[00:02.75]The Perfect Crime #2
[00:06.11]The Decemberists
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[00:29.80]Sing, Muse, of the passion of the pistol
[00:37.46]Sing, Muse, of the warning by the whistle
[00:45.31]A night so dark in the waning
[00:53.20]A dawn obscured by a slate sky raining
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[01:08.83]Five and twenty burglars by the reservoir
[01:16.57]A teenage lookout on the signal tower
[01:24.35]The mogul's daughter in hog-tie
[01:32.17]The mogul fingers the wrong guy, all right
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[01:39.09]It was a perfect, a perfect, a perfect, a perfect
[01:43.45]A perfect, a perfect, a perfect, a perfect crime
[01:50.97]It was a perfect, a perfect, a perfect, a perfect
[01:55.03]A perfect, a perfect, a perfect, the perfect crime
[02:01.55]It was a perfect crime
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[02:22.70]The bagman's quaking at the fingers
[02:30.73]The hand-off, glance a little lingers
[02:38.52]A well-dressed man in the cross-hairs
[02:46.34]A shot rings out from somewhere upstairs
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[02:53.56]It was a perfect, a perfect, a perfect, a perfect
[02:57.54]A perfect, a perfect, a perfect, a perfect crime
[03:05.33]It was a perfect, a perfect, a perfect, a perfect
[03:09.47]A perfect, a perfect, a perfect, the perfect crime
[03:15.83]It was a perfect crime
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[03:37.42]It was like a ticker tape parade
[03:44.51]When the plastique on the safe was blown away
[03:53.63]And we all gazed from eye to eye
[04:02.05]As we mouthed our silent goodbyes
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[04:20.18]The valley's sleeping like a bastard
[04:28.08]It stinks of slumber and disaster
[04:35.98]Two words are spoke on the tap wire
[04:43.92]The agent's ploy finds a surefire backfire
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[04:50.91]It was a perfect, a perfect, a perfect, a perfect
[04:54.91]A perfect, a perfect, a perfect, a perfect crime
[05:02.57]It was a perfect, a perfect, a perfect, a perfect
[05:06.60]A perfect, a perfect, a perfect, the perfect crime
[05:18.39]It was a perfect, a perfect, a perfect, a perfect
[05:22.68]A perfect, a perfect, a perfect, a perfect
[05:27.20]A perfect, a perfect, a perfect, a perfect
[05:30.19]A perfect, a perfect, a perfect, a perfect
[05:34.01]A perfect, a perfect, a perfect, a perfect(crime)
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