presley #marilyn monroe #honeymoon #the blackest day #terrence loves you #angels forever #lizzy grant #vintage americana #ultraviolence #west coast #cinnamon girl #girlblog #girlblogger #girlblogging #just girly posts

[warrioreowynofrohan]

Rules: pick a song for each letter of your URL and tag that many people.

Thanks for the tag, @general-illyrin! This should be fun!

Wow, my username is long. Glad itunes alphabetizes.

w: “Welcome the Traveller Home,” Kim Thiessen & Darryl Neustaedter Barg [1]

a: “Amish Paradise,” Weird Al Yankovic

r: “Raised By Wolves,” U2

r: “Red River Rising” James Keelaghan & Oscar Lopez

i: “I Feel the Wind of God Today,” Steve Bell

o: “O Mary Don’t You Weep,” Bruce Springsteen

r: “Redeemed,” Joslin Grove Choral Society

e: “Eye of the Tiger,” The Nylons

o: “One Tin Soldier Rides Away,” Joni Mitchell

w: “Woodsmoke and Oranges,” Three Sheets to the Wind

y: “Yesterday’s Songs” Neil Diamond

n: “North Pacific Graveyard,” Kent Fiddy

o: “Overture” from Phantom of the Opera

f: “Fire and Rain,” James Taylor

r: “Rest in Peace” from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer musical episode

o: “One Day More,” from Les Misérables

h: “Heaven,” Bryan Adams

a: “Avila,” The Wailing Jennies

n: “Northwest Passage,” Stan Rogers

[1] This is one of my absolute favourites, and a perpetual Maglor Song.

No way am I tagging that many people! If you want to do this, consider yourself tagged.

#tag game #songs #music

[violentdelightsandviolentends]

Hi, do you still take requests for your 3k celebration? If so can I ask for brandy with Frank and with Matt? I really enjoyed your playlist for Bucky 😊

absolutely - so glad you liked the bucky one!! here are songs that remind me of those gorgeous boys, matt murdock and frank castle. <3

matt:

- devil's advocate by the neighbourhood

- alien blues by vundabar

- movement by hozier

- pretty when you cry by lana del rey

- first love/late spring by mitski

- black out days by phantogram

- me and the devil by soap&skin

- no surprises by radiohead

frank:

- i'm on fire by bruce springsteen

- club foot by kasabian

- message in a bottle by the police

- king's dead by jay rock, kendrick lamar and james blake

- when the sun goes down by the arctic monkeys

- tequila sunrise by cypress hill

- gangsta's paradise by coolio

- new magic wand by tyler, the creator

3k celebration post here. 3k masterlist here.

#frank castle #matt murdock #the punisher #daredevil #frank castle playlist #matt murdock playlist #murphy's 3k celebration

[time2andspace]

URL Song Game

A song for every letter of your url, and tag the amount of people for the amount of letters in the name

Got tagged by @theaftermathoftheprank

T- Take it Easy by Eagles

I- I'm your Man by Wham!

M- Mary on a Cross by Ghost

E- Everyday by Buddy Holly

2- 21 Guns by Green Day

A- Against the Kitchen Floor by Will Wood

N- No Children by The Mountain Goats

D- Dancing in the Dark by Bruce Springsteen

S- Sad Songs (Say So Much) by Elton John

P- Paradise- George Ezra

A- A teenager in love by Dion & The Belmonts

C- Club Tropicana by Wham!

E- Earth Angel (Will you be mine) by The Penguins

I'll tag @necronomiconenthusiast @tigirl-and-co @evilbubblewrap @mardotmov @asbestostrain @bell-hannah02

#Long one depending on your url but fun #to the mutuals with longer urls if you do this and just shorten your url I would not blame you #Thanks for tagging me #No I will not be taking questions on why Wham! appeared twice

[scary-ivy]

Elvis Costello and the Imposters at Golden Gate Theater, SF 6/13/23 Concert Notes

-we missed the beginning of Nick Lowe's set :( but we came in to Los Straightjackets doing a really good jam

-then Nick Lowe came back and did Trombone and Cruel to Be Kind. He really sang great tonight, better than last time I saw him and I loved his little stage mannerisms which were very Carl Perkins, bending his legs and such. Then he said one more song and this song is a story and did I Knew The Bride When She Used to Rock & Roll. During the "When she used to pony" part he kept repeating the same line over and over like a skipping record, and then yelled "somebody stop me!" which I thought was quite clever and funny. He also forgot a line at one point lol.

- On to the other show, they opened with Mystery Dance! A very high-energy version of it, with extra guitar solos or something idk it just sounded great tonight.

-Right into This Years Girl. Love that they did it, thought the way Elvis sings it now is quite strange. Must be a deliberate choice on his part since he can sing his old songs normally when he wants to. His voice was great on all the fast songs, it didn't feel at all like he was falling behind on them tonight, like it sometimes does nowadays.

-At some point Elvis randomly said "Uno Dos Tres Quatro" as like a count in to one of these songs.

-Hatty O' Hara Confidential. He yelled something like "who's scandalous tonight? People in the top row?!". This song always kills live, Elvis Costello has insane flow for no fucking good reason, even with alternate rhythm patterns. At one point he said "confidential" in a fake French accent randomly.

-At this point I was thinking even if the rest of the show sucks, this was worth it.

-Costello told one of his rambling stories. It started with "we were just up in Canada and the border guard, who was a young man, and I call him a young man…because I can, I was very polite to him because he had a colt gun onn his hip, but he read the papers and said "Eddie Costello". So we're thinking about changing the name, it's either going to be "Eddie Costello and His Imposters" *crowd cheers for this option* or "Elvis Money and His Two Tickets to Paradise". *Crowd cheers and calls out what option they want* I toured with Eddie Money and they put us together every through our styles were very different. To be hip with the kids, they made art for the poster where it looks like we're both wearing lipstick. And I'll say, Eddie Money looked a lot better in lipstick than me." (Sidenote I can't believe he said this. Much to unpack). During this whole speech he said fucking and fuck so many times. Then he said it was great that he and Eddie Money were on the same label as a bunch of other greats (I forget which ones he listed but Bruce Springsteen was one of them). The crowd cheered for name-dropping of bands they like. He said "you had to be careful as a young man buying records…you might accidentally pick up something by Rush…or Styx." The crowd started half booing for this dig. "I almost picked up Metal by Pink and His Floyds. The record store cleck said…don't get that one son…you might hurt yourself". He started talking about Bruce Springsteen and how he made America seem so magical with girls in red dresses wind in your hair, and how he picked up a Bruce Springsteen record in 73' and it inspired him to write this song.

-then almost midsentce he went into Radio Radio, like one second talking next second Radio Radio. Loved Steve Nieve's piano part, as usual.

-Elvis Costello said "Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Steve Nieve!!!" about 6 gooddamn times during this concert. He introduced the rest of the band about 3 or 4 times. Steve Nieve deserved the extra introduction because they did so many songs as like a duo.

- When I was Cruel No. 2. Elvis sat on a stoll near the piano that has this little sound effect board kinda like the one Gerard Way has and Steve Nieve played the melodica? I did not know he could play that, it was awesome. During the ABBA reference part Steve played a minor key version of the dancing queen riff, it was very subtle and extremely cool.

-they were like a jam band tonight? Jamming on long solos in the middle of songs and it always sounded extremely good, like as good as the Beatles or Jimi Hendrix or something, I was just blown away. Elvis played a couple notes on the piano when Steve was soloing, lol.

- We are All Cowards Now hit insanely hard. The political message came through so clearly it sounded like a prayer, no a plea for peace. When he said "throw down your arms" and held his hands up everyone held their hands up.

- "Anyone here like New Wave music? I hate it, horrible speed-up stuff. I was once accused of playing it, and that wounded me deeply, the type of sadness that comes to you when you wake up at 3 am in the morning, and you can't find your car keys but then you find them, but you don't have a car, and then you find your house keys but you don't have a house". Mistook Me For A Freind, which has such a great high energy live sounds like it could be off this years model.

-Accidents Will Happen, fully as the solo piano version, except for at the very end with the "I knows" we were encouraged to sing along with. What a lovely treat to hear it fully as a ballad.

- Waiting For The End of the world, which rules, but also Elvis did a funny thing were he just said "Waiting" and then cut it off and paused the first time, before after a pause finally getting to the "Good Lawd!" part, like continuously teasing the audice each time as people sang the normal line. The rest of the song simmered down along with the pause, increasing the impact of this bit.

- "Clown Around Town" wound up being a very cute acoustic song. He explained the story that he was looking out at the sunrise in Reno and all they had for scenery was a miserable looking clown statue holding up a drum. He said they should put that on postcards for the town, and then said actually it's a very nice town nice people it's not their fault they left an old clown out in the rain. Then did the song on acoustic guitar, except for the end the band joined in. Loved it, just a cute little song, which was refreshing considering what the rest of the music is like.

- MASHUP OF WELCOME TO THE WORKING WEEK AND WORKING MAN BLUES. Man can they do country, switching styles so easily , and I was so happy to hear one of my favorite songs and a clever mashup too.

-WHAT IF I CAN'T GIVE YOU ANYTHING BUT LOVE! I WAS WORRED THEY WEREN'T GOING TO DO IT. I'm literally in heaven during the solos during this song. Idk what it is but it's just so so good and satisfying to hear. Elvis hit falsetto on end of the second bridge, which was unexpected.

-he sat down in a big red chair, said "a throne fit for a king", random said "I'm colorblind" and didn't elaborate. Panted audibly into the mic an alarming amount, like I was genuinely concerned, then said "I'm not sitting down because I'm tired, it's so that I can look into your wicked souls" 

-Said he got the news that he had been dreading but also expecting for a while, that his friend Burt Bacharach had passed away. The crowd audibly :( at this, I guess some of them didn't know and were just now finding out? He said he got the news at while on tour and it was hard to think of doing a show right after that. He said they were working on the remastered collaboration album right before Burt passed away, as something he left them, and Burt still said the track order was wrong. Apparently they worked on and off together for like 30 years? Since the 90s. He then said Burt Bacharach songs were like overhearing a couple talking in some sexy language like Portuguese or French, joked about doing a song in German and how long the bars would have to be to fit in the words, and then said he only learned about two words in Portuguese and they're both in this song, which was Toledo. As like a piano and acoustic guitar piece, lovely.

-He then said they were always doing new takes on old songs because they were trying to find some reason to keep doing this, but the end was near. The way he said that I wasn't sure if he meant the end of touring, the end of his life, or the end of the world. He said it so bitterly.

-Everyday I Write The Book as a slow acoustic guitar and piano ballad. Fucking beautiful, and genuinely so sad and heartbreaking to hear idk why it worked so well.

-Immediately up into a fast song, I forget which one.

-Costello had a couple long guitar solo moments, and they were awesome, he's genuinely gotten so much better on guitar, lots of picking individual strings while holding the same chord and bending it a lot. Simple but effective.

-I Don't Want To Go to Chelsea, Magnificent Hurt, and Pump It Up, lovely high energy section. Dancing in the seats. 

- "we've got just one more song for you tonight" this was a lie.

- said "we just learned this song today, I'm getting a bit excited" and did some song about Licorice, which I think is either a cover or new. Very bawdy song, but it was fun.

-to the audience: "We want you individually, and as a group" ???

-I Don't Want You Lyndon Johnson was very interesting. Last year Elvis Costello did a little spoken word bit in the middle of Watching the Detectives called "Invisible Woman" and I noticed parts of the words of that in this. Also just found it pretty funny and listenable, I hope he does another country album I'm liking all these acoustic little songs. 

- He invited Nick Lowe back up to the stage?!? I literally freaked out like. I was hoping they would do this last time. They did Indoor Fireworks as a duet, trading off verses, which was beautiful. I was surprised by how good their harmonies sounded - their voices are so different but work so well together. I saw Nick signaling to Elvis to repeat the last verse another time.

-for the second time we were told that there was just one more song, which once again was a lie.

-Whats So Funny Bout (Peace Love and Understanding) as a duet! I've wanted this since they first started touring with Nick Lowe, this rules. Lowe did the "for the children of the new generation" spoken word part perfectly. They started doing this funny little thing where Elvis would move his guitar to one position then Nick would mirror it, like a little dance

- "When we first did this song Nick Lowe wouldn't let me play guitar on it he kept me behind a glass wall in the corner of the studio." 

-Allison as a duet with Nick Lowe, it was beautiful with the harmonies, with Lowe doing great on his verse. During the last chords they dropped out and let the audience sing it, and the audience somehow sang Allison perfectly, one of them said "so pretty".

-giving Good Omens vibes with all the songs about the end of the world and especially with Nick in white with normal glasses and Elvis in all black with dark glasses.

-My mom said "this felt like a farewell tour" and that broke my heart because it honestly did. I've literally seen Elvis Costello and the Imposters every year for three years in a row and yet I don't want this to end. But yeah,they could definitely take a break, they tour and release new stuff so much more often than any other band I follow. 

- Probably one of, if not the best Elvis Costello and the Imposters concerts I've been to because it was great energy the whole time, and I knew every song (except for the new ones, which were also great). Highlights for me was getting to hear so many songs off of My Aim Is True, This Years Girl, What If I Can't Give You Anything But Love, WELCOME TO THE WORKING WEEK, Accidents Will Happen Ballad version, Everyday I Write The Book ballad version, and Nick Lowe coming back on stage near the end which was like a dream come true.

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