Perfect Crime 2 Chords & Lyrics - Decemberists

[INTRO]

[Em]

[VERSE 1]

Sing muse of the passion of the pistol
Sing muse of the warning by the whistle
A night so dark in the waning
A dawn obscured by a slate sky raining

[VERSE 2]

Five and twenty burglars by the reservoir
A teenage lookout on the signal tower
The mogul's daughter in hogties
The mogul fingers the wrong guy

[CHORUS]

It was a pe[C]rfect a perfect a perfec[D]t a perfect
[C]A perfect a perfect a [G]perfect a perfect [Em]crime
It was a pe[C]rfect a perfect a perfec[D]t a perfect
[C]A perfect a perfect a [G]perfect a perfect [Em]crime

It was the perfect crime

[VERSE 3]

The bagman's quaking in the fingers
The hand off lends a little lingers
A well dressed man in the cross hairs
A shot rings out from somewhere upstairs

[CHORUS]
It was a pe[C]rfect a perfect a perfec[D]t a perfect
[C]A perfect a perfect a [G]perfect a perfect [Em]crime
It was a pe[C]rfect a perfect a perfec[D]t a perfect
[C]A perfect a perfect a [G]perfect a perfect [Em]crime

It was the perfect crime

[BRIDGE]

[C] It was like a ticker-ta[B]pe parade
When the [C]plastique on the safe was blown [B]away
[C] We all gazed from eye [B]to eye
As we [C]mouthed our silent good-[Em]byes

[VERSE 4]

The valley sleeping with the bastard
It stinks of slumber and disaster
Two words I spoke on the tap-wire
The agent's ploy was a surefire backfire

[CHORUS]

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[C]A perfect a perfect a [G]perfect a perfect [Em]crime
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[C]A perfect a perfect a [G]perfect a perfect [Em]crime

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