Signal fading
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Listen to what I'm saying
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Can you hear me?
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Can you hear me?
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Testing, testing
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Can you hear me?
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This better be worth all of the breath I'm wasting
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Hear him coming through loud and clear
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Hear him treacling in your ear
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Well, you know your time has come
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And you're sorry for what you've done
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All you gangsters
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You should have never have been playing with a gun
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Can you hear me?
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Can you hear me?
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Hear him coming through loud and clear
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Hear him treacling in your ear
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Next week there'll be some fashionable new sin
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For each harlot and each puritan
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Pull off their wings, stick 'em on a pin
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Can you hear me?
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And just let the money roll in
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Can you hear me?
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Signal fading
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Listen to what I'm saying
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Can you hear me?
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Can you hear me?
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Testing, testing
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Can you hear me?
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This better be worth all of the breath I'm wasting
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Hear him coming through loud and clear
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Hear him treacling in your ear
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There's a line that you must toe
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And it's time for you to go
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All you gangsters
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It's darker than you know
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Can you hear me?
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Hear him coming through loud and clear
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Hear him treacling in your ear
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The hands of the helpless are raised
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Your dead little secrets are praised
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The people stand dumbstruck and dazed
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Can you hear me?
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By the inches that you have erased
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Hear him treacling in your ear
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Do those drug dealer still polish women made of wax
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Can you hear me?
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Can you hear me?
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Gangsters and world leaders
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Require the same protection from attack
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Can you hear me?
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Can you hear me?
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Libraries filled up with failed ideas
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There's nothing more for me there
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I trust in tender ink and gentle airs
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Tape starts running
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He's going to tell you something
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Can you hear me?
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Can you hear me?
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Strings start strumming
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Another humdrum conundrum...
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Hear him coming through loud and clear
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Hear him treacling in your ear
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Barricaded in the talk radio station
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Hostage taken
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Can you hear me
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The red "On-Air" light shines on
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Can you hear me?
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Can you hear me?
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All you gangsters
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So pay the ransom
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Before the run-out groove
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Hear him coming through loud and clear
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Hear him treacling in your ear
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Get my wife down here
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A helicopter on the roof
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No police marksman
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Maintaining radio silence from now on
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Signal fading
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Listen to what I'm saying
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Mystery voices drowned out by too much choice
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Testing, testing
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Maintaining radio silence
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Can You Hear Me?
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| Elvis Costello |
