Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Soul For Hire, artist - Elvis Costello. Album song Cruel Smile, in the genre Иностранный рок
Date of issue: 31.12.2001
Record label: The Island Def Jam
Song language: English
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 be 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 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 |
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 is this? |