《American Gangster Time(Album Version)》歌词

[00:00:00] One two three four

[00:00:09] Somewhere downtown a pretty girl kneels

[00:00:13] Offers her soft lips and a handful of pills

[00:00:17] Peels off her dress and then the rest of her skills

[00:00:20] Buys what she wants and the rest she just steals

[00:00:25] He speaks between deep swallows of rum

[00:00:28] While her head is beating like a big bass drum

[00:00:32] And she wishes he were mute and not just dumb

[00:00:36] When the trick asked her quick

[00:00:38] Did you come

[00:00:40] It's a drag saluting that starry rag

[00:00:46] I'd rather go blind for speaking my mind

[00:00:49] Or use it just like a gag

[00:00:53] So raise it in anger just let it hang

[00:00:57] American gangster time

[00:01:07] He sits back and starts to invent

[00:01:10] All about some Saigon correspondent

[00:01:14] 'Til the carbine fell silent and spent

[00:01:18] I never knew it could be so eloquent

[00:01:22] Next week there'll be some fashionable new sin

[00:01:25] For each harlot and each Puritan

[00:01:29] Pull off their wings stick 'em on a pin

[00:01:33] And just watch the money roll in

[00:01:36] It's a drag saluting that starry rag

[00:01:43] I'd rather go blind for speaking my mind

[00:01:46] Or use it just like a gag

[00:01:50] So raise it in anger just let it hang

[00:01:54] American gangster time

[00:02:04] What you got hidden up your sleeve

[00:02:06] The tracks of the train that were bidding you to leave

[00:02:10] When they say that you should flatter to deceive

[00:02:15] Don't count on any reprieve

[00:02:19] The hands of the helpless are raised

[00:02:22] Your dead little secrets are praised

[00:02:26] The people stand dumbstruck and dazed

[00:02:29] By the inches that you have erased

[00:02:33] It's a drag saluting that starry rag

[00:02:39] I'd rather go blind for speaking my mind

[00:02:43] Or use it just like a gag

[00:02:47] So raise it in anger just let it hang

[00:02:51] American gangster time

[00:02:54] Committing the perfect crime

[00:02:58] In American gangster time

[00:03:07] Here we go

[00:03:19] Bye bye

[00:03:34] American gangster time

[00:03:37] American Gangster Time (Album Version) - Elvis Costello