The Perfect Crime #1 + The Day I Knew You'd Not Come Back Lyrics & Chords By The Decemberists

The Perfect Crime #1

Two, three, four!

I got a gun, I got a girl
I got a bullet-proof plan to pull
The perfect crime, I got the perfect crime
I got a warehouse down at the docks
I got fifteen precincts of cops bought
The perfect crime, I got the perfect crime

You got to get your clock locked, get your stopwatch synchronized
You got to get it so you can't put a pin through your alibi
To pull the perfect crime, to pull the perfect crime

Ba-da-ba-bah
Ba-da-ba-bah
Ba-ba-ba-bah
Da-da-da-da-doh-ba-ba
Ba-ba-ba-ba-bah

I got a guy bought on the inside
I got the night guard gagged and hog tied
The perfect crime, this is the perfect crime
I got a brain, I got a brawn
I got all the proper papers for the gendarmes
The perfect crime, c'est ça, the perfect crime
I got the mob boss bought, got a letter from the DEA
I got a mock up of the lockup where they stock up all their pocket change
To pull this perfect crime, this is the perfect crime

Ba-da-ba-bah
Ba-da-ba-bah
Ba-ba-ba-bah
Da-da-da-da-boh-bow-bow-bow
Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba

We hit a snag when we tripped the alarm
Because the dock side specs have been tipped off in time
To this, the perfect crime
Call out the dogs, call out the cops
We caught the deputy officer cold-cock or we'll do time
For this perfect crime

So we ran around town with the cops stepping on our tails
Because we'd rather break depth then a fist-fucking county jail
Just for the perfect crime, for the perfect crime
This is the perfect crime, alright, alright

Ba-da-ba-bah
Ba-da-ba-bah
Ba-ba-ba-bah
Ba-da-da-duh

The Day I Knew You'd Not Come Back

The day I knew you'd not come back
I built this castle out of glass
But I could never understand
Where the windows and walls began and end
No, I could never understand
Where the windows and walls began and end

I built this colonnade of sand
Stretched out like fingers from my hand
With the waves coming in
In the morning, I had to build again
With the waves coming in
In the morning, I had to build again

The day I knew you'd not come back
I built this castle out of glass
But I could never understand
Where the windows and walls began and end
No, I could never understand
Where the windows and walls began and end