Pump It Up

Credits Lyrics: 
Elvis Costello
Credits Music: 
Elvis Costello

[Verse 1]
I've been on tenderhooks, ending in dirty looks.
Listening 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.

[Chorus]
Pump it up. when you don't really need it
Pump it up, until you can feel it.

[Verse 2]
Down in the pleasure center, 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.

Hey!

[Verse 3]
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, could not get a temperature.

[Chorus]
Pump it up, until you can feel it.
Pump it up, when you don't really need it.
Oh, you don’t really need it.
You got to pump it up.
[Verse 4]
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.

[Chorus]
Pump it up, until you can feel it.
Pump it up, when you don't really need it.
Pump it up, until you can feel it.
Pump it up, pump it up, pump it up.

Pump it up, until you can feel it.
Pump it up, when you don't really need it.
Don’t really need it.
No, you don’t really need it.
Pump it up
Don't really need it.
Pump it up.
Hey, Hey, Pump it up.