Elvis Costello - Couldn't Call It Unexpected No. 4

What does “it” refer to? I certainly have a guess given the timing. When the economy is controlled and rigged against someone like me my entire life, it does whittle down one’s options quite a bit. The cruelty visited on us is truly monstrous and I hope everyone will find out about this all too true story. Watch them put up those walls. Watch them roll those barrels at our our feet and you will behold the enemies of humanity. Please everyone shine that LIGHT on them! It’s the private plane people who made a KILLING on 911 and their big bioterrorism project that they won’t let drop. This I know and SO DO YOU.

The good news is that the situation into which I was maneuvered led me to get a ton of knowledge and blackmail about these people. My handlers always talked way too much. They may have rivers of money but a lot of their minions are mind controlled dim bulbs who are devoid of appeal and desperate for attention, Evil alignment is inherently rather stupid. Not an insult, just facts.

They got all the money and we got all the pain. With your help, we can turn this around.

Couldn't Call It Unexpected No. 4 lyrics

I saw a girl who'd found her consolation
She said, "One day my Prince of Peace will come"
Above her head a portrait of her father
The wilted favour that he gave her still fastened to the frame
"They've got his bones and everything he owns
I've got his name"

Well, you can laugh at this sentimental story
But in time, you'll have to make amends
The sudden chill where lovers doubt their immortality
As the clouds cover the sky the evening ends
Describing a picture of eyes finally closing
As you sometimes glimpse terrible faces in the fire
We'll I'm the lucky goon
Who composed this tune from birds arranged on the high wire

Who on earth is tapping at the window?
Does that face still linger at the pane?
I saw you shiver though the room was like a furnace
A shadow of regret across a young mother's face
So toll the bell or rock the cradle
Please don't let me fear anything I cannot explain
I can't believe, I'll never believe in anything again

National ransack. They went after Napoleon. They were the carpetbaggers and now they fly around on their private planes thinking that they are untouchable.