The Coward Brothers - The People's Limousine Lyrics

Lyrics The People's Limousine - The Coward Brothers



It′s a chilly Florentine evening
Two men in Eden hats
Telling tales of the underground
And fishing for rats
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 shoes with the crystal heels
Is chaperoned by her brother
They raise a glass of amber wine
Take pictures of each other
Of the policemen and the fountains
And the sickle and the hammer
And they hail their 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 tell your father of you
He paid to have you painted
In the company of angels
Only to find you flirting here
With Chico Marx and perverted angles
She looked like someone′s girlfriend
She looked like a dream
She looked as unlikely
As the people's limousine
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
She looked like someone's girlfriend
She looked like a dream
She looked so unlikely
In the people′s limousine



Writer(s): T BONE BURNETT, ELVIS COSTELLO


The Coward Brothers - Out of Our Idiot
Album Out of Our Idiot
date of release
04-12-1987



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