She's Pulling Out The Pin

She's pulling out the pin That lets her hair fall down She shakes her head and It goes tumbling Her smile was out of place So she swept it off her face Let me find the words and say them Like some softly whispered Amen As she starts to pull away And all the lights begin to dim Is she thinking of me Or is she thinking of him She's pulling out the pin She's slipping off the hook Unbuttoning her dress There's just enough to make some man a mess She tears away the veil With her fingernails She came out high and kicking While the band played "Hey good lookin'" Do you hear something ticking? Did somebody tell her? You can really be redeemed Could she actually be? As desperate as she seems She's tearing at the seams She's going to extremes Nobody told her it was a sin So she's pulling out the pin She's taping up her hands Just as a boxer will They started laughing But if looks could kill She'd take them down right now She's covering her mouth With some unholy vow There's nothing more to say This is her wedding day Full of shattered glass and mayhem Not one softly whispered amen When the shock announcement dawns And the smoke begins to thin Where the world without her ends And the next one begins She's pulling out the pin

She's Pulling Out The Pin Written by Elvis Costello Performed by Elvis Costello & The Imposters Produced by Dennis Herring & Elvis Costello Musicians Elvis Costello - vocals, Gibson J-50 & Gibson Super 400 guitars, glockenspiel Steve Nieve - Wurlitzer organ, upright piano Davey Faragher - Dan Armstrong & Fender Precision bass Pete Thomas - drums Recorded April 2004, Sweet Tea, Oxford, MS Released September 20, 2004 Albums The Delivery Man (bonus track on vinyl & UK/Japan CD), 2004 The Delivery Man (Deluxe Edition), 2005 Length 3:21 First known performance:  April 2, 2004, Oxford, MS Last known performance:  February 11, 2023, New York, NY      (34 known performances) “[‘She's Pulling Out The Pin'] juxtaposes the most heartless part of our culture and the most desperate part of another culture. Two women's fates. It's just a bald telling of it. It doesn't have a judgement. They're both desperate, dead-end jobs.” — The Independent, August 15, 2004

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