The room was dark

It looked like someone had to get out fast

A window open by the fire escape

"How long have you been following this guy?"

The bell boy asked

"Not long enough, 'cause we got here too late."



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"And everybody wants another piece of pie today," he said

"You gotta watch the ones who always keep their hands clean."

It's the big heat

There's someone followin' you

It's the big heat

Step aside we're comin' through



Well we followed him from Tucson, ended up in Baton Rouge

We trailed him here with information by

A woman he knew in Barstow that would like to see him dead

That was four weeks ago...well maybe five



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A block away he wondered if he'd left behind a clue

The front page of a paper dated 1992

He remembered when he used to be the chairman of the board

But that was when the world was young and long before the war



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