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Elvis Costello - National Ransom Lyrics

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  • Running pell-mell and harum-scarum
  • Running as hot as they do or dare
  • Stick out your tongue
  • And drink down all the venom
  • From Cut-Throat Cuthbert
  • And Millicent St. Cyr
  • From the real old Macau
  • To the new False Americas
  • In the liberated territories
  • Unusual suspects shake down, shake down, shake down various dubious characters
  • Mother's in the kitchen picking bones for breakfast
  • Boiling them down by the bushel and the score
  • Pull out your thumb and count what's left of your fist
  • There's a wolf at the window with ravening maw
  • Did you find how to lie?
  • Did you find out just how to cheat?
  • The elite bleat, their obsolete
  • But are your prospects?
  • Exact, perfect object
  • Now, if you'd only genuflect
  • They're running wild
  • Just like some childish tantrum
  • Meanwhile we're working every day
  • Paying off the National Ransom
  • Woe betide all this hocus-pocus
  • They're running us ragged at their first attempt
  • Around the time the killing stopped on Wall St.
  • You couldn't hold me, baby with anything but contempt
  • Letters peal slowly from our speech
  • The claxton attempts to preach
  • Stretching for stars still out of reach
  • Drowning
  • Flailing
  • Outside someone's wailing
  • They're running wild
  • Just like some childish tantrum
  • Meanwhile we're working every day
  • Paying off the National Ransom

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