โหลดเพลง mp3 National Ransom (Live At The Wiltern, Los Angeles, CA/2011) - Elvis Costello

National Ransom - Elvis Costello
Runnin' pell mell and harum scarum

Runnin' as hot as
they do or dare

Stick out your tongue and
drink down all the venom

Off Cut Throat Cuthbert
and Millicent St.Cy

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
pickin' bones for breakfast

Boilin' them down by
the bushel and the score

Pull out your thumb and
count what's left on your fist

There's a wolf at the window
with a ravenin' maw

Did you find how to lie?

Did you find out how to cheat?
The elite bleat, they're obsolete
So are your prospects
Exact, perfect object?

Now if you'd only genuflect

They're runnin' wild just like some

Childish tantrum

Meanwhile we're workin' every day

Payin' off the National Ransom

Woe betide all this hocus pocus

They're runnin' us ragged
at their first attempt

Around the time the killin'

stopped on Wall St.

You couldn't hold me, baby,

with anythin' but contempt

Letters peal slowly from our speech

The Claxton attempts to preach

Stretchin' out for stars
still out of reach
Drownin', flailin', outside

Someone's wailin'
They're runnin' wild just like some
Childish tantrum

Meanwhile we're workin' every day

Payin' off the National Ransom

They're runnin' wild just like some
Childish tantrum

Meanwhile we're workin' every day

just Payin' off the National Ransom

the National Ransom