'Elvis ate America' - Passengers (U2/Howie B/Eno)

Elvis ate America by Passengers


Elvis... white trash
Elvis... the Memphis flash
Elvis... didn't smoke hash
Would've been a sissy without Johnny Cash

Elvis... didn't dodge the draft
Elvis... had his own aircraft
Elvis... having a laugh
On the Lisa Marie in a colour photograph

Elvis... under the hood
Elvis... with Cadillac blood
Elvis... darling bud
Flowered and returned to the Mississippi mud

Elvis... ain't gonna rot
Elvis... in a Memphis plot
Elvis... he didn't hear the shot
And Dr. King died just across the lot from...

Elvis... vanilla ice cream
Elvis... girls of fourteen
Elvis... the Memphis spleen
Shooting TVs reading Corinthian's 13

Elvis... with God on his knees
Elvis... owned three TVs
Here come the killer bees
Head full of honey potato chips and cheese
Elvis... the bumper stickers
Elvis... the white knickers
Elvis... the white nigger
Ate at king burger and just kept getting bigger

Elvis... sang to win
Elvis... the battle hymn
Elvis... the battle to be slim
Elvis ate America before America ate him

Elvis...

Elvis... stamps
Elvis... necromance
Elvis... fans
Elvis... psychophants
Elvis... the public enemy
Elvis... don't mean shit to Chuck D.
Elvis... changed the center of gravity
Made it slippy

Elvis... Hitler
Elvis... Nixon
Elvis... Christ
Elvis... Mishima
Elvis... Markus
Elvis... Jackson
Elvis... the pelvis
Elvis... the psalmist
Elvis... the genius
Elvis... generous
Elvis... forgive us
Elvis... pray for us
Elvis... Aaron
Elvis... Presley
Elvis

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• Presley

[eddie6271]

Bono is simply expressing a socially awareness of how america, and the world, loves its idols. And we are all silly for it, we (the common man) can't see how silly we are cheering their names by the thousands, but they can. Elvis was miserable and Bono has said "celebrity is ridiculous, but I'll use it while I can" (to do good). The song is called "ELVIS ATE AMERICA", it is a metaphor for destroying his celebrity (and dying) because he, like Bono also saw how ridiculous celebrity was and is.

[U2oober]

Enjoyed the video! It's obvious that U2 was conveying and self-proding America's pop idoliziation. Elvis just happened to be one of the original "idols" to target. Appropriate choice for thier generation. Almost a "roast" in thier way of admiration.

[artfreak79]

Clearly taking the piss out of Elvis and the cult of celebrity that surrounds the people we call "celebrites" or "icons"...I was also at first taken aback at Bono's utterance of the n-word but I think we all know why he used it especially if you take a look at popular music over the course of the last century...i think you all know what i'm talking about or I hope that you do

[melkiemelkie]

@myrickman He would have been a sissy WITHOUT Johnny Cash. So he is not a sissy With Cash beside him.

[galadriel7777]

@eddie6271 some things u shouldn´t get too good at: smiling crying and celebrity...- bono....celeb is not ridiculous. hype is.worshipping the best humanitarian on earth after Gandhi, M.Theresa and M.Luther King for modestly nonsinging for 4 years rocking the debt with Bob Geldorf is not ridiculous. Never since John Lennon has anyone achieved so much for peace on earth. Elvis died fart and alone for he did not donate enough.no touch with humanity. lonely devil, they say. pity..in the Gettho !

[seansarto]

Nice job.

[Ashleyy685]

@zexyinxsrickypatton yep

[sundaramaji]

fantastic job on this video, whoever did it

[zexyinxsrickypatton]

Not that I care, but does Bono say "Elvis, the white nigger" around 1:38? I would actually be proud of Bono if he did say that because that takes balls, not that I'm racist but because everyone is SO scared to say anything that might bring repercussions these days.

[u2mixer]

Just stumbled across this.

Hey, great job with the video :)