Heathen town
Elvis Costello
Intro: The used to call it Sin City now its gone way past that; Painting the town and then burning it down now even that’s old hat. Now there’s a chior of angels at the fall of Rome Singing "Ave Maria" or "Home Sweet Home" It’s just a heathen town I hear only evil as my tounge gets tightened; I used to be God fearing now I’m I’m so frightened. ’Cause the Devil will drag you under by the short tail fin of your Checker cab and I can’t sit down I’m going overboard in this heathen town. It starts out as a flirtation and ends up as an expensive habit. With one eye on a place and that’s his prison and the other one on a girl dressed as rabbit. Now you can live forever and do fits and starts But the only stake you cannot raise is the one driven through your heart It’s just a heathen town I hear only evil as my tounge gets tightened; I used to be God fearing now I’m I’m so frightened. ’Cause the Devil will drag you under by the short tail fin of your Checker cab (add and I can’t sit down I’m going overboard in this heathen town. (add ) and I can’t sit down I’m going overboard in this heathen town. In this heathen town (x4)