歌手:Elvis Costello
专辑:《National Ransom》

作词 : Costello
作曲 : 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. Cyr

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 their 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

Payin' off the National Ransom