INTRO: Em
VERSE 1:
Sing muse of the passion of the pistol
Sing muse of the warning by the whistle
A night so dark in the waning
A dawn obscured by a slate sky raining
VERSE 2:
Five and twenty burglars by the reservoir
A teenage lookout on the signal tower
The mogul's daughter in hogties
The mogul fingers the wrong guy
C D
It was a perfect a perfect a perfect a perfect
C G Em
A perfect a perfect a perfect a perfect crime
C D
It was a perfect a perfect a perfect a perfect
C G Em
A perfect a perfect a perfect a perfect crime
It was the perfect crime
VERSE 3:
The bagman's quaking in the fingers
The hand off lends a little lingers
A well dressed man in the cross hairs
A shot rings out from somewhere upstairs
C D
It was a perfect a perfect a perfect a perfect
C G Em
A perfect a perfect a perfect a perfect crime
C D
It was a perfect a perfect a perfect a perfect
C G Em
A perfect a perfect a perfect a perfect crime
It was the perfect crime
BRIDGE:
C B
It was like a ticker-tape parade
C B
When the plastique on the safe was blown away
C B
We all gazed from eye to eye
C Em
As we mouthed our silent good-byes
VERSE 4:
The valley sleeping with the bastard
It stinks of slumber and disaster
Two words I spoke on the tap-wire
The agent's ploy was a surefire backfire
C D
It was a perfect a perfect a perfect a perfect
C G Em
A perfect a perfect a perfect a perfect crime
C D
It was a perfect a perfect a perfect a perfect
C G Em
A perfect a perfect a perfect a perfect crime
C D
a perfect a perfect a perfect a perfect
C D
a perfect a perfect a perfect a perfect
C D
a perfect a perfect a perfect a perfect
C D
a perfect a perfect a perfect a perfect
C D
a perfect a perfect a perfect a perfect
C D
a perfect a perfect a perfect a perfect
C D
a perfect a perfect a perfect a perfect
C D Em
A perfect a perfect a perfect a perfect crime