lirik lagu american gangster time – elvis costello & the imposters
one, two, three, four
somewhere downtown a pretty girl kneels
offers her soft lips and a handful of pills
peels off her dress and then the rest of her skills
buys what she wants and the rest she just steals
he speaks between deep swallows of rum
while her head is beating like a big b-ss drum
and she wishes he were mute and not just dumb
when the trick asked her quick, “did you come?”
it’s a drag, saluting that starry rag
i’d rather go blind for speaking my mind
or use it just like a gag
so raise it in anger, just let it hang
american gangster time
he sits back and starts to invent
all about some saigon correspondent
’til the carbine fell silent and spent
i never knew it could be so eloquent
next week there’ll be some fashionable new sin
for each harlot and each puritan
pull off their wings, stick ’em on a pin
and just watch the money roll in
it’s a drag, saluting that starry rag
i’d rather go blind for speaking my mind
or use it just like a gag
so raise it in anger, just let it hang
american gangster time
what you got hidden up your sleeve?
the tracks of the train that were bidding you to leave
when they say that you should flatter to deceive
don’t count on any reprieve
the hands of the helpless are raised
your dead little secrets are praised
the people stand dumbstruck and dazed
by the inches that you have erased
it’s a drag, saluting that starry rag
i’d rather go blind for speaking my mind
or use it just like a gag
so raise it in anger, just let it hang
american gangster time
committing the perfect crime
in american gangster time
here we go
bye, bye
american gangster time
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