Karaoké Gangsters The Specials

Why must you record my phone calls

Are you planning a bootleg L.P

Said you've been threatened by gangsters

Now it's you that's threatening me

Can't fight corruption with con tricks

They use the law to commit crime

And I dread, dread to think what the future will bring

When we're living in gangster time

Can't interrupt while I'm talking

Or they'll confiscate

All your guitars

And Catch twenty-two says if I sing the truth

They won't make me an overnight star

Don't offer us legal protection

They use the law to commit crime

I dread to think what the future will bring

When we're living in real gangster time