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Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2003 1:32 pm**

It had the word REFUGEE prominently mentioned many times in the title and the singer sounded like Elvis Costello.
It received a lot of airplay on KROQ in the summer of 1985.

This has been bugging me for almost twenty years.

Please help me before my brain melts!

Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2003 2:49 pm**

The only artists that I have found to have sounded like Elvis Costello to a tee really was the band "Scott Wilk And The Walls back around 1980 way before 1985,but I can't think of any song thney sang that have the words Refugee in them sorry.The only song

Posted: **Thu May 15, 2003 5:18 pm**

I went looking for that song, but I can't find it.

"I now inform you that you are too far from reality"
The New Wave Information Minister

Posted: **Fri May 16, 2003 12:28 am**

A helpful lyric search engine

http://www.lyricsdownload.com/

Consider the dafodil, and while you're doing that. I'll be over her going through your stuff.
Jack Handy

Posted: **Fri May 16, 2003 5:17 pm**

I FOUND it!!!!!!

It was "The Deportees Club" by Elvis Costello!!!

It was the Summer of 1984 when I first heard this and it went away forever.

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It Sounded Like Elvis Costello

It Sounded Like Elvis Costello