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THE DECEMBERISTS lyrics : "The Perfect Crime #2"

Sing news with passion of the pistol
Sing news of the warning by the whistle
On a night so dark in the waning

A dawn obscured by slight sky raining, oh oh

Five and twenty burglars by the reservoir

A teenage lookout on the signal tower
The moguls daughter in hard time
The mogul figures a one guy, one guys


It was a perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect crime
It was a perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect crime


The bagman's quaking at the fingers
The hand-off glance a little lingers

A well-dressed man in the crosshairs
A shot rings out from somewhere upstairs


It was a perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect crime
It was a perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect crime


It was the perfect crime

It was like a ticker-tape parade

When the last of the safe was blown away
And we all gaze from eye to eye
As we mouth our silent goodbyes


The valley's sleeping like a !@$(
It stinks of slumber and disaster

Two words are spoken with tap wire
The agent's pull finds a surefire backfire


It was a perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect crime
It was a perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect crime

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