The Big Heat Lyrics - Singles - Stan Ridgway

The room was dark 

It looked like someone had to get out fast 

A window open by the fire escape 

"How long have you been following this guy?" 

The bell boy asked 

"Not long enough, 'cause we got here too late." 

CHORUS 

"And everybody wants another piece of pie today," he said 

"You gotta watch the ones who always keep their hands clean." 

It's the big heat 

There's someone followin' you 

It's the big heat 

Step aside we're comin' through 

Well we followed him from Tucson, ended up in Baton Rouge 

We trailed him here with information by 

A woman he knew in Barstow that would like to see him dead 

That was four weeks ago...well maybe five 

CHORUS 

A block away he wondered if he'd left behind a clue 

The front page of a paper dated 1992 

He remembered when he used to be the chairman of the board 

But that was when the world was young and long before the war 

CHORUS 

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