Lyrics Soul For Hire - Elvis Costello, The Imposters

Soul For Hire - Elvis Costello, The Imposters
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?

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Artist lyrics: Elvis Costello
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