The Bagman's Gambit

On the lam from the law, on the steps of the capitol
 You shot a plain clothes cop on the ten o'clock
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 And I saw momentarily
 They flashed a photograph, it couldn't be you
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 You'd been abused so horribly
 But you were there in some anonymous room
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 And I recall that fall, I was working for the government
 And in a bathroom stall off the National Mall
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 How we kissed so sweetly
 How could I refuse a favor or two
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 And for a tryst 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
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 It was late one night, I was awoken by the telephone
 I heard a strangled cry on the end of the line
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 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
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 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 force
 Head held high in uniform
 It was ten years on
 When you resurfaced in a motorcar
 And with the wave of an arm
 You were there and gone