• Song:

    Soul For Hire

  • Artist:

    Elvis Costello

  • Album:

    When I Was Cruel

(sometimes the chords are implicit)

riff
D | -------2-4-- play stacatto
A | -2-3-5------

E5               E5
Hang my head and shut my eyes
E5          E5
What kind of justice is this?
E5            E5
Fool I was, I thought that you fought fire with fire
E5       E5                           B5
Got to be more than just a soul for hire


E5                              A5
Speaking for myself I wouldn't take the fame, 

the fees, the glory E
                   A5
For whoring in the practice of the law
E5
I make my case stop and stutter
A5
Soul comes unglued from the uppers
E5
Blood is seeping in the hole
           A5
A mother's eye is weeping

riff

I see every human kind
And still the truth is distant
I see every evil men do and desire
Got to be more than just a soul for hire

When it's time to give protection 
To the ones who need it most, who are desperate
I get distracted from my job
Streams of ink and piles of paper
What are the breaks?
Jump out the window? Parole? Escape?
Blood is seeping in the hole
A mother's eye is weeping

riff

Hang my head and shut my eyes
I can't see justice twisted
I see every evil men do and desire
Got to be more than just a soul for hire

When it's time to give protection 
To the ones who need it most, who are desperate
I get distracted from my job
Streams of ink and piles of paper
To hand them over to dopers and kiddie-rapers
corrupt in every twisted grudge
And that is just the judge

riff

Hang my head and shut my eyes
What kind of justice is this?
riff
Hang my head and shut my eyes
What kind of justice is this?
(riff and sequence for half of the verses x4)
some stacatto playing till the end
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