[00:00.00]National Ransom - Elvis Costello (埃尔维斯 科斯特洛)
[00:06.59]Written by：Elvis Costello
[00:13.18]Runnin' pell mell and harum scarum
[00:19.14]Runnin' as hot as
[00:20.52]They do or dare
[00:24.86]Stick out your tongue and
[00:26.33]Drink down all the venom
[00:30.83]Off cut throat cuthbert
[00:32.22]And Millicent St. Cyr
[00:36.59]From the real old Macau
[00:39.60]To the new False Americas
[00:42.47]In the liberated territories
[00:45.70]Unusual suspects shake down
[00:48.61]Shake down shake down
[00:51.18]Various dubious characters
[00:59.53]Mother's in the kitchen
[01:00.52]Pickin' bones for breakfast
[01:05.47]Boilin' them down by
[01:06.88]The bushel and the score
[01:11.47]Pull out your thumb and
[01:12.67]Count what's left on your fist
[01:17.36]There's a wolf at the window
[01:18.83]With a ravenin' maw
[01:23.27]Did you find how to lie
[01:26.01]Did you find out how to cheat
[01:29.14]The elite bleat their obsolete
[01:32.25]So are your prospects
[01:34.48]Exact perfect object
[01:37.89]Now if you'd only genuflect
[01:40.91]They're runnin' wild just like some
[01:45.12]Childish tantrum
[01:48.22]Meanwhile we're workin' every day
[01:51.93]Payin' off the National Ransom
[02:05.88]Woe betide all this hocus pocus
[02:11.77]They're runnin' us ragged
[02:13.29]At their first attempt
[02:17.80]Around the time the killin'
[02:19.90]Stopped on Wall St.
[02:23.30]You couldn't hold me baby
[02:24.84]With anythin' but contempt
[02:29.48]Letters peal slowly from our speech
[02:32.67]The claxton attempts to preach
[02:35.72]Stretchin' out for stars
[02:37.52]Still out of reach
[02:38.88]Drownin' flailin' outside
[02:42.50]Someone's wailin'
[02:45.62]They're runnin' wild just like some
[02:49.75]Childish tantrum
[02:52.80]Meanwhile we're workin' every day
[02:56.48]Payin' off the National Ransom
[03:03.62]They're runnin' wild just like some
[03:07.75]Childish tantrum
[03:10.82]Meanwhile we're workin' every day
[03:14.79]Payin' off the National Ransom