Point your suit at me and take my breath away
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Better in black and white and chrome I have to say Now the big sleep
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You play the hero and the villain every day
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Equally charming in an unassuming way
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See the girls weep
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And now you've said goodbye a million hearts are sad
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We were there with you Bob so were my mum and dad
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Now the big sleep
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Suits and swimming trunks and clergy you don't care
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Every one of them is scary we beware
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I like Cape Fear
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You're out of place in some but you lift them from the mire
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Better in the heat to watch your pecs perspire
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Then there was Angel Face
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And when you leave a scene a thousand footsteps fall
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Can't wait to see you back and walking very tall
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Before the big sleep
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Now sleep ...
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No-one around like you and Jimmy stuart anymore
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I'd like to don my suit and even up the score
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And try to take over
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Painted ladies ain't so glamorous today
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Please take me back to 1941 today
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Before Pearl Harbour
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You've had some trials and tribulations just the same
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You have to laugh a lot to stay ahead of the game
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Before the big sleep
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Now sleep ...
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The Big Sleep
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| Hugh Cornwell |
