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 CHORUS 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 CHORUS 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 CHORUS 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
