Lyrics for The Perfect Crime #2 as interpreted by Nodima

The Perfect Crime #2 Lyrics
Sing, Muse, of the passion of the pistol
Sing, Muse, of the warning by the whistle
On a night so dark and waning
A dawn obscured by slate sky raining, oh, oh

Five and twenty burglars by the reservoir
A teenage lookout on the signal tower
The mogul's daughter in hog-tie
The mogul fingers the wrong guy, all right

It was a perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect crime
It was a perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect crime

The bagman's quaking at the fingers
The hand-off glance a little lingers
A well-dressed man in the crosshairs
A shot rings out from somewhere upstairs

It was a perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect crime
It was a perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect crime

It was the perfect crime

It was like a ticker-tape parade
When the plastique on the safe was blown away
And we all gaze from eye to eye
As we mouth our silent goodbyes

The valley's sleeping like a bastard
It stinks of slumber and disaster
Two words are spoken with tap wire
The agent's pull finds a surefire backfire

It was a perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect crime
It was a perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect crime

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farewell2RMS
08-18-2006

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I was a bit surprised when I first heard this song, very much unlike their style, in my opinion, but also very good

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Penguincubus
08-18-2006

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I'm pretty sure it's "the mogul fingers the wrong guy, alright"

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LifesPadawan
08-18-2006

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"slate sky raining"
"A night so dark and waning"
"When the plastique on the safe was blown away"

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jesterman
08-19-2006

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i haven't fully decided yet.....but i think this song might be utter trash.

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mrtsc
08-20-2006

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Easily my least favorite Decembs song... Just really repetitive and lacking in all of the things I like about them.

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amandapants
08-20-2006

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Sorry if I sound like a super-nerd, but does this remind anyone of Wall Market in Midgar from Final Fantasy VII?

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fgevilmonkey
08-22-2006

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This is the only odd track on the album, definitely agreed. It's not so much bad as really out of place.

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Penguincubus
08-23-2006

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I don't get the hate, I love this song. Probably my favorite on the album, along with The Island.

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WriterOfFictions
08-25-2006

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i like when he says waning.

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WriterOfFictions
08-25-2006

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i like when he says waning.

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WriterOfFictions
08-25-2006

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i like when he says waning.

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moreproductive
08-25-2006

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is this about the same people as the bagman's gambit???

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Triangle Man
08-30-2006

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I don't think so. THe Bagman's Gambit was about a love affair between a government agent and a spy and how the protagonist of the song works to keep his love alive and well. Not really dealing with a heist or Mission Impossible-style crime, which this song seems to describe.

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JimDillon
09-01-2006

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I love the Decemberists, enough in fact to drive three hours to see them. However, this is song should have definatly been dropped. The begining sounds like bad porno music. I still love them, but this song is a party foul.

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JimDillon
09-01-2006

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I love the Decemberists, enough in fact to drive three hours to see them. However, this is song should have definatly been dropped. The begining sounds like bad porno music. I still love them, but this song is a party foul.

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Greengo
09-05-2006

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I like, sounds like something to play in Vigilante 8 game ^^
Not the Decemberists's way to play a song, but i think this was the idea when they wrote this one...

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lindsayms14
09-09-2006

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I think this song is set in a more modern era than the Decemberist's songs usually take place in. Usually they are in times where people wore corsets, and spoke Shakespearean language. This song, I think, sounds more like it it's during the time of the flappers and gangsters. Maybe to set the mood for a different time period, they chose to use different music to show that. The music of the Decemberists is always made to set the mood, and they wanted to try something new and experiment. Personally I feel as if all the songs on this album are a lot different from their last ones, more electronic. This song also doesn't deal with death and murder, probably the happiest song on the album really, and THAT is really why it's out of place, because the people accomplish something... or do they get caught in the end? Is that what is said in the end?

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WriterOfFictions
09-15-2006

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ah, the bagman returns...

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crazyeyeskilla
09-25-2006

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I think you mean the Elizabethan language.
This song...umm...it stinks. I can't get past the first 20 seconds without hitting the next track. It sounds like bad disco and is by far the most disappointing Decemberists song on this album. Some excellent cuts, some pretty mundane ones on this CD. Not as good as Picaresque, Castaways and Cutouts, and Her Majesty. But, still looking forward to their toronto show in Nov.

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99centmenu
09-26-2006

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You know what's great about the world? That none of you are record producers. Or in a successful band. Or music journalists.

Go on and keep shitting on bands that try new things. That's REALLY what the indie scene needs right now: a lack of new material. Hell, let's just cut out the middleman and make the entire thing acoustic with bad recording equipment.

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-cide
10-01-2006

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I agree a hundred percent with the above poster. This is exactly what happened when Muse released Supermassive Black Hole, and it's ridiculous.

Personally, I found this song to be fantastic the first time I heard it and I was already a huge Decemberists fan by then. I was pleasantly surprised that it was something new and fresh, and a lot of you should just loosen up and be more open-minded.

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sebharper
10-04-2006

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yeah, it's different.

yeah, it's not true to the Decemberists' predefined style.

but it's catchy as fuck & i don't care what the elitist bastards think.

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yourmomsgirlfriend
10-04-2006

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I don't think its as bad as everyone is making it out to be. I mean I love the Decemberists, and their sea shanty's and other lovely songs about folk lore and stuff is what make them so amazing. But I still like this song, its kinda funky, I don't think its bad. Kinda makes me want to dance in an embarrassing kind of fashion.

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pumkinhed
10-05-2006

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Part of me thinks that there was a mole in the team of burglars, who ratted them out to the police.

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caitsith01
10-07-2006

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"Hell, let's just cut out the middleman and make the entire thing acoustic with bad recording equipment."

Well, most of "Her Majesty..." and "Castaways" could have been recorded like this, and frankly I wouldn't trade 'Odalisque', to take one example, for 1000 songs like this one. It's very average. A bit catchy, nothing that hasn't been done a bunch of times in the last few years.

If you want an example of a band trying to do something along these lines and really nailing it, try "We are the Sleepyheads" from The Life Pursuit, the latest Belle & Sebastian album... jagged and percussive, unlike their other material, but not like a bad disco cover.

Anyway, this fight will never be resolved, I predict. Am I the only one who sees some links to the JFK assassination in this song:

- "a well dressed man in the crosshairs" - Kennedy

- "a shot rings out from somewhere, upstairs" - the book depository in Dealy Plaza

- "the mogul fingers the wrong guy" - Lee Harvey Oswald being sent down as the patsy

Other bits obviously don't fit with this theory, though. A thought, anyway.

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