Monday, August 15, 2005

my favourite movie

I've been meaning to post this for a while as it has been since it has begun to consume my life. Anyway, someone please promise me that they will see to it that this becomes a movie, a classic movie. I am not that crazy, am I?

The Decemberists - "The Bagman's Gambit"

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 a 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
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
with the wave of an arm
you were there and gone

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