Decemberists Bagman`s Gambit Lyrics

Bagman`s Gambit Lyrics

On the lam from the law, on the steps of the capitol

You shot a plain clothes cop on the ten o'clock

And I saw momentarily

They flashed with photograph, it couldn't be you



You'd been abused so horribly

But you were there in some anonymous room

And I recall that fall, I was working for the government

And in a bathroom stall off the National Mall



How we kissed so sweetly

How could I refuse a favor or two

And for a tryst in the greenery

I gave you documents and microfilm too



And from my ten floor tenement

Where once our bodies lay

How I long to hear you say



No, they'll never catch me now

No, they'll never catch me

No, they cannot catch me now

We will escape somehow, somehow



It was late one night, I was awoken by the telephone

I heard a strangled cry on the end of the line

Purloined in Petrograd, they were suspicious

Of where your loyalties lay, so I paid off a bureaucrat

To convince your captors, they're to secret you away



And at the gate of the embassy

Our hands met through the bars

As your whisper stilled my heart



No, they'll never catch me now

No, they'll never catch me

No, they cannot catch me now

We will escape somehow, somehow



And I dreamt one night

You were there in force

Head held high in uniform



It was ten years on

When you resurfaced in a motorcar

And with the wave of an arm

You were there and gone