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Elvis Costello - American Gangster Time Lyrics

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  • 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
  • It 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 bass 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 them 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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