Coal Train Robberies Lyrics - Elvis Costello

Yesterday's coal train came to rest in the bitter 

cutting 

And as the signals took an age to change it was 

easy pickings 

So you go to the movies where they smash it up 

You want to feel your heart pumping it makes 

you feel good 

All through the karaoke girls were squealing 

the hits 

As another Mercedes-Benz gets blown to bits 

While all the time in the camptown theatres 

of Piccadilly 

They're going to throw a black-face minstrel 

show for the barefoot children 

That they're always selling 

They'll say "It's quaint" as the guilty ones faint 

and claim they ain't underneath this paint 

We interrupt these liberal saints with their 

whips and watermelon 

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Reports are coming in of a coal-train robbery 

It's like another world, or it had better be 

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So we return to whitewashed pout of his 

committed lips 

Since he was declared the long lost fountain 

of youth that drips and drips and drips 

They'll be sending him round from door to door, 

to sell you back what's already yours 

"So many good deeds, so little time" 

Say the advertising agency swine 

When man has destroyed what he thinks he owns 

I hope no living thing cries over his bones 

If you don't believe that I'm going for good 

You can count the days I'm gone and chop up 

the chairs for firewood 

Reports are coming in of a coal-train robbery 

It's like another world, or it had better be