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Elvis Costello - Bullets For The New-Born King Lyrics

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  • No one looks in this place for motive or any hope
  • But for the dead shot of an amber glass
  • The blue light of a votive
  • The rain obscured the window
  • As the pain was dulled by the grains
  • Absolved in spoons and flames
  • In fear in time dissolving
  • It's not for the faint of pulse
  • Or anybody false
  • Those amateurs who only shed their skin
  • So where are those traitors now, we once called patriots?
  • Just like those saints who seem to revel in their sins
  • O my eyes were filled with tears that were stinging
  • After our assassin's work was done
  • But hands and bells are only there for the wringing
  • As we were bringing bullets for the new-born king
  • The trumpet sounds lamenting
  • Trampling down the blooms of the deceased
  • The double agent girl and the fallen priest were heading for the border
  • Somewhere at the high command there stayed the palest hand
  • That saw the order countermand
  • Erased a tape recorder and then they hung him from a window cord
  • Swallow down that voodoo vial to still your breath a while
  • Before we spill this tale that has been spun
  • And so I shall now confide all that I once denied
  • Oh I'm so sorry for the things I've done
  • O my eyes were filled with tears that were stinging
  • After our assassin's work was done
  • But hands and bells are only there for the wringing
  • As we were bringing bullet for the new-born king

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