On the lam from the law 

On the steps of the capitol 

You shot a plainclothes cop on the ten o'clock 

And I saw momentarily 

They flashed a photograph, it couldn't be you 

You'd been abused so horribly 

But you were there in some anonymous room 

And I recall that fall 

I was working for the government 

And in a bathroom stall off the National Mall 

How we kissed so sweetly 

How could I refuse a favor or two 

For a trist in the greenery 

I gave you documents and microfilm, too 



And from my ten floor tenement 

Where once our bodies lay 

How I long to hear you say 

No, they'll never catch me now 

No, they'll never catch me 

No, they cannot catch me now 

We will escape somehow 

Somehow 



It was late one night 

I was awoken by the telephone 

I heard a strangled cry on the end of the line 

Purloined in Petrograd 

They were suspicious of where your loyalties lay 

So I paid off a bureaucrat 

To convince your captors they're to secret you away 



And at the gate of the embassy 

Our hands met through the bars 

As your whisper stilled my heart 

No, they'll never catch me now 

No, they'll never catch me 

No, they cannot catch me now 

We will escape somehow 

Somehow 



And I dreamt one night 

You were there in fours 

Head held high 

In uniform 



It was ten years on 

When you resurfaced in a motorcar 

With the wave of an arm 

You were there and gone