Elvis Costello - Soul for Hire

When I Was Cruel / 2003-04-23 1. 15 Petals 2. 45 3. Alibi 4. Daddy Can I Turn This? 5. Dissolve 6. Dust 2... 7. Episode Of Blonde 8. My Little Blue Window 9. Radio Silence 10. Soul for Hire 11. Spooky Girlfriend 12. Tart 13. Tear Off Your Own Head (It's a Doll Revolution) 14. When I Was Cruel no. 2 15. ...Dust

Soul for Hire

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

Speaking for myself I wouldn't take the fame,
the fees, the glory
For whoring in the practice of the law
I make my case stop and stutter
Soul comes unglued from the uppers
Blood is seeping in the hole
A mother's eye is weeping

I see every human kind
And still the truth is distant
I hear 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

Hang my head and shut my eyes
I can't see justice twisted
I hear 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

Hang my head and shut my eyes
What kind of justice is this?