Pump It Up

(Elvis Costello)

I've been on tenterhooks

Ending in dirty looks

List'ning to the Muzak

Thinking 'bout this 'n' that

She said that's that

I don't wanna chitter-chat

Turn it down a little bit

Or turn it down flat

Pump it up when you don't really need it

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

Pump it up until you can feel it

Pump it up when you don't really need it

She's been a bad girl

She's like a chemical

Though you try to stop it

She's like a narcotic

You wanna torture her

You wanna talk to her

All the things you bought for her

Putting up your temp'rature

Pump it up until you can feel it

Pump it up when you don't really need it

Out in the fashion show

Down in the bargain bin

You put your passion out

Under the pressure pin

Fall into submission

Hit-and-run transmission

No use wishing now for any other sin

Pump it up until you can feel it

Pump it up when you don't really need it