Sing news with passion of the pistolSing news of the warning by the whistleA night so dark in the waningA dawn obscured by slight sky rainingFive and twenty burglars by the reservoirA teenage lookout on the signal towerThe Moguls daughter in hard timeThe mogul fingers a one guy, one guyIt was the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfectThe perfect, the perfect, the perfect, perfect crimeIt was the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfectThe perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect crimeIt was the perfect crimeThe bagman's quaking at the fingersThe hand-off glance a little lingersA well-dressed man in the cross hairsA shot ring's out from somewhere upstairsIt was the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfectThe perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect crimeIt was the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfectThe perfect, the perfect, the perfect, it's the perfect crimeIt was the perfect crimeIt was like a ticker-tape paradeWhen the plastic unsafe was blown awayAnd we all gaze from eye to eyeAs we mouth our silent goodbyesThe valley's sleeping like a bastardIt stinks of slumber and disasterTwo words are spoken with tap wireThe agent's pull finds a surefire backfireIt was the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfectThe perfect, the perfect, the perfect, perfect crimeIt was the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfectThe perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect crimeIt was the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfectThe perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfectThe perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfectPerfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfectThe perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfectThe perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfectThe perfect, perfect, perfect, perfectPerfect, perfect, perfect, the perfect crime
Lyrics by Decemberists
(from My Own True Love) Lost At Sea 12\/17\/12 A Beginning Song A Bower Scene After The Bombs All Arise! Angel, Won't You Call Me? Annan Water Anti-Summersong Apology Song Bachelor And The Bride Bagman's Gambit Better Not Wake the Baby Billy Liar Calamity Song California One Youth And Beauty Brigade Carolina Low Cautionary Song Cavalry Captain Chimbley Sweep Clementine Cocoon Constantinople Culling Of The Fold Dear Avery Don't Carry It All Down By The Water Easy Come, Easy Go Eli, The Barrow Boy Engine Driver Everything I Try To Do, Nothing Seems To Turn Out ... From My Own True Love (Lost at Sea) Grace Cathedral Hill Gymnast, High Above The Ground Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect Hurdles Even Here I 4 U & U 4 Me I Was Meant For The Stage Infanta Isn't it a Lovely Night? January Hymn July, July! June Hymn Lake Song Legionnaire's Lament Leslie Anne Levine Los Angeles, I'm Yours Make You Better Margaret in Captivity Mariner's Revenge Song Mistral My Mother Was A Chinese Trapeze Artist O Valencia! Oceanside Odalisque Of Angels And Angles On The Bus Mall One Engine Philomena Red Right Ankle Rise To Me Riverswim Row Jimmy Rox In the Box Shankhill Butchers Shanty For The Arethusa Shiny Sixteen Military Wives Sleepless Soldiering Life Sons and Daughters Sporting Life Summersong Tain, Pts1 - 5 The Abduction of Margaret The Crane Wife 1 and 2 The Crane Wife 3 The Hazards of Love 1 The Hazards of Love 2 The Hazards of Love 3 The Hazards of Love 4 The Island-Come & See\/The Landlord\u2019s Daughte... The Kingdom Of Spain The Landlords Daughter The Perfect Crime #1 The Queen's Approach The Queen's Rebuke The Rake's Song The Singer Addresses His Audience The Tain (Parts I, II, III, IV, V) The Wanting Comes in Waves The Wrong Year This Is Why We Fight Till the Water Is All Long Gone Till The Water's All Long Gone We Both Go Down Together When The War Came Won't Want for Love Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then) Youth and Beauty Brigade