《National Ransom(Live At The Wiltern， Los Angeles， CA/2011)》歌词

[00:00:00] National Ransom - Elvis Costello

[00:00:10] Runnin' pell mell and harum scarum

[00:00:16] Runnin' as hot as

[00:00:19] They do or dare

[00:00:23] Stick out your tongue and

[00:00:24] Drink down all the venom

[00:00:29] Off Cut Throat Cuthbert

[00:00:32] And Millicent St Cy

[00:00:35] From the real old Macau

[00:00:39] To the new False Americas

[00:00:42] In the liberated territories

[00:00:45] Unusual suspects shake down

[00:00:48] Shake down shake down

[00:00:51] Various dubious characters

[00:01:00] Mother's in the kitchen

[00:01:01] Pickin' bones for breakfast

[00:01:06] Boilin' them down by

[00:01:09] The bushel and the score

[00:01:13] Pull out your thumb and

[00:01:15] Count what's left on your fist

[00:01:19] There's a wolf at the window

[00:01:22] With a ravenin' maw

[00:01:26] Did you find how to lie

[00:01:29] Did you find out how to cheat

[00:01:32] The elite bleat they're obsolete

[00:01:35] So are your prospects

[00:01:37] Exact perfect object

[00:01:41] Now if you'd only genuflect

[00:01:45] They're runnin' wild just like some

[00:01:49] Childish tantrum

[00:01:52] Meanwhile we're workin' every day

[00:01:56] Payin' off the National Ransom

[00:02:11] Woe betide all this hocus pocus

[00:02:17] They're runnin' us ragged

[00:02:19] At their first attempt

[00:02:24] Around the time the killin'

[00:02:26] Stopped on Wall St

[00:02:30] You couldn't hold me baby

[00:02:33] With anythin' but contempt

[00:02:36] Letters peal slowly from our speech

[00:02:40] The Claxton attempts to preach

[00:02:43] Stretchin' out for stars

[00:02:45] Still out of reach

[00:02:46] Drownin' flailin' outside

[00:02:50] Someone's wailin'

[00:02:53] They're runnin' wild just like some

[00:02:58] Childish tantrum

[00:03:01] Meanwhile we're workin' every day

[00:03:06] Payin' off the National Ransom

[00:03:13] They're runnin' wild just like some

[00:03:17] Childish tantrum

[00:03:21] Meanwhile we're workin' every day

[00:03:25] Just Payin' off the National Ransom

[00:03:32] The National Ransom