《National Ransom》歌词

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

[00:00:00] Written by：Elvis Costello

[00:00:13] Runnin' pell mell and harum scarum

[00:00:19] Runnin' as hot as

[00:00:20] They do or dare

[00:00:24] Stick out your tongue and

[00:00:26] Drink down all the venom

[00:00:30] Off cut throat cuthbert

[00:00:32] And Millicent St. Cyr

[00:00:36] 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

[00:00:59] Mother's in the kitchen

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

[00:01:05] Boilin' them down by

[00:01:06] The bushel and the score

[00:01:11] Pull out your thumb and

[00:01:12] Count what's left on your fist

[00:01:17] There's a wolf at the window

[00:01:18] With a ravenin' maw

[00:01:23] Did you find how to lie

[00:01:26] Did you find out how to cheat

[00:01:29] The elite bleat their obsolete

[00:01:32] So are your prospects

[00:01:34] Exact perfect object

[00:01:37] Now if you'd only genuflect

[00:01:40] They're runnin' wild just like some

[00:01:45] Childish tantrum

[00:01:48] Meanwhile we're workin' every day

[00:01:51] Payin' off the National Ransom

[00:02:05] Woe betide all this hocus pocus

[00:02:11] They're runnin' us ragged

[00:02:13] At their first attempt

[00:02:17] Around the time the killin'

[00:02:19] Stopped on Wall St.

[00:02:23] You couldn't hold me baby

[00:02:24] With anythin' but contempt

[00:02:29] Letters peal slowly from our speech

[00:02:32] The claxton attempts to preach

[00:02:35] Stretchin' out for stars

[00:02:37] Still out of reach

[00:02:38] Drownin' flailin' outside

[00:02:42] Someone's wailin'

[00:02:45] They're runnin' wild just like some

[00:02:49] Childish tantrum

[00:02:52] Meanwhile we're workin' every day

[00:02:56] Payin' off the National Ransom

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

[00:03:07] Childish tantrum

[00:03:10] Meanwhile we're workin' every day

[00:03:14] Payin' off the National Ransom