The Perfect Crime #2 Lyrics - The Crane Wife - Decemberists

Sing news with passion of the pistol 

Sing news of the warning by the whistle 

A night so dark in the waning 

A dawn obscured by slight sky raining 

Five and twenty burglars by the reservoir 

A teenage lookout on the signal tower 

The Moguls daughter in hard time 

The mogul fingers a one guy, one guy 

It was the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect 

The perfect, the perfect, the perfect, perfect crime 

It was the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect 

The perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect crime 

It was the perfect crime 

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The bagman's quaking at the fingers 

The hand-off glance a little lingers 

A well-dressed man in the cross hairs 

A shot ring's out from somewhere upstairs 

It was the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect 

The perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect crime 

It was the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect 

The perfect, the perfect, the perfect, it's the perfect crime 

It was the perfect crime 

It was like a ticker-tape parade 

When the plastic unsafe was blown away 

And we all gaze from eye to eye 

As we mouth our silent goodbyes 

The valley's sleeping like a bastard 

It stinks of slumber and disaster 

Two words are spoken with tap wire 

The agent's pull finds a surefire backfire 

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It was the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect 

The perfect, the perfect, the perfect, perfect crime 

It was the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect 

The perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect crime 

It was the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect 

The perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect 

The perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect 

Perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect 

The perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect 

The perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect 

The perfect, perfect, perfect, perfect 

Perfect, perfect, perfect, the perfect crime