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ELVIS COSTELLO lyrics : "Soul For Hire"

Hang my head and shut my eyes
What kind of justice is this?
Fool I was, I thought that you fought fire with fire

Got to me more than just a soul for hire

Speaking for myself I wouldn't take the fame, the fees, the

glory
For whoring in the practice of the law
I make my case stop and stutter

Soul comes unglued from the uppers
Blood is seeping in the hole
A mother's eye is weeping


I see every human kind
And still the truth is distant

I see every evil men do and desire
Got to be more then just a soul for hire


When it's time to give protection
To the ones who need it most, who are desperate
I get distracted from my job

Streams of ink and piles of paper
What are the breaks?
Jump out the window? Parole? Escape?

Blood is seeping in the hole
A mother's eye is weeping


Hang my head and shut my eyes
I can't see justice twisted
I see every evil men do and desire

Got to be more than just a soul for hire

When it's time to give protection

To the ones who need it most, who are desperate
I get distracted from my job
Streams of ink and piles of paper

To hand them over to dopers and kiddie-rapers
Corrupt in every twisted grudge
And that is just the judge


Hang my head and shut my eyes
What kind of justice it this?

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