The Bagman's Gambit

To convince your captors, they're to secret you away

We will escape somehow, somehow
It was ten years on
And from my ten floor tenement

Head held high in uniform

How we kissed so sweetly
We will escape somehow, somehow
No, they cannot catch me now
Our hands met through the bars
No, they'll never catch me now
And at the gate of the embassy
But you were there in some anonymous room

As your whisper stilled my heart
No, they'll never catch me
And with the wave of an arm
It was late one night, I was awoken by the telephone

Of where your loyalties lay, so I paid off a bureaucrat
How could I refuse a favor or two
You were there in force

No, they'll never catch me
I gave you documents and microfilm too
And I saw momentarily
And in a bathroom stall off the National Mall
I heard a strangled cry on the end of the line
And I dreamt one night
Where once our bodies lay

And for a tryst in the greenery
They flashed with photograph, it couldn't be you
When you resurfaced in a motorcar
You'd been abused so horribly
No, they cannot catch me now
And I recall that fall, I was working for the government
How I long to hear you say
No, they'll never catch me now
Purloined in Petrograd, they were suspicious