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In the Arrivederci Roma nightclub, bar and grill
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In the Arrivederci Roma nightclub, bar and grill<br>
Standing in the fiberglass ruins watching time stand still
Standing in the fiberglass ruins watching time stand still<br>
 
All your troubles you confess to another faceless, backless dress<br>
All your troubles you confess to another faceless, backless dress
<br>
 
Schnapps, chianti, porter and ouzo<br>
 
Pernod, vodka, sambuca--I love you so<br>
 
Deportee<br>
Schnapps, chianti, porter and ouzo
<br>
 
There's a tatty beauty talking in riddles<br>
Pernod, vodka, sambuca--I love you so
Rome burns down and everybody fiddles<br>
 
Deportee<br>
Deportee
But a thousand dollars won't buy you a Yank, you wife, alas<br>
 
There's a thousand years of history ground in this chaser glass<br>
 
And how I wish that she was mine<br>
 
I could have been the King in Six Eight Time<br>
There's a tatty beauty talking in riddles
Deportee<br>
 
<br>
Rome burns down and everybody fiddles
Oh, it's a brittle charm, but she's had enough<br>
 
Still she wrote her name upon his paper cuff<br>
Deportee
And you don't where to start or where to stop<br>
 
All this pillow talk is nothing more than finally talking shop<br>
But a thousand dollars won't buy you a Yank, you wife, alas
<br>
 
When I came here tonight my pockets were overflowing<br>
There's a thousand years of history ground in this chaser glass
They took my return ticket without me even knowing<br>
 
Well, I pray to the saints and all the martyrs<br>
And how I wish that she was mine
For the secret life of Frank Sinatra<br>
 
But none of these things have come to pass<br>
I could have been the King in Six Eight Time
In America the law is a piece of ass<br>
 
Deportee<br>
Deportee
<br>
 
So it's Schnapps, chianti, porter and ouzo<br>
 
Pernod, vodka, sambuca--I love you so<br>
 
Deportee<br>
Oh, it's a brittle charm, but she's had enough
Deportee<br>
 
Poor Deportee<br>
Still she wrote her name upon his paper cuff
 
And you don't where to start or where to stop
 
All this pillow talk is nothing more than finally talking shop
 
 
 
When I came here tonight my pockets were overflowing
 
They took my return ticket without me even knowing
 
Well, I pray to the saints and all the martyrs
 
For the secret life of Frank Sinatra
 
But none of these things have come to pass
 
In America the law is a piece of ass
 
Deportee
 
 
 
So it's Schnapps, chianti, porter and ouzo
 
Pernod, vodka, sambuca--I love you so
 
Deportee
 
Deportee
 
Poor Deportee

Revision as of 23:59, 18 May 2009

lyrics for
Deportee

In the Arrivederci Roma nightclub, bar and grill
Standing in the fiberglass ruins watching time stand still
All your troubles you confess to another faceless, backless dress

Schnapps, chianti, porter and ouzo
Pernod, vodka, sambuca--I love you so
Deportee

There's a tatty beauty talking in riddles
Rome burns down and everybody fiddles
Deportee
But a thousand dollars won't buy you a Yank, you wife, alas
There's a thousand years of history ground in this chaser glass
And how I wish that she was mine
I could have been the King in Six Eight Time
Deportee

Oh, it's a brittle charm, but she's had enough
Still she wrote her name upon his paper cuff
And you don't where to start or where to stop
All this pillow talk is nothing more than finally talking shop

When I came here tonight my pockets were overflowing
They took my return ticket without me even knowing
Well, I pray to the saints and all the martyrs
For the secret life of Frank Sinatra
But none of these things have come to pass
In America the law is a piece of ass
Deportee

So it's Schnapps, chianti, porter and ouzo
Pernod, vodka, sambuca--I love you so
Deportee
Deportee
Poor Deportee