We’ve been exploring the obvious themes in the Elvis Costello album Trust. After various songs mentioning the criminal types and keeping one’s big mouth shut, this following song “Watch Your Step” speaks of threats leveled at someone accused of considering himself “young and original”.
I’m spelling all this out because I think it is important to show that influential people are put under enormous pressure that is hidden from the public.
When a public figure starts doing really weird things, I wonder what’s being done to them to get them to behave that way. Any number of methods can be used to control someone in the public eye. Sometimes a shill is someone with a proverbial gun to their head or perhaps that gun is directed towards their loved ones.
I really want to highlight the role the international spy system plays in so much of the “reality” that is manufactured for us; a “show” that we are pressured and threatened to accept as real if we are no longer their dupes.
An obvious agent posing as a fan who was trying finagle herself into becoming my handler laughed on the phone to me about “useful idiots” and how they don’t even know they’re being controlled. I was shocked at how cavalier this agent was but it seems like we’ve been making it too easy for them to control us for far too long.
She didn’t see how she was completely blowing her cover. Then she just kept coming back under new names but she could not stop sounding extremely arrogant. Then after I complained repeatedly about her powerful levels of narcissism, she actually started adopting my own “voice”.
Now she runs a blog that mimics mine. This group has basically all the money in the world and there is no limit to what they will do to get their way. The major problem is that they have maneuvered it so that they are “above the law”. That is very a major problem for the rest of us.
I know people are rightly terrified of dealing with this group but I am genuinely more afraid of not dealing with this group as I believe that continuing to enable their rampant criminality will mean spending eternity in their presence - nothing could be worse in my opinion. That is how I see the predicament that I am in.
"Watch Your Step"
Don't say a word
Don't say anything
Don't say a word
I'm not even listening
I read in the paper about their escape
They're just two bit of kids from a bunch of sour grapes
You better watch your step
Watch who's knocking on your front door
Now you know that they're watching
What are you waiting for?
Think you're young and original
Get out before...
They get to watch your step
Ev'ry day is full of fun
And family spies
They're making heroes out of fall guys
They say it's good for business
From Singapore to Widnes
You better watch your step
Broken noses hung up on the wall
Back slapping drinkers cheer the heavy weight brawl
So punch drunk they don't understand at all
You better watch your step
Ev'ry night
Go out full of carnal (carnival) desires
End up in the closing time choirs
When you're kicking in the car chrome
And you're drinking down the Eau de Cologne
And you're spitting out the Kodachrome
You better watch your step
Bye
I send you all my regards
You're so tough
You're so hard
Listen to the hammers falling in the breaker's yard
You better watch your step
You better watch your step
Ooh, watch your step