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The Bagman's Gambit

from Picaresque by The Decemberists

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lyrics

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."

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 there 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."

And I dreamt one night
You were there in form
Hands held high
In uniform.

It was ten years on when you resurfaced in a motorcar
And with a wave of an arm you were there and gone.

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from Picaresque, released March 22, 2005

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