National Ransom-Elvis Costello

[00:00.000] 作词 : Costello [00:01.000] 作曲 : Costello [00:13.18]Runnin' pell mell and harum scarum [00:17.21] [00:19.14]Runnin' as hot as [00:20.52]They do or dare [00:23.18] [00:24.86]Stick out your tongue and [00:26.33]Drink down all the venom [00:29.23] [00:30.83]Off cut throat cuthbert [00:32.22]And Millicent St. Cyr [00:35.15] [00:36.59]From the real old Macau [00:39.04] [00:39.60]To the new False Americas [00:42.47]In the liberated territories [00:45.70]Unusual suspects shake down [00:48.61]Shake down shake down [00:51.18]Various dubious characters [00:55.15] [00:59.53]Mother's in the kitchen [01:00.52]Pickin' bones for breakfast [01:03.25] [01:05.47]Boilin' them down by [01:06.88]The bushel and the score [01:09.05] [01:11.47]Pull out your thumb and [01:12.67]Count what's left on your fist [01:15.84] [01:17.36]There's a wolf at the window [01:18.83]With a ravenin' maw [01:20.71] [01:23.27]Did you find how to lie [01:26.01]Did you find out how to cheat [01:29.14]The elite bleat their obsolete [01:31.68] [01:32.25]So are your prospects [01:34.48]Exact perfect object [01:37.17] [01:37.89]Now if you'd only genuflect [01:40.91]They're runnin' wild just like some [01:45.12]Childish tantrum [01:48.22]Meanwhile we're workin' every day [01:51.93]Payin' off the National Ransom [01:55.95] [02:05.88]Woe betide all this hocus pocus [02:09.69] [02:11.77]They're runnin' us ragged [02:13.29]At their first attempt [02:14.93] [02:17.80]Around the time the killin' [02:19.90]Stopped on Wall St. [02:22.53] [02:23.30]You couldn't hold me baby [02:24.84]With anythin' but contempt [02:28.04] [02:29.48]Letters peal slowly from our speech [02:31.94] [02:32.67]The claxton attempts to preach [02:35.04] [02:35.72]Stretchin' out for stars [02:37.52]Still out of reach [02:38.88]Drownin' flailin' outside [02:41.91] [02:42.50]Someone's wailin' [02:45.62]They're runnin' wild just like some [02:49.75]Childish tantrum [02:52.80]Meanwhile we're workin' every day [02:56.48]Payin' off the National Ransom [03:00.09] [03:03.62]They're runnin' wild just like some [03:07.75]Childish tantrum [03:10.82]Meanwhile we're workin' every day [03:14.26] [03:14.79]Payin' off the National Ransom