
Date of issue: 31.12.2007
Record label: Elvis Costello
Song language: English
The People's Limousine |
It’s a chilly Florentine evening |
Two men in evening hats |
Telling tales of the underground and |
Fishing for Reds |
Policemen armed with Uzis |
Stand guard but they don’t speak |
Ain’t seen no Michaelangelo |
He’ll be here next week |
The girl in the shoes |
With the crystal heels went chaperoned by her brother |
They raise a glass of amber wine |
Take pictures of each other |
Of the policemen in the fountains |
And the sickle and the hammer |
And they came with Uncle Romulus |
With his walking cane and camera |
She looked like someone’s girlfriend |
She looked like a dream |
She looked as unlikely |
As the people’s limousine |
Come and sit by me, girl, before I breathe the breath out of you |
Hush your mouth and cover your eyes for I’ll tell your father of you |
He paid to have you painted in the company of angels |
Only to find you flirting anew with Chico Marx and perverted Engels |
The patron saint of television smiles down from the shelf |
Romulus can’t criticize but he can’t bless himself |
He has a tin of pea-green paint and a big roll of black tape |
To vandalize these obscenities then make his escape |
She walked up to the nice policeman and asked him for a match |
He saw Romulus approaching and slipped off the safety catch |
Then cut down her uncle, he was painted red and green |
Just as she was kidnapped in the people’s limousine |
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