Today’s slow drag is with “Honey, Are You Straight or Are You Blind?” from “Blood and Chocolate,” released in 1986. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello’s birth name.

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Show Notes:

Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA

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References:

Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Honey, Are You Straight or Are You Blind?” https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=Honey,_Are_You_Straight_Or_Are_You_Blind%3F

 

“Honey, Are You Straight or Are You Blind?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqeSNPJ1bIY

 

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"Honey, Are You Straight or Are You Blind?"

Who do you see when you turn your eyes down?

Who do you see when I'm not seeing you?

The news is out all over town

And all these girls are taking turns at being you

 

Chorus:

Well, well, well

You'd better make up your mind

Honey, are you straight or are you blind?

 

She's coming in between us, you know that she is

I'm not holding on to her but one of us is

My hands are in my pockets, my face is in a book

She could walk 'round naked and I wouldn't sneak a look

 

(Chorus)

 

Honey, are you straight or are you blind?

Honey, are you straight or are you blind?

Honey, are you straight or are you blind?

Honey, are you straight or are you blind?

 

She walked in and your eyes flew out the door

You squeezed my hand until the circulation ceases

She's just a doll like so many more

She's the kind of doll that you'd like to pull to pieces

 

(Chorus)

 

Well!

 

Well, well, well

You'd better make up your mind

Honey, are you straight or are you blind?